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Sight unseen : whiteness and American visual culture

Title
Sight unseen : whiteness and American visual culture / Martin A. Berger.
Author
Berger, Martin A.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.

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xiv, 236 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Race awareness in art
  • Art and race
  • White people > Race identity > United States
  • Arts, American > 19th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-225) and index.
Contents
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: white like me -- Genre painting and the foundations of modern race -- Landscape photography and the white gaze -- Museum architecture and the imperialism of whiteness -- Silent cinema and the gradations of whiteness -- Epilogue: the triumph of racialized thought -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Call Number
Sc E 05-1372
ISBN
0520244591 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2005008042
OCLC
58791195
Author
Berger, Martin A.
Title
Sight unseen : whiteness and American visual culture / Martin A. Berger.
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-225) and index.
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Sc E 05-1372
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