Date of Award
Fall 1-5-2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Art & Art History
First Advisor
Michael Lobel
Second Advisor
Howard Singerman
Academic Program Adviser
Antonella Pelizzari
Abstract
This thesis examines Jess’s series of Translations paintings (1959-1976). It argues that, in subject matter, painterly technique, and conceptual approach, the works are shrewdly self-referential and grapple with many of the primary concerns of postwar American art, questions of appropriation, authorship, figuration versus abstraction, and selfhood and identity.
Recommended Citation
Goldberg, Lily, "Will Wonders Never Cease: Jess’s Translations, 1959-1976" (2020). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/530
