“In Western tradition, white is beautiful because it is the colour of virtue. This remarkable equation relates to a particular definition of goodness. All lists of the moral connotations of white as symbol in Western culture are the same: purity,… — 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
“The development of an image of the glowing human being can be traced in European art. One index of it is the means for… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
“Light from above is virtuously Northern; it is also, as the last quotation suggests, celestial. Heaven had been seen as a place of light… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
“The secularisation and feminine specification of this seems to have been effected through the figure of the woman as angel, enlightened and enlightening. Theologically,… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
