COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
The Appropriately, Inappropriate, Puberty Paper: An Investigation into the Often-Ignored Adolescent Experience and the Art it Inspires
Creator:
Allen, Jonathan
Subject:
Thesis (M.F.A.) -- Illustration
Subject:
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Illustration
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Abstract:
"The following research will highlight and analyze 'inappropriate' artistic depictions of puberty and adolescence. This analysis will define the term 'inappropriate' and demonstrate that when an artist approaches uncommon or off-putting subject matter using the inappropriate as an aesthetic lens, that subject matter becomes illuminated. This inappropriate enlightenment can highlight universal commonality that link both artists and audiences to a less idealized world. Analysis will focus on linking common themes that connect works of art across genre and even through individual personal experiences using this thesis’s visual component (illustrated short fiction stories), the work of well-known animators, illustrators, and writers (who have addressed puberty/adolescence and have crossed the line into the 'inappropriate'), and a series of candid interviews in which six individuals share detailed first hand insight into their own inappropriate pubescent or adolescent experiences."
Abstract:
*Keywords: illustration, literature, dark humor, puberty, adolescence, inappropriate, aesthetics
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date:
2019-11
Format:
PDF : 140 pages, illustrations (some color)