Skin Color and Whiteness in Contemporary Art (English, Helen Westgeest)

About the Book

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…

ISBN: 9781032795034