Design of Race
Subtitle: How Visual Culture Shapes America
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781474299565
Description: "Peter Fine's innovative study traces the development of a mass visual culture in the United States, focusing on how new visual technologies played a part in embedding racializ d ideas about African Americans, and how whiteness was privileged within modernist ideals of visual form. Fine considers the visual and material manifestations of this process through the history of three important technologies of the art of mechanical reproduction - typography, lithography, and photography, and then moves on to consider how racialized representation has been configured and contested within contemporary film and television, fine art and digital design"--