The Ring around The Rose

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" The Ring around The Rose "
Ferrell, Elizabeth Allison Wagner, Anne M.

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	903411
Doc. No	:	TL7426863k
Main Entry	:	Ferrell, Elizabeth Allison
Title & Author	:	The Ring around The Rose\ Ferrell, Elizabeth AllisonWagner, Anne M.
College	:	UC Berkeley
Date	:	2012
student score	:	2012
Abstract	:	From 1958 to 1966, the San Francisco artist Jay DeFeo (1929-89) worked on one artwork almost exclusively - a monumental oil-on-canvas painting titled The Rose. The painting's protracted production isolated DeFeo from the mainstream art world and encouraged contemporaries to cast her as Romanticism's lonely genius. However, during its creation, The Rose also served as an important matrix for collaboration among artists in DeFeo's bohemian community. Her neighbors - such as Wallace Berman (1926-76) and Bruce Conner (1933-2008) - appropriated the painting in their works, blurring the boundaries of individual authorship and blending production and reception into a single process of exchange. I argue that these simultaneously creative and social interactions opened up the autonomous artwork, cloistered studio, and the concept of the individualistic artist championed in Cold-War America to negotiate more complex relationships between the individual and the collective.
Added Entry	:	Wagner, Anne M.
Added Entry	:	UC Berkeley