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CHICANO STREET ART AS VISUAL CONCERT: VOICING ANCESTRAL MEMORY
No full textThis project applies Mikhail Bakhtin\u27s polyphonic semiotics to Chicano street art, and asks whether the Nahuatl mask, as an instrument of dialogic iconography embodied in Chicano street aesthetic becomes a novel example of a polyphonic aesthetic struggle. I define Chicano street art as a cultural aesthetic that borrows from Mexican American traditions of art, folklore, and mythology wherein the subject/ object relationship comes into focus as a pivotal element in the architectonics embedded in street art aesthetics. The concept of aesthetic struggle is defined as a perpetual friction of identity politics, revealed around a close reading of Bakhtin’s understanding of Immanuel Kant, specifically the Russian’s knowledge of the Subject/ Object.
In this dissertation, I argue that the transcendent characteristics of the Nahuatl mask, namely its gravitation towards time and space, unveil a dialogic interpretation of Chicano street art as a polyphonic aesthetic. By engaging with an investigation of Bakhtinian semiotics, Chicano street art promotes a transhistorical and transgeographical navigation of thought, a perspective rarely seen but suspected in the shamanistic practices of the Nahuatl people. The goal is to find fruitful understandings to recognize the contributions of Chicano street art as a polyphonic aesthetic capable of furthering a new aesthetic that catalyzes struggle and resistance. Chicano street art, thus, is propelled beyond a linear temporality into a state of polyphonic proliferation. The result is a new aesthetic that transcends time and space through the empowerment of the Chicano people.
Keywords: Bakhtin, Mask, Chronotope, Street Art, Chicano, Nahuatlhttps://digitalmaine.com/academic/1075/thumbnail.jp
Convolute bedding in Northeast Carry Formation
No full textConvolute bedding in the Northeast Carry Formation, part of the Seboomook Group, at Seboomook Dam. There are many turbidite features in the rocks below the dam. Project Name: Marvinney Historical Photoshttps://digitalmaine.com/mgs_geologic_field_photos/36863/thumbnail.jp
Graded beds, Northeast Carry Formation
No full textGraded turbidite beds in the Northeast Carry Formation, Seboomook Group, near Seboomook Lake. Thin beds are dominated by briwn sandstone which grades up to dark slate. Beds top to the left (southeast) in this image and are slightly overturned. Slaty cleavage refracts through the bed, having a shallower dip in the sandstone portion of the bed, gradually steepening as the sediment fines upward to slate. Project Name: Marvinney Historical Photoshttps://digitalmaine.com/mgs_geologic_field_photos/36866/thumbnail.jp
Pillow basalt, Canada Falls volcanics
No full textPillow basalt in the Canada Falls volcanics of the Frontenac Formation. Bedding is nearly vertical and the rounded top of the center pillow indicates that topping direction is to the right, which is southeast. The second image shows a subhorizontal surface in the same outcrop. The lens cap is on the volcanic rocks which is conformably overlain with a thin layer of siltstone of the Frontenac Formation seen just above the lens cap. Project Name: Marvinney Historical Photoshttps://digitalmaine.com/mgs_geologic_field_photos/36871/thumbnail.jp
Thrust fault complex, Seboomook Group
No full textImbricated thrust faults deform a single quartzite layer in Saint John River Formation, Seboomook Group Project Name: Marvinney Historical Photoshttps://digitalmaine.com/mgs_geologic_field_photos/36908/thumbnail.jp
Hutchins Corner Formation at Skelton Dam
No full textGraded beds and rusty schist of the Hutchins Corner Formation, Vassalboro Group, at Skelton Dam. Images represent multiple locations within this huge exposure. Project Name: Marvinney Historical Photoshttps://digitalmaine.com/mgs_geologic_field_photos/36913/thumbnail.jp
Gabbro of Saco pluton
No full textCoarse grained, plagioclase hornblende gabbro, Devonian - Carboniferous Project Name: Marvinney Historical Photoshttps://digitalmaine.com/mgs_geologic_field_photos/36915/thumbnail.jp
Mesozoic dike
No full textMesozoic basalt dike cutting Saco pluton. Plagioclase phenocrysts. Approximate location within large roadcut Project Name: Marvinney Historical Photoshttps://digitalmaine.com/mgs_geologic_field_photos/36917/thumbnail.jp
Columnar joints, garnet rhyolite
No full textColumnar joints in garnet rhyolite, part of the Devonian Tarratine Formation Project Name: Marvinney Historical Photoshttps://digitalmaine.com/mgs_geologic_field_photos/36918/thumbnail.jp
Wells Beach sand after harbor dredge
No full textLevel of sand on Wells Beach following harbor dredge in December 2000. Casino Square. Red line on seawall marks maximum elevation of sand immediately following the dredge Project Name: Marvinney Historical Photoshttps://digitalmaine.com/mgs_geologic_field_photos/36936/thumbnail.jp