Browsing by Subject "representation"
Now showing 1 - 3 of 3
Results Per Page
Sort Options
Item Open Access Composition and the uncanny : a methodological account of composition in visual arts(2001) Ertem, FulyaThis 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.Item Open Access Figure and flesh : Francis Bacon's challenge to the figurative tradition in Western art(2002) Telci, MügeWhen figuring the body is at stake within the Western tradition of art, figuration comes up as a question of framing and controlling the mass of body (flesh, bones, body liquids etc…). The apparent obsession of Western art with perfect body figures might be understood as an attempt to make safe the permeable boundary between the inside and outside of the body; between the inner self and outside world. Yet the depictions of human body in Francis Bacon’s paintings reveal a disobedience to the conventional norms proposed by the figurative tradition and demonstrate a deliberate failure in controlling the mass of flesh. This thesis aims at a critical discussion on the dualist premises that lie at the core of figurative tradition in Western art by mainly following the path of Deleuze’s examination of Francis Bacon’s workItem Open Access George Bataille's notion of transgression : the question of a possible experience concerning art and philosophy(2000) Şiray, MehmetThis study aims at analysing George Bataille's notion of transgression. In this respect, the concepts of Bataille's discourse such as 'general economy', 'sovereign operation', 'inner experience', 'impossible', 'absence of myth' and 'sacred', are taken into consideration within the context of some recent post-structuralist texts. In addi tion, this study focuses on transgression in Bataille' s discourse reading it as a passage from interior to exterior. For this purpose, this study aims at showing that the transgression implied in Bataille's discourse transgresses itself. In that manner, this thesis brings two readings of Bataille's notion of transgression together: one is the reading of surrealism through George Bataille's and Andre Breton's approaches, and the other is the reading of the notion of transgression through some recent poststmcturalist texts. In the fınal analysis, this study discusses the discourse of transgression in Bataille with respect to both philosophy and art considering the problem of representation.