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- WCU Author/Contributor (non-WCU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Jonathan Thomas Cantrell (Creator)
- Institution
- Western Carolina University (WCU )
- Web Site: http://library.wcu.edu/
- Advisor
- Richard Tichich
Abstract: This thesis defense and accompanying thesis exhibition is an investigation of
cultural myths about race, gender and sexuality. The body is used as a familiar form to
which metaphorical elements are added. These elements are combined in a way that
creates the kind of cognitive dissonance that cultural myths are meant to reconcile,
which, in turn exposes those myths and biases.
The exhibition includes five life-size charcoal figure drawings. The drawings are
rendered in a style that is influenced by classical techniques. The artists such as
Rembrandt van Rijn and Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio influence the way I model
the form. Other, more contemporary, influential artists include Egon Schiele, Odd
Nerdrum and Luis Caballero whose work informed these figures both technically and
conceptually. It is all these artists which are my foundation of the use of the body as a
tool for conversations of the human condition. The theoretical scaffolding that this
exhibit is based on includes the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Gilles
Deleuze and Felix Guattari.
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Thesis
- Language: English
- Date: 2012
- Subjects
- Charcoal drawing
- Human figure in art