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" House Work: "
McDowell, Tara
Wagner, Anne M.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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898707
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TL5mf693nb
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Barnes, Todd Landon
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House Work:\ McDowell, TaraWagner, Anne M.
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2013
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2013
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| Abstract
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This dissertation examines the work of the San Francisco-based artist Jess (1923-2004). Jess's multimedia and cross-disciplinary practice, which takes the form of collage, assemblage, drawing, painting, film, illustration, and poetry, offers a perspective from which to consider a matrix of issues integral to the American postwar period. These include domestic space and labor; alternative family structures; myth, rationalism, and excess; and the salvage and use of images in the atomic age. The dissertation has a second protagonist, Robert Duncan (1919-1988), preeminent American poet and Jess's partner and primary interlocutor for nearly forty years. Duncan and Jess built a household and a world together that transgressed boundaries between poetry and painting, past and present, and acknowledged the limits and possibilities of living and making daily.
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McDowell, Tara
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UC Berkeley
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