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  1. Second skin
    Josephine Baker & the modern surface
    Author: Cheng, Anne Anlin
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford [u.a.] ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of the... more

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    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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    Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of the platitudes surrounding this iconic figure, Anne Anlin Cheng argues that Baker's famous nakedness must be understood within larger philosophic and aesthetic debates about, and desire for, "pure surface" that crystallized at the convergence of modern art, architecture, machinery, and philosophy. Through Cheng's analysis, Baker emerges as a.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Baker, Josephine
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780199741427; 0199741425
    RVK Categories: AP 64200 ; CC 6900 ; LH 67717 ; MS 8000
    Subjects: Ästhetik; Moderne; Architektur
    Other subjects: Baker, Josephine (1906-1975)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 234 pages), Illustrations
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-221) and index
  2. Second skin
    Josephine Baker & the modern surface
    Author: Cheng, Anne Anlin
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0195387058; 0199741425; 9780195387056; 9780199741427
    Subjects: 1906-1975; 20th century; Arts and society; Arts, Modern; Baker, Josephine; Criticism and interpretation; History; Fine Arts; ART / Reference; ART / Performance; Arts and society; Arts, Modern; Modernism (Art); Surfaces (Philosophy); Geschichte; Modernism (Art); Surfaces (Philosophy); Arts, Modern; Arts and society; Architektur; Moderne; Ästhetik
    Other subjects: Baker, Josephine / 1906-1975; Baker, Josephine (1906-1975); Baker, Josephine (1906-1975)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 234 p.)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-221) and index

    Her own skin -- In the museum -- Skins, tattoos, and the lure of the surface -- What bananas say -- Housing Baker, Dressing Loos -- Radiant bodies, dark cities -- The woman with the golden skin -- All that glitters is not gold (or, dirty professors) -- Ethical looking -- Back to the museum

    Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of the platitudes surrounding this iconic figure, Anne Anlin Cheng argues that Baker's famous nakedness must be understood within larger philosophic and aesthetic debates about, and desire for, "pure surface" that crystallized at the convergence of modern art, architecture, machinery, and philosophy. Through Cheng's analysis, Baker emerges as a