Honors Program
Fine and Performing Arts Honors
Date of Award
5-2018
Thesis Professor(s)
Andrew Scott Ross
Thesis Professor Department
Art and Design
Thesis Reader(s)
Kelly Porter, David Dixon,
Abstract
The current culture of commodity fetishism that surrounds both modern art and tattoos are disproportionately a part of the perpetuation of an artificial sense of society and community. It promotes the notion that by simply by inking the deeper layers of their skin or by spending millions on a painting that somehow one becomes elevated and enters an elite space, or club, of people like them.
Publisher
East Tennessee State University
Document Type
Honors Thesis - Open Access
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Maiden, Shelby, "The Commodity Club: Commodity Fetishism in Modern Art and Tattoos" (2018). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 467. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/467
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