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Sight unseen : whiteness and American visual culture /
Sight Unseen explores how racial identity guides the interpretation of the visual world. Through a nimble analysis of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century paintings, photographs, museums, and early motion pictures, Martin A. Berger illustrates how a shared investment in whiteness invisibly g...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: white like me
- Genre painting and the foundations of modern race
- Landscape photography and the white gaze
- Museum architecture and the imperialism of whiteness
- Silent cinema and the gradations of whiteness
- Epilogue: the triumph of racialized thought
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.