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Notes On Viewfinding, Anna Lynn Grimes
Notes On Viewfinding, Anna Lynn Grimes
Art & Art History ETDs
My mixed media works on paper are a result of an exploration in the landscape that I call “viewfinding. '' This exploration involves looking at the surrounding physical environment from different perspectives, discovering features that are significant to me and producing evidence of these discoveries in my work. To expand my concept of the landscape I explore multiple ways of viewing, i.e. viewing from different positions in the landscape, through window frames and through secondary sources of information such as maps and scientific diagrams. Levels of information are collected and reassembled in my "view” drawings of the landscape. The resulting …
My Onepoint Plan For Saving The World Or Approaching The Goddess, Playfully, Jason Eric Jones
My Onepoint Plan For Saving The World Or Approaching The Goddess, Playfully, Jason Eric Jones
Art & Art History ETDs
This thesis discusses my primary motivations in making art, which center around a felt need to exercise the nonverbal, arational processes that seem inappropriate, or at least generally neglected, in our culture. The trend toward increasing intellectuality at the expense of emotionality is described as a prime cause of Western civilization's “spiritual bankruptcy," and various rebellious movements against this trend, such as the cult of the White Goddess, are mentioned, briefly. Bicameral mind theory is used as a convenient model for the duality of the rational and the intuitive. In the context of this model, my approach to photography, which …
Progress In Preparedness, Vahe Guzelimian
Progress In Preparedness, Vahe Guzelimian
Art & Art History ETDs
The primary purpose of this thesis is to discuss the contribution made by these sources toward my "progress in preparedness." I will examine my current photographic work in an effort to show how this preparedness guides the synthetical nature of my creative process.
Beyond Fascination, Robert C. Reck
Beyond Fascination, Robert C. Reck
Art & Art History ETDs
This thesis discusses the underlying concepts of my work. Part I reveals how intuition became an active part of my image-making process and chance assisted personal vision. Part II discusses the formal and stylistic means by which I address the relationships between my personal philosophy and the symbolic theory of the work.
Alienation And Creativity: A Study In Twentieth Century American Art, Judi Church
Alienation And Creativity: A Study In Twentieth Century American Art, Judi Church
Art & Art History ETDs
The society in which one lives conditions the creativity of the individual. To quote Herbert Read, alienation, "is the progressive divorce of human faculties from natural process.” A society in which alienation is pervasive will spawn types of artistic activity related to that phenomenon. The desire to create is a positive means of transcending the alienation of contemporary life. In attempting through art to unite self and world I have looked to the works and lives of other artists. These include Jasper Johns, Antonio Tapiès, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, and Richard Diebenkorn. The evolution of my work over the past …
Portraiture--A Psychological Approach, Marcia Lee Perkins
Portraiture--A Psychological Approach, Marcia Lee Perkins
Art & Art History ETDs
Portraiture is examined as a record of the artist's response to both the psychological and physical aspects of the person. The elements and avoidance of depersonalization and idealization are discussed.
DéSiré Charnay: Photographer, Keith F. Davis
DéSiré Charnay: Photographer, Keith F. Davis
Art & Art History ETDs
Desire Charnay, born in France in 1828, was a traveler, explorer, author and photographer best known for his studies of the Pre-Columbian ruins in Mexico. Educated and well-read, Charnay taught school in New Orleans before embarking on his 1857-61 expedition to Mexico. Using the cumbersome wet collodion process, he made the first successful photographs of the ruined monuments of Mitla, Chichen-Itza, Palenque, Izamal and Uxmal. These were published in a large folio of original photographic prints, entited Cites et ruines americaines, in Paris in 1862. Charnay returned to these and other Mexican sites in 1880-82 and 1886, and published many …
Changes In My Images From 1977 To 1979, Sandra Rothfork
Changes In My Images From 1977 To 1979, Sandra Rothfork
Art & Art History ETDs
During the period from 1977 through 1979 my pictorial images have undergone a gradual, but ultimately radical, change in appearance; though the philosophical sources for the paintings have remained the same. Using phenomenological and Buddhist definitions for samsara (constant change) and maya (appearance and reality) as the ideational basis for my images, I initially used a photorealistic technique. Finding epistemological problems with this method, I have recently used an abstract expressionist style. I have also replaced glass with water as a metaphor for consciousness. In painting water I have been influenced by the work of Joseph Raffael and Clyfford Still. …
Toward A Feminist Sensibility, Barbara J. Nugent
Toward A Feminist Sensibility, Barbara J. Nugent
Art & Art History ETDs
This thesis recounts the many influences that have been important in the transition of my work from purely formalist concerns to ideas and content reflective of a more feminist sensibility. I have shown how these influences affected my work, not only in content, but also in the marks and the images used. The problems inherent in such a transformation have been cited as have the solutions to these problems. I see myself as a woman artist who is projecting her sense of power as a woman, who has deliberately chosen content based on being a woman artist, and who is …
A Statement On Recent Work, Sharon Siskin
A Statement On Recent Work, Sharon Siskin
Art & Art History ETDs
I am influenced and motivated by numerous elements, both inside and outside the realm of art. In this thesis I will explain how these elements have influenced the making of my art. I have decided to divide the discussion of my work into three sections. The first section will deal with color, the second with the grid and the third with the use of craft elements in this work. A final section will be added to bring these three sections together and to allude briefly to future directions of this wok.
Food For Thought, Faye Ellen Passow
Food For Thought, Faye Ellen Passow
Art & Art History ETDs
This paper is a brief account of my art and the philosophy behind it. I will discuss my life experiences which have had influence on my work. I will talk about the structure of the work which involves the juxtaposition of familiar social orders, creating disorder and comedy'" I will also talk about the processes used and how they aid in creating an effective piece.
The Concerns And Concepts Underlying My Photographic Work, Mark Ivan Hinderaker
The Concerns And Concepts Underlying My Photographic Work, Mark Ivan Hinderaker
Art & Art History ETDs
This is an examination of the underlying concepts and the formal characteristics of my photographic work. In my work, the repetition of formal elements, the visual meanings which emerge from the sequential interplay of the images, and my interest in visual problems related to depth and surface, are combined with a diaristic and existential viewpoint in the use of the camera and with an interest in photographing American material culture. My work is in the tradition of Robert Frank and uses insights from my study of Ralph Gibson's use of sequencing. I see my work in relation to poetry and …
Dead Reckoning And Sufficient Means, Kendra Mackenzie
Dead Reckoning And Sufficient Means, Kendra Mackenzie
Art & Art History ETDs
I discuss the nature of this installation as a work in progress, a situation set up both to generate information and to make possible an assessment of certain issues within this work. I discuss my original intentions and my changing perceptions of them. Included notes from the actual week in progress and a sample of the sequences of the photographic documentation. I conclude with a brief discussion of selected sources and some thoughts for future work.
The Sequential Photographs Of EugèNe Atget, Photographer Of Paris, Donald Lee Neal
The Sequential Photographs Of EugèNe Atget, Photographer Of Paris, Donald Lee Neal
Art & Art History ETDs
An examination is made of Atget's style, the range, scope and content of his photographic work. The purpose of this dissertation is: to clarify facts about Atget's career, to draw conclusions about the way Atget photographed and developed a personal style through an examination of Atget's original prints and other source material, and to determine whether the published view of Atget is representative of his work as a whole. Eugene Atget made an exhaustive photographic record of aspects of Paris and its surroundings. While his work was methodical, it was not systematic; mature but lacking in the overall structural clarity …