Rematerializing the art object : Eleanor Antin’s Carving : A Traditional Sculpture in context with The Eight Temptations
| dc.contributor.advisor | Smith, Cherise, 1969- | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Clarke, John R. | en |
| dc.creator | Bradley, Taylor | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-13T17:32:43Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2012-06-13T17:32:43Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-05 | en |
| dc.date.submitted | May 2012 | en |
| dc.date.updated | 2012-06-13T17:34:22Z | en |
| dc.description | text | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Rematerializing the Art Object examines Eleanor Antin's The Eight Temptations and Carving: A Traditional Sculpture. Temptations re-presents Antin's diet for Carving in a formal language of camp, mocking the dominant avant-garde culture and inspiring a less idea-based interpretation. Section one contextualizes Carving's formal qualities within a broader aesthetic history of photography and sculpture. Section two focuses on how Antin creates an amalgam of Renaissance and Baroque imagery in Temptations. Section three argues that Antin constructs a camp adaptation of the diet reducing the impact of an overly emotional woman and the seriousness of conceptualism to a cliché. Throughout, the thesis centers on the formal and aesthetic manifestations of Antin's humor. A performance within a performance, Temptations's parodic art history denounces pragmatic photography and empowers Antin as an artist and as a woman. | en |
| dc.description.department | Art History | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.slug | 2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5867 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5867 | en |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.subject | Carving: A Traditional Sculpture | en |
| dc.subject | The Eight Temptations | en |
| dc.subject | Eleanor Antin, Camp | en |
| dc.title | Rematerializing the art object : Eleanor Antin’s Carving : A Traditional Sculpture in context with The Eight Temptations | en |
| dc.title.alternative | Eleanor Antin's Carving : A Traditional Sculpture in context with The Eight Temptations | en |
| dc.type.genre | thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.department | Art History | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Art History | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Texas at Austin | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts | en |