第二の皮膚：ジョゼフィン・ベイカーとモダニズム Second Skin : Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface

Cheng, Anne Anlin

Oxford University Press Inc（2011/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 256 p.／サイズ 25 illus.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780195387056
• DDC分類 700.4112

基本説明

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.

Full 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 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.

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