Thesis (D. Psych.)--Victoria University of Technology, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Soc. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2004.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2004. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 253-257).

Thesis (M. Soc. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Also available in print.

Inaug.-Diss.--Bonn. / Lebenslauf. "Schrifttum". p. 125-131.

Inaug.-Diss.--Bonn. / Lebenslauf. "Schrifttum". p. 125-131.

This arts-based research study grows out of the examination of a lifelong practice of art making I dub Call and Response. Gaining insight through the research and exploration of doodling, automatic drawing and other surrealist techniques and ideas about perception, I not only better understood the development of my creative processes and strengthened my artistic voice, but learned how these practices could be beneficial in teaching and learning the visual arts in the k-12 classroom.

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published_or_final_version / Mental Health / Master / Master of Social Sciences

Many scholars exclude New York painter Philip Guston (1913-80) from the artistic tradition of Abstract Expressionism due to his absence from New York City during the group's early formative years. This thesis asserts, however, that Guston's role in Abstract Expressionism can be firmly established through his unique interpretation of the formative influence of surrealist automatism. Though never engaging with the surrealists directly, Guston explored automatist ideas upon meeting New York School experimental music composers John Cage and Morton Feldman. This trio's engagement with the Zen Buddhist concepts of unimpededness and interpenetration influenced Guston to create compositions through chance operations, a process Cage would call "indeterminacy." My aim is to enrich an understanding of Guston's idiosyncratic relationship to Abstract Expressionism and, ultimately, to offer a more expansive definition of Abstract Expressionism in general, allowing for a broader understanding of the formation of American modernism.