Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
Goodarzi, Shoki , Frank, Barbara E.
Date
2012-05-01
Keywords
Calligraphy, Contemporary Art, Kutlug Ataman, Middle Eastern, Mona Hatoum, Video | Art criticism--Art history--Middle Eastern studies
Department
Department of Art History and Criticism
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/71136
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
This project analizes the use of the Arabic script in Mona Hatoum's Measures of Distance (1988) and Kutlu?? Ataman's Animated Words (2003) to understand the variety of interpretations made possible to audiences familiar and unfamiliar to Arabic. These artists' roles as Middle Eastern artists working/exhibiting in diaspora is a central issue that defines the variety and distinction between their potential audiences. Some interpretations of these works, in turn, are evaluated through the notions of contribution and over -intentional communication proposed by Theodor Adorno in his brief essay, "Questions on Intellectual Emigration." In effect, Hatoum and Ataman's works circumvent the expectations of the Western art market by creating different dimensions of "meaning" inside and outside of language, and, hence, dislocating both the "Eastern" and the "Western" audiences. | 35 pages
Recommended Citation
Albayrak, Oylun, "The Irreversible Line: Adornian Contribution and Communication Through the Use of Arabic Calligraphy in the Videos of Mona Hatoum and Kutlug Ataman" (2012). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 343.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/343