Thesis
Glimpsing mirrors
University of Iowa
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
Summer 2022
DOI: 10.25820/etd.006645
Abstract
Glimpsing Mirrors is a multi-year project through which I explored the traditional craft of parchment making and leveraged my 12 years of calligraphy experience to create contemporary palimpsests. In manuscript studies, a palimpsest refers to a page that features several layers of effaced writing. In other words, a historical palimpsest is the unintentional result of recycling parchment (a valuable material made of stretched and dried animal skin) or censoring text. This essay serves as a catalog of the 14 pieces featured in my MFA thesis exhibition. The work examines the materiality of parchment and the metaphorical nature of palimpsests as creations of layers that are built up and broken down over time.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Glimpsing mirrors
- Creators
- Madison Bennett
- Contributors
- Sara Langworthy (Advisor)Timothy D Barrett (Committee Member)Cheryl Jacobsen (Committee Member)Giselle Simón (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Book Arts
- Date degree season
- Summer 2022
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- DOI
- 10.25820/etd.006645
- Number of pages
- vii, 38 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright 2022 Madison Bennett
- Comment
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- Language
- English
- Description illustrations
- color illustrations
- Description bibliographic
- Includes bibliographical references (page 24).
- Public Abstract (ETD)
Glimpsing Mirrors is a multi-year project through which I explored the traditional craft of parchmentmaking and leveraged my 12 years of calligraphy experience to create contemporary palimpsests. In manuscript studies, a palimpsest refers to a page that features several layers of effaced writing. In other words, a historical palimpsest is the unintentional result of recycling parchment (a valuable material made of stretched and dried animal skin) or censoring text. This essay serves as a catalog of the 14 pieces featured in my MFA thesis exhibition. The work examines the materiality of parchment and the metaphorical nature of palimpsests as creations of layers that are built up and broken down over time.
- Academic Unit
- Center for the Book
- Record Identifier
- 9984285050202771
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