Date of Completion

2024

Thesis Type

College of Arts and Science Honors

Department

Art History and Studio Art

First Advisor

Sarah Richter

Second Advisor

Steve Budington

Keywords

female artist, queer artist, interior space, queer theory, constructed space

Abstract

Using the framework of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, and James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, this paper examines the manifestation of interior space in the works of female and queer artists. Historically excluded from the public sphere, these artists turned to interior spaces as a source of inspiration, and by doing so, created a unique visual language, and redefined their spaces as ones of infinite possibility.

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