Footnotes

1. Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, London, Jonathan Cape, 1970, pp. 219-53.

2. Roland Barthes, Image-Music-Text, New York, Hill and Wang, 1977, pp. 171.

3. Exhibition catalogue, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 1993.

4. Benjamin, Illuminations, p.238.

5. Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, London, Jonathan Cape, 1970, p. 240.

6. Owens, Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1993, pp. 166-184.

7. bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation, Boston, South End Press, 1990.

8. See Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1981.

9. Jean Baudrillard, "The Precession of Simulacra," Art & Text, 11, September 1973, pp. 3-47.