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Skin Color and Whiteness in Contemporary Art

Skin Color and Whiteness in Contemporary Art

Westgeest, Helen

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Series: Routledge Research in Art and Race

Art HistoryGeneral ArtGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

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ISBN10: 1032795034
ISBN13: 9781032795034
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 29 2025
Pages: 150
Language: English

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.

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