Date of Award
Spring 5-20-2016
Degree Name
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Restricted/Unrestricted
Unrestricted
Abstract
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 what is happening around it, and shifting and moving according to stimuli.
Mentor/Primary Advisor
Lisa Bulawsky
Recommended Citation
Butts, Liza H., "Artificiality and the New Image: the Image Body" (2016). Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers. 8.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/bfa/8