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Michaelis School of Fine Art

An investigation of the metaphoric potential of the relationship between pictorial and sculptural space

Abstract

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The aim of this dissertation is to provide a background to the ideas and works that have informed the practical body of work. The practical body of work has developed from an intention to locate a means of articulating personal experience in visual form. The departure points for this process are thus largely idiosyncratic and personal (subjective), while the focus of the investigation is on the potential for the dialectic of pictorial/physical space to articulate metaphors that can mediate personal experience. This dialectic of pictorial/physical space can be related to one of the primary philosophical debates that underpins Western art practice and theory; viz., the relationship between art and reality, or in other terms, between culture and nature.

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Grantor
Michaelis School of Fine Art
Year dc:date.issued
1994

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Penfold, Denise Marcelle
Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
  • Atkinson, Kevin

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http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40634
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oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/40634

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Penfold, Denise Marcelle. An investigation of the metaphoric potential of the relationship between pictorial and sculptural space. Michaelis School of Fine Art, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/40634