Second Skin

Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-538705-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 674 g

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 Anlin 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cheng, Anne Anlin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Über Autor(innen)

Anne Anlin Cheng is Professor of American Literature, Princeton University and the author of The Melancholy of Race: Assimilation, Psychoanalysis, and Hidden Grief (Oxford University Press).