With Other Eyes: Looking At Race And Gender In Visual Culture - Softcover

 
9780816632237: With Other Eyes: Looking At Race And Gender In Visual Culture
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0816632235 ISBN 13: 9780816632237
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1999

Synopsis

Feminist and multiculturalist efforts to uncover the assumptions underpinning the production of art have transformed our understanding of visual culture. The field of art history, however, continues to downplay the race and gender politics informing its own interpretative practices. With Other Eyes brings together leading cultural theorists to demonstrate how feminist, postcolonial, and antiracist concerns can successfully and imaginatively be incorporated into the study of art.

Rejecting strict definitions of “high art,” the contributors add photography, installation art, and film to the list of more conventional art forms to examine, for example, the construction of black femininity as influenced by Josephine Baker, Grace Jones, and the women depicted in Picasso’s Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon;the nationalist and class premises in nineteenth-century British Museum guidebooks; and the gendered visions of colonial discourse in advertisements for Ralph Lauren and the Body Shop.

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About the Author

Lisa Bloom is associate professor of women’s studies and comparative cultures at Josai International University in Japan.

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Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0816632235
ISBN 13 
9780816632237
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
280
Editor
Bloom Lisa