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Duchampian Authenticity And The Readymade Consumer, Terra D' An Rudisill
Duchampian Authenticity And The Readymade Consumer, Terra D' An Rudisill
Institute for the Humanities Theses
The goal of this work is to define the term Duchampian authenticity. I focus primarily on the artist Marcel Duchamp's works and philosophies in relation not only to traditional philosophies regarding authenticity but also in relation to his effect on authenticity's metamorphosis in popular culture and the mass market. I propose that the monumental paradigm shifts produced by Duchamp's conceptual and aesthetic experiments within the realm of visual art spread into our cultural bedrock, ultimately defining the consumer's ability to attain authenticity and identity through inauthentic and ephemeral commodities. Marcel Duchamp challenged traditional notions of the authentic experience and translated …
Textual Apparitions: Power, Language, And Site In The Work Of Jenny Holzer, Peter Holden Fox
Textual Apparitions: Power, Language, And Site In The Work Of Jenny Holzer, Peter Holden Fox
Pomona Senior Theses
Jenny Holzer's text-based projects have attracted the attention of critics, historians, and curators from Des Moines to Dresden. An understanding of the complex interplay between language, gender, power, and site within Holzer's work demonstrates how a singular interpretive approach is insufficient for discussing the multitude of meanings her projects produce. Perhaps most significantly, a fresh analysis of Holzer's work and critical reactions to it challenges the story of modernism and postmodernism and the relationship between these two terms.