An Object is just an Object, or is it? MA Fine Art Digital Research Paper – Michelle Wright – 18028931 October 2019 A comparative examination of the selected artworks ‘Present Tense’ (1996) by Mona Hatoum and ‘Personnes’ (2010) by Christian Boltanski; in relation to the philosophical context of Involuntary Memory and Collective Memory theorised by […]
Read more "Research Paper – Final Submission"With a lifelong curiosity in familiar objects ordinarily overlooked and a prevailing tendency to carefully collect and attentively treasure random objects. This genuine interest has been more considerably developed after being drawn to the published book Evocative Objects by Sherry Turkle. With no outward apparent significance or specific meaning, these random commonplace objects undoubtedly possess […]
Read more "Draft Research Paper – Version 2"An Object is just an Object, or is it? Research Question A comparative examination of the selected artworks ‘Present Tense’ (1996) by Mona Hatoum and ‘Personnes’ (2010) by Christian Boltanski; in the philosophical context of Marcel Prousts’ Involuntary Memory and Maurice Halbwachs’ Collective Memory. Keywords Boltanski | Hatoum | Involuntary Memory | Collective Memory | […]
Read more "Draft Research Question and Abstract – Version 2"The purpose of this tutorial with Gareth Polmeer was to further discuss the first draft of the research paper handed in on the 25th September 2019. I mentioned that the text was not yet complete and that some of the referencing required further attention and we briefly discussed the referencing, particularly what was required where […]
Read more "Research Paper Tutorial 2"Naturally possessing a lifelong interest in familiar objects ordinarily overlooked and a prevailing tendency to carefully collect and attentively treasure random objects. This genuine interest has been more considerably developed after being drawn to the published book Evocative Objects by Sherry Turkle. With no outward apparent significance or specific meaning, these random commonplace objects undoubtedly […]
Read more "Draft Research Paper – Version 1"An Object is just an Object, or is it? Research Question A comparative examination of the selected artworks ‘Personnes’ (2010) by Christian Boltanski and ‘Present Tense’ (1996) by Mona Hatoum; in the critical context of Involuntary Memory and Collective Memory. These creative works will be objectively evaluated against the critical context of the wider theoretical […]
Read more "Draft Research Question and Abstract – Version 1"My first tutorial with Gareth Polmeer was to discuss the content of my initial draft of my research paper question and abstract. My initial thinking had been to focus on the works of Christian Boltanski and Joseph Beuys perhaps most predominantly because I have researched their work a lot in the past and had written […]
Read more "Research Paper Tutorial 1"An Object is just an Object, or is it? By examining the art of Christian Boltanski and Joseph Beuys this paper will argue that successful associations can be made with the larger collective memory through the use of insignificant, inauthentic objects. This analysis will be completed within the theoretical concepts of memory defined by Marcel […]
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