Date on Senior Honors Thesis
5-2023
Document Type
Senior Honors Thesis
Degree Name
B.A.
Cooperating University
University of Lousiville
Department
Fine Arts
Degree Program
College of Arts and Sciences
Author's Keywords
monstrosity; the other; human; visual culture; visual identification; sculpture
Abstract
The goal of creating my sculptural work, The Avian, is both to broaden the visual categorization of sentient bodies, as well as to deconstruct binary thinking regarding the way that bodies display racialized, gendered, and sexualized characteristics. The Avian does this by subverting visual and aesthetic tropes that construct labels like human, monster, and animal. Subversion acts as the main design influence that illustrates how the display how othered bodies can be used to highlight the constructed nature of how we construct humanity. This paper posits that by acknowledging an expansion in visual categorization, in addition to further pushing opportunities for subversion in our identification of the sentient other, then we can both begin deconstructing the vestiges of colonial thought that influences our culture and begin to formulate the new.
Recommended Citation
Crawford, Amaiya L., "Other Bodies: Deconstructing visual binaries by subverting visual representations of the Other." (2023). College of Arts & Sciences Senior Honors Theses. Paper 301.
Retrieved from https://ir.library.louisville.edu/honors/301
