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No More Writing on the Merry-Go-Round: A series of etchings
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Criss, Erica J., Ms.
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1334546869
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2012, MFA, Kent State University, College of the Arts / School of Art.
Abstract
The Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, first suggested the theory of the unity of opposites, which hypothesizes that every element is an opposite, or is connected to an opposite. It is because these opposites exist that changes occur and nature finds balance among its counterparts. The universal nature of human personality is to swing between opposites while searching for balance. The inner world we want to hide and an outer world we reveal to others. I have applied this theory to printmaking. My goal was to create a completely new body of work using old overworked plates as raw material. Pushing and pulling the images through a range of opposites in form, line, scale, space, process, and idea, provides a framework that will allow for the harmonizing of counterparts to occur. I interpret this balance to mean success.
Committee
J. Noel Reifel (Advisor)
Michael Loderstedt (Committee Member)
Kathleen Browne (Committee Member)
Pages
24 p.
Subject Headings
Fine Arts
Keywords
printmaking
;
print
;
opposites
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black and white
;
etching
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Criss, E. J. (2012).
No More Writing on the Merry-Go-Round: A series of etchings
[Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1334546869
APA Style (7th edition)
Criss, Erica.
No More Writing on the Merry-Go-Round: A series of etchings.
2012. Kent State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1334546869.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Criss, Erica. "No More Writing on the Merry-Go-Round: A series of etchings." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1334546869
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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This open access ETD is published by Kent State University and OhioLINK.