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Analysis of Artistic Use of Media Discourse: A Case of Neshat’s Women of Allah
Dragan Ćalović
; Megatrend University, Faculty of Culture and Media, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology, Belgrade
Abstract
In this text, author analyzes artistic use of media discourse in Shirin Neshat’s work Women of Allah. Analysis is conducted through examination of elements that are related with meaning production. The elements that are taken in consideration are chador, weapon and farsi text. Text shows that author, by applying specific artistic approach, destabilizes interpretation of photographs, by which she attract viewer to examine his/her own approaches to reading.
Keywords
archaeology of representation; art; meaning; Shirin Neshat; women of allah
Hrčak ID:
170537
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Publication date:
12.9.2016.
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