Date of Award
7-2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master in Fine Arts
Department
Art
First Advisor
Kelly Scheffer
Second Advisor
Trent Olsen
Third Advisor
Matthew Bailey
Abstract
This project offers an analysis of the appropriation of popular culture aesthetics and imagery in contemporary art through a critical examination of the work of Brazilian artist Barbara Wagner. Wagner’s work contributes to an understanding of this increasing tendency, and also fosters the possibility of a discussion about its consequences in the social world, in creating a paradox of both challenging colonized sensibilities, and also working to maintain a structure of social inequality. Her work is also a good way to discuss the expanding contemporary definitions of popular culture
Recommended Citation
de Oliveira, Beatriz Arcoverde, "Cannibalizing the Popular Work of Barbara Wagner" (2021). Theses. 49.
https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/theses/49