Sight Unseen Whiteness and American Visual Culture

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ISBN: 9780520244597

ISBN-10: 0520244591

ISBN-13: 9780520244597

Edition: 2006

Authors: Martin A. Berger

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Sight Unseen explores how racial identity guides the interpretation of the visual world. Through a nimble analysis of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century paintings, photographs, museums, and early motion pictures, Martin A. Berger illustrates how a shared investment in whiteness invisibly guides what European Americans see, what they accept as true, and, ultimately, what legal, social, and economic policies they enact. Carefully reconstructing the racial and philosophical contexts of selected artworks that contain no narrative links to race, the author exposes the effects of racial thinking on our interpretation of the visual world. Bucolic genre paintings of white farmers,…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/3/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 252
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

Martin A. Bergeris Professor and Director of the Visual Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author ofMan Made: Thomas Eakins and the Construction of Gilded Age ManhoodandSight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture, both from UC Press.David J. Garrowis the author ofBearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: White Like Me



Genre Painting and the Foundations of Modern Race



Landscape Photography and the White Gaze



Museum Architecture and the Imperialism of Whiteness



Silent Cinema and the Gradations of Whiteness Epilogue: The Triumph of Racialized Thought


Notes


Bibliography


Index