Grotesque beauty

UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
Izumi Ryono (Creator)
Institution
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Advisor
Nikki Blair

Abstract: "My recent work explores the duality of beauty and the grotesque coexisting simultaneously within a singular sculptural form. I seek to make work that paradoxically seduces the viewer with the promise of beauty even as it repels in its cultivation of the unnatural and the perverse -- a sculptural elegance that takes its inspiration from the aversive feelings inspired by biological malformation. My work holds beauty and grotesqueness in uneasy balance."--Abstract from author supplied metadata.

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Publication
Thesis
Language: English
Date: 2007
Keywords
beauty, grotesque, coexisting, sculpture

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