TY - BOOK ID - 143792087 TI - The design of race : how visual culture shapes America PY - 2020 SN - 147429958X 1474299555 1474299547 PB - London ; [London, England] : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Race awareness in art. KW - Arts and society KW - Design KW - Communication in design KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:143792087 AB - "Peter Fine's innovative study traces the development of a mass visual culture in the United States, focusing on how new visual technologies played a part in embedding racializ d ideas about African Americans, and how whiteness was privileged within modernist ideals of visual form. Fine considers the visual and material manifestations of this process through the history of three important technologies of the art of mechanical reproduction - typography, lithography, and photography, and then moves on to consider how racialized representation has been configured and contested within contemporary film and television, fine art and digital design"-- ER -