University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Metaphysics and Materiality: Landscape Painting and the Art of Kay WalkingStick

Seppi, Lisa Ann

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Title
Metaphysics and Materiality: Landscape Painting and the Art of Kay WalkingStick
Author(s)
Seppi, Lisa Ann
Issue Date
2005
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Fineberg, Jonathan
Department of Study
Art History
Discipline
Art History
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Women's Studies
Language
eng
Abstract
This dissertation, the first monographic treatment of WalkingStick's work, follows a chronology of her career tracing the growth and progression of WalkingStick's aesthetic and intellectual concerns as they have developed around three recurring elements: the body, abstraction, and landscape. In order to situate WalkingStick's work within a broader context of philosophical, social and psychological issues, her oeuvre is recontextualized in relation to the larger discourse of American art history, including feminist art history and representations of the female nude, the metaphysics of modernism and abstract art, and late twentieth century practices of landscape painting, and in a dialectic with artists, not restricted to those of Native American descent, whose work articulates physical, psychological, conceptual, and spiritual connections between personal identity and the land.
Graduation Semester
2005
Type of Resource
text
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