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The design of race : how visual culture shapes America

By: Publisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021Description: 1 online resourceISBN:
  • 9781474299541
  • 1474299547
  • 1474299555
  • 9781474299558
  • 9781474299589
  • 147429958X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • NX650.R34 F56 2021
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Contents:
Vestiges in word and image -- Typography and type -- First impressions : lithography and the packaging of race -- Photography by design -- Racialized play, caught in real time -- Conclusion: The Physiognomist’s Gimlet Eye.
Summary: "Peter Fine's innovative study traces the development of a mass visual culture in the United States, focusing on how new visual technologies played a part in embedding racializ d ideas about African Americans, and how whiteness was privileged within modernist ideals of visual form. Fine considers the visual and material manifestations of this process through the history of three important technologies of the art of mechanical reproduction - typography, lithography, and photography, and then moves on to consider how racialized representation has been configured and contested within contemporary film and television, fine art and digital design"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Vestiges in word and image -- Typography and type -- First impressions : lithography and the packaging of race -- Photography by design -- Racialized play, caught in real time -- Conclusion: The Physiognomist’s Gimlet Eye.

"Peter Fine's innovative study traces the development of a mass visual culture in the United States, focusing on how new visual technologies played a part in embedding racializ d ideas about African Americans, and how whiteness was privileged within modernist ideals of visual form. Fine considers the visual and material manifestations of this process through the history of three important technologies of the art of mechanical reproduction - typography, lithography, and photography, and then moves on to consider how racialized representation has been configured and contested within contemporary film and television, fine art and digital design"-- Provided by publisher.

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