Pain and irony in the context of body image

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Thesis Type: Postgraduate

Institution Of The Thesis: Gazi University, Turkey

Approval Date: 2015

Thesis Language: Turkish

Student: Özkan Arı

Supervisor: MEHMET YILMAZ

Abstract:

The concept of the body as a case questioning his definition is encountered throughout all of human history. This is sometimes used in the concept of beauty in the process idealleştirilerek "body" of society, sometimes to the artists or their use in patients suffering has also been turned into a disaster concepts. This work is suffering today from the deliberately primitive tribal society to the body and investigate the damage to the body in the context of the ritsel ceremony. Ritualized practice of conscious suffering the body (from childhood as a puberty rite) as well as the existing religious beliefs (especially the suffering of the body of Christ in Christian faith) are examined in the context of a purification ritual and after 1960 in the context of transformation into art of the pain the body after this process the world art to include the perspective. In the thesis, body art performances, especially in the context of physical deterioration reflects bitter experience of Marina Abramovic, Orlan, Bob Flanagan, Stelarc, Taner Ceylan, Jenny Saville Gina Pan and offered an analysis of the performance of Turkish artists Şükran Moral Thanks giving.