The power of the unseparate/network aesthetics and the rise of interdisciplinary art
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- It has become common practice in the visual arts to work across disciplines. Rather than devoting oneself exclusively to being a painter, sculptor, photographer or performance artist, a contemporary practitioner is just as likely to deploy whatever disciplines in combination are deemed most beneficial to manifest the work's concept without disciplinary boundaries. The subject of the current study concerns itself with certain origins and models for interdisciplinary artistic production in the modernist period, with references forward to the present. Richard Wagner, Paul Cezanne, Marcel Duchamp, and the pedagogical structure created by Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus each point toward contemporary interdisciplinary practice in unique ways that are analyzed here. These late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century practices are seen as well within the framework of what is defined in the text as network aesthetics. Network aesthetics itself is described not only in terms of network theory but also in philosophical terms, based on concepts in Hegel and in more recent phenomenological thought, such as the work of Merleau-Ponty. While the main trope used in discussing modernist art describes exemplary works in terms of the fragment and fragmentation, this study concerning the rise of interdisciplinary artistic production argues for the equal importance in modernist and contemporary art of unification and wholeness. Network aesthetics is a way of capturing this idea, and the works examined here are discussed in terms of their network characteristics toward these ambitions of unification and wholeness.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Madoff, Steven Henry |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Program in Modern Thought and Literature. |
| Primary advisor | Lee, Pamela M |
| Thesis advisor | Lee, Pamela M |
| Thesis advisor | Schnapp, Jeffrey T. (Jeffrey Thompson), 1954- |
| Thesis advisor | Turner, Fred |
| Advisor | Schnapp, Jeffrey T. (Jeffrey Thompson), 1954- |
| Advisor | Turner, Fred |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Steven Henry Madoff. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Program in Modern Thought and Literature. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2014 by Steven Henry Madoff
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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