Second skin : Josephine Baker and the modern surface / Anne Anlin Cheng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheng, Anne Anlin, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Art).

Surfaces (Philosophy).

Arts and society--History--20th century.

Arts and society.

Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975--Criticism and interpretation.

Baker, Josephine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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 20th century.

Contents:

Cover

Second Skin

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition

Acknowledgments

1. Her Own Skin

2. In the Museum

3. Skins, Tattoos, and the Lure of the Surface

4. What Bananas Say

5. Housing Baker, Dressing Loos

6. Radiant Bodies, Dark Cities

7. The Woman with the Golden Skin

8. All That Glitters Is Not Gold (or, Dirty Professors)

9. Ethical Looking

10. Back to the Museum

List of Illustrations

Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2023.

Previous edition: 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 2, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-774841-4

0-19-774840-6

0-19-774839-2

OCLC:

1392168353