On the sleeve of the visual: race as face value
Year: 2013
Type: book
Abstract: In this work of critical theory, Black studies, and visual culture studies, the author reads race as a theory of the image. By placing emphasis on the surface of the visual as the repository of its meaning, race presents the most enduring ontological approach to what images are, how they feel, and what they mean. Having established her theoretical concerns, the author's eclectic readings of various artifacts of visual culture, fine arts, cinema, and rhetorical tropes provoke and destabilize readers' visual comfort zone, forcing them to recognize the unstated racial aspects of viewing and the foundational role of race in informing the visual. -- Back cover. Rights Information Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License © Trustees of Dartmouth College
DOI: 10.1349/ddlp.3692
Author: Alessandra Raengo
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W598443204