How Long to Read The Darkroom as Weapon?

How Long Does it Take to Read The Darkroom as Weapon??

It takes the average reader and 50 minutes to read The Darkroom as Weapon? by Megan MacKenzie

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Belgian Surrealist Raoul Ubac's Penthesilee photomontages (1937-39) depict imagined scenes of graphic violence that fragment the female body to the point of rendering it illegible. This representational violence occurs not only on the iconographic level, but is also embedded in the surface of the photograph through the use of darkroom techniques such as solarization and brulage. While Ubac's photomontages have been examined through the lenses of Surrealist misogyny and the Spanish Civil War, they have not yet been considered in relation to the visual record of Belgian colonial violence in the Congo. Reading the iconography of Ubac's images and his engagement with the legend of the ancient Amazons, this thesis analyzes the ways in which Ubac deployed the image of the Amazon as a gendered and racial "Other". Ubac took as his sources of inspiration the Greek myth of the Amazonian queen, and Heinrich von Kleist's Romantic play Penthesilea (1808), both of which frame Penthesilea as inferior to her Greek foe/lover, Achilles. By putting Ubac's use of the Penthesilea myth in the context of the Surrealist movement's anti-colonialist stance and the group's ethnographic interest in "primitive" cultures, this thesis shows how Ubac critiqued photography's use as a tool of imperialism while still mobilizing a primitivist discourse that supported and enabled colonial violence.

How long is The Darkroom as Weapon??

The Darkroom as Weapon? by Megan MacKenzie is 49 pages long, and a total of 12,691 words.

This makes it 17% the length of the average book. It also has 16% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Darkroom as Weapon? Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 9 minutes to read The Darkroom as Weapon? aloud.

What Reading Level is The Darkroom as Weapon??

The Darkroom as Weapon? is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

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