Date of Award
Spring 5-10-2014
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Art and Design
First Advisor
Joseph Peragine
Second Advisor
Susan Richmond
Third Advisor
Anthony Craig Drennen
Abstract
Unfictional describes the philosophical underpinnings of specific strategies and processes that led to the thesis exhibition of the same name. The defense provided examines the contemporary notion of the ideal, acknowledges its impossibility, and describes how the use of obstruction as a procedural and curatorial strategy functions to produce failed attempts at its attainment, deferring satisfaction and evoking the sense that everything is complete. The forms, constructed from both found traditional and nontraditional materials, which exist in various states of completion, will be analyzed thoroughly in order to demonstrate how the unfinished, provisional nature of the works included in the exhibition ultimately functions as commentary on the loss, the longing, and most of all the doubt, associated with the modern conception of the ideal.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/5520493
Recommended Citation
Ames, Curtis, "unfictional." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2014.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/5520493