Taylor, Finlay, Raj Shah, Vaibhav and Miranda-Bilbao, Jasone, 2017, Show, Exhibition or Event, Horizon: Against Nature. The great Grandmother: a rope as long as a wolf. Good work: a rope as long as a flying fish flight
Abstract or Description: | The submission is for a co-curated exhibition and contribution of two art works to the event. The 'Against Nature' project proposes that nature is a horizon that can be approached indefinitely and yet never completely grasped. The idea ‘Against Nature’ takes inspiration from the French fiction novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans A Rebours published in France in 1884. The main protagonist, Des Esseintes, is a highly sensitive, neurotic anti-hero and aesthete who escapes Paris for the countryside and abandons himself to a life of decadence, fine art and literature in order to criticize the vulgarity of society. This was the time before the industrial revolution, when society and the prevalent ideology were seen in terms of nature and the beauty of its forms, structures and geometry. Pre industrial revolution, the same umbrella of Nature, held together a unity of aims and beliefs that served the joint purposes of science, religion and art. This project researches a multicultural and international collision of approaches to thinking about the concerns of the artists in a wider context. Re-addressing existing work alongside new artefacts. |
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Subjects: | Creative Arts and Design > W100 Fine Art > W110 Drawing Creative Arts and Design > W100 Fine Art > W120 Painting Creative Arts and Design > W100 Fine Art > W130 Sculpture Creative Arts and Design > W100 Fine Art > W140 Printmaking Creative Arts and Design > W100 Fine Art > W190 Fine Art not elsewhere classified |
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School or Centre: | School of Arts & Humanities | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date Deposited: | 02 Mar 2017 10:45 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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URI: | https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/2719 |
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