Between Morality and Myth: A Parodic Visual Manifesto

Acting on the belief that art communicates, that an image speaks all languages, these works were created as a visual manifesto responding satirically to the absurd way in which myths are elevated to the status of moral values. The photographic works created for this thesis challenge long held beliefs and emotions that associate sex with shame and guilt, and that grow out of the moral traditions we have inherited. Judeo-Christian traditions and religious beliefs have created widely unchallenged social/moral constructs, which regard sexuality and sexual awareness as sinful and woman as subservient to the moral authority constructed by men. I am reacting to the moral concepts that originate from myths. With a post-modernist approach, I visually explored ways to present metaphoric characters that communicate my ideas by dressing a male penis as a puppet and creating a new mythical narrative to substitute for those that we inherited and continue to believe. The works created for this thesis challenge that tradition. This supporting paper is a product of my research for my Master in Fine Arts entitled Between Morality and Myth: A Parodic Visual Manifesto, a photographic body of work consists of two photographic suites: first the portrait suite entitled Mr. Peter; secondly the narrative suite entitled Peter's Lament, created at Georgia Southern University in the School of Visual Arts in the year two thousand and eleven.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis (open access)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Art

Year dc:date.available

2011

Author dc:creator

• Quilichini, Patricia J.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Julie McGuire
• Trish Carter
• Desmal Pursell

• ETD
• Visual manifesto
• Myths
• Moral values
• Judeo-Christian traditions
• Social/moral construct
• Parody
• Sexual monogamy
• Humor and satire
• Western culture
• Max Ernst
• Man Ray
• Toyen
• Human behavior
• Sexual repression
• Visual symbols
• Patriarchal religious ideologies
• Language
• Control and order
• Government
• Penis

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/155

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-1155