Entrée principale:

Berger, Martin A.

Titre et auteur:

Sight unseen : whiteness and American visual culture / Martin A. Berger.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005.

Description:

xiv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 225) and index.
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.

Résumé:

Sight unseen explores how racial identity guides the interpretation of the visual world. Through analysis of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century paintings, photographs, museums, and early motion pictures, Berger illustrates how a shared investment in whiteness invisibly directs what European Americans see as true, and ultimately, what legal, social, and economic policies they enact. Reconstructing selected artworks, the author exposes the effects of racial thinking on our interpretation of the visual world. Berger shows how artworks are more significant for confirming internalized beliefs on race than they are for selling us on racial values we do not yet own. This book exposes how something as natural as sight is conditioned by the racial values of society.

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ISBN:

0520244591 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520244597 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Sujet:

Race awareness in art.
Art and race.
White people Race identity United States.
Arts, American 19th century.
Conscience de race dans l'art.
Art et race.
Arts américains 19e siècle.
20.05 art in relation with other areas of culture: general.
Arts, American.
White people Race identity.
Ethnische Beziehungen
Kunst
Weiße
Beeldende kunsten.
Blanken.
United States.
USA
Verenigde Staten.

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Localisation: Bibliothèque main 306791
Cote: BIB 252338
Statut: Disponible