عنوان

American Tan:

شماره

TL48g022bn

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

American Tan:

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Daigle, Patricia Lee

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

Modernism, Eugenics, and the Transformation of Whiteness

نام ساير پديدآوران

Robertson, Edward B

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

UC Santa Barbara

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2015

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

UC Santa Barbara

امتياز متن

2015

متن يادداشت

This dissertation explores the emergence of the suntanned white body in the United States between the World Wars and its dual significance to modernism and the eugenics movement. The suntan serves as a revealing lens for examining the nexus of health, class, gender, and race in early American modernist art and visual culture. Rather paradoxically, as Euro-Americans were trying to preserve certain racial boundaries through eugenics, they also experimented with their own skin color in unprecedented ways. Yet through the popular practice of suntanning, Euro-Americans often transgressed the very racial color lines they sought to maintain. Suntanning-a physical transformation whose most visceral form is the visual-has yet to be critically examined as a subject of art history. This study considers the nineteenth-century medical origins of suntanning as heliotherapy, modern notions of the skin as surface in the consumer culture of the 1920s and '30s, and the primitivist impulse of early American modernist artists in their appropriation of Native American cultural references as well as skin tone. I examine a broad spectrum of visual material ranging from travel, fashion, and cosmetic advertisements to Alfred Stieglitz's photographic portraits of a suntanned Georgia O'Keeffe "playing Indian." I also assert that suntanning is a visual phenomenon in and of itself, a performative process by which skin changes color and texture and becomes a natural canvas. The tanned white body, therefore, serves as a floating signifier suggesting everything from eugenic health to primitivist desire. This dissertation adds richer dimension to our understanding of early American modernism by exposing the colored side of whiteness.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Daigle, Patricia Lee

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Robertson, Edward B

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

UC Santa Barbara

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y