DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/PYXX-AC24
Defense Date
2013
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Fine Arts - Painting
First Advisor
Hilary Wilder
Second Advisor
Gregory Volk
Third Advisor
Holly Morrison
Fourth Advisor
Jorge Benitez
Abstract
The feeling of a narcotic cannot be put to words, just as the sensation one receives from her or his favorite artwork is impossible to record. Equally, both these delicacies of modern existence must be sought out. The user/viewer only gets a tiny taste and must therefore keep coming back for more. Utopia may be an unrealistic construction of culture, but I would posit the idea the both narcotics and art strive to give us just that – however tiny a taste. This paper addresses the intersections of visual art, drugs, anti-hero worship and contemporary representations of Romanticism throughout the American body politic.
Rights
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Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
May 2013