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A Consciously Civilized Setting
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Scypta, Lindsay Allison
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Year and Degree
2013, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Art.
Abstract
The table comes first, everything else follows: the dishes, the food, individuals and conversation. There is trust and fear that comes with the meal—a trust that with an honest conversation knives will not be raised in anger, a fear that customs and rituals are not universally understood. Taste is our most intimate sense, and the table is where we experience it socially. We gather for family dinner, for coffee with friends, for business meetings; all centered around this table that civilizes us. We sanctify life’s most treasured moments with food, and with some degree of grace we dine together, not alone. Bringing art into the everyday, the vessels and utensils which adorn the table are then brought to our lips, where we intimately experience food through taste and the vessels through touch. My studio practice pivots around these notions of the table, and leading people back to this place of social intimacy.
Committee
Rebecca Harvey (Advisor)
Jeff Haase (Committee Member)
Steven Thurston (Committee Member)
Pages
32 p.
Subject Headings
Fine Arts
Keywords
Ceramics
;
History of the Table
;
Clay
;
Ceramic Art
;
Dining
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Scypta, L. A. (2013).
A Consciously Civilized Setting
[Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366385017
APA Style (7th edition)
Scypta, Lindsay.
A Consciously Civilized Setting.
2013. Ohio State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366385017.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Scypta, Lindsay. "A Consciously Civilized Setting." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366385017
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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