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Artificiality And The New Image: The Image Body, Liza H. Butts
Artificiality And The New Image: The Image Body, Liza H. Butts
Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers
This paper sets up a historical argument for how images exist in the world and how artists relate to these images. The questions of the paper are concerned with defining the “Contemporary Image” and looking at how the digitization of all the images in our world affect the art object and the experience of art in the physical world. The conclusion and answer to these questions is found in a resistance to images that oversaturate our culture. This resistance occurs by looking to the painted image to function as a body in the world; aware of its existence, responsive to …
Rewriting History: The Press As A Tool For Destruction And Preservation, Emily L. Mogavero
Rewriting History: The Press As A Tool For Destruction And Preservation, Emily L. Mogavero
Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers
This statement describes my two bodies of work, Aufheben and Artist-Hero/Squish, in which I use printmaking processes to rewrite history. In Artist-Hero/Squish I mimic canonical paintings of women by modernist male painters and run my quotations of these paintings through the press while the paint is still wet on the canvas. Through this process, I examine, confront, and change the male-dominated history of art. Aufheben currently includes one hundred drypoint prints that catalogue the personal history of my mark. This series represents a process of constant change, with individual prints suggesting stages of my process including moments of growth …