Date of Award
Spring 5-21-2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Art & Art History
First Advisor
Thomas Weaver
Second Advisor
M. Antonella Pelizzari
Academic Program Adviser
Carrie Moyer
Abstract
After-Ozymandias examines the visual rhetoric of American patriotism through its many symbols, including flags and monuments. My thesis project consists of photographs of empty plinths, objects, products and archival materials. Countless relics remain today memorializing leaders and empires that inevitably declined, from antiquity to modern times. Looking back at distant history feels like a luxury, though: the question for our time in America is whether we have the strength of mind as a society to scrutinize our history, warts and all.
Recommended Citation
Membreno-Canales, H. R., "“After-Ozymandias”: The Colonization of Symbols and the American Monument" (2018). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/343
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