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Follow the thread : fabricated social structures with the body as text

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dc.contributor.advisor Krajewska, Anna Urszula
dc.contributor.author Le Roux, Angeline-Ann
dc.date.accessioned 2021-02-23T14:51:29Z
dc.date.available 2021-02-23T14:51:29Z
dc.date.issued 2020-11
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27127
dc.description.abstract The broad focus of this study is on how, through inequalities in power in constructed human socio-political, socio-economic and legal structures, the value and dignity of human life is destroyed. The researcher as artist wished to represent these observations though visual metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche in an installation, "Follow the thread". The dissertation contextualises that work within the works of Sheila Hicks, Amita Makan, Magdalena Abakanowicz and Ana Mendieta, all of whom use organic materials related to ideas about life and death. The first three use fibres as a metaphor for life. Through the analysis of metaphors in the selected artworks, the allusiveness of these metaphors is examined to offer insights about their indirect, referential, and evocative nature. It is revealed in the study that the success of metaphors operating within the visual language is closely linked to their complexity, their range scope and multimodality, and their ability to provoke multivalent, layered interpretations of artworks. My sculptural drawings that resemble fragments of the human body in the installation are a metaphor for the abuse of human dignity and for the disregard those in power have when life is reduced to bare life, rather than life appropriate to a legal citizen. en
dc.format.extent 1 online resource (ix, 72 leaves) : illustrations, photographs (chiefly color)
dc.language.iso en en
dc.subject Body en
dc.subject Bound en
dc.subject Fabric en
dc.subject Fate en
dc.subject Fragment en
dc.subject Structure en
dc.subject Thread en
dc.subject Value en
dc.subject.ddc 700.45
dc.subject.lcsh Hicks, Sheila, 1934- -- Criticism and interpretation -- Case studies
dc.subject.lcsh Makan, Amita -- Criticism and interpretation -- Case studies
dc.subject.lcsh Abakanowicz, Magdalena -- Criticism and interpretation -- Case studies
dc.subject.lcsh Mendieta, Ana, 1948-1985 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Case studies
dc.subject.lcsh Human figure in art -- Case studies
dc.subject.lcsh Art and society -- Case studies
dc.title Follow the thread : fabricated social structures with the body as text en
dc.type Dissertation en
dc.description.department Arts and Music en
dc.description.degree M.V.A.


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