Metaphysics and Materiality: Landscape Painting and the Art of Kay WalkingStick

This dissertation, the first monographic treatment of WalkingStick's work, follows a chronology of her career tracing the growth and progression of WalkingStick's aesthetic and intellectual concerns as they have developed around three recurring elements: the body, abstraction, and landscape. In order to situate WalkingStick's work within a broader context of philosophical, social and psychological issues, her oeuvre is recontextualized in relation to the larger discourse of American art history, including feminist art history and representations of the female nude, the metaphysics of modernism and abstract art, and late twentieth century practices of landscape painting, and in a dialectic with artists, not restricted to those of Native American descent, whose work articulates physical, psychological, conceptual, and spiritual connections between personal identity and the land.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Art History

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Seppi, Lisa Ann

Contributors dc:contributor

• Fineberg, Jonathan

• Women's Studies

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3202169

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87372