• Mistaking artifice for reality 

    Dowd, Jenny Kistner (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
    Collections have somber implications. The context imposed onto objects that have been elevated and isolated to the status of a collection is a manufactured one. Commonplace, temporal or captivating objects are relegated ...
  • Pottery: art as relationship 

    Moore, Fergus P., 1963- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
    This thesis asserts that pottery is art because of the relationships people form with it. These formations occur on three levels. The first is the human response to the form of the pot. In this case a cup and a plate serve ...