Examination
Does "examination" in the following context mean "representation" and are they exchangeable here?
Context:
In their art both David Wojnarowicz and Glenn Ligon investigate the issue of the representation of homosexuality within American culture. Ligon uses his text-based conceptual paintings to track the conjoined problems of racism and homophobia as they are to be found in language and visual culture. His photo- and text-based installation Notes on the Margin of the Black Book (1991–3) re-presents selected images from the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe’s Black Book of 1986. Mapplethorpe’s work contains highly eroticized and stereotypical images of black men, which Ligon juxtaposes with framed quotations and texts from various intellectuals. Ligon’s examination of Mapplethorpe’s problematic artwork directly interrogates and rejects the power relation that is realized in white artists’ eroticizing and objectifying of the black male body, an old and even foundational principle of modernism.
Top answer
Hi I'd say not. Ligon is looking at the art in the way that a doctor might. Looking for signs, questioning what is happening, and so on.
- Hi I'd say not.
- Ligon is looking at the art in the way that a doctor might.
- Looking for signs, questioning what is happening, and so on.
- That is how I would understand 'examination' Dave
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I'd say not. Ligon is looking at the art in the way that a doctor might. Looking for signs, questioning what is happening, and so on. That is how I would understand 'examination'
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