Work is What I Want

This thesis is written as an essay, which considers sculpture outside of its definition as art object. Having as its goal finding an intrinsic definition of sculpture, the essay sets on a short journey meandering between ideas, historic precedents, and anecdotes. Among some of the discussed thing are: necessity, labor, leisure, Olduvai chopping stone tool, making, human hand, brain, body, pineal gland, third eye, speculation, materiality, Dixie cup, objecthood, sign, imagination, ENIAC, immateriality, myth, labor, leisure, storytelling, alien, alienation, destruction, creativity, genius, death, weed. The essay concludes that sculpture does not need a definition.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Fine Arts - Sculpture

Year dc:date.available

2013

Author dc:creator

• slinko, nataliya

Contributors dc:contributor

• elizabeth king
• michael jones mckean
• gregory volk

• necessity
• labor
• leisure
• Olduvai chopping stone tool
• making
• human hand
• brain
• body
• pineal gland
• third eye
• speculation
• materiality
• Dixie cup
• objecthood
• sign
• imagination
• ENIAC
• immateriality
• myth
• storytelling
• alien
• alienation
• destruction
• creativity
• genius
• death
• weed.
• Arts and Humanities
• Fine Arts

Statement dc:rights

• © The Author

Identifier

https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/514

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarscompass.vcu.edu:etd-1513