Transfiguration

Date of Award

2011

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Anderson, Kim

Keywords

Art, Painting, Body Object, Visual Arts

Area of Concentration

Art

Abstract

This thesis explores the disparities between our ideals of beauty and imperfect bodies, using painting as a vehicle to de-familiarize ourselves with these �flaws.� Like artists Jenny Saville, John Coplans and Lisa Yuskavage, I hope to diversify views of bodies and confuse the spaces that they define through abstraction. I n doing so, I encourage the viewer to examine expanses of flesh in order to decode the culturally prescribed values which the viewer has been assigned. The subject volunteers a formerly concealed body and in doing so reclaims agency. This agency over their own bodies is garnered where the lines between beauty and abject are blurred.

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