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- Title
Kadın Konulu Karikatürlerde Beden Estetiği: Mizahın Modernizm Eleştirisi Mi?
- Authors
AVCI, Cevdet
- Abstract
Humor is one of the sharpest forms of expression for human emotions and thoughts. It is possible to see various forms of humor in all cultural and artistic creations, ranging from oral and written literature to games and entertainment. This is due to the structure and functions of humor, which respond to different emotional and intellectual needs. Alongside its function of amusement and entertainment, humor has become a means for individuals to express themselves in a critical dimension, underlying the act of laughter. The critical aspect of humor extends from political contexts to aesthetic attitudes and thoughts. Perfection, as a woman's image imposed by the Western culture industry, has become an important criterion both in terms of what society expects from women and women's self-view. Although it is relative, societal expectations about the concept of beauty have been reshaped by modernism and the concept of a standard-uniform female body has developed. The effort to conform to this vision paved the way for the restoration of relatively damaged bodies and aesthetic surgery in the medical field. This study focuses on the critical aspect of humor, based on caricatures used as visual humor elements in the digital culture environment. The caricatures are limited to ten examples that revolve around the theme of the female body. Content analysis technique is employed to examine the caricatures. The study argues that behind the humor-themed caricatures focusing on aesthetic practices on the female body, there is a criticism of distorted modernism. The concept of aesthetics, widely discussed in various fields of knowledge, particularly philosophy, is addressed, and the changes in the perception of female body aesthetics in the 20th and 21st centuries are evaluated. Furthermore, the study examines the criticism of modernism through humor, based on caricatures with a female theme. It concludes that the ideological homogenization of modernism is reflected in the norms of human physical aesthetics, which is implicitly criticized in caricatures with a female theme.
- Subjects
CARICATURE; AESTHETICS; WIT &; humor
- Publication
Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences, 2023, Vol 22, Issue 4, p1188
- ISSN
1303-0094
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21547/jss.1348799