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Lumpkin, Olivia Libby.

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Little histories: Five essays on five designs.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Little histories: Five essays on five designs./
作者:	Lumpkin, Olivia Libby.
面頁冊數:	212 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-06, Section: A, page: 1963.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International58-06A.
標題:	Art History. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9736117
ISBN:	0591459302

Little histories: Five essays on five designs.
Lumpkin, Olivia Libby.

Little histories: Five essays on five designs. - 212 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-06, Section: A, page: 1963.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 1997.

Each chapter in this dissertation is an individual essay dedicated to the analysis of one of five designs: the Prohibition Symbol, the Smiley Face, the Showgirl, the 'post-apocalyptic landscape,' and 'chance art.' In Chapter I, I argue that the slash design of the Prohibition Symbol owes its efficacy to the long history in Western culture of transgressive connotations associated with diagonal designs. I further suggest that the Prohibition Symbol is emblematic of Western culture's transition from an ethic grounded in absolute values to one grounded in relational values. Chapter II is an analysis of the Smiley Face in relation to the history of smiles in Western imagery, studies of human expression, and the various constructions of happiness in Western culture. I suggest that the Smiley Face must be understood in the context of late twentieth century attitudes toward the notion of secular pleasure. In Chapter III, I propose that the residual effects of the development of atomic and nuclear sciences have contributed to the creation of the idea of a 'post-apocalyptic landscape'--a construction of Nature as fallen which stands in contrast to earlier modern constructions of Nature as redemptive. I focus on the paradox of the romantic construction of New Mexico as the site of both the origin of the post-apocalyptic landscape and of its most intensive denial. In Chapter IV, I propose that the Showgirl's confrontational design draws out contradictions in current feminist theories of female sexuality which are grounded in psychoanalytic theories of scopophilia or in early childhood development. I suggest that the Showgirl might better be understood in terms of public courtship ritual and, as such, might serve as a model for a feminism grounded in the social relations of power. In Chapter V, I place Marcel Duchamp's early works, which were based on chance design, in the context of the history of types of chance design and of idea of an indeterminate cosmos. I suggest that Duchamp's interpreters have imposed on his works determinist ideologies and thus have constructed a fantasy notion of a 'conceptual art' that transcends the impositions of material, style and form.

ISBN: 0591459302Subjects--Topical Terms:

635474
Art History.

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