Critical possibilities for painting after neo-expressionism
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2017-01-30
Authors
Burgener, Andrea
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Abstract
Painting as a practice has been probk-matlsed in postmodern
discourse in many ways. Neo-expressionism painting has been seen by
certain Inf'luental critics as standing for a particularly regressive
form of painting. These critics argue- that Neo-expressionism painting
perpetuates dominant (mascullnlst) values.
This dissertation examines how these critiques of Neo-expressionisrn
might open up a space for a re-arttculatlon of painting. More
specifically, it proposes that painting may hp re-InscrIbed with
critical potential. This re-Inscr-iption is proposed as operating by
way of the adoption of cer-taln formal and conceptual strategies,
these being parody, metonymy and readvrnades. Whilst these strategies
have wider relevance in contemporary debates many of which
emanate from critiques of Neo-expressionism - they are of also of
primary importance to a re-artlculatlon of painting within my own
practice.
Description
A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts. University of the
Witwatersrand. Johannesburg, in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for degree of Master 0f Arts in Fine Arts.
Johannesburg 1996,