{"id":58261,"date":"2019-06-03T17:16:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T17:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58261"},"modified":"2019-06-03T17:17:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T17:17:06","slug":"visual-pleasure-and-racial-ambiguity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58261","title":{"rendered":"Visual Pleasure and Racial Ambiguity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarworks.uno.edu\/td\/2520\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Visual Pleasure and Racial Ambiguity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of New Orleans<br \/>\nAugust 2018<br \/>\n54 pages<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:rmowensmd@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ruth M. Owens MD<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of New Orleans In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Fine Arts<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I struggle to present work that reflects a psychological expressivity which at the same time conveys intellectual concepts that are of concern to me. It seems that the fluidity of an image can communicate a certain pathos, and correspond to the fluid nature of one\u2019s identity. Drippy paint, distorted bodies, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/vertiginous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vertiginous<\/a> video clips can give an indication about what a body feels like from within. Depictions of these bodily feelings help to communicate ideas about what it means to be alive in general, and a mixed race woman, in particular.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire thesis <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarworks.uno.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=3650&amp;context=td\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drippy paint, distorted bodies, and vertiginous video clips can give an indication about what a body feels like from within. Depictions of these bodily feelings help to communicate ideas about what it means to be alive in general, and a mixed race woman, in particular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,395,838,8,20],"tags":[29888,29887,29890,29889,7807],"class_list":["post-58261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-dissertations","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-ruth-m-owens","tag-ruth-m-owens-md","tag-ruth-owens","tag-ruth-owens-md","tag-university-of-new-orleans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58262,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58261\/revisions\/58262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}