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The Aesthetics of War Representations in Contemporary Gaza Plastic Arts: An Analytical Study

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The Aesthetics of War Representations in Contemporary Gaza Plastic Arts: An Analytical Study

This research explores the aesthetics of death representations in contemporary Gazan plastic arts, aiming to analyze the relationship between “Death” as a primary variable (an existential daily experience) and “Aesthetic Visual Discourse” as a dependent variable. The study is situated within the context of the Gaza environment under the weight of war, where death transcends a mere biological event to become a daily reality laden with significance. The research problem addresses how plastic art transforms the duality of “pain and loss” into an aesthetic subject, investigating the visual mediums that turn “absence” into a presence, resisting oblivion. The importance of this study lies in documenting the ontological role of Palestinian art as a visual archive that merges documentary function with aesthetic value, contributing to an understanding of how historical tragedy is reformulated into an artistic structure. The study adopts an analytical-interpretive methodology to deconstruct formal elements—such as color, composition, and space—linking them to a theoretical framework that connects concepts of beauty, pain, and memory within philosophical literature. The research concludes that death in contemporary Gaza art is no longer an end, but has evolved into an aesthetic structure that reproduces identity and resistance through the visual trace


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