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Sigman, Jill.

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Bodies, souls, and ordinary people: Three essays on art and interpretation.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Bodies, souls, and ordinary people: Three essays on art and interpretation./
Author:	Sigman, Jill.
Description:	235 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-03, Section: A, page: 0848.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-03A.
Subject:	Art History. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9827935
ISBN:	0591804239

Bodies, souls, and ordinary people: Three essays on art and interpretation.
Sigman, Jill.

Bodies, souls, and ordinary people: Three essays on art and interpretation. - 235 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-03, Section: A, page: 0848.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 1998.

I approach the subject of artistic interpretation through art, letting philosophical questions arise from the complexities of the individual cases and thus allowing a thornier but more interesting picture of interpretation to emerge. This dissertation consists of three essays, each of which explores interpretation via a work in a different artistic medium, and an afterword which treats interpretation more directly. "Bodies: Self-Mutilation, Interpretation, and Controversial Art" deals with the performance artist, Stelarc, who hung himself over a New York intersection by fish hooks piercing his skin. To understand the response that there is something offensive about such art, I consider the notions of humiliation and demeaning treatment, starting with the work of Gabriele Taylor. I offer an interpretation of Stelarc's performance to show that it is not necessarily demeaning, and that how we judge a work morally is inextricably related to how we interpret it. In "Souls: Theatricality in Bouts' Last Supper Painting" I consider the intense theatricality of Dirk Bouts' Last Supper altarpiece. Contrasting my view of theatricality with that of Michael Fried, I present a reading of the Bouts painting that shows how we can learn from ahistorical interpretations of works of art. "Ordinary People: Trio A and How Dances Signify" takes up the pedestrian dances of the 1960's in order to ask how dances achieve signification. Building on the groundwork of Nelson Goodman, I conclude that works like Yvonne Rainer's Trio A signify through representation, not by straightforward exemplification. In my Afterword, I consider the stance we should have as interpreters of works of art, and contrast it with the stances with which we approach propaganda and pornography. In interpreting art, we navigate between freedom and constraint.

ISBN: 0591804239Subjects--Topical Terms:

635474
Art History.

Bodies, souls, and ordinary people: Three essays on art and interpretation.
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