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  1. Second skin
    Josephine Baker and the modern surface
    Author: Cheng, Anne Anlin
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York, NY

    "What does a black burlesque star have to do with some of the most enduring and passionate ideas in modern aesthetic theory? Josephine Baker emerges in this untold story as a principal figure in the drama behind the making of Euro-American Modernism.... more

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    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek

     

    "What does a black burlesque star have to do with some of the most enduring and passionate ideas in modern aesthetic theory? Josephine Baker emerges in this untold story as a principal figure in the drama behind the making of Euro-American Modernism. Instead of seeing her nude performances as a Primitivist given, Cheng argues that Baker's skin was central to debates about and desire for "pure surface" that crystalized at the convergence of modern art, architecture, machinery, and philosophy. Taking the reader across the Atlantic - through real stages and imagined houses; banana plantations and ocean lines; metallic bodies and radiant cities-this study tracks the ardent and protean conversa-tion between the making of a Modernist style and the staging of a new black visuality. In this account, Baker and the Modernists known to have adored and objectified her in fact share a common dream: the fantasy of remaking and wearing the skin of the other"--

     
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  2. Surface Encounters
    Thinking with Animals and Art
    Author: Broglio, Ron
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

    What it is like to be an animal? Ron Broglio wants to know from the inside, from underneath the fur and feathers. In examining this question, he bypasses the perspectives of biology or natural history to explore how one can construct an animal... more

    Location:
    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt / Zentrale
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    No inter-library loan

     

    What it is like to be an animal? Ron Broglio wants to know from the inside, from underneath the fur and feathers. In examining this question, he bypasses the perspectives of biology or natural history to explore how one can construct an animal phenomenology, to think and feel as an animal other--or any other. Until now phenomenology has grappled with how humans are embedded in their world. According to philosophical tradition, animals do not practice the self-reflexive thought that provides humans with depth of being. Without human interiority, philosophers have believed, animals live on the sur Cover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction: Staying on the Surface; 1 Meat Matters: Distance in Damien Hirst; 2 Body of Thought: Immanence and Carolee Schneemann; 3 Making Space for Animal Dwelling: Worlding with Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson; 4 Contact Zones and Living Flesh: Touch after Olly and Suzi; 5 A Minor Art: Becoming-Animal of Marcus Coates; Coda: Human, Animal, and Matthew Barney; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y

     
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