What kind of thing are we? Our unrelenting demand for self-significance.
by
Koch, Marilyn.
Title
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What kind of thing are we? Our unrelenting demand for self-significance.
Author
:
Koch, Marilyn.
ISBN
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9780438458567
Personal Author
:
Koch, Marilyn.
Publication Information
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Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018
Physical Description
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1 online resource (28 p.)
General Note
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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 58-02.
Adviser: Stephanie James.
Abstract
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My work is motivated by my struggles to cope with the absurdity of my own existence. I am investigating the essential property of our personal identity through ephemerality, memories, and the similarities between man and machine. Using the body as object and context, I use humor and absurdity to ease the burden of my haunting realizations, and allow my creations to be enjoyed simply through comedy or visual allure. I offer these social disturbances as mementos of the idea that it is impossible for the evidence-based understanding of ourselves to ever merge into the realm of the ethereal, but as it chips away at what we are not, a more thoughtful image of what kind of thing we are might start to emerge. I suggest we give our ethereal selves too much credit, and that even the ever-shrinking magic of who, or what we are is still enough to intoxicate us.
Local Note
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School code: 0659.
Subject Term
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Art criticism.
Electronic Access
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Added Corporate Author
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Syracuse University. Department of Art.
Thesis Note
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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Syracuse University, 2018.
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