150 Pages
20 Color & 18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
150 Pages
20 Color & 18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
150 Pages
20 Color & 18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Helen Westgeest is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Leiden University.
