Iconoclash: A Post-Secular Reading of Naro Pinosa's Instagram Collages
Laweh, Julia (2018) Iconoclash: A Post-Secular Reading of Naro Pinosa's Instagram Collages. Masters thesis, OCAD University.
Item Type: | Thesis |
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Creators: | Laweh, Julia |
Abstract: | This criticism thesis responds to the absence of post-secular art critical discourse that would set the foundation for a critical discussion about the proliferation of imagery that desecrates Christian symbols on image-based social media by undertaking a case study of the Instagram celebrity artist Naro Pinosa, who uses the medium of digital photo-montaging to produce iconographically-defaced collages that reference Christian imagery. A close reading of eight key images by Pinosa offers a post-secular interpretation of these works. The author draws on Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model to take up the position of a decoder whose beliefs and values place them in a critical relation to the dominant code of Instagram as a secular social media platform. Through this positionality, the author argues for a reading against the grain of what appears to be anti-Christian imagery. |
Date: | April 2018 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | iconoclash, Instagram, Naro Pinosa, Christian Art, Contemporary Christian Art, Digital Christian Art, Instagram Christian Art |
Divisions: | Graduate Studies > Criticism and Curatorial Practice |
Date Deposited: | 14 May 2018 15:33 |
Last Modified: | 20 Dec 2021 22:30 |
URI: | https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/2343 |
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