Date of Award
2019
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelors
Department
Humanities
First Advisor
Anderson, Kim
Area of Concentration
Art
Abstract
Illusion with abstraction can be understood as a paradox discerned in painting practices, where the development of space is interrupted by a pictorial theater conditioned to the conventions of the medium. This dynamic interplay is associated with phenomenological aspects that function as a backdrop to the series of paintings entitled, Blank. The only presupposition that this series brings is that any appearance which may otherwise go unnoticed does appear. This series and accompanying paper—through referring to The Visible and the Invisible aesthetic theory of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Hannah Arendt’s phenomenological description of the non-person mentality—attempts to show how the stateless identity exists in today’s normative political institutions.
Recommended Citation
Obaido, Abeer, "IN/VISIBLE IDENTITIES: Illusion, Abstraction, Politics, and the Phenomenology of Stateless Being" (2019). Theses & ETDs. 5768.
https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/theses_etds/5768