Paul Thek : untimely bodies, 1963-1988
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation examines the work of the American artist Paul Thek (1933-1988), an important but nearly forgotten figure of the 1960s art world. Framed by the concept of 'untimeliness', it addresses Thek's disappearance from the dominant narratives of postwar modernism, examining his absence in light of an early and anachronistic commitment to sculptural figuration (or "disfiguration"), as well as the critical re-appraisal of his work after his death from AIDS-related complications. The dissertation brings Thek's repulsive, disfiguring sculptures of meat of the 1960s, his pioneering installation art of the 1970s and 1980s, and the painterly practice he maintained throughout his career into dialogue with close readings of the voluminous body of writing contained in nearly one hundred of the artist's extant notebooks. Thek's oeuvre becomes a prism through which to re-assess the formation of art history itself while raising important questions of phenomenology, technology, and materiality in post-1960s aesthetic practice in America and Europe vis-à-vis issues of national belonging, religiosity, queer sexuality, and the body.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Shultz, Oliver L |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Lee, Pamela M |
| Thesis advisor | Lee, Pamela M |
| Thesis advisor | Meyer, Richard, 1966- |
| Thesis advisor | Nemerov, Alexander |
| Thesis advisor | Phelan, Peggy |
| Degree committee member | Meyer, Richard, 1966- |
| Degree committee member | Nemerov, Alexander |
| Degree committee member | Phelan, Peggy |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Oliver L. Shultz. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Art and Art History. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Oliver Lally Shultz
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