Magnificent monsters: a place for the social artist in visual art
PhD Thesis
Title | Magnificent monsters: a place for the social artist in visual art |
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Type | PhD Thesis |
Authors | |
Author | Lawson, Alexandra |
Supervisor | Jenkins, Dr Kyle |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Qualification Name | Doctor of Philosophy |
Number of Pages | 218 |
Year | 2015 |
Abstract | The thesis proposes that social artists (also known as participatory/live/socially engaged artists) are currently displaced, due to the use of everyday activities and objects to facilitate their artwork. As a result, social artworks have been traditionally unable to self-identify as art, and are often misread and misrepresented through a variety of other fields (such as theatre, politics, pedagogy) both historically and within current debates. Neither historical nor current theoretical discourses regarding social art position the artist as central within the limited discussion of social artwork. Instead The claim of this doctoral thesis is that social artists require their own ideological place, in which their work can be read within its own discipline (i.e. visual art), rather than being discussed through politics, etc. This argument will show that it is crucial for the continuing acknowledgement of social art practices to be read within their own place, in order to contextualise social artists and their practices within a visual art context and to distinguish them from politics itself. This thesis aims to reposition the social artist and create an ideological place for the artist to be regarded as vital in visual art. This will be done by creating a strategic model that is based on the intention of the social artist. This strategic model will be deployed in order to measure the value of the artist in both traditional object-based art and social art. The thesis will argue that the social artist is as valuable to the creation of social art as the traditional artist is to the creation of traditional/modern art objects for visual pleasure. Therefore social art deserves a place, to be acknowledged and understood within visual art practice and |
Keywords | social, artists, self-identify, debate, misrepresented, discipline, ideological place |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 369999. Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified |
Byline Affiliations | School of Arts and Communication |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q3197/magnificent-monsters-a-place-for-the-social-artist-in-visual-art
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