Beyond Fabric: The Early Barrel Works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 1958-1962
| dc.contributor.advisor | Narath, Albert | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Cekander, Megan | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-17T16:15:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-10-17T16:15:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-10-17 | |
| dc.description.abstract | My thesis examines how artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude appropriated the oil drum as a charged medium when considering this object's various cultural connotations. As most scholarship have focused on the husband-and-wife team's artwork involving fabric, this project provides an alternate discourse by analyzing their early barrel works from 1958-1962. During these years, Christo's artistic development established his interest in using the barrel as reoccurring medium throughout his oeuvre as well as his desire to create large-scale works of public art with his partner, Jeanne-Claude. While in Paris, Christo found the oil drum to be a cheap and accessible working material for many of his wrapped sculptures. Yet its inherent volume and ability to stack led to his experimentations with installation, cumulating in he and Jeanne-Claude's first collaboration. Beyond the barrel's economic associations, together they began to examine how it could take on larger cultural contexts, especially the political. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/18529 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.title | Beyond Fabric: The Early Barrel Works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 1958-1962 | en_US |
| dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation | en_US |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Department of the History of Art and Architecture | en_US |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Oregon | en_US |
| thesis.degree.level | masters | en_US |
| thesis.degree.name | M.A. | en_US |
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