Essays about: "Nina Kurdve"

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  1. 1. Re-thinking Abu Ghraib: A Discussion on the Abu Ghraib Images beyond the Iconic Reading

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Nina Kurdve; [2012]
    Keywords : Nina Kurdve; Kurdve; Abu Ghraib; Iraq; war on terror; representations of violence; abject; abjection; icon; iconic reading; digital context; the screen; we them; three sites of meaning; Kristeva; WJT Mitchell; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : The research objective for this thesis are two problematic yet interweaving occurrences observed in earlier research on the Abu Ghraib scandal (2004) and its image material. Firstly in terms of methodology, a restricted amount of images in which three single images, “Hooded Man”, “Man on Leash” and “Piled Bodies” are overrepresented and frequently regarded as descriptive for the scandal as such. READ MORE