Second Skin
Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface
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2011
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-538705-6 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-538705-6 (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 Anlin 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.
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 American Literature, Princeton University and the author of The Melancholy of Race: Assimilation, Psychoanalysis, and Hidden Grief (Oxford University Press).
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 | 7.4.2011 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 25 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 149 x 217 mm |
| Gewicht | 674 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-538705-8 / 0195387058 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-538705-6 / 9780195387056 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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