The smear that discloses world: Material and perception in painting
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Open access
Authors
Black, Steven Michael
Date
2021Supervisor
Kit Messham-Muir
Darryn Ansted
Type
Thesis
Award
PhD
Metadata
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Humanities
School
School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
Collection
Abstract
The thesis reads Gilles Deleuze’s lectures on painting from 1981 to develop a theory of painting as a mereological activity, concerned with the relations of parts to one another and to wholes. Painting from observation is taken as a case by which painting performs the broader aesthetic function of exemplifying efficacy.