From Afar It Is an Island
dc.contributor.author | Wessler, Alisha | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Tobier, Nick | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-10-08T17:54:53Z | |
dc.date.available | NO_RESTRICTION | en_US |
dc.date.available | 2013-10-08T17:54:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-08 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2013-08 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/100200 | |
dc.description.abstract | From Afar It Is an Island is an art exhibition that explores the indeterminate ontological realm of objects, their narrative potential, and taxonomic slippage. In this MFA thesis project, exhibited in the University of Michigan’s Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (2013), the visitor encounters a range of fabricated, found, and hybrid objects that resist classification; these objects, with their blurred edges, appear at once familiar and uncertain, obscure and associative. This MFA thesis documents the act of collecting, material experimentation and creative process that went into the creation of this particular body of work. In addition, this document discusses the artistic and textual references that informed the project—ranging from 17th century wunderkammer to the 19th century pseudoscience of psychometry. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | Things | en_US |
dc.subject | Collections | en_US |
dc.subject | Museum | en_US |
dc.subject | Archaeology | en_US |
dc.subject | Wonder | en_US |
dc.subject | Curiosity | en_US |
dc.subject | Psychometry | en_US |
dc.subject | Wunderkammer | en_US |
dc.subject | Display | en_US |
dc.subject | Classification | en_US |
dc.subject | Taxonomy | en_US |
dc.subject | Perception | en_US |
dc.subject | Objects | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Art | en_US |
dc.title | From Afar It Is an Island | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreename | Master of Fine Arts (MFA) | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreediscipline | Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreegrantor | University of Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Platt, Robert | |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Barndt, Kerstin | |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Klausmeyer, John | |
dc.identifier.uniqname | awessler | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/100200/1/2013 Wessler MFA Thesis.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Art and Design, Penny W. Stamps School of - Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Art |
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