Date of Award
5-12-2024
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Studio Arts
Advisor(s)
Ann Clarke
Keywords
Feminism;Femme Identity;Misogyny;Patriarchy;Violence;Visual Art
Subject Categories
Arts and Humanities | Fine Arts
Abstract
Individual identity formation is a crucial tool in my artistic practice. I rely on articulating my experiences as femme to reclaim and denounce the signifiers of femininity invented and perverted by patriarchy. Using historical survey of instances and explorations of fear and violence through art and visual culture, my works reckon with how archaic gender beliefs still entrench themselves in our contemporary worldviews and their psychological results. The deconstructions of these facades uncover the violence and fear ingrained in feminine identity inflicted through bodily control in culture. Here I argue for her humanity against the abject violence culture and media perpetuate toward her body.
Access
Open Access
Recommended Citation
Starcovic, Angelica Elizabeth, "Dead Woman Walking: Articulating Historical Violence Toward the Femme Through Visual Art and Cultural Experience" (2024). Theses - ALL. 870.
https://surface.syr.edu/thesis/870
