dc.contributor.advisor |
Narath, Albert |
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dc.contributor.author |
Cekander, Megan |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2014-10-17T16:15:30Z |
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dc.date.available |
2014-10-17T16:15:30Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2014-10-17 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18529 |
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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. |
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dc.language.iso |
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dc.publisher |
University of Oregon |
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dc.rights |
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US |
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dc.title |
Beyond Fabric: The Early Barrel Works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 1958-1962 |
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dc.type |
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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thesis.degree.name |
M.A. |
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thesis.degree.level |
masters |
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thesis.degree.discipline |
Department of the History of Art and Architecture |
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thesis.degree.grantor |
University of Oregon |
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