Uncompromising Female Aesthetic Subjectivity: Ontological and Ethical Self in Contemporary Art

Leung, Kwan Kiu

The book provides a comparison of contemporary art by analyzing female aesthetic subjectivity within a global context. The starting point is a comparison between the work of Tracey Karima Emin and He Chengyao. Kwan Kiu Leung demonstrates why their work constitutes not only the self, but they practice an ontological identification relationship between subjectivity and artwork that exhibits three aspects of their subjectivity: performativity, visibility, and univocity. Furthermore, it reveals an ontological and ethical self within their naked self-portraits.

EAN

9783110670639

Publisher

De Gruyter

Published

23 August 2021

Pages

254