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Object-Images: The Exposed Paintings of Callum Innes and the Phenomenology of Non Representational Painting

Walker, Mike (2017) Object-Images: The Exposed Paintings of Callum Innes and the Phenomenology of Non Representational Painting. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis, University of Kent, University of Kent. (KAR id:62716)

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Abstract

This thesis seeks to explore the notion of non-representation in painting and consider our

experience of such paintings in phenomenological terms. It is centred around an analysis of the

Exposed Paintings by Callum Innes, made from 1993 to date, and employs the term object-image to

examine how such paintings make a viewer aware of their material actuality or corporeality. It

considers object-images in relation to the theory and practice of American art in the middle of the

twentieth century as well as British painting and sculpture of recent decades. The main section of

the thesis draws upon the writing of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to ask questions of our perceptual

experience of non-representational paintings especially in relation to the idea of the reciprocity of

viewer and viewed.

Item Type: Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD))
Thesis advisor: Newall, Michael
Thesis advisor: Pooke, Grant
Uncontrolled keywords: painting non-representational abstract phenomenology innes
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Arts
Funders: Organisations -1 not found.
SWORD Depositor: System Moodle
Depositing User: System Moodle
Date Deposited: 14 Aug 2017 14:10 UTC
Last Modified: 14 Dec 2022 07:17 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/62716 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Walker, Mike.

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