[PDF.70dz] Second Skin: Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface

Second Skin: Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface

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 | #1157949 in eBooks |  2010-12-10 |  2010-12-10 | File type: PDF

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Cheng's revision of Modernism is a delight. She gives full credence to those scholars who ...|By Seaboard Lit Prof|Cheng's revision of Modernism is a delight. She gives full credence to those scholars who have criticized the way Modernist architecture and art invented a self-serving ideology of "primitivism" that was the foil for their own claim to be the avant-garde of humanit| ||"A playful, insanely ambitious text that seeks to rethink standard assumptions about Modernism, race and Josephine Baker in less than 200 pages . . . The book performs the admirable service of making Josephine Baker, the world she inhabited, and the skin that

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 crystallize...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Second Skin: Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface   |  Anne Anlin Cheng. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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