This work focuses on the cross-section between classic still-life art and complex personal issues. It uses traditional and nontraditional still life photography to tell individual vignettes about my life. I explore unresolved issues, which offer subtle suggestion of an experiential narrative. All of the backgrounds and objects included are intentional and represent specific places, people, and events. I allow the viewer to bring their own experiences to the photographs, by not giving them specifics of my stories. I used this work as a way for me to move past these experiences and my hope is that they might also help others. I have created beauty from my dwelling.
Thesis
How beautiful is thy dwelling
University of Iowa
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
Spring 2015
DOI: 10.17077/etd.1qv6t9l6
Abstract
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- How beautiful is thy dwelling
- Creators
- Kate Elizabeth Allen - University of Iowa
- Contributors
- Margaret Stratton (Advisor)Jeff Rich (Committee Member)Ab. Gratama (Committee Member)Julia Leonard (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Art
- Date degree season
- Spring 2015
- DOI
- 10.17077/etd.1qv6t9l6
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- Number of pages
- ix, 34 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2015 Kate Elizabeth Allen
- Comment
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- Language
- English
- Description illustrations
- color illustrations
- Description bibliographic
- Includes bibliographical references (page 34).
- Public Abstract (ETD)
This work focuses on the cross-section between classic still-life art and complex personal issues. It uses traditional and nontraditional still life photography to tell individual vignettes about my life. I explore unresolved issues, which offer subtle suggestion of an experiential narrative. All of the backgrounds and objects included are intentional and represent specific places, people, and events. I allow the viewer to bring their own experiences to the photographs, by not giving them specifics of my stories. I used this work as a way for me to move past these experiences and my hope is that they might also help others. I have created beauty from my dwelling.
- Academic Unit
- School of Art, Art History, and Design
- Record Identifier
- 9983776859802771
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