The smear that discloses world: Material and perception in painting

Black, Steven Michael

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Open access

Authors

Black, Steven Michael

Date

2021

Supervisor

Kit Messham-Muir

Darryn Ansted

Type

Thesis

Award

PhD

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Faculty

Humanities

School

School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/89773

Collection

Curtin Theses

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.