A master’s thesis at the College of Fine Arts, University of Basrah, examined hegemony and its representations in international ceramic sculpture. The thesis presented by the researcher (Walaa Rahim Hamza) included the subject of hegemony, which occupied an important place in contemporary thought as it represents an effective tool in the general knowledge system and the cultural identity of society, which is reinforced by the strength and effectiveness of identity. cultural and intellectual individual.
The thesis discussed the concept of hegemony, its types and its functions in life and art, the philosophical context of hegemony and the philosophical context of postmodernism. The thesis aims at the necessity of shedding light on the hegemony and its representations in global sculpture through what the contemporary world potter has achieved from artistic formations represented by the hegemony by identifying and reading its concepts through analysis.
The thesis concluded that hegemony constituted an essential element in the formulations of the international potter, and the rationale for its use varied between the material components of the composition and between the subject of work in its philosophical and intellectual formulations.
