DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/N6D5-0T27
Defense Date
2015
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Fine Arts
First Advisor
Arnold Kemp
Second Advisor
Gregory Volk
Third Advisor
Monique Mouton
Abstract
An analysis of the surface of my paintings through Jean Baudrillard’s notion of seduction and the cool mechanism of the airbrush. I further investigate my work through the metaphor of the black mirror also known as a Claude Mirror and the connections between my work, Claude Lorrain’s landscape painting and divination through the use of reflective surfaces known as catopotromancy. Considering the notion of assemblage as outlined by Gilles Deleuze and Bruno Latour’s Action Network Theory I attempt to navigate the part/whole relationships found in painting, and in society.
Rights
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Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
5-11-2015