Romanticism as a key to our critical engagement with Australian studio glass in the context of contemporary art practice
Wayne Pearson
PhD Thesis
June 2011
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TABLE OF CONTENTS (click on individual subheadings)
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Abstract
Introduction
SECTION ONE
Chapter 1
Hunting the Narratives
1.1 Giving Practice its Name
1.2 A Parallel World
1.3 Romanticism and the Australian Studio Glass Movement
1.4 Narrative and the Impossibility of Objectivity
Chapter 2
Narrative and the Expanding Object
2.1 The Surrounding Mists
2.2 The Terms of an Engagement
2.3 Gesture and Artistic Sensibility
SECTION TWO
Chapter 3
The Material, its Subjective Reading and Openness
3.1 Engaging Glass as Paradox or Metaphor
3.2 The Perceptive Landscape
3.3 The Voice of the Inanimate
3.4 What is it in the Glasswork that Engages our Attention?
3.5 The Open Engagement
3.6 The Timeless Moment and Flow
3.7 A Theory of Aesthetic Response
Chapter 4
Philosophers, a Material, and Desire as Form
4.1 Nebulous Landscapes – Nature
4.2 Nebulous Landscapes – Desire
4.3 Nebulous Landscapes – Form
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendices (32 MB PDF file)
Personal Interviews