aqui y alla: una manera de ser (here and there: a way of being)
dc.contributor.advisor | Jones, Janet A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Peraza, Michelle | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-08T15:56:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-08-08T15:56:04Z | |
dc.date.copyright | 2022-04-21 | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-08-08 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-08-08T15:56:04Z | |
dc.degree.discipline | Visual Arts | |
dc.degree.level | Master's | |
dc.degree.name | MFA - Master of Fine Arts | |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis support paper explores a body of work based on drawing and painting representing my LatinX family. In this paper, I intend to probe, contest, address, and resist our colonial history to contribute to resilience, empowerment, and a nuanced LatinX identity in a visual format. In this paper I contextualize my family within a post-colonial Latin American history, investigate the role of painting in perpetuating dominant colonial tropes, as well as engage with theories of the center and marginality. I also discuss the aesthetic strategies of haciendo caras (making faces), performing brownness, and parody, concluding with a discussion on mimicry/ambivalence and a method of healing the colonial wound. The artistic practice I outline in this thesis paper fluctuates between research and creation to engage with decolonial strategies in figurative painting and non-figurative drawing. This practice creates resistance against coloniality through visual creations. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/39655 | |
dc.language | en | |
dc.rights | Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests. | |
dc.subject | Fine arts | |
dc.subject.keywords | Fine arts | |
dc.subject.keywords | Painting | |
dc.subject.keywords | Drawing | |
dc.subject.keywords | Decolonization | |
dc.title | aqui y alla: una manera de ser (here and there: a way of being) | |
dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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