Lilliput Effect
Abstract
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Lilliput Effect
- Creators
- Kayla Rumpp
- Contributors
- Laurel Farrin (Advisor)T.J. Dedeaux-Norris (Committee Member)Isabel Barbuzza (Committee Member)Andrew Casto (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Degree Awarded
- Master of Fine Arts (MFA), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Art
- Date degree season
- Summer 2023
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- DOI
- 10.25820/etd.007120
- Number of pages
- v, 31 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright 2023 Kayla Rumpp
- Language
- English
- Date submitted
- 05/21/2023
- Description illustrations
- Illustrations, tables
- Public Abstract (ETD)
This thesis is about how forgetting gets made. It is about how mundane book materials, from paper to ink to thread to glue to board to wood to leather to cloth and on and on, are spaces in which forgetting can occur, and in which intimacy among makers can be recognized. Through nine visual works, I played with and reshaped these mundane book materials in order to call attention to some of their not-so-evident histories, and in order to show how the presence of these materials alone makes it difficult to learn about and call to mind their intimate histories of making. Books can be very plain, unnoticeable things; these works seek to put books’ plainness on display, and at the same time surface the historical complexity of their materials and forms.
- Academic Unit
- School of Art, Art History, and Design
- Record Identifier
- 9984454187402771