DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/J9NW-VC28
Defense Date
2013
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Fine Arts - Sculpture
First Advisor
elizabeth king
Second Advisor
michael jones mckean
Third Advisor
gregory volk
Abstract
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.
Rights
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Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
June 2013