Skin Color and Whiteness in Contemporary Art
Series: Routledge Research in Art and Race;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 28 April 2025
- ISBN 9781032795034
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages150 pages
- Size 246x174 mm
- Weight 440 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 18 Illustrations, black & white; 20 Illustrations, color; 18 Halftones, black & white; 20 Halftones, color 657
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Short description:
This study demonstrates the significance of using contemporary art in scholarly debates about cultural aspects of skin, in particular “whiteness” as a phenomenon that is both overly visible and invisible.
MoreLong description:
This study demonstrates the significance of using contemporary art in scholarly debates about cultural aspects of skin, in particular “whiteness” as a phenomenon that is both overly visible and invisible.
There is a need for a study of these artists’ strategies, which consist of drawing attention to whiteness by means of making whiteness “strange” through alternative visibilities. By increasing skin awareness, the selected socio-critical artworks also pertain to fostering visual literacy as another important contemporary concern. Chapters mainly focus on recent artworks that address ongoing skin-related debates in countries in Europe and North America, rooted in histories of ideology of white supremacy. Moreover, these artworks critically reflect on the alleged superiority of the history of Western European painting, including a focus on the representation of pale skin as model of beauty.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, race and ethnicity studies, and cultural studies.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
1. Skins in and of Paintings: Relationships between Paint Skin and Painted White Skin Tones in Western European Modern Art
2. Sociopolitical Skin of the Medium: Making Whiteness Strange through Color Manipulation and Skin as Mask
3. Memory Projection Surfaces: Photographic Reflections on “Second Skins”
Conclusion
Index
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