Can you find the white woman in this picture? Brunias’s ‘ladies’ of ambiguous race
Can you find the white woman in this picture? Brunias’s ‘ladies’ of ambiguous race
Taking a more theoretical approach, this chapter explores Brunias’s depiction of racially ambiguous bodies. It offers an in-depth investigation of the ways in which the subtext of the artist’s work subtly undermined the fixed racial categories. Presaging constructionist theories of racial identity, these works point to the dilemmas of visualising ‘race’ in the Anglo-American world, gesturing toward ‘race’ as a category inextricably rooted in visual knowledge yet incapable of being sustained by it.
Keywords: Race, Racial identity, Constructivism, whiteness
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