The Image of the Body in the Works of Frederick Sommer.

<p>This paper discusses the twentieth century American artist Frederick Sommer (1905-1999) and a subject that concerned him throughout his career: the image of the body. From his visceral photographs of the late 1930s to the finely organized anatomical collages of the 1990s, Sommer engaged the image of the body as primary subject matter.</p> <p>Sommer’s revisioning of the body—earth, animal, and human—characterized his life’s work, informed his most striking imagery, and enabled the realization of his aesthetic achievement. The centrality of the body throughout Sommer’s oeuvre, as primary visual material and organizational metaphor, is the theme of this study.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

MFA (Master of Fine Arts)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis - restricted

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Art

Year dc:date.issued

2003

Author dc:creator

• Baden, Eric

• Aesthetics
• Art
• Anatomy
• Modernism
• Photography
• Collage
• Art and Design
• Arts and Humanities

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright by the authors.

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/838

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dc.etsu.edu:etd-1995