Year
2015
Degree Name
Master of Philosophy
Department
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts
Recommended Citation
Cuthbert, Jenny, Swinging the lantern: spatial narrative in visual arts, Master of Philosophy thesis, Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong, 2015. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/4513
Abstract
Literary narratologists have long argued that narrative is not as present in the visual arts as in literary texts due to the lack of perceived linear sequencing and temporal movement. Such research has primarily focussed on pictorial narratives prior to modernism, leaving a notable absence of narrative theory surrounding a broader sphere of art forms from modernism to the present day. In this thesis, I propose that narratives within visual arts should be analysed from a new perspective that focuses on the spatial essence of visual arts practice. I examine diverse art-forms such as film, painting, installation and sculpture, from several art periods and, using a combination of methodologies and concepts developed by Mieke Bal, Michael Fried, Lev Manovich and Roland Barthes, offer an alternative framework with which to view narrative in visual art: spatial narrative.
FoR codes (2008)
1901 ART THEORY AND CRITICISM, 1905 VISUAL ARTS AND CRAFTS, 1999 OTHER STUDIES IN CREATIVE ARTS AND WRITING
Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong.