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Second skin : Josephine Baker and the modern surface
- Title
- Second skin : Josephine Baker and the modern surface / Anne Anlin Cheng.
- Author
- Cheng, Anne Anlin
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
- ©2023
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975.
- Description
- xviii, 193 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 21 cm
- Summary
- "What does a black burlesque star have to do with some of the most enduring and passionate ideas in modern aesthetic theory? Josephine Baker emerges in this untold story as a principal figure in the drama behind the making of Euro-American Modernism. Instead of seeing her nude performances as a Primitivist given, Cheng argues that Baker's skin was central to debates about and desire for "pure surface" that crystalized at the convergence of modern art, architecture, machinery, and philosophy. Taking the reader across the Atlantic - through real stages and imagined houses; banana plantations and ocean lines; metallic bodies and radiant cities-this study tracks the ardent and protean conversa-tion between the making of a Modernist style and the staging of a new black visuality. In this account, Baker and the Modernists known to have adored and objectified her in fact share a common dream: the fantasy of remaking and wearing the skin of the other"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Awards (note)
- Winner of honorable mention from Modernist Studies Association, 2023
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc D 24-249
- ISBN
- 9780197748381
- 0197748384
- LCCN
- 2023032616
- OCLC
- 1392076840
- Author
- Cheng, Anne Anlin, author.
- Title
- Second skin : Josephine Baker and the modern surface / Anne Anlin Cheng.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Edition
- Second edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Awards
- Winner of honorable mention from Modernist Studies Association, 2023
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Cheng, Anne Anlin. Second skin. [2] edition New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023] 9780197748404 (DLC) 2023032617
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 24-249