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Assembling the Everyday: The Three-Dimensional Work of John Chamberlain from 1958 to 1963

Jacobs, Margo
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1147714752

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2006, MA, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Art History.
The work of John Chamberlain (b. 1927) was a unique manifestation of sculpture that occurred during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Seen in a continuum beginning with Abstract Expressionist Painting, building to Chamberlain’s assemblages, and ending with Happenings, the artists of this period were striving to make an art of the everyday, and Chamberlain’s work was representative as such. The idea of the everyday is that it is in constant change and that objects we encounter on a daily basis deliver signs of their placement in the social hierarchy, according to sociologist Henri Lefebvre. Chamberlain’s assemblages are constructed from automobile detritus, and therefore have associations with the automobile and everything that automobiles represent. Along with an in-depth discussion of the social, political, and economic conditions of possibility surrounding the creation of Chamberlain’s work, this thesis will also offer the first comprehensive assessment of critical response to Chamberlain’s early work.
Kimberly Paice (Advisor)
93 p.
Assemblage; Abstract Expressionism; Automobiles; General Motors; Everyday

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  • Jacobs, M. (2006). Assembling the Everyday: The Three-Dimensional Work of John Chamberlain from 1958 to 1963 [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1147714752

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Jacobs, Margo. Assembling the Everyday: The Three-Dimensional Work of John Chamberlain from 1958 to 1963. 2006. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1147714752.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Jacobs, Margo. "Assembling the Everyday: The Three-Dimensional Work of John Chamberlain from 1958 to 1963." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1147714752

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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