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The concept of beauty in art
(Elsevier, 2022-01-01) Turan, Fulya; Vargel, İ.; Özgür, F. F.
Before the invention of the camera, it was only possible to document beauty through art. For centuries, art and beauty were inseparable. Different meanings were attributed to the “beautiful” in history. Sometimes noble simplicity and calm sublimity were accepted as beauty; sometimes moral beauty was at the forefront. Among the beauties, a special place and importance was given to female beauty in the history of art. The untouched, desired, hopelessly loved woman of the Middle Ages later became the main subject of a painting genre. Nudes, which were first made for religious reasons such as to depict a specific scene from the bible, later diversified under the subject of Venus. The female body has become the object of sensual consumption. In addition to female beauty, the beauty of nature has always been among the subjects of art. Art imitated nature for a while because it was beautiful. It was the background to which man was exposed during his natural evolution. The proportions of nature were good for people, they were found beautiful. Nature, which was previously handled only with a style based on imitation, was handled with an abstract expression in time, thanks to the avant-garde artists of the 20th century. It was a period in which different styles of expression were tried. Modernism, where wisdom, beauty, and refinement were sought, was for an elite audience who idealized nature. It left its place to postmodernism in which sensual stimulation was sought rather than an intellectual admiration, which is for mass media and where craftsmanship is idealized. The individual of the 21st century consumer society, who is passionately attracted to the beauty of their own image that is presented to the gaze of others on social media, resembles the nobles of the Renaissance period, when the charm of the wealth obtained through overseas trade was depicted with a similar passion.
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Online presentation of self on instagram: a case study of yoga practitioners in Turkey
(2017-01) Gölge, Alime Bilge
In the era of social media, Social Network Sites (SNSs) has become an essential part of social conversation. Among varied aspects of online communication, SNSs encourage the users to present their idealized self-identities in digital realm. This thesis explores social media practices and performances of Turkey’s yoga community on Instagram, based on Goffman’s dramaturgical perspective on self-presentation. With this aim, visual images, texts and hashtags of the Instagram posts by yogis and yoginis were analyzed while ethnographic research techniques were used with a consideration of both online and offline contexts. Conducted research showed that there are three main motivations for the yogi and yoginis of Turkey to use Instagram: to become visible, to exhibite creativity online and to offer a guidance to their followers for self-actualization. Furthermore, the findings provided an understanding about yoga body, gender roles and attitudes towards censorship. This thesis argues that even if they were designed for global-scale interaction, the ways that SNSs are employed by the users to indicate different attitudes depend on local circumstances of the community. Therefore, instead of taking online platforms as homogenous constructs, considering them in their offline contexts is required for overall comprehension of the social meaning produced through the practices on SNSs.
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Our work in progress: instagram-sourced participatory storytelling installation
(2016-05) Aslan, Mert
This thesis analyses the current relation between art and audience, focusing on the collective creativity in social media and the function of audience collaboration in the art zone. Attempting to define the act of artistic participation in social media and relocate it in contemporary art, I examine how collaboration in the development of an artwork becomes possible. This thesis accompanies exhibited artwork, which consists of a three-dimensional installation that procures generation of various stories by the rearranging of the flow of printed images of Instagram posts. I also aim to achieve a relational aesthetic by considering those “Instagram friends” as coworkers of a collaborative work, which further undergoes a transformation through each viewer-participant’s intervention in the gallery setting. Therefore, I assert that we have already been collaborating by creating and sharing through social media, and thus shaping the form of communication in the 21st century.
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Women’s lifestyle and wellness visibilities on instagram: a critical analysis from a feminist perspective
(2024-06) Güç, Çağla
Wellness influencers and accounts on Instagram have reached large followers, a majority of which consist of women, by gathering engaging content that resonates with users seeking guidance on various topics and overall lifestyle improvement. Through a thematic content analysis of the most recent 200 posts from 20 of wellness and lifestyle Instagram accounts, this research examines the messages, communication strategies, and underlying feminist ideals presented to followers. Results indicated that the content fosters feelings of inadequacy for women, especially since they advise women to constantly self-improve. Although these accounts claim to aspire for the goal of empowerment, they often align with media-visible feminist perspectives characterized by postfeminism, neoliberal feminism, and popular feminism. They employ the term feminism as a motivational and trendy concept, which results in hollowing the term’s meaning and certainly not following feminist ideals.