Second Skin

Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-02-22
Mått:201 x 147 x 35 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:216
Upplaga:2
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780197748381

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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.

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A playful, insanely ambitious text that seeks to rethink standard assumptions about Modernism, race and Josephine Baker in less than 200 pages . . . The book performs the admirable service of making Josephine Baker, the world she inhabited, and the skin that inhabited her seem stranger and more complex than they did before.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface to the New Edition1 Her Own Skin2 In the Museum3 Skins, Tattoos, and the Lure of the Surface4 What Bananas Say5 Housing Baker, Dressing Loos6 Radiant Bodies, Dark Cities7 The Woman with the Golden Skin8 All That Glitters Is Not Gold (or, Dirty Professors)9 Ethical Looking10 Back to the MuseumList of IllustrationsNotesWorks CitedIndex