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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Curtin University
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/66604 |
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| author | McCartney, Lauren |
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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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| institution | Curtin University Malaysia |
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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 |
| spellingShingle | McCartney, Lauren 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 |