A master's thesis at the College of Fine Arts, University of Basrah, examined the paradoxical works in contemporary international formation
The thesis presented by researcher Mortada Shaker Khalaf Al-Atbi included the importance of paradox in the contemporary visual text, and because art was built on these paradoxes because it is directly related to society, its forerunners and problems, and the paradox that results from it. Ostensibly intending what this text conceals of paradoxes that provoke the mind of the recipient by searching for that hidden and discovering its activities in contemporary artistic productions The thesis discussed the functions of paradox in the contemporary global formation, how it worked as a concept or epistemological theme, and how it adopted withholding meaning and suggesting the reversal of what is intended to be conveyed by moving from literal directness to conceptualism and the exposure of discourses.
The thesis aims to reveal the functions of paradox in contemporary global formation
The thesis concluded that the paradox is one of the most important and difficult strategies, as it requires an artist who carries a wide culture and comprehensive knowledge and calls for a wise and intelligent recipient aware of the truth of what he reads, and he has to perform the task of deciphering the paradox text.