A master’s thesis at the College of Fine Arts, University of Basrah, examined the aesthetic discourse of body shape transformations in contemporary international ceramics. The thesis presented by the researcher (Mayada Muhammad Assi) included the subject of studying the body and its formal and intellectual transformations, if transformation is a fundamental pillar in the process of cultural and cognitive renewal for any society according to the concepts of Time and place have a significant impact on the structure of the aesthetic discourse
The thesis discussed the environmental variables surrounding the human being, as well as the cultural, social and religious variables, as well as the economic, political and cultural aspects in the midst of the influence of artistic trends and movements.
The message aims to reveal the aesthetic discourse of the image of the body and what are the most important transformations in contemporary international ceramics. The thesis concluded that the diversity of goals and intellectual, cultural and social contents in various forms of the body, which represented local cultures at times, and the struggle of globalization at other times. And the reliance of the potter in the representations of the body on the foundations of transformation, which included form and content, was the images of the body Kh
An aesthetic pleasure based on the importance of the structure of thought.
