Second Skin

Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface

Anne Anlin Cheng (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2024 | 2nd Revised edition
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-774838-1 (ISBN)

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Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of the platitudes surrounding this iconic figure, Anne A. Cheng argues that Baker's famous nakedness must be understood within larger philosophic and aesthetic debates about, and desire for, 'pure surface' that crystallized at the convergence of modern art, architecture, machinery, and philosophy. Through Cheng's analysis, Baker emerges as a central artist whose work engages with and impacts various modes of modernist display such as film, photography, art, and even the modern house.

Anne Anlin Cheng is Professor of English and African American Literature at Princeton University and the author of The Melancholy of Race: Assimilation, Psychoanalysis, and Hidden Grief and Ornamentalism.

Preface to the New Edition

1 Her Own Skin
2 In the Museum
3 Skins, Tattoos, and the Lure of the Surface
4 What Bananas Say
5 Housing Baker, Dressing Loos
6 Radiant Bodies, Dark Cities
7 The Woman with the Golden Skin
8 All That Glitters Is Not Gold (or, Dirty Professors)
9 Ethical Looking
10 Back to the Museum

List of Illustrations
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.11.2023
Zusatzinfo	25 illus.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	201 x 147 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-774838-4 / 0197748384
ISBN-13	978-0-19-774838-1 / 9780197748381
Zustand	Neuware