Western culture Quote by Richard Dyer

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

The Vores Third Quartet is a terrific piece that brings disparate components into harmony. . . it's celebratory, imaginative, touching, and fun.

— Richard Dyer

“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

Waltes is still played, which is a bowl and dice game that's traditional for this area.

— Richard Dyer

“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

“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

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

“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