عنوان

House Work:

Number

TL5mf693nb

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

House Work:

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

McDowell, Tara

Title Proper by Another Author

Domesticity, Belonging, and Salvage in the Art of Jess, 1955-1991

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Wagner, Anne M.

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2013

Body granting the degree

Wagner, Anne M.

Text preceding or following the note

2013

Text of Note

This dissertation examines the work of the San Francisco-based artist Jess (1923-2004). Jess's multimedia and cross-disciplinary practice, which takes the form of collage, assemblage, drawing, painting, film, illustration, and poetry, offers a perspective from which to consider a matrix of issues integral to the American postwar period. These include domestic space and labor; alternative family structures; myth, rationalism, and excess; and the salvage and use of images in the atomic age. The dissertation has a second protagonist, Robert Duncan (1919-1988), preeminent American poet and Jess's partner and primary interlocutor for nearly forty years. Duncan and Jess built a household and a world together that transgressed boundaries between poetry and painting, past and present, and acknowledged the limits and possibilities of living and making daily.

Barnes, Todd Landon

McDowell, Tara

UC Berkeley

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[Thesis]

276903

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