Richard Tuttle: Reframing modernism, 1965--1995.
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Title
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Richard Tuttle: Reframing modernism, 1965--1995.
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Identifier
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AAI9946169
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identifier
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9946169
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Creator
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Gross, Jennifer R.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Marlene Park
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Date
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1999
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Art History | Religion, Philosophy of | Fine Arts | Biography
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Abstract
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This examination of the work of Richard Tuttle was undertaken in an attempt to locate a discourse that effectively addressed the formal art inquiry that Tuttle and a number of his peers have chosen to practice at the end of the century. The goal was to discover if there was a new language to approach formalist work, beyond Clement Greenberg's prescriptions for modernism and the subjective limits of phenomenology written about by artists and art historians influenced by his writings, that made allowance for an art that utilized everyday materials, space, and time. The research resulted in the discovery of a language rooted in the writings of Eastern philosopher Kitaro Nishida that reframed the field of illusion placing it against the field of nothingness. Nishida's repositioning of artistic practice against this field recognized the arena of culture a priori, freeing form and the artist's and viewer's experience of art from the limits of space and time.;Throughout the last thirty years, Richard Tuttle has repeatedly returned to line, color, form, and the frame to lead his art-making. It was in response to the non linearity of his experience and understanding of the qualities inherent in these elements that determined the structure of the dissertation, rather than as a chronological study of his oeuvre. Therefore a number of bodies of Tuttle's work such as the Wire Pieces are re-examined in each relevant chapter.;The appendices to this study are: interviews of Richard Tuttle by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Steven Beyer, and Jennifer R. Gross; a lecture by Tuttle at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in July of 1995; and correspondence between Richard Tuttle and Jennifer R. Gross.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy Restricted.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.