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The Mask of Art: Breaking the Aesthetic Contract Film and Literature

The Mask of Art: Breaking the Aesthetic Contract Film and Literature

Taylor, Clyde R.

Paperback

Literary CriticismAnthropologyFilm Studies

ISBN10: 0253211921
ISBN13: 9780253211927
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: Nov 1 1998
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
In this critique of aesthetics and the politics of representation, Taylor demonstrates astonishing breadth and depth in arguing for 'breaking the aesthetic contract' that excludes anything that does not conform to Eurocentric notions of beauty. . . . it brings to black studies and cultural critique an internationalism that emphasizes the richness of forms of creative expression outside the norms set by European aesthetics. Highly recommended . . . -Choice Cultural critic Clyde Taylor exposes the concept of art as a tool of ethnocentricity and racial ideology. By examining various texts including The Birth of a Nation and The Cotton Club, Taylor demonstrates how rationales of art are used to mask personal, class, and cultural biases. Other works such as those by Toni Morrison, Chinua Achebe, and Spike Lee are scrutinized in terms of resistance to the dominant system of aesthetics.

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