Date of Award
Spring 5-15-2015
Author's School
Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
Author's Department/Program
Art (Printmaking)
Degree Name
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Abstract
Through this essay I describe the theoretical and anthropological ideas that led to the creation of the Cushing Series. An interest in the obsession with photography in popular culture leads to an understanding of the permeation of structured reasoning beyond scientific research and into everyday life. Taking evidence from photography, and philosophy of science I establish the limitations of structured reasoning, both as a way of perceiving the world and as an understanding of identity, and define surface and frame as its physical representation. Using Sartre’s existential theory and phenomenological anthropology I then describe the infinite subjective existence of the individual and establish its sculptural mode of representation. Ethnographic details, and personal experience then serve to explain a variety of aesthetic relationships between the two parts and reveal an imbalance in Western society's accepted ways of knowing and being.
Language
English (en)
Advisor/Committee Chair
Jennifer Colten Schmidt
Advisor/Committee Chair's Department
Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
Second Advisor
Michael Byron
Second Advisor's Department
Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
Recommended Citation
Parisca, Mariana, "Pressing: Where the Objective Meets the Subjective" (2015). Undergraduate Theses—Unrestricted. 38.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/undergrad_open/38
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