Second Skin: Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface

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Second Skin: Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface

Name: Second Skin: Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface
ISBN: 9780195387056

Anne Anlin Cheng

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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 & 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 & aesthetic debates about, & desire for, 'pure surface' that crystallized at the convergence of modern art, architecture, machinery, & philosophy.

Through Cheng's analysis, Baker emerges as a central artist whose work engages with & impacts various modes of modernist display such as film, photography, art, & even the modern house.

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Categorias:

Arts - Performing Arts

Ano:

2011

Edição:

Editora:

Oxford University Press

Idioma:

english

Páginas:

256