The smear that discloses world: Material and perception in painting

The thesis reads Gilles Deleuze’s lectures on painting from 1981 to develop a theory of painting as a mereological activity, concerned with the relations of parts to one another and to wholes. Painting from observation is taken as a case by which painting performs the broader aesthetic function of e...

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Main Author: Black, Steven Michael
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2021
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/89773
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Summary:The thesis reads Gilles Deleuze’s lectures on painting from 1981 to develop a theory of painting as a mereological activity, concerned with the relations of parts to one another and to wholes. Painting from observation is taken as a case by which painting performs the broader aesthetic function of exemplifying efficacy.