Sight unseen : whiteness and American visual culture / / Martin A. Berger

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817485003321
• 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 (xiv, 236 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 701/.03
• Soggetti: Art and race; Arts, American - 19th century; Race awareness in art; Whites - Race identity - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• 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 European Americans see, what they accept as true, and, ultimately, what legal, social, and economic policies they enact.