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Dominican University of California
The Human Figure as an Anchor to Realism in Abstract Expressionism
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>By analyzing the works and histories of three Abstract Expressionist painters, and producing a series of his own figural abstractions, the author argues that Abstract Expressionism is anchored, in part, to the study and training of the human figure.</p> <p>Through a close analysis of the figurative elements in the work of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Willem de Kooning (1904 - 1997), and Arshile Gorky (1904 - 1948), this thesis examines how they abstracted the human figure. It also draws on art history and contemporary theory to show how Abstract Expressionism art expands away from its roots but also reveals them.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Master's Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Humanities
- Year
- 2006
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Rozewski, Joseph E.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Foad Satterfield, MFA
- Leslie Ross, PhD
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholar.dominican.edu/humanities-print-theses/253
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholar.dominican.edu:humanities-print-theses-1252