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Josephine Baker in Art and Life The Icon and the Image

Paperback • 2007 • English • 1. edition

Josephine Baker in Art and Life The Icon and the Image

By Bennetta Jules-Rosette

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About the book

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...Show more

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ISBN

9780252074127

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Published year

2007

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Josephine Baker in Art and Life The Icon and the Image

Format

Paperback

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