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Sight unseen : whiteness and American visual culture / Martin A. Berger.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berger, Martin A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and race.
- Arts, American--19th century.
- Arts, American.
- Race awareness in art.
- White people--Race identity--United States.
- White people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 236 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 guides what European Americans see, what they accept as true, and, ultimately, what legal, social, and economic policies they enact.
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction. White Like Me; 1. Genre Painting and the Foundations of Modern Race; 2. Landscape Photography and the White Gaze; 3. Museum Architecture and the Imperialism of Whiteness; 4. Silent Cinema and the Gradations of Whiteness; Epilogue. The Triumph of Racialized Thought; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-35772-7
- 9786612357725
- 0-520-93191-2
- 1-4237-2764-9
- 1-59875-786-5
- OCLC:
- 475950385
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