What kind of thing are we? Our unrelenting demand for self-significance.
by
 
Koch, Marilyn.

Title
What kind of thing are we? Our unrelenting demand for self-significance.

Author
Koch, Marilyn.

ISBN
9780438458567

Personal Author
Koch, Marilyn.

Publication Information
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018

Physical Description
1 online resource (28 p.)

General Note
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 58-02.
 
Adviser: Stephanie James.

Abstract
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
School code: 0659.

Subject Term
Art criticism.

Electronic Access
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Added Corporate Author
Syracuse University. Department of Art.

Thesis Note
Thesis (M.F.A.)--Syracuse University, 2018.

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