ISBN: 9780253211927 - the mask of art: breaking the aesthetic contract film and literature (9 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Critiques Eurocentrism in the prevailing art-culture system and reexamines the culture wars within the context of Hollywood, and the dominant U.S. cultural milieu.

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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Paperback. Binding sound, text clean, mild shelfwear; some irregular sunning to covers. Heavy book: priority or international shipping will be extra. Book.

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Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. 1998. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 343 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. Critiques Eurocentrism in the prevailing art-culture system and reexamines the culture wars within the context of Hollywood, and the dominant U.S. cultural milieu.&Uumlber den AutorrnrnClyde R. Taylor, film scholar and literary/cultural .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In this critique of aesthetics and the politics of representation, Taylor demonstrates astonishing breadth and depth in arguing for 'breaking the aesthetic contract' that excludes anything that does not conform to Eurocentric notions of beauty. . . . it brings to black studies and cultural critique an internationalism that emphasizes the richness of forms of creative expression outside the norms set by European aesthetics. Highly recommended . . .' -Choice Cultural critic Clyde Taylor exposes the concept of 'art' as a tool of ethnocentricity and racial ideology. By examining various texts including The Birth of a Nation and The Cotton Club, Taylor demonstrates how rationales of 'art' are used to mask personal, class, and cultural biases. Other works such as those by Toni Morrison, Chinua Achebe, and Spike Lee are scrutinized in terms of resistance to the dominant system of aesthetics.…