Second skin : Josephine Baker & the modern surface /
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 A...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
