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Uneasy bodies femininity and death : representing the female corpse in fashion photography and selected contemporary artworks
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2016.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/60434 Uneasy bodies femininity and death : representing the female corpse in fashion photography and selected contemporary artworks Thom, Johan thelmav@lantic.net Van Rensburg, Thelma Female corpse Forensic science Gendering of death Marlene Dumas UCTD Femininity Death representation Female corpse Fashion photography Contemporary art Body politics Gender Studies Humanities theses SDG-03 Humanities theses SDG-05 Humanities theses SDG-10 Humanities theses SDG-11 Humanities theses SDG-16 Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2016. This mini-dissertation serves as a framework for my own creative practice. In this research paper my intention is to explore, within a feminist reading, representations of the female corpse in fashion photography and art. The cultural theorist Stuart Hall's theories on the concept of representation are utilised to critically analyse and interogate selected images from fashion magazines, which depicts the female corpse in an idealised way. Such idealisation manifests in Western culture, in fashion magazines, as expressed in depictions of the attractive/ seductive/fine-looking female corpse. Fashion photographs that fit this description are critically contrasted and challenged to selected artworks by Penny Siopis and Marlene Dumas, alongside my own work, to explore how the female corpse can be represented, as strategy to undermine the aesthetic and cultural objectification of the female body. Here the study also explores the selected artists' utilisation of the abject and the grotesque in relation to their use of artistic mediums and modes of production as an attempt to create ambiguous and conflicting combinations of attraction and repulsion (the sublime aesthetic of delightful horror), thereby confronting the viewer with the notion of the objectification of the decease[d] feminine body as object to-be-looked-at. This necessitated the inclusion of seminal theories developed by the French theorist, Julia Kristeva (1982) on the abject and the Russian theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin (1968) on the grotesque. ae2026 Visual Arts MA Unrestricted SDG-03: Good health and well-being SDG-05: Gender equality SDG-10: Reduced inequalities SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions 2017-05-12T11:39:04Z 2017-05-12T11:39:04Z 2017-05-03 2016 Dissertation Van Rensburg, T 2016, Uneasy bodies femininity and death : representing the female corpse in fashion photography and selected contemporary artworks, MA Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60434> A2017 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60434 en © 2017 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Female corpse Forensic science Gendering of death Marlene Dumas UCTD Femininity Death representation Female corpse Fashion photography Contemporary art Body politics Gender Studies Humanities theses SDG-03 Humanities theses SDG-05 Humanities theses SDG-10 Humanities theses SDG-11 Humanities theses SDG-16 Uneasy bodies femininity and death : representing the female corpse in fashion photography and selected contemporary artworks |
| title | Uneasy bodies femininity and death : representing the female corpse in fashion photography and selected contemporary artworks |
| title_full | Uneasy bodies femininity and death : representing the female corpse in fashion photography and selected contemporary artworks |
| title_fullStr | Uneasy bodies femininity and death : representing the female corpse in fashion photography and selected contemporary artworks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Uneasy bodies femininity and death : representing the female corpse in fashion photography and selected contemporary artworks |
| title_short | Uneasy bodies femininity and death : representing the female corpse in fashion photography and selected contemporary artworks |
| title_sort | uneasy bodies femininity and death representing the female corpse in fashion photography and selected contemporary artworks |
| topic | Female corpse Forensic science Gendering of death Marlene Dumas UCTD Femininity Death representation Female corpse Fashion photography Contemporary art Body politics Gender Studies Humanities theses SDG-03 Humanities theses SDG-05 Humanities theses SDG-10 Humanities theses SDG-11 Humanities theses SDG-16 |
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