Composition and the uncanny : a methodological account of composition in visual arts
Author
Ertem, Fulya
Advisor
Mutman, Mahmut
Date
2001Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
This study aims at giving an account of composition in visual arts by basing itself on the
notion of uncanny. In that respect the works of three different surrealist artists, Max Ernst,
Giorgio De Chirico, and Joan Miro, will be analysed in terms of their compositional
uncanniness, by taking into consideration writers who analysed the uncanniness of these
artists’ works. As an addition to those writers’ ideas, the aim of this thesis will be to find
some new aspects of compositional uncanny in order to challenge the traditional account of
composition in visual arts, as a source of visual resolution into unity.