“The development of an image of the glowing human being can be traced in European art. One index of it is the means for representing haloes. In medieval art, these are gold, very material, silhouetting the head; since the Renaissance,… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
“Within Western art the dead white body has often been a sight of veneration, an object of beauty. While Christ on the cross may often be an image of agony, it is also one of beauty, with the suffering itself… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
“In Western tradition, white is beautiful because it is the colour of virtue. This remarkable equation relates to a particular definition of goodness. All… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
“As Lucy Hughes-Hallett (1990: 253) puts it, her reputation for beauty, though unsupported by any historical evidence, was unassailable, but it was not consonant… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
“The history of representations of Cleopatra provides one of the clearest instances of the conviction that whiteness is the pinnacle of human beauty. Cleopatra… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
“Just as the vampires’ whiteness conveys their own deadness, so too their bringing of death is signalled by whiteness – their victims grow pale,… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
“figure of the ideal Aryan, with blond hair and blue eyes – hair the colour of the sun, eyes the colour of the sky.… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
The complex ways in which we produce and reproduce the world in technologically developed societies involves the ways in which we separate ourselves into… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
The Vores Third Quartet is a terrific piece that brings disparate components into harmony. . . it's celebratory, imaginative, touching, and fun. — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
“Death may in some traditions be a vivid experience, but within much of the white tradition it is a blank that may be immateriality… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
Waltes is still played, which is a bowl and dice game that's traditional for this area. — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
“Yet the lure of the ideal is also, often imperceptibly, haunted by misgiving, even anxiety. Not only is whiteness as absence impossible, it is… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
“The ideal of whiteness makes a strong appeal. It flatters white people by associating them with (what they define as) the best in human… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
It's quite a trick to use three instruments to tell the story of two people, but Vores carried it off; three, for once, is… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
