MAN/BOY.

fetish;masculinity;abject;culture;verisimilitude;art

Nick Hartman

University:University of Louisville

Department:Fine Arts

关键词: fetish;    masculinity;    abject;    culture;    verisimilitude;    art;   

Others  :  https://ir.library.louisville.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3788&context=etd

美国|英语

来源: The Universite of Louisville's Institutional Repository

【 摘 要 】

Verisimilitude, or the appearance of being true, is a concept I turn upside down; relating it to a guise I wear as a contemporary male in a society dictated by learned social behavior and gender norms. Cultural iconography and expected gender norms are tropes I confront within my artwork. Drawings of seemingly everyday objects act as meditations or a fetishized repetition of supposed unobtainable objects and ideals that deal with masculine societal norms. Manliness, machismo, masculinity… it is all a culturally learned and expected pose placed on all men. Coming to the realization that I do not necessarily fit into the mold of these cultural norms is an abrupt realization that brought out an intense realization of self. Since I am not all man, I am left yearning to fit in and be what is expected of me, but that would only be the appearance of the truth.