REFLECTIONS OF SOCIAL IDENTITY AND GENDER POLICIES ON CONTEMPORARY ART IN TURKEY IN THE 1990’S Cover Image

1990’LI YILLARDA TÜRKİYE’DE TOPLUMSAL KİMLİK VE CİNSİYET POLİTİKALARININ ÇAĞDAŞ SANATTAKİ YANSIMALARI
REFLECTIONS OF SOCIAL IDENTITY AND GENDER POLICIES ON CONTEMPORARY ART IN TURKEY IN THE 1990’S

Author(s): Osman Odabaş
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Sanat ve Dil Araştırmaları Enstitüsü
Keywords: Social Identity; Gender Policies; Contemporary Art; 1990's;

Summary/Abstract: As a result of new middle class entering into a search of a cultural language of the market for cultural commodities structuring and re-forming the consumption of these concepts intended service sector occurred in Turkey in the 1990s. Therefore, a period of 90‟s mostly emphasis on culture than economics. Consider as beginning with the questioning of nation-state models and neo-liberal discourses with globalization too, these periods was a real turning point for the world culture and politic movements. After September 12, the artists who have a long time to stay away from political discourse in this process largely structured through the identification of a new social phenomenon, with political representation and a lot of work to use the and begin to question close and the current date. On a global scale, the artists of the period are starting to show more interest in what is political in art, to review a new language in the post-conceptualism and sociology, began to criticize not a criticism of the socialist rhetoric of the 70‟s visuals but the geography, in which the cultural, sociological, and historical facts, which have evolved in the west began after 68 brought a new visibility and understanding of the language. The artists who looking for new possibilities of expression against elitist and class differentiation of the concept of modern art in the face of flourishing art styles, they have used art as a new challenge material against such phenomena as community, identity, gender politics, localism, tradition, power. The purpose of this study, examined to determine the receipt of the modern-postmodern sense of identity and gender together with the cultural and political climate of the 90‟s in Turkey and its impact on the art dynamics of the period.

  • Issue Year: 1/2012
  • Issue No: 05
  • Page Range: 427-443
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Turkish