Beyond Gesture: An Investigation into a Corporeal Language of Feminist Performative Anti-Painting

This PhD explores how the female body can parody histories of objectification, and conventions of appropriate female behaviour. It examines how the performing female body has overcome masculine ideals of action painting, and applies a reading of anti-painting to the performative processes attributed...

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Main Author: McCartney, Lauren
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/66604
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description This PhD explores how the female body can parody histories of objectification, and conventions of appropriate female behaviour. It examines how the performing female body has overcome masculine ideals of action painting, and applies a reading of anti-painting to the performative processes attributed to becoming painting, rather than a perceived final stage of being painting. It establishes forms of feminist performative painting that not only provoke patriarchal hierarchies in painting, but also reveal a corporeal feminism that defies them.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-666042018-05-25T01:11:27Z Beyond Gesture: An Investigation into a Corporeal Language of Feminist Performative Anti-Painting McCartney, Lauren This PhD explores how the female body can parody histories of objectification, and conventions of appropriate female behaviour. It examines how the performing female body has overcome masculine ideals of action painting, and applies a reading of anti-painting to the performative processes attributed to becoming painting, rather than a perceived final stage of being painting. It establishes forms of feminist performative painting that not only provoke patriarchal hierarchies in painting, but also reveal a corporeal feminism that defies them. 2017 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/66604 Curtin University fulltext
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Beyond Gesture: An Investigation into a Corporeal Language of Feminist Performative Anti-Painting
title Beyond Gesture: An Investigation into a Corporeal Language of Feminist Performative Anti-Painting
title_full Beyond Gesture: An Investigation into a Corporeal Language of Feminist Performative Anti-Painting
title_fullStr Beyond Gesture: An Investigation into a Corporeal Language of Feminist Performative Anti-Painting
title_full_unstemmed Beyond Gesture: An Investigation into a Corporeal Language of Feminist Performative Anti-Painting
title_short Beyond Gesture: An Investigation into a Corporeal Language of Feminist Performative Anti-Painting
title_sort beyond gesture: an investigation into a corporeal language of feminist performative anti-painting
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/66604