Josephine Baker in Art and Life

THE ICON AND THE IMAGE

By:

Bennetta Jules-Rosette

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Paperback / softback

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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 world. Although the study remains firmly anchored in Josephine Baker’s life and times, presenting and challenging carefully researched biographical facts, it also offers in-depth analyses of the images that she constructed and advanced. Bennetta Jules-Rosette explores Baker’s far-ranging and dynamic career from a sociological and cultural perspective, using the tools of sociosemiotics to excavate the narratives, images, and representations that trace the story of her life and fit together as a cultural production.

Author Biography:

Bennetta Jules-Rosette is a professor of sociology and the director of African and African-American Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of a number of books including Black Paris,African Apostles, and The Messages of Tourist Art.

Release date Australia

February 22nd, 2007

Author

Bennetta Jules-Rosette

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

51 photographs

Pages

392

Dimensions

152x229x25

ISBN-13

9780252074127

Product ID

3338081

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