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Art speaks cross-culturally: a thesis in Visual Design - Illustration
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Art speaks cross-culturally: a thesis in Visual Design - Illustration

Shixiaoci Yu
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.62791/19976

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Art -- Cross-cultural studies. Art and globalization. Culture and globalization. Art and society.
Hegemonic discourse prevails in our post-colonial world. The social order created by Western power-knowledge (le savoir-pouvoir) has become increasingly challenged for failing to provide an in-alienable and equal ground of discourse. Exploring, through five illustrations, the extent to which an East-ern narrative can be translated into a Western context, or vice versa, my work speaks of my awareness to the Western-monopolised cultural arena sugar-coated under the grande utopian idea of Globalism/ Mondialism. Globalism, in its own execution, has come to justify the unequal exchange of materials as well as international values, and discriminately marginalises female discourses marked by women's appropriation of a masculinist language. This thesis will articulate an alternative discourse to construct a new perspec-tive on existing socio-cultural norms.
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