Thesis (MA (VA)(Visual Arts))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006. / This investigation uses an object relations psychoanalytic framework to explore
ways that art embodies both social and personal meaning. The relationship
between the non- verbal experience of art and the pre-verbal realm of infancy is
explored and linked to bodily, perceptual and inner forms of non-discursive
knowledge which are of value for the subject. The study investigates how this inner
experience is related through art to language and representation as aspects of
external experience.
The study argues that these two dimensions, the inner/bodily and the
outer/linguistic, are held together in the art object which, as metaphor, is a
conjoined structure that embodies the maternal and paternal realms in paradoxical
and dynamic interplay. The art object, which elicits imaginary and phantasied
responses from the viewer, serves both the self (through presentational symbols)
and social needs (through representational symbols), thus allowing the creation
and communication of new meanings.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/2256 |
| Date | 03 1900 |
| Creators | Grindrod, Josie |
| Contributors | Kaden, M. J., Van der Merwe, V. H., University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | University of Stellenbosch |
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