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Second Skin
Anne Anlin Cheng
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Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface
出版Oxford University Press, 2023
主題Architecture / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)Art / GeneralEducation / GeneralHistory / African American & BlackLiterary Criticism / American / African American & BlackPerforming Arts / GeneralSocial Science / Minority Studies
ISBN01977483849780197748381
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=oZPiEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"What does a black burlesque star have to do with some of the most enduring and passionate ideas in modern aesthetic theory? Josephine Baker emerges in this untold story as a principal figure in the drama behind the making of Euro-American Modernism. Instead of seeing her nude performances as a Primitivist given, Cheng argues that Baker's skin was central to debates about and desire for "pure surface" that crystalized at the convergence of modern art, architecture, machinery, and philosophy. Taking the reader across the Atlantic - through real stages and imagined houses; banana plantations and ocean lines; metallic bodies and radiant cities-this study tracks the ardent and protean conversa-tion between the making of a Modernist style and the staging of a new black visuality. In this account, Baker and the Modernists known to have adored and objectified her in fact share a common dream: the fantasy of remaking and wearing the skin of the other"--