Modern Art in Your Life and in the Suburbs

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dc.contributor.advisorZalman, Sandra
dc.contributor.committeeMemberKoontz, Rex
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHarren, Natilee
dc.creatorGreve, Lauren
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-13T19:03:45Z
dc.date.available2018-07-13T19:03:45Z
dc.date.createdMay 2016
dc.date.issued2016-05
dc.date.submittedMay 2016
dc.date.updated2018-07-13T19:03:45Z
dc.description.abstractModern Art in Your Life and Suburbia analyzes Life’s 1948 article “A Life Round Table on Modern Art.” My thesis specifically offers a new perspective of Life’s suburban utopia to previous art historical discussions about the relationship between Life magazine and its coverage of modern art. The article, as it appeared in Life, was a strange amalgam of Life’s ideals—tradition and stability on the one hand—that seemed oddly in conflict with the magazine’s discussion of avant-garde modern art. This thesis addresses how and why we see this discrepancy by paying close attention to the magazine’s advertisements that appealed to suburban life as well as readers’ negative responses to the article, a perspective that art historical scholarship has largely ignored.
dc.description.departmentArt, School of
dc.format.digitalOriginborn digital
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10657/3245
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).
dc.subjectArt history
dc.subjectModern art
dc.titleModern Art in Your Life and in the Suburbs
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dc.type.genreThesis
thesis.degree.collegeKathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts
thesis.degree.departmentArt, School of
thesis.degree.disciplineArt History
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Houston
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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