ISBN:
9781498573115
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9781498573139
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 224 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten, Pläne
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.896073
Keywords:
ARCHITECTURE / General
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ART / American / General
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Architecture
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Architektur
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Art forms
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Ethnic Studies
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Ethnic studies
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Fotografie
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HISTORY / Social History
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Kunstformen
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Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
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PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General
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PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Architectural & Industrial
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Photography & photographs
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SOC069000
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
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Social & cultural history
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Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States is a collection of twelve essays by cultural critics that exposes how fraught relations of identity and race appear through imaging technologies in architecture, scientific discourse, sculpture, photography, painting, music, theater, and, finally, the twenty-first century visual commentary of Kara Walker. Throughout these essays, the racial practices of the nineteenth century are juxtaposed with literary practices involving some of the most prominent writers about race and identity, such as Herman Melville and Harriet Beecher Stowe, as well as the technologies of performance including theater and music. Recent work in critical theories of vision, technology, and the production of ideas about racial discourse has emphasized the inextricability of photography with notions of race and American identity. The collected essays provide a vivid sense of how imagery about race appears in the formative period of the nineteenth-century United States
Note:
Part 1: Articulate SpacesChapter 1: The Racial Geometry of the Nation: Thomas Jefferson's Grids and OctagonsIrene ChengChapter 2: Arctic Whiteness: William Bradford, Herman Melville, and the Invisible Spheres of Fright Wyn KelleyChapter 3: Music and Military Movement: Racial RepresentationBrigitte FielderChapter 4: Black Faces Etched in White Stone: Black Feminist Visuality in Edmonia Lewis's SculptureKelli MorganChapter 5: Enchanted Optics: Excavating the Magical Empiricism of Holmesian Stereoscopic SightCheryl SpinnerChapter 6: Between Word and Image: The Use of Humor, Satire, and Caricature in Early Abolitionist Political CartoonsMartha CutterPart 2: Democratic VisionsChapter 7: Seeing Irony in Barnum's America: Anti-Slavery Humor in Uncle Tom's CabinAdena SpingarnChapter 8: Babo's Skull, Aranda's Skeleton: Visualizing the Sentimentality of Race Science in Benito CerenoChristine YaoChapter 9: Melville's Greens: Color Theory and DemocracyJennifer GreimanChapter 10: Narrative Structure as Secular Judgment in Thomas Crawford's Progress of CivilizationKirsten Pai BuickChapter 11: Beheld by the Eye of God: Photography and the Promise of Democracy in Frederick Douglass's The Heroic SlaveKya MangrumChapter 12: Cotton Babies: Mama's Maybe: Kara Walker's Marvels of InventionJanet Neary
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