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Shaped for the eye : sublime and shaped narratives /

By: Publication details: [Auckland, N.Z. : Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design]; ©2005.Description: 99 pages : color illustrations ; 30cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: Online resources: Abstract: This dissertation is a revolving door with entries and exits of philosophy, art history and artists. It moves from a discussion concerning the contemporary sublime to an articulation of the aesthetic category of the feminine sublime, its characteristics and practioners. As an area that has received little attention the feminine sublime is here presented as a group of artists who challenge masculine rhetoric and precedence to create a convincing alternative to the traditional notions of the sublime.The second swivel of the revolving door opens a historical narrative and discussion on shaped painting. Having its heyday in the 1960s, shaped painting has been progressively developed with new adherents in the 1990s where painting is able to be independent of the rectangle, the window view and challenges the boundaries of the gallery. Shaped paintings create shaped space, transform the picture plane and enable artists to use colour, line and form in new configurations in order to reinvigorate painting. These narratives offer readings on how women challenge the masculine sublime and how shapes challenge the rectangle. In the final swirl of the door I examine my own works, which during the studio process, moved to a focus on hard-edge rectilinear shaped paintings as a metaphor for social collage and the city. Alongside other artists I document the varied elements and sources of my work which when brought together challenge conventional boundaries and exist in a spherical space like that of a revolving door.
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Mixed Material Mixed Material Whitecliffe Library Dissertations Dissertations DISS 05-07 LAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not For Loan 0006535

"In partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Fine Arts, Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design 2005"

Includes bibliographical references.

This dissertation is a revolving door with entries and exits of philosophy, art
history and artists. It moves from a discussion concerning the contemporary
sublime to an articulation of the aesthetic category of the feminine sublime, its
characteristics and practioners. As an area that has received little attention the
feminine sublime is here presented as a group of artists who challenge
masculine rhetoric and precedence to create a convincing alternative to the
traditional notions of the sublime.The second swivel of the revolving door opens
a historical narrative and discussion on shaped painting. Having its heyday in the
1960s, shaped painting has been progressively developed with new adherents in
the 1990s where painting is able to be independent of the rectangle, the window
view and challenges the boundaries of the gallery. Shaped paintings create
shaped space, transform the picture plane and enable artists to use colour, line
and form in new configurations in order to reinvigorate painting. These narratives
offer readings on how women challenge the masculine sublime and how shapes
challenge the rectangle. In the final swirl of the door I examine my own works,
which during the studio process, moved to a focus on hard-edge rectilinear
shaped paintings as a metaphor for social collage and the city. Alongside other
artists I document the varied elements and sources of my work which when
brought together challenge conventional boundaries and exist in a spherical
space like that of a revolving door.

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