Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image

by Bennetta Jules-Rosette

Book Overview

Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was a dancer, singer, actress, author, politician, militant, and philanthropist, whose images and cultural legacy have survived beyond the hundredth anniversary of her birth. Neither an exercise in postmodern deconstruction nor simple biography, Josephine Baker in Art and Life presents a critical cultural study of the life and art of the Franco-American performer whose appearances as the savage dancer Fatou shocked the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252074122
• ISBN13: 9780252074127
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.0"