Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self

by Brian Wallis and Coco Fusco

Book Overview

Few issues are as controversial as race and nation, reveating that after years of debate we still understand very little about how these terms of self-definition and identity work. Perhaps their... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810946351
• ISBN13: 9780810946354
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: ABRAMS
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 8.0" x 10.5"

Customer Reviews

GRAND VISION/HARD VIEWING

An enormous and fasinating series of discussions surrounding "raced looking" in America's history of photography is central to this group of essays by many of the cultural critics working today. A massive tome with outstanding visuals, some not seen in the exhibition, provide extensive background and analysis to the area of how race has intervened in American culture today. For museums who felt the race subject had been addressed in the 90s post-Quincentennary exhibition, it is obvious that much more in depth examination is necessary and relevant. An outstanding effort for a museum catalogue and exhibition. All should be commended. Required reading for anyone working and teaching in cultural studies, ethnic studies, humanities, and the arts.