The design of race : how visual culture shapes America / Peter Claver Fine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fine, Peter Claver, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race awareness in art.

Arts and society--United States.

Arts and society.

Design--Social aspects--United States.

Design.

Communication in design--United States.

Communication in design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 pages) : illustrations (some colour))

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London ; Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.

Summary:

"Peter Fine's innovative study traces the development of a mass visual culture in the United States, focusing on how new visual technologies played a part in embedding racializ d ideas about African Americans, and how whiteness was privileged within modernist ideals of visual form. Fine considers the visual and material manifestations of this process through the history of three important technologies of the art of mechanical reproduction - typography, lithography, and photography, and then moves on to consider how racialized representation has been configured and contested within contemporary film and television, fine art and digital design"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Vestiges in word and image

Typography and type

First impressions : lithography and the packaging of race

Photography by design

Racialized play, caught in real time.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9781474299589

147429958X

9781474299558

1474299555

9781474299541

1474299547

OCLC:

1158508173