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Musclebound

Gehring, Trey D.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent149304150341196

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2017, MFA, Kent State University, College of the Arts / School of Art.
This essay analyzes the works in Trey D. Gehring's M.F.A.- Textile Arts Thesis Exhibition Musclebound. The writing discusses how this exhibition presents, in the form of woven and knitted works, the male body as a decorative object and proposes that the sculpting of the male body into an idealistic form– suggestive of patriarchal power and extremes of biological maleness– is an intentional act of objectifying one’s own body to allow for homosocial bonding within the patriarchal structure that regulates men’s homosocial interaction. It further asserts that the digital nature of the processes, imagery, and their underlying reliance on optical mixing emphasize the abstract quality of identity and gender.
Janice Lessman-Moss, MFA (Advisor)
28 p.
Art Criticism; Fine Arts; Gender; Gender Studies
art; textile art; textiles; gender; queer theory; queer; gender theory; masculinity; masculinities; bodybuilding; body; male body; weaving; knitting; jacquard; jacquard weaving; jacquard knitting; TC-1; digital; social media

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  • Gehring, T. D. (2017). Musclebound [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent149304150341196

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Gehring, Trey. Musclebound. 2017. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent149304150341196.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Gehring, Trey. "Musclebound." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent149304150341196

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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