عنوان

Wearing an Authentic Arab Body: New Masculinities in Contemporary Photography

Number

TL48254

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Wearing an Authentic Arab Body: New Masculinities in Contemporary Photography

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Alessandra Amin

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Mathur, Saloni

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California, Los Angeles

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

47

Text of Note

Committee members: Cohen, Meredith; Upton, Dell

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-76988-3

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

Discipline of degree

Art History

Body granting the degree

University of California, Los Angeles

Text preceding or following the note

2015

Text of Note

Representations of the veiled woman dominate Western collections of contemporary Middle Eastern art. They are also, however, symbolically inextricable from power structures that propagate derogatory tropes of Arab culture, and their proliferation hinders more incisive inquiries into issues of gender in the Middle East. This paper examines how two Middle Eastern photographers, responding to this predicament, have begun to posit new ways of representing resistant bodies, departing from the tired trope of the veil and, in fact, from the female body altogether. An alternative framework for contesting gender relations in the Middle East and associated Western stereotypes can be found in photographic explorations of masculinity, such as Tanya Habjouqa's Fragile Monsters (2009) and Tamara Abdul Hadi's Picture an Arab Man (2009). I argue that these works represent a potential for new and productive inquiries, and innovative means of articulating gendered bodies as resistant to imperialist categories of gender and sexuality.

Art Criticism; Art history; Middle Eastern Studies

Subject Term

Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Contemporary arab art;Fragile monsters;Gender and sexuality;Habjouqa, Tanya;Hadi, Tamara abdul;Picture an arab man

Wulfsberg, Joanna Christine

Mathur, Saloni

Subdivision

Art History

University of California, Los Angeles

Call Number

1691799813; 1589392

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[Thesis]

276903

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