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Decorating the Imagination: An investigation into the Poetics of Play

De Brabandere, Helena Nicole
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275057153

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2010, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Art.
This thesis describes four series’ of work as expressions of a methodology of play. The work makes specific reference to domestic conventions of display and the decorative arts, though positions this historical content within material contexts that propose a poetics of the possible against the impossible. Play is sustained and limited by tensions that are achieved through inverted formal and material relationships. The body, motion, decoration and utilitarian forms collapse into one another and are immobilized within the gravitational density of the miniature and the expository place of display. The work described entails active creative involvement at every stage in the process of making, and is simultaneously a site for analytical hypothesizing about how objects exist in space and consciousness, as well as aesthetic and intuitive problem solving. Personal history is described as an entry point into the initial motivations of the artist. However, the lyrical quality of the work and the suggestion of function and rhythmic action within it, invite the viewer to discover their own willingness to participate in these artistic material expressions.
Steven Thurston, MFA (Advisor)
Ann Hamilton, MFA (Committee Member)
Rebecca Harvey, MFA (Committee Member)
29 p.
Fine Arts
Ceramics; commemoration; play; memory; tactility; constricted motion; porcelain; majolica; maiolica; bust; plate display; souvenir spoon; miniature; display; neo-classical

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  • De Brabandere, H. N. (2010). Decorating the Imagination: An investigation into the Poetics of Play [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275057153

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • De Brabandere, Helena. Decorating the Imagination: An investigation into the Poetics of Play. 2010. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275057153.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • De Brabandere, Helena. "Decorating the Imagination: An investigation into the Poetics of Play." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275057153

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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