Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 236 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9780520931916
Content:
Sight Unseen explores how racial identity guides the interpretation of the visual world. Through a nimble analysis of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century paintings, photographs, museums, and early motion pictures, Martin A. Berger illustrates how a shared investment in whiteness invisibly guides what Americans of European descent see, what they accept as true, and, ultimately, what legal, social, and economic policies they enact. Carefully reconstructing the racial and philosophical contexts of selected artworks that contain no narrative links to race, the author exposes the effects
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520244597
Language:
English
