And This, Our Measure: Figurative Realism And Workaday Culture., Perry Walter Johnson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Man has created vast and powerful systems. These systems and their associated protocols, dogmas, and conventions tend to limit rather than liberate. Evaluation based on homogeneity threatens the devaluation of our humanity. This paper and the artwork it supports examine contemporary culture and its failings in the stewardship of the humanist ideal.

My paintings referenced herein are satirical narratives. The story told is one of alienation and evisceration. The visual subject matter is the human figure and environments dominated by architectural geometry. The male figures are conspicuously turned from view, a visual cue to their estrangement. Parallel and subordinate thoughts …

My Journey Home: A Study In Hand-Felted Wool., Ashleigh Robertson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This is a supporting paper for a Master of Arts Graduate Exhibition entitled My Journey Home: A Study in Hand-Felted Wool, held at Slocumb Galleries October 30 through November 3, 2006. The work in the exhibition represents a concentrated study in the graduate program in Fiber Art at East Tennessee State University. My artwork is an expression of my feelings and emotions toward my family, particularly the women in my family.

The paper begins with an introduction detailing my artistic research and culminates with a reflection of the work shown in the exhibition. The cultural and historical influences that shaped …

Overwhelming Systems, Meghan Oconnor

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My work portrays my own social and cultural desires, fears, and experiences. I employ a narrative format that shows childhood cartoon influences to attract viewers and visual complexity to sustain them. I depict fear, tension, struggle, and isolation to reveal deception, which stems from a response to structures of power. It is a representation, a questioning, and/ or a critique of the state of today's human nature and subsequent condition. I employ images of animals as a stand-in for the human figure, feeling or persona. Mechanical devices are metaphors of harmful systems of culture or power. The illusion of transparency …

Slightly Bent, John Sutherland

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The work in Slightly Bent draws upon my background in straight photography. Straight photography seeks to reproduce reality as closely as possible, as only the camera can. I use its language loosely to create images that are representative of the real, but my focus is on lending an imaginative interpretation of my subjects that exists only within the borders of the print.
I am influenced by the formal style of a group of photographers collectively known as the German School, that includes Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, and Candida Hoffer. The influence of their typographical studies of architecture and the human-industrial …

Figuring The Digital, Molly Morin

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This body of work is a way of understanding, reflecting on, and contributing to a contemporary dialogue about the impact of digital technology and the Internet on society by looking at the organization of information that lies behind the computer screen, and creating work that is sourced directly from the Internet but becomes a tangible object in the physical world. I use methods of mass production and marketing to create artwork that values individuality over homogenization and complexity over efficiency, co-opting practical digital technology for the purposes of physical beauty. The work should inspire a sense of wonder through its …

A Breakdown In Boundaries: As Explored Through Abjection And The Language Of Abstract Art, Mary Hanley

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My work places emphasis on the anxiety and allure felt at the possibility of ingesting an object belonging to or displaced from the body through the language of abstract art. It links the fears and fascinations felt in situations of perceived abnormality and bodily aggression, to the objectification, or conversely abjection, of objects through images. I investigate a collapse in division between what the perceived identity of a thing or person is, and what it is not.
Each painting rejects an ideal of beauty as portrayed through stability, clarity, and compartmentalization, and embraces beauty as the interconnectedness of opposing …

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital Program, Levi Billiter, &, Andrew Tilley, Event Title:, Boomfest 2007, Levi Billiter, Andrew Tilley

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Music Alive!, Chamber Series, The Kingsbury Woodwind Quintet, Wendell Dobbs, Flute, Ann Marie Bingham, Clarinet, Jenny Morris, Oboe, Kay Lawson, Bassoon, Stephen Lawson, Horn, Wendell B. Dobbs Dr., Ann Bingham, Jenny Morris, Kay Lawson, Stephen Lawson

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Graduate Recital, Dilek Engin, Viola, Accompanied By, Dr. Leslie Petteys, Piano, Dilek Engin

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Mixed Signals, Elizabeth Snipes

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My oil on wooden panel paintings demonstrate a curiosity and fondness for a traditional subject, the human figure, and utilize a representational vocabulary to examine an interest in current modes of interpersonal interaction. The work has evolved in conjunction with an investigation of contemporary figurative painting with the purpose of translating a traditional genre and subject matter into a present context of remediation and digital social networking. The resulting paintings utilize recurrent art historical themes of the isolated figure and the sublime, and also contribute to a contemporary conversation surrounding painting's relationship to new media and photography in the twenty-first …

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Jazz 12.1 Ensemble, Sean Parsons, Director, Sean Parsons, Martin W. Saunders

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Marshall University Music Department Presents The Marshall University, Symphonic Band, Fall Concert, Dr, Ben F. Miller, Conductor, And, Graduate Assistant Conductors:, Jennifer Parsons, Lee Ann Lykens, Mathew Jarvis, Ben Miller

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Kenneth Booth, Guitar, Kenneth Booth

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Josh Richardson, Trumpet, Accompanied By, Ray Martin, Piano, Josh Richardson

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Marshall University Music Department Presents Elijah, By, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Mu Choral Union, Mu University Chorus, Mu Chamber Choir, Mu Orchestra, Dale Capehart As Elijah, David Castleberry, Conductor, David Castleberry

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Records And States; Memory Explored Through Process And Narrative, Rachael Madeline

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These series of prints, Records and States, demonstrate an investigation into memory through process and narrative. Each body of work serves as a documentation of memory, operating through differing visual vocabularies. The content and process relies on remembering and repeating a matrix to express the traces of memory. Records are a body of information based on past events, compiled and preserved to represent the passage of time through the use of text and numerical symbols. This is a literal and metaphorical association; the process is a time consuming and meditative endeavor whose visual results represent the construction and breakdown …

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Delta Omicron Christmas/ American Music Recital, Leslie Petteys

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Matthew Murphy, Tuba, Matthew Murphy

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Society Of Composers, Composition Concert, David Schoening, President, Mu Chapter Sci, Advisor: Dr. Mark Zanter, Mark Zanter, David Schoening

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Ana Maria Lavander, Violin, Ana Lavander

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Wind Symphony, Fall Concert, Steven R. Barnett, Conductor, Featuring, Jennifer Parsons, Graduate Assistant Conductor, Steve Barnett

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Marshall University Music Department Presents The Marshall University Jazz Ensemble, In Concert, Ed Bingham, Director, Ed Bingham

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Milestones / Miles’S Tones: A Coincidence, Brian Fay

Exhibition Catalogues

Milestones/Miles’s Tones: a Coincidence is a catalogue essay published in the 25^th. anniversary catalogue for Black Church Print Studio’s, Dublin.

Marshall University Music Department Presents The Music Alive, Guest Artist Series, Featuring, Őzgűr Aydin, Piano, Sőlen Dikener, Cello, Őzgűr Aydin, Şőlen Dikener

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Junior Recital, Adam Stephenson, Adam Stephenson

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Marshall University Music Department Presents The Marshall University Percussion Ensemble, Steven Hall, Conductor, Featuring, Jeremy Kirk, Marimba, Steven Hall, Jeremy Kirk

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Danielle Coleman, Soprano, Danielle Coleman

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Marshall University Music Department Presents The Marshall University, University Chorus, Robert Wray, Director, Allison Thorp, Assistant/ Accompanist, Concert, Robert Wray, Allison Thorp

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Marshall University Music Department Presents The Marshall University, Chamber Choir, David Castleberry, Conductor, Fall Concert, David Castleberry

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Graduate Recital, By, Jeremy Kirk, Percussion, Jeremy Kirk

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