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Thesis

This practice-led research explores what I have come to term ‘cruel images’, and how to treat them as object and subject through the making of art. Cruel images imply a degradation of sorts: images that represent politically degraded subjects in turn get materially degraded through mediation and passage from one medium or file type to another, which degrade the subject further by virtue of being seen, or passed over. The methodology of this research lies in handling and re-editing f...

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Authors: Toukan, O

• Alternative title: On the afterlife of cruel images
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford