Margot (Pei-Yu) Lin
Reframing the Chinese-American Aesthetic
Reframing the Chinese-American Aesthetic
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Chinese-American restaurants often use placemats, dishes, and decor that freely sample from the heritage and history of traditional Chinese art. This intentionally Orientalist identity conveys a general sense of the culture with little regard to the motifs' origin and meaning. This decor acts as an obstacle—a distorted simulacrum of Chinese culture standing in for the real thing—that reduces the identity of a culture into stereotypical symbols such as the chop suey font, pagodas, and dragons. My thesis aims to inject meaning back into cultural motifs, as well as provide a possibility of an aesthetic identity that lives beyond existing stereotypes.
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students
- Julia Grippo
- Aria Zhang
- Jamie Loverdi
- Mark Hilkevich
- Olivia Kossakowski
- Pauline Esguerra
- Terry Darco
- John Kim
- Lili Gong
- Alexandra Lekas
- Lydia Cosford
- Ceili Pugh Ayoung
- Devika (Dev) Kamath
- Yunru Qian
- April Zhang
- Wei Chen
- Madeline Markley
- Qi Penny Fan
- Meghan Aubuchon
- Han Zhang 涵
- Lamont Hall
- Wenge Wang
- Kyle Son
- Samantha Redman
- Jessalyn Lu
- Kerong Xie (Shiloh)
- Catherine Lee
- Ja Min Lee
- Marissa Ardizzone
- Ella Chang
- José Ontiveros
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- Alexa Pitt
- Avishi Jain
- Fangyi (Yiyi) Yang
- Marianne Oliveri
- Casey Beifuss
- Saskia Suherman
- Francisco Peña-Castro
- Emma Bieber
- Annika Godura
- Eva Divine
- Sofia Peterson
- Mike King
- Xiaoran Chen
- Chelsea Lee
- Elika Burton
- Annie Lee
- Yunjia Yuan
- Mary McMillan
- Uri Barky
- Jamison Lung
- Tianna Garcia
- Margot (Pei-Yu) Lin
- Erin Beggrow
- shaumbé
- Henry Seda
- Reena Chai
- Cynthia Yang
- Lin Shen
- Alanna Conway
- Noelani Fishman
- Rachel Woolfson
- Madeleine Lamothe
- Meg Bryant
- Varini Nathany
- Eyal Lerman
- Emma Luke Welch
- Annie Moultray
- Bianca Mendes
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