Anthropneuma

Anthropneuma, the thesis, is an exploration into intrinsic human spirituality as discussed through a contemporary, research-creation practice. Through this semi-creative document ideas surrounding spirituality from a Cultural Anthropological perspective, an Art Historical perspective, as well as through the studies of intuitive art-making and emotional interpretations of current spiritual experience. References include Hugo Ball, Wassily Kandinsky, Marina Abramavic, Bill Viola, Alicja Kwade, E. Adamson Heobel and Everett L. Frost, Carol Becker, Jill Bennett, Ann Carlson, Alan Watts, and more. This text takes the reader through a detailed description and exploration into the art-making practice of the author, as well as a quasi-autobiographical narrative of their childhood, providing emotional basis, as well as academic foundations regarding the research presented in this document.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Art

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Arts

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Warkentin, Joel Matthew

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• LeBlanc, Jean-Rene
• Lipton, Lisa

Committee member dc:contributor.committeemember

• Hughes, Lisa

• Conceptual Art
• Spirituality
• Sculpture
• Space
• Abstraction

Statement dc:rights

• University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.

Language dc:language.iso

eng

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/36969

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:ucalgary.scholaris.ca:1880/110897