A master's thesis at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Basra, discussed "cultural heterogeneity in the contemporary global formation".
The thesis presented by researcher Shirin jowaid Mahdi aims to identify cultural heterogeneity in contemporary international plastic art.
The thesis included the study of the concept of cultural otherness as an intellectual and aesthetic concept and the analysis of the methods represented by it in contemporary international plastic art.
The thesis concluded that plastic art was inspired by the concepts of cultural heterogeneity from multiple references represented by Eastern, African and Asian cultures and linking them with contemporary Western artistic trends.