Description
Product ID: | 9781474299565 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | IN |
Title: | The Design of Race |
Subtitle: | How Visual Culture Shapes America |
Authors: | Author: Associate Professor Peter C. Fine |
Page Count: | 216 |
Subjects: | History of art, History of art / art & design styles, Material culture, Material culture |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 racialized 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. 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 racialized 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. |
Imprint Name: | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-02-11 |