| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 藝術與造形設計學系碩士班 === 104 === This thesis is a study on the photographic images of Walking and Lying Objects (1987-1991) by American artist Laurie Simmons (1949-). Simmons was associated with “The Pictures Generation,” a group of artists who appropriated images from the consumer culture and mass media. For a long time, Simmons was using the inanimate figures as her subject, but in the 1980s, ready-made figures in her photographs were pictured with human legs.
Reading Simmons’s Walking and Lying Objects from a feminist perspective, I investigate the gestures and the meanings of the work, the medium she used, and the form of objects with legs, I argue that Simmons’s work is not only influenced by postmodernism, but also by conceptual and feminist artists who using photography as medium. Walking and Lying Objects embody commodity fetishism in the consumer society. The strategy of “object on legs” reflects the collective memories in the postwar American, criticizing the objectification of women in visual culture, and overconsumption by human being. This series also refers to her own personal memory, and the friendship between she and her friend Jimmy DeSana (1949-1990). By making this work, Simmons also paid a tribute to her dear friend.
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