- 學位論文
性別辯證：凱薩琳歐佩作品研究
Dialecting Gender：the Study of Catherine Opie
摘要
本篇論文主要針對美國攝影家凱薩琳歐佩(Catherine Opie)於1990年代創作的二個攝影系列作品《存有與擁有》(being and having)、《肖像》(Portraits)進行研究。在本論文中，第一部份從歐佩創作的年代與社會背景為出發點，試圖從醫學面與社會面切入，以理解同性戀在過去是如何被形塑為「他者」，同時也藉此分析歐佩作品的創作手法，是否有欲翻轉大眾對於同性戀者印象之意圖。其二是結合學者茱蒂斯巴特勒(Judith Butler)的性別操演理論，分析《存有與擁有》之作品意涵。同時也援引酷兒理論中對於性別與性慾特質的探討，解讀《肖像》作品中對於各種酷兒形象的描繪。本文的重點除了是探討歐佩作品之時代意義，同時也藉由作品的分析來與性別理論相印證，期望能在作品的詮釋以及性別理論的閱讀提出更多豐富的面向與可能性。
並列摘要
This paper mainly explored American photographer Catherine Opie’s work, especially on Being and Having serious (1991) and Portraits serious (1993-96). Based on the times and social background of Catherine Opie’s creation, this paper focused on medical science and social aspects to define how homosexual used to be treated as the “other”. At the same time, this paper analyzed the creation technique of Catherine Opie in order to understand whether it had ever tried to transform the stereotype of homosexual or not. Moreover, this paper analyzed the ideas in Being and Having from Judith Butler’s “gender performativity”. Simultaneously, it tried to interpret the varied descriptions of queer images in Portraits according to the studies of gender and sexual desire characteristic in the queer theory. This paper emphasized not only exploring the times significance of Opie’s work, but also trying to verify the sexual theory from analyzing the works. Furthermore, this paper was hoped to bring more and more abundant aspects and possibilities on the work interpretation and gender theory studies.