Abstract
dc:description.abstractWhen Pliny the Elder wrote Naturalis Historia around 70 A.D., the idea of natural history contained and connected biology, geology, and mineralogy with the history of painting and sculpture. Art was an extension of the natural world as its materials were extracted from plants, animals, and, particularly, mined and quarried pigments, stone, and metals. In my developing body of work, Incidents of Naturalis Historia, Reconstructed, I combine wasps’ nests, architectural fragments, and other found objects excavated from my surrounding environment with elements of glass that resemble lichen, crystallization, and geologic specimens. These works simulate artifacts of an alternative history; one in which the divergent histories of art, craft, biology, and geology are again united.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Fine Arts
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Fine Arts - Glassworking
- Year dc:date.available
- 2013
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Briland, Sarah
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Jack Wax
Subjects
dc:subject × 2Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- © The Author
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/516
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholarscompass.vcu.edu:etd-1515