Measured on a Sunbeam: Body, Gender, and Performance in Zelda Fitzgerald's Figural Artworks

dc.contributorCurzon, Lucy
dc.contributorDallow, Jessica
dc.contributor.advisorStephens, Rachel
dc.contributor.authorOrlofsky, Elizabeth Michelle
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-28T14:54:58Z
dc.date.available2022-09-28T14:54:58Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
dc.description.abstractWhile scholars have examined the life and literature of twentieth-century American artist and writer Zelda Fitzgerald, many have failed to recognize her artistic production as the mode of creative expression that most effectively and maturely communicated her shifting notions of body, gender, performance, and identity. In this thesis, I argue that Fitzgerald's figural artworks hold the key to understanding how her conceptions of self evolved. My research builds upon existing scholarship that considers Fitzgerald's life through the lens of performance, but I diverge from literary studies that interpret her written work as her most authoritative narrations of identity. Rather, I suggest that by using the tools that were most accessible to her, that is painting and drawing, Fitzgerald began to challenge the standards of ideal femininity to which she had been expected to adhere. By chronologically tracing her subversions, obliterations, and reclamations through a close examination of her figural paintings, I reveal Fitzgerald's intimate interactions with visual production as well as the autobiographical and performative functions of her artistry.en_US
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dc.identifier.otherhttp://purl.lib.ua.edu/186506
dc.identifier.otheru0015_0000001_0004465
dc.identifier.otherOrlofsky_alatus_0004M_14922
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/9492
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Alabama Libraries
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dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Electronic Theses and Dissertations
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections
dc.rightsAll rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated.en_US
dc.titleMeasured on a Sunbeam: Body, Gender, and Performance in Zelda Fitzgerald's Figural Artworksen_US
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etdms.degree.departmentUniversity of Alabama. Department of Art and Art History
etdms.degree.disciplineArt History
etdms.degree.grantorThe University of Alabama
etdms.degree.levelmaster's
etdms.degree.nameM.A.
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