Central Washington University
Advertising Media as a Source for Painting Iconography
Abstract
dc:description.abstractOne of the phenomena of twentieth century America is the enormous growth in size and influence of the advertising industry. It is impossible to avoid the visual and aural images of sultry women and sophisticated men (and various portions of their anatomy), who order, persuade and cajole the public through the media of television, newspapers and magazines. It was the purpose of this thesis (1) to use these advertisements as a source of visual imagery for a series of drawings and paintings; (2) to utilize the resulting ambiguity of the image when taken out of a commercial context and put into a fine art context; and (3) to develop the concept that the audience acts as the active ingredient in the confrontation between itself and the art object.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Education (MEd)
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Education
- Year
- 1969
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Thompkins, Betty
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- B. Stephen Bayless
- J. John Agars
- Margaret M. Sahlstrand
Subjects
dc:subject × 4Rights
- Language dc:language
- English
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/1138
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:digitalcommons.cwu.edu:etd-2152