Sight Unseen
Subtitle: Whiteness and American Visual Culture
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 3, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780520244597
Subjects: Cultural studies; Ethnic studies; The Arts: General Issues; General; Art and race; Art & Art Instruction; Whites; Art; USA; Race awareness in art; Ethnic Studies - General; Art / General; Americas (North Central South West Indies); Criticism; Race identity; United States
First sentence: In a lengthy tribute to William Sidney Mount (1807-68) in 1851, the critic Alfred Jones lauded the painter's honest treatment of American racial types.