Chicken Scribbles and the Dove that Looks like a Frog. An exploration of visual and verbal expressions in relation to dislocation and trauma in the political context of the Levantine Arab region

This PhD thesis completes a fourteen-year cycle of investigation in art history that focuses on the overarching question of how artists across generations respond to political events and translate their political positions in their artistic work. The research is located in the political, artistic and social places and temporalities of Palestine around the world, and is centred on the visual representations (paintings, photographs, sculptures) in this historiography. A decolonial approach guides the artistic process with the intention of finding form for deconstructing the histories and represe... Mehr ...