Objects, associations, implications

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dc.contributor.advisorOlsen, Daniel M., 1963-en
dc.creatorMcCleskey Sullivan, Michael Shaneen
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-11T15:48:43Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-22T22:30:21Z
dc.date.available2016-08-11T15:48:43Z
dc.date.available2018-01-22T22:30:21Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.description.abstractTake an object, make an association, find its implication. Like a sieve that sorts data from large to small: I research, absorb, distill, make extractions, make connections, and utilize the image/text relationship to illuminate the resulting information. Juxtaposing appropriated visuals with literary quotation reveals, mediates, and/or creates storied spaces of meaning. These little books are the vessels that house the interstitial spaces in which personal memories and private experiences rub up against public institutions and mass media identities, and against the governmentalities that define, label, categorize, order and structure our lives. The books illuminate the personal and political, public and private. They do this by focusing on particular objects and then exploring their associations and implications in different social contexts with regard to the body and identity of the author and viewer alike. Like the manifestos of the avant-garde artists and designers of the Constructivist modern period that utilized the metaphor of illuminated manuscripts, my books act as textual polemical objects, diaries, memoir, non-fiction, poetry, taxonomies and textbooks -- they shed light on uncomfortable subjects, including a critical self-reflexivity toward personal experience. The books are manifestos that contain cultural criticism, question dominant paradigms, and are institutional indictments that call for an awareness from both the author and reader.en
dc.description.departmentStudio Arten
dc.format.mediumelectronicen
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2RV0D13Cen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/39390en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartofUT Electronic Theses and Dissertationsen
dc.rightsCopyright © is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.en
dc.rights.restrictionRestricteden
dc.subjectObject associationen
dc.subjectObject associationsen
dc.subjectImage and text relationshipen
dc.subjectImage and texten
dc.subjectImage/text relationshipen
dc.subjectTextual objectsen
dc.subjectVisuals with literary quotationen
dc.subjectVisual and literary juxtapositionen
dc.subjectBooks as art objectsen
dc.subjectBooks as arten
dc.subjectHandmade booksen
dc.subjectCultural criticism in arten
dc.titleObjects, associations, implicationsen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.genreThesisen

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