pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: SIGHT UNSEEN
WHITENESS AND AMERICAN VISUAL CULTURE
By: Martin A. Berger
Format: Hardback

List price: £66.00


We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for further information.

ISBN 10: 0520244591
ISBN 13: 9780520244597
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Pub. date: 7 October, 2005
Pages: 252
Description: Explores how racial identity guides the interpretation of the visual world. This book illustrates how a shared investment in whiteness invisibly guides what Americans of European descent see, what they accept as true, and, ultimately, what legal, social, and economic policies they enact.
Synopsis: "Sight Unseen" explores how racial identity guides the interpretation of the visual world. Through a nimble analysis of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century paintings, photographs, museums, and early motion pictures, Martin A. Berger illustrates how a shared investment in whiteness invisibly guides what Americans of European descent see, what they accept as true, and, ultimately, what legal, social, and economic policies they enact. Carefully reconstructing the racial and philosophical contexts of selected artworks that contain no narrative links to race, the author exposes the effects of racial thinking on our interpretation of the visual world.Bucolic genre paintings of white farmers, pristine landscape photographs of the western frontier, monumental civic architecture, and early action films provide case studies for investigating how European-American sight became inextricably bound to the racial values of American society. Berger shows how artworks are more significant for confirming internalized beliefs on race, than they are for selling us on racial values we do not yet own.A significant contribution to the growing field of whiteness studies, this accessible, provocative, and compelling book exposes how something as apparently natural as sight is conditioned by the racial values of society.
Illustrations: 79 b/w photographs
Publication: US
Imprint: University of California Press
Returns: Returnable
Some other items by this author:

TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
Penguin Books Ltd
Our Price : £7.29
more details
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Paperback)
Penguin Books Ltd
Our Price : £5.83
more details
Golden Section (Paperback)
Wooden Books
Our Price : £5.73
more details
Celtic Pattern (Paperback)
Wooden Books
Our Price : £5.73
more details
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? (Hardback)
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Our Price : £7.29
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 THE ARTS
 the arts: general issues
 theory of art


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 

NEW
World’s Worst Superheroes GET READY FOR SOME SUPERSIZED FUN!
add to basket





New
No Cheese, Please! A fun picture book for children with food allergies - full of friendship and super-cute characters!Little Mo the mouse is having a birthday party.
add to basket

New
My Brother Is a Superhero Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zack is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends have only five days to find him and save the world...
add to basket


Picture Book
Animal Actions: Snap Like a Crab
By:
The first title in a new preschool series from Guilherme Karsten.
add to basket