Abstract/Details

The tragedy of being: Geneviève Cadieux, Donigan Cumming, Evergon and representation of other bodies

Howes, Jennifer.   Carleton University (Canada) ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  2002. MQ83433.

Abstract (summary)

Bodies are performative, transparently acting out gender roles designated and coerced by patriarchal structures. In representation and language, heterosexual white men are inscribed as seeing, speaking agents, while homosexual, non-white and feminine others appear in lacking affirmation of masculine privilege. Yet what happens when bodies transgress constitutive signs? This is the subversive model of Sophocles'. Antigone, a problematization of gender that Genevieve Cadieux, Donigan Cumming and Evergon privilege in photographic representations of the body. This thesis addresses these artists' abject strategies of intervention through psychoanalytic, film, and queer theory, and more broadly linguistics. Employing concepts of masquerade, the impossibility of the phallus is revealed, while the politics of looking is raised through surface modifications of the veil. Furthermore, silent and shifting voices interrupt and dislocate a language that cannot articulate pain, as the sensory shatters stereotype through abjection, offering a possibility of reconciliation through caress.

Indexing (details)


Subject
Art history
Classification
0377: Art history
Identifier / keyword
Communication and the arts
Title
The tragedy of being: Geneviève Cadieux, Donigan Cumming, Evergon and representation of other bodies
Author
Howes, Jennifer
Number of pages
148
Degree date
2002
School code
0040
Source
MAI 42/02M, Masters Abstracts International
Place of publication
Ann Arbor
Country of publication
United States
ISBN
978-0-612-83433-0
Advisor
Payne, Carol
University/institution
Carleton University (Canada)
University location
Canada -- Ontario, CA
Degree
M.A.
Source type
Dissertation or Thesis
Language
English
Document type
Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number
MQ83433
ProQuest document ID
304806469
Copyright
Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.
Document URL
https://www.proquest.com/docview/304806469