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| Background In contemporary art, integrated discussions on works using costumes as media have been conducted in various ways. However, although many artists have begun to adopt certain items such as shoes as objects, specific discussions on the formative languages of shoes as objects are insufficient.
Method A literature study was conducted to theoretically discuss the characteristics and usage techniques of objects, types of shoes, and socio-psychological meanings in art. Based on this, among the artworks produced since the 1910s, the works involving shoes were investigated through literature surveys and Internet data surveys, and their inherent meaning was analyzed.
Results Shoes were used as objects in various works of art as symbolic formative language that could metaphorically reveal the artist's intentions. Artist gathered an unspecified number of shoes to represent the destiny community, people at disaster sites and victims of violence, and the artists talked about healing through life, death, and memories. Certain shoes implicitly expressed couples, marriages, and sexual intercourse, and were used to express psychological, economic, and sexual greed. In particular, women's high heels were dealt with very extensively. Artists talked about women who were violated through high heels, idealization of women's bodies, fetishism, and feminism.
Conclusion In various methods and forms, what artists tried to convey through the medium of shoes was the characteristics of a stark modern society and the attributes of the times. They personified shoes into humans in their daily lives. Even shoes of the same kind played a variety of complex roles that could be interpreted differently, such as death, life, sexual meaning, or resistance meaning, depending on the artist's intention or form of expression. |
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| 오브제, 신발, 상징적 의미, Objet, Shoes, Symbolic Meaning |
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