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Reframing Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar in Grace Nicols’s ‘Weeping Woman

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dc.contributor.author Uzundemir, Özlem
dc.date.accessioned 2020-03-23T11:29:38Z
dc.date.available 2020-03-23T11:29:38Z
dc.date.issued 2018
dc.identifier.citation Uzundemir, Özlem, "Reframing Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar in Grace Nicols’s ‘Weeping Woman", Folklor/Edebiyat, Vol. 24, No. 93, pp. 73-79, (2018). tr_TR
dc.identifier.issn 1301-7491
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12416/2711
dc.description.abstract The Guyanese poet Grace Nichols’s ekphrastic poem “Weeping Woman” in her Picasso, I Want My Face Back challenges Pablo Picasso’s iconic status in twentieth-century art. Written in the form of a dramatic monologue, the poem gives voice to Picasso’s model, muse and lover, Dora Maar, who was a Surrealist photographer before she had an affair with Picasso. Unlike traditional ekphrastic poems which involve the description of a fixed, silenced and gazed beautiful image through a male persona who is also a gazer of that image in poetry, Nichols transforms Maar’s objectified position in Picasso’s painting into a subject by voicing her critique of the artist’s cubist art, his use of colors as well as his geometric figures, and of his maltreatment of her. Through this ekphrastic stance, Maar reconstructs her identity as a photographer and rids herself from the artist’s domination over her in his art and personal life. Hence, the aim of this article is to discuss in what ways Nichols’s poem problematizes the privileged status of the male artist over his silenced female model and acknowledges the artistic talent of the woman through the use of ekphrasis. tr_TR
dc.language.iso eng tr_TR
dc.publisher Uluslararası Kıbrıs Üniversitesi tr_TR
dc.relation.isversionof 10.22559/folkloredebiyat.2017.69 tr_TR
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess tr_TR
dc.subject Grace Nichols tr_TR
dc.subject Dora Maar tr_TR
dc.subject Pablo Picasso tr_TR
dc.subject Ekphrasis tr_TR
dc.title Reframing Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar in Grace Nicols’s ‘Weeping Woman tr_TR
dc.type article tr_TR
dc.relation.journal Folklor/Edebiyat tr_TR
dc.contributor.authorID 49324 tr_TR
dc.identifier.volume 24 tr_TR
dc.identifier.issue 93 tr_TR
dc.identifier.startpage 73 tr_TR
dc.identifier.endpage 79 tr_TR
dc.contributor.department Çankaya Üniversitesi, Fen - Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı tr_TR


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