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 demonstrates how feminist, postcolonial, and antiracist concerns can successfully 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 art forms to examine, for example, the construction of black femininity as influenced by Josephine Baker, Grace Jones, and Picasso's Les Demoiselles 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 the legal analyst for The Today Show, NBC News, and Avvo.com. A daily fixture on American television for the last decade, Lisa regularly appears on CNN, HLN, and MSNBC. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Swagger and Think, and she has written numerous articles for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, The National Law Journal, CNN.com, The Daily Beast, and others. She lives in Los Angeles where she runs her law firm, The Bloom Firm.

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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