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The production and spectacle of meaning: concepts for language and art as elements of visual literacy

Cross, Ian S.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1406712159

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2004, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Art.
My art has always been about the function of how images construct a dialogue in the pictorial plane. I pursue art not so much to see pictures, but more to understand visual thinking, while resistant to the notion that one should accept the visual experience without reconciling its impact. The inherent qualities in visual information often culminate in how these elements of a spectacle play out in the viewer’s psychology. My images usually entail a verbal co-efficient matched against other conventions or variables associated with language games. I try to assist the function of meaning in order to reveal duplicity in how as viewers we co-opt and identify with specific visual forms, particularly through works that express ideas with the manipulation and collage of words and letters. By unfolding the basic enterprise of words and letters as pictorial elements, I can re- shape and re-define new meaning. Often the analysis and structure of my work provides the hypothesis and goal of my research. I believe seeing the form and materiality of any object a viewer may find in the path of his or her gaze can itself be a moment for skeptical reflection. The visual presence of different objects and images that surround each of us represents an endless interconnected chain of associations that each individual will engage with at some level in order to find meaning. The ideas of discovery and definability that connect our own perceptions to our world also become the actions responsible for an innate type of critical reading. Our understanding of certain objects and images has different symbolic values, because each person may cultivate an appreciation for particular things in her and his own way. So in some respect, to know and to have an idea about an object or image can also be a form of dependency. This familiarity sustains how each of us may interact in our everyday experiences, while becoming woven into a plurality of habitual meanings and routines.
Charles Massey, Jr. (Advisor)
Pheoris West (Committee Member)
Amy Youngs (Committee Member)
33 p.
Art Criticism; Art Education

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  • Cross, I. S. (2004). The production and spectacle of meaning: concepts for language and art as elements of visual literacy [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1406712159

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cross, Ian. The production and spectacle of meaning: concepts for language and art as elements of visual literacy. 2004. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1406712159.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cross, Ian. "The production and spectacle of meaning: concepts for language and art as elements of visual literacy." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1406712159

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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