COLLECTION NAME:
Art and Art History Student Work
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Image Record ID:
aahi0009140
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Work Title (display):
Family Masks
Image Title:
detail view
Work Description:
Thesis abstract: Before there was theory and doctrine there was a story. Stories are an excellent avenue for captivating children of all ages and conveying a message. I grew up listening to stories about my family. As a child, I thought about them as trivial anecdotes. However, today I am more aware of their allegorical significance. Recently, I have been working with photographs from my grandmother's scrapbook, a photo album my mother and I put together, and my handmade masks. The portraits in these albums come alive when I look at them - I can hear my mother's, father's, and grandmother's voices telling me a story. I can visualize myself in almost every family portrait, the layers of my identity unraveling as I look at these images. Vernacular photography has been prevalent since the advent of the hand camera. The use of the camera coincides with our desire to record our memories, stories, and traditions: which in-turn become our histories. This process of collective discovery through individual reflection on the past is a form nostalgia, a longing to return home, a rhetorical home that exists in our minds and heart, one that we do not visit physically but rather mentally and spiritually. Therefore, cultural objects create our home by providing evidence to explain who we are.
Work Dates (display):
2011
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2011-04-12
Work Creator (display):
Kari Treadwell (American, born ca. 1984)
Work Creator gender:
female
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female
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Work Creator notes (display):
Written thesis: https://scholar.col
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
MFA 2011, Art and Art History
Work Creator memberOf:
Photography (IMAP) student, Art and Art History, CU Boulder
Work Creator memberOf notes:
IMAP: Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices
Work Subject:
archives
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archives
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Work Subject:
allegory (artistic device)
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allegory (artistic device)
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Work Subject:
nostalgia
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nostalgia
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Work Subject:
families (kinship groups)
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families (kinship groups)
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Work Subject:
photography
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photography
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Work Subject:
culture
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culture
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Work Subject:
reality
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reality
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Work Subject:
identity
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identity
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Work Subject:
memory
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memory
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Work Worktype:
photographs
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photographs
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Work Category (VRC classification):
photographs
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photographs
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
wax
Work Measurements (display):
each photograph: 36 in (H) x 36 in (W)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
University of Colorado, Boulder. Art Museum
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
exhibition
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Boulder, Colorado
Image Rights (display):
© Kari Treadwell
Work Rights (display):
© Kari Treadwell
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Holding Institution:
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Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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