Duke on Demand

John P. Bowles, author of Adrian Piper: Race, Gender, and Embodiment (2011), explains why he chose to study Adrian Piper's work and shares insight into some of her most powerful pieces. Piper's groundbreaking work confronts viewers and forces them to reconsider assumptions about the social construction of identity. John P. Bowles is Associate Professor of African American Art at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The book is available from Duke University Press. www.dukeupress.edu