Deconstructive strategies: the feminist critique of representation

• Grant number: 11/04369-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2012
• End date: August 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Plastic Arts
• Principal Investigator: Dária Gorete Jaremtchuk
• Grantee: Lina Alves Arruda
• Host Institution: Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This projects objective is to analyze ten art pierces produced by feminist artists, which, through appropriation techniques, develop a representational critique. The selected artworks produce subversive transformations in the dominant imagery and challenge the realist modes of representation that naturalize gender hierarchies by criticizing femininity, female imagery, its rhetoric and the processes that act as meaning producers, through which a position as a gendered subject is acquired. Reflections regarding feminist representational strategies will be elaborated, especially focused on the works of Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons and Martha Rosler. Besides the specific plastic, technical and formal issues presented by the artworks, the research will consider significant aspects of this artistic practice, such as its deconstructive effect towards the present imagery meanings and the attempts of creating room for the production of women's discourses and issues.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

ARRUDA, Lina Alves. Deconstructive strategies: the feminist representational critique. 2013. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD) São Paulo.