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The
essays in this volume explore whiteness in film, photography, art, music,
and architecture. The book includes cultural essays on race, history and modernism,
but also looks at whiteness in the visual arts, and investigates connections
between what seem to be purely artistic representations of whiteness and notions
about race and identity. In so doing it looks at whiteness in relation to
questions such as hygiene, danger, notoriety, deviance and death.
Whiteness includes: commentary on artists Steve McQueen, Mary Kelly, Andy Warhol, Tony Conrad and John Hilliard; an essay on Michael Jackson's face; reflections on whiteness in colour photography; and discussions on digital music and rap culture, South Polar exploration, and bomb damage and listed buildings.
Whiteness is the first in an occasional series entitled Room 5, which will publish research from the London Consortium. The London Consortium is a multi-disciplinary postgraduate research programme comprising Birkbeck College, University of London, The Architectural Association School of Architecture, Institute of Contemporary Arts, and Tate Gallery.