"What seems, at the seam" : an exegesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand

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dc.contributor.authorSullivan, Brenda
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-21T03:52:19Z
dc.date.available2013-05-21T03:52:19Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThis exegesis investigates what emerges out of hybrid references to artists of the first half of the 20th century as a way to inspire a sense of painting's specificity in my practice. Within the overlap of architecture, site, drawing, installation, and the exhibition, small, reflective encounters with painting’s spatio-conceptual meaning are explored as they exist now, after the avant garde of abstraction, minimalism and conceptualism. Philosophical ideas guide a non-strategic method of making art that uses abstract thinking as a way to encounter an agentic capacity from art and art making. This research studies the possibilities and impossibilities of an existentialist view of materiality as it applies to painting where substance and form manifest qualities of ideas and feeling. I evoke from language a grammatical register of comprehension beyond the rational, allowing words, objects or images do their own thinking. This is what I understand to be a pragmatic poetic.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/4500
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherMassey Universityen_US
dc.rightsThe Authoren_US
dc.subject20th century arten
dc.subject20th century artistsen
dc.subjectAbstract arten
dc.subjectAbstract paintingen
dc.title"What seems, at the seam" : an exegesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealanden
dc.typeThesisen
massey.contributor.authorSullivan, Brendaen
thesis.degree.grantorMassey Universityen
thesis.degree.levelMastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)en
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