Author : Peter Claver Fine
Release : 2021-01-14
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 547/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Design of Race by : Peter Claver Fine
Download or read book The Design of Race written by Peter Claver Fine. This book was released on 2021-01-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.