Empathy & Embodiment in Contemporary Art.
Keegan, Tara.
Empathy & Embodiment in Contemporary Art. [thesis] Tara Keegan. - Limerick : Limerick School of Art and Design/LIT ; 2017. - 43p. col. ill. : 30cm
Thesis submitted for B.A. Hons in Fine Art (Sculpture and Combined Media) 2017.
Includes bibliographical references.
This thesis examines empathic projection, embodiment and aesthetics in contemporary art. By analysing the work of artists such as Rebecca Horn and Aliza Shvarts and engaging in my own studio practice I will examine how art can express disease, illness and trauma by not only giving matter form but also through aesthetic experience and empathic responses. I will turn to philosophical and psychological theory as a critical methodology to argue that any work of art which truly aims at implanting a message to the viewer and the pre-requiste of the succes of the said work of art must first attempt to answer the question of empathy. [Abstract].
Horn, Rebecca.
Shvarts, Aliza.
Theses--LSAD--Clare Street.
Sculpture theses.
Extended essays--Sculpture & Combined Media.
Empathy and Embodiement.
Aesthetic Empathy as Emotion and discovery.
Thesis Fine Art 03/17
Empathy & Embodiment in Contemporary Art. [thesis] Tara Keegan. - Limerick : Limerick School of Art and Design/LIT ; 2017. - 43p. col. ill. : 30cm
Thesis submitted for B.A. Hons in Fine Art (Sculpture and Combined Media) 2017.
Includes bibliographical references.
This thesis examines empathic projection, embodiment and aesthetics in contemporary art. By analysing the work of artists such as Rebecca Horn and Aliza Shvarts and engaging in my own studio practice I will examine how art can express disease, illness and trauma by not only giving matter form but also through aesthetic experience and empathic responses. I will turn to philosophical and psychological theory as a critical methodology to argue that any work of art which truly aims at implanting a message to the viewer and the pre-requiste of the succes of the said work of art must first attempt to answer the question of empathy. [Abstract].
Horn, Rebecca.
Shvarts, Aliza.
Theses--LSAD--Clare Street.
Sculpture theses.
Extended essays--Sculpture & Combined Media.
Empathy and Embodiement.
Aesthetic Empathy as Emotion and discovery.
Thesis Fine Art 03/17