Semester
Summer
Date of Graduation
2025
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Type
MFA
College
College of Creative Arts
Department
Printmaking
Committee Chair
Joseph Lupo
Committee Member
Kofi Opoku
Committee Member
Jeffrey Moser
Committee Member
Gerald Habarth
Committee Member
Jason Zeh
Abstract
This thesis explores how digital collage and printmaking can be used to develop images through acts of subjective response, intentional and unintentional acts of appropriation, and parodic re-use and comparison pushed to absurd extremes. It looks at the history of creating art for parodic re-use and examines “Pataphysics”, developed by and for art appropriation of pattern, form, and process. These concepts are explained and related to visual artwork that was made for the thesis exhibition Apostrophes and Archimedes Cast Shadow Puppets. The exhibition invites viewers to experience the phenomenon of observation, automatic transformation, and creation using multiple modalities of exaggerated and absurd reprographic image making techniques to compare our memory and creativity to similar devices.
Recommended Citation
Clough, Evan J., "Apostrophes and Archimedes" (2025). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 12971.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/12971