Second skin [electronic resource] : Josephine Baker and the modern surface / Anne Anlin Cheng.

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"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 Prim...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cheng, Anne Anlin (Author)
Other Authors: Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Edition:[2] edition.
Subjects:
Baker, Josephine, > 1906-1975 > Criticism and interpretation.
Modernism (Art)
Surfaces (Philosophy)
Arts, Modern > 20th century.
Arts and society > History > 20th century.
Online Access:
Oxford Scholarship Online 2023: 2023 (Oxford Academic)
Oxford Scholarship Online: 2023 (Oxford Academic)
Variant Title:
Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface
Format: Electronic eBook

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520 |a "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"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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