Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Aesthetics (1)
- Environmental Health (1)
- Environmental Studies (1)
- Epistemology (1)
- Fine Arts (1)
-
- Interdisciplinary Arts and Media (1)
- Life Sciences (1)
- Other Arts and Humanities (1)
- Other Social and Behavioral Sciences (1)
- Painting (1)
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Environmental Health (1)
- Philosophy (1)
- Philosophy of Language (1)
- Photography (1)
- Printmaking (1)
- Social Justice (1)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (1)
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Art and Design
Dissonant Forms: Landscape, Nature-Love, And Art, Taylor F. Benoit
Dissonant Forms: Landscape, Nature-Love, And Art, Taylor F. Benoit
Masters Theses
As artists continue the long and storied lineage of Landscape, are there aesthetic responsibilities that come with representing the forces that afford you the capacity to do so? As we delineate spaces into places, endless interconnectivity into knowable “systems”, and living matter into thing based taxonomies, who do these delineations serve and with what intentions do we proceed? My studio art practice explores what it means to give form to our Former—the Former being that from which we came, the here and now, our explicit ecological reality, the stuff of what we call nature. …
Mantle, David Hannon
Mantle, David Hannon
Masters Theses
Through a large-scale installation called mantle, I explore how the queer body becomes uncanny to the home through a human sized dollhouse and using scenic design ideas. Home for many is a safe place, but for queers, it can be a difficult one, wrought with not belonging in a childhood of heteronormativity. Being stuck in that heteronormative space is what I communicate through a stage set, composed of four theater flats, printed and collaged wallpaper, free-standing photos mounted on MDF, a giant necklace in a separate room, and impromptu pieces made in the space.