Sight unseen [[electronic resource] ] : whiteness and American visual culture / / Martin A. Berger

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450356803321
• Autore: Berger Martin A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2005
• ISBN: 1-282-35772-7; 9786612357725; 0-520-93191-2; 1-4237-2764-9; 1-59875-786-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Disciplina: 701/.03
• Soggetti: Art and race; Arts, American - 19th century; Race awareness in art; White people - Race identity - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction. White Like Me; 1. Genre Painting and the Foundations of Modern Race; 2. Landscape Photography and the White Gaze; 3. Museum Architecture and the Imperialism of Whiteness; 4. Silent Cinema and the Gradations of Whiteness; Epilogue. The Triumph of Racialized Thought; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 ex