Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
Andrew Uroskie – Thesis Advisor, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art | Elizabeth Patterson – Chairperson of Defense, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art
Date
2009-05-01
Keywords
metamorphoses | makeup | horror genre | Matthew Barney
Department
Department of Art History and Criticism
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/71551
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
This thesis is a discourse on the psychological attraction to visual representations of metamorphoses as made possible by special effects makeup. It also discusses the use of horror-genre archetypes in the work of contemporary artist, Matthew Barney.
Recommended Citation
Bates, Amanda Mae, "Invasion of the Body Morphers: Analyzing the Use of Special Effects Makeup in the Representation of Human Metamophoses and Manipulated Reality" (2009). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 756.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/756