Second Skin

Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface

Anne Anlin Cheng (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2013
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-998816-7 (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.

Tables of Contents ; Her Own Skin ; In the Museum ; Skins, Tattoos, and the Lure of the Surface ; What Bananas Say ; Housing Baker, Dressing Loos ; Radiant Bodies, Dark Cities ; The Woman with the Golden Skin ; All That Glitters Is Not Gold (or, Dirty Professors) ; Ethical Looking ; Back to the Museum ; Acknowledgements ; List of Illustrations ; Notes ; Works Cited

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.7.2013
Zusatzinfo	25 illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 209 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-19-998816-1 / 0199988161
ISBN-13	978-0-19-998816-7 / 9780199988167
Zustand	Neuware