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Nygaard Mickelson, Amy.

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Sites of Trauma, Bodies of Recovery: The Work of Contemporary South African Artist Jane Alexander.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Sites of Trauma, Bodies of Recovery: The Work of Contemporary South African Artist Jane Alexander./
作者:	Nygaard Mickelson, Amy.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
面頁冊數:	206 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-07A.
標題:	Art history. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27669667
ISBN:	9781392587713

Sites of Trauma, Bodies of Recovery: The Work of Contemporary South African Artist Jane Alexander.
Nygaard Mickelson, Amy.

Sites of Trauma, Bodies of Recovery: The Work of Contemporary South African Artist Jane Alexander. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 206 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri - Kansas City, 2019.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Sites of Trauma, Bodies of Recovery: The Work of Contemporary South African Artist Jane Alexander explores the interconnections between the aesthetics of trauma in post-apartheid culture, history, and politics through the provocative work of Jane Alexander (b. 1959). Her work, particularly her earlier works from the late 1980s and early 1990s, find a welcoming home within the context of South Africa's violent struggle to end apartheid. Her figures have hybrid features. However, their hybridity is continually undercut by a perpetual slippage into the monstrous and abject. Using Alexander's work as a case study, I argue that the visualization and recognition of violence and brutality serves as an essential instrument for remembrance and even catharsis during the transitional period (1970s-1990s) of South African political rule. Through the recognition and acknowledgement of past traumas, viewers gain entry into a complex negotiation of discomfort, remembrance, and catharsis. Themes of state violence, domination, and surveillance force viewers to contemplate the sources of violence and their implicated roles in these systems. To acknowledge the truly violent nature of humankind is to implicate one's self in a relationship to such atrocities. It is easier to dehumanize violence than it is to see humanity in violence, and this transitional state of being between man and monster is where Alexander's artworks reside.

ISBN: 9781392587713Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122701
Art history.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Grotesque

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