Skin Color and Whiteness in Contemporary Art

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.

List 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

About the author

Helen Westgeest is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Leiden University.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Westgeest, Helen (Leiden University Westgeest
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032795034
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3279503-4
• No. of pages: 140
• Series: Routledge Research in Art and Race
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, The arts: general issues, ART / History / General, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, History of Art, Painting & paintings, Social and cultural anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Art styles not defined by date, Paintings and painting, The arts: general topics