02941nam 2200697Ia 450 991045035680332120220208193631.01-282-35772-797866123577250-520-93191-21-4237-2764-91-59875-786-5(CKB)1000000000030796(EBL)239227(OCoLC)475950385(SSID)ssj0000245787(PQKBManifestationID)11234639(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000245787(PQKBWorkID)10179762(PQKB)11114619(MiAaPQ)EBC239227(MiAaPQ)EBC4977900(Au-PeEL)EBL239227(CaPaEBR)ebr10088451(Au-PeEL)EBL4977900(CaONFJC)MIL235772(OCoLC)61730527(EXLCZ)99100000000003079620050321d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSight unseen[electronic resource] whiteness and American visual culture /Martin A. Berger1st ed.Berkeley University of California Press20051 online resource (253 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-24459-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexSight 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 exArt and raceArts, American19th centuryRace awareness in artWhite peopleRace identityUnited StatesElectronic books.Art and race.Arts, AmericanRace awareness in art.White peopleRace identity701/.03Berger Martin A30331MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450356803321Sight unseen2444659UNINA