| Title: | Paintings and their irreducibility to explanation: myth and multiform aesthetic experience |
| Author: | Milburn, Jonathan |
| Abstract: | This Ph.D. consists of a written thesis developed alongside seventeen original oil paintings. The original purpose was to examine through thesis how creative painting practice and a reconsideration of myth in word and image would, or could, express my experience of post-war Bosnia in 1999. In light of the limitations identified with such an approach during the course of this study, the thesis became an analysis of the ways in which we explain art, focussing upon aspects of mythic explanation in particular. For example, by reconsidering James Macpherson‘s national epic Romantic myth The Poems of Ossian, I was able to study the main issues involved. Key writers include Joseph Campbell (1949), Carl Jung (1966) and Levi Strauss (1963/1968), before finally considering Wittgenstein's (1979) remarks on myth. Key contemporary artists include American Pop Surreal painters. The focus of this thesis is not explicitly about the war in Bosnia. It is not necessarily about myth, or of aes... |
| Publisher: |
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art University of Dundee |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10588/5090 |
| Date: | 2011 |
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