Second Skin
Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 6 June 2013
- ISBN 9780199988167
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 209x140x12 mm
- Weight 420 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 25 illustrations 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
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 inhabited her seem stranger and more complex than they did before.
Table of Contents:
Tables of Contents
Her Own Skin
In the Museum
Skins, Tattoos, and the Lure of the Surface
What Bananas Say
Housing Baker, Dressing Loos
Radiant Bodies, Dark Cities
The Woman with the Golden Skin
All That Glitters Is Not Gold (or, Dirty Professors)
Ethical Looking
Back to the Museum
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes
Works Cited
