| Type of Document |
Master's Thesis |
| Author |
Henderson, Matthew Ryan
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| Author's Email Address |
mattpa85@yahoo.com |
| URN |
etd-06152012-101240 |
| Title |
Turn-On's and Edible Friends: An Imaginal Menagerie |
| Degree |
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) |
| Department |
Art |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Arp, Kimberly |
Committee Chair |
| Bower, Gerald |
Committee Member |
| Koptcho, Leslie |
Committee Member |
| Malveto, John |
Committee Member |
| Speith, Darius |
Committee Member |
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| Keywords |
- alternative sexual behavior
- sexual identity
- fetish
- sex
- shame
- guilt
- personification
- perversity
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| Date of Defense |
2012-04-24 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
Turn-on’s and Edible Friends explores alternative sexual behavior. Societal standards have an overwhelming interest in imposing judgment upon sexual identity. The imagery is influenced by taboo and peculiar sexual fetishes. Animal personifications of the fetish are used as satire to detach the viewer from the action, and also as a metaphor for the reins with which the general public takes control over our private relationships. Thus the work becomes confrontational with the viewer and forces them to question their perceptions and comforts about sexual identity.
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