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Paper - A Reserve Or Backgound?, Brian Fay
Paper - A Reserve Or Backgound?, Brian Fay
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Paper: A Reserve or a Background?
“Using examples from contemporary practice and my own research, this presentation will discuss two models for the role of paper in drawing: as background and as reserve. It will focus on Walter Benjamin's definition for the graphic lines almost metaphysical relationship to the background, and compare it with Norman Bryson's model of the paper as a reserve, for him an 'area without qualities'.”
When Is An Artwork?:Bergson’S Progress And The Art Object., Brian Fay
When Is An Artwork?:Bergson’S Progress And The Art Object., Brian Fay
Conference Papers
This paper will use Bergson’s proposition that an organism can be perceived ‘as a thing rather than as a progress, forgetting that the very permanence of its form is only the outline of a movement* ’ to an object analysis of the artwork in time.
While acknowledging that Bergson did not apply this proposition to objects it can be used as a relevant starting point for the evaluation of an artworks complex relationship to time. Popularly perceived to exist within a state of something approaching permanency the artwork is arguably deteriorating in slow motion once it is made. Using …