Representation and Identity in Contemporary Women Artists’ Video

Representation of Gender Identity of Women in the Cinema of War

This research was conducted with the aim of identifying the gender identity of women in the movies of war period. Four movies of ‘Bashu little stranger’, ‘Gilaneh’ and ‘from Karkhe to the Rhine’ were selected and the kinds of women's identity were identified by using discourse analysis in these movies. In these movies, although women tried to fulfill the expectations of society in the form of t...

Women Artists in the Collection

The identity of the artists involved in Vesalius's Fabrica 1543.

INTRODUCTION ANDREAS VESALIUS failed to mention by name the illustrators of his De humani corporis fabrica (1543) and no marks can be found on the woodcuts which help to identify the draughtsman or the engraver. Although the name of Jan Stevens, better known as J. S. van Calcar [1499-1546] appeared in the colophon of the Tabulae anatomicae sex, 1538, the analysis by O'Malley (1964) of the produ...

The visual art of contemporary artists with epilepsy.

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders encountered in clinical practice, aVecting approximately 1 of 50 children and 1 of 100 adults in developed countries, with a higher prevalence in developing countries. Epilepsy is called a hidden disability because people with the condition usually appear normal between seizures. Yet, ironically, the appearance of someone having a seizur...

Identity and Representation through Language in Ghana: The Postcolonial Self and the Other

Research related to colonialism and post colonialism shows how the identities of indigenous people were constructed and how these identities are reconstructed in our contemporary world. The thrust of this paper is that colonialism brought a shift in the linguistic structure of Ghana with the introduction of the use of English among Ghanaians. The coexistence of both Ghanaian languages and Engli...