Troubled Abstraction: Whiteness in Charles Dana Gibson and George Du Maurier

• Autores: Jennifer A. Greenhill
• Localización: Art history: journal of the Association of Art Historians, ISSN 0141-6790, Vol. 34, Nº. 4, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Anglo-American: Artistic Exchange between Britain and the USA Edited by David Peters Corbett and Sarah Monks), págs. 732-753
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The essay examines the ways in which the artists Charles Dana Gibson and George Du Maurier depicted the racial category of whiteness in their black-and-white illustrations. The author details how these artists utilized blank space to depict white figures. The connection between the social value of whiteness and the color's perceived aesthetic quality is explained as well.