Graduation Year
2025
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Art History
Reader 1
Michelle Berenfeld
Reader 2
Xi Zhang
Abstract
This thesis examines the effects of sociological postmodernism on heritage sites around the world, drawing from semiology to characterize tourism as a mode of visual and cultural consumption. Using a case study approach, I examine how artistic and architectural hallmarks of culture are recontextualized within a postmodernist discursive framework to create hyperreal contemporary touristic encounters through the imposition of semiotic narratives.
Recommended Citation
Arther, Maren, ""Realer Than Real:" Postmodern Tourism and Global Heritage Simulacra" (2025). Scripps Senior Theses. 2706.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/2706
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
