Rainbow corpse paint
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7473341 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stanimir Panayotov (0000-0003-2834-6049, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 122-140 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for Cultural Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-7585 • E-ISSN: 1740-1666 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14797585.2026.2623896 |
| OpenAlex | W7126025362 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
This text explores what happens when black metal corpse paint, traditionally styled in black and white, meets colour, or, what I term rainbow corpse paint. I build on the history of masking and faciality in extreme and black metal music and on experimenting with queer/ing black metal corpse paint by pointing to some of its manifestations in recent years, and try to retroactively highlight and historicise rainbow corpse paint as an artistic means questioning black-and-white dualism. A special focus is put on the manifold ways in which the human face and colours interrogate each other, and finally, a discourse on painting the face as a form of articulating human pain is offered.
Black swan theory · Face (sociological concept) · Focus (optics) · Masking (illustration) · Painting · Rainbow · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis · Paleopathology and ancient diseases · Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |