Name: second skin: josephine baker & the modern surface
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Author: Cheng, Anne Anlin
ISBN: 9780199988167

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second skin: josephine baker & the modern surface

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Physical Book

Author

Anne Anlin Cheng

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6x13.7x1.3 cm

Weight

0.41 kg.

ISBN

0199988161

ISBN13

9780199988167

Synopsis "second skin: josephine baker & the modern surface"

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 twentieth century. Stepping outside of the platitudes surrounding this iconic figure, Anne A. Cheng argues that Baker's famous nakedness must be understood within larger philosophic and aesthetic debates about, and desire for, 'pure surface' that crystallized at the convergence of modern art, architecture, machinery, and philosophy. Through Cheng's analysis, Baker emerges as a central artist whose work engages with and impacts various modes of modernist display such as film, photography, art, and even the modern house.

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