- Title
- Violence and destruction as an important part of artistic action with reference to the two Great Wars
- Creator
- Hallier, Michael Glen Thomas
- ThesisAdvisor
- Nel, Hugo
- Subject
- Uncatalogued
- Date
- 1971-11
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/190329
- Identifier
- vital:44984
- Description
- A well known fact about any work of art of any significance is its power to upset current conventions and disturb certain of our normal emotional patterns. The artist frequently achieves this by deliberately expressing emotions that are violent. There is nothing, however, new about the existence of violence in the arts, a large number of works in the history of art being painted with blood. One has only to think of the many battles, rapes, murders, martyrdoms and catastrophes that have been the subjects of many great paintings. Since the beginning of this century, and especially since the work of the Impressionists, in which violence is entirely excluded, violence has taken on a role of great importance and has been used to a greater or lesser extent by artists and group movements. It would appear initially that there are two main reasons in this century for the use of violence: one as a means of using it as a weapon against the academic and avant-garde in the arts, which in turn reflects attitudes found in society, and secondly as a direct reflection of the corrupt society in which we live. This is not to say that the twentieth century is an age in which more violence and sadism is found than in any other era of history, but never has it received so much publicity. I do not believe that man has change so much over the years, but it is my view that the apparent increase in this century is due to the vast changes in communications, it is due to the publicity it receives that violence has in recent times become a focal point, with murders, assassinations and war part of our daily lives.
- Description
- Thesis (MFA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Fine Art, 1971
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (99 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Fine Art
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Hallier, Michael Glen Thomas
- Rights
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Rights
- Open Access
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