Full Description
Peter Fine's innovative study traces the development of a mass visual culture in the United States, focusing on how new visual technologies played a part in embedding racialized ideas about African Americans, and how whiteness was privileged within modernist ideals of visual form. Fine considers the visual and material manifestations of this process through the history of three important technologies of the art of mechanical reproduction - typography, lithography, and photography, and then moves on to consider how racialized representation has been configured and contested within contemporary film and television, fine art and digital design.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
1. Vestiges in Word and Image
2. Typography and Type
3. First Impressions: Lithography and the Packaging of Race
4. Photography by Design
5. Racialized Play, Caught in Real Time
Conclusion
