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By Guido Balbo Di Vinadio
Myth, art, and language in the phenomenological presence of the landscape:
An investigation into the creative qualities of human experience and the
relationship of these with language and the natural landscape.
ABSTRACT
The aim of this research is to consider what might be structural differences underlying the artistic framework between literate Western culture and oral, indigenous societies from North America and Australia. I argue that such differences manifest due to the divergent modalities of construction and expression of meaning through the use of language. With reference to the phenomenological perspectives of Merleau-Ponty and the work of David Abram, I investigate the nature of language as an articulation of the animistic quality of perception, that far from being exclusive to humans, belongs primarily to the more-than-human world. Here landscape is understood through the work of Abram not as the pictorial scene, but rather as the living ecosystem and natural environment in which a culture is situated, and thus part of. I contest, referring Professor Joseph Campbell, that such relationship inspires and requires the articulation of the language of myth and its creative expression. By presenting the work of Western artists Paul Cézanne and Bettina Reiber, I further investigate on the connection between perception, artistic creation and the correlation of these with the landscape. An attentive etymological study will help at drawing a conclusion on such inquiry.
Read full dissertation paper attached.
Myth, art, and language in the phenomenological presence of the landscape:
An investigation into the creative qualities of human experience and the
relationship of these with language and the natural landscape.
ABSTRACT
The aim of this research is to consider what might be structural differences underlying the artistic framework between literate Western culture and oral, indigenous societies from North America and Australia. I argue that such differences manifest due to the divergent modalities of construction and expression of meaning through the use of language. With reference to the phenomenological perspectives of Merleau-Ponty and the work of David Abram, I investigate the nature of language as an articulation of the animistic quality of perception, that far from being exclusive to humans, belongs primarily to the more-than-human world. Here landscape is understood through the work of Abram not as the pictorial scene, but rather as the living ecosystem and natural environment in which a culture is situated, and thus part of. I contest, referring Professor Joseph Campbell, that such relationship inspires and requires the articulation of the language of myth and its creative expression. By presenting the work of Western artists Paul Cézanne and Bettina Reiber, I further investigate on the connection between perception, artistic creation and the correlation of these with the landscape. An attentive etymological study will help at drawing a conclusion on such inquiry.
Read full dissertation paper attached.
Guido Balbo Di Vinadio is a visual artist and researcher.
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By Guido Balbo Di Vinadio
Myth, art, and language in the phenomenological presence of the landscape:
An investigation into the creative qualities of human experience and the
relationship of these with language and the natural landscape.
ABSTRACT
The aim of this research is to consider what might be structural differences underlying the artistic framework between literate Western culture and oral, indigenous societies from North America and Australia. I argue that such differences manifest due to the divergent modalities of construction and expression of meaning through the use of language. With reference to the phenomenological perspectives of Merleau-Ponty and the work of David Abram, I investigate the nature of language as an articulation of the animistic quality of perception, that far from being exclusive to humans, belongs primarily to the more-than-human world. Here landscape is understood through the work of Abram not as the pictorial scene, but rather as the living ecosystem and natural environment in which a culture is situated, and thus part of. I contest, referring Professor Joseph Campbell, that such relationship inspires and requires the articulation of the language of myth and its creative expression. By presenting the work of Western artists Paul Cézanne and Bettina Reiber, I further investigate on the connection between perception, artistic creation and the correlation of these with the landscape. An attentive etymological study will help at drawing a conclusion on such inquiry.
Read full dissertation paper attached.
Myth, art, and language in the phenomenological presence of the landscape:
An investigation into the creative qualities of human experience and the
relationship of these with language and the natural landscape.
ABSTRACT
The aim of this research is to consider what might be structural differences underlying the artistic framework between literate Western culture and oral, indigenous societies from North America and Australia. I argue that such differences manifest due to the divergent modalities of construction and expression of meaning through the use of language. With reference to the phenomenological perspectives of Merleau-Ponty and the work of David Abram, I investigate the nature of language as an articulation of the animistic quality of perception, that far from being exclusive to humans, belongs primarily to the more-than-human world. Here landscape is understood through the work of Abram not as the pictorial scene, but rather as the living ecosystem and natural environment in which a culture is situated, and thus part of. I contest, referring Professor Joseph Campbell, that such relationship inspires and requires the articulation of the language of myth and its creative expression. By presenting the work of Western artists Paul Cézanne and Bettina Reiber, I further investigate on the connection between perception, artistic creation and the correlation of these with the landscape. An attentive etymological study will help at drawing a conclusion on such inquiry.
Read full dissertation paper attached.
Guido Balbo Di Vinadio is a visual artist and researcher.
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By Guido Balbo Di Vinadio
Myth, art, and language in the phenomenological presence of the landscape:
An investigation into the creative qualities of human experience and the
relationship of these with language and the natural landscape.
ABSTRACT
The aim of this research is to consider what might be structural differences underlying the artistic framework between literate Western culture and oral, indigenous societies from North America and Australia. I argue that such differences manifest due to the divergent modalities of construction and expression of meaning through the use of language. With reference to the phenomenological perspectives of Merleau-Ponty and the work of David Abram, I investigate the nature of language as an articulation of the animistic quality of perception, that far from being exclusive to humans, belongs primarily to the more-than-human world. Here landscape is understood through the work of Abram not as the pictorial scene, but rather as the living ecosystem and natural environment in which a culture is situated, and thus part of. I contest, referring Professor Joseph Campbell, that such relationship inspires and requires the articulation of the language of myth and its creative expression. By presenting the work of Western artists Paul Cézanne and Bettina Reiber, I further investigate on the connection between perception, artistic creation and the correlation of these with the landscape. An attentive etymological study will help at drawing a conclusion on such inquiry.
Read full dissertation paper attached.
Myth, art, and language in the phenomenological presence of the landscape:
An investigation into the creative qualities of human experience and the
relationship of these with language and the natural landscape.
ABSTRACT
The aim of this research is to consider what might be structural differences underlying the artistic framework between literate Western culture and oral, indigenous societies from North America and Australia. I argue that such differences manifest due to the divergent modalities of construction and expression of meaning through the use of language. With reference to the phenomenological perspectives of Merleau-Ponty and the work of David Abram, I investigate the nature of language as an articulation of the animistic quality of perception, that far from being exclusive to humans, belongs primarily to the more-than-human world. Here landscape is understood through the work of Abram not as the pictorial scene, but rather as the living ecosystem and natural environment in which a culture is situated, and thus part of. I contest, referring Professor Joseph Campbell, that such relationship inspires and requires the articulation of the language of myth and its creative expression. By presenting the work of Western artists Paul Cézanne and Bettina Reiber, I further investigate on the connection between perception, artistic creation and the correlation of these with the landscape. An attentive etymological study will help at drawing a conclusion on such inquiry.
Read full dissertation paper attached.
Guido Balbo Di Vinadio is a visual artist and researcher.
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By Guido Balbo Di Vinadio
Myth, art, and language in the phenomenological presence of the landscape:
An investigation into the creative qualities of human experience and the
relationship of these with language and the natural landscape.
ABSTRACT
The aim of this research is to consider what might be structural differences underlying the artistic framework between literate Western culture and oral, indigenous societies from North America and Australia. I argue that such differences manifest due to the divergent modalities of construction and expression of meaning through the use of language. With reference to the phenomenological perspectives of Merleau-Ponty and the work of David Abram, I investigate the nature of language as an articulation of the animistic quality of perception, that far from being exclusive to humans, belongs primarily to the more-than-human world. Here landscape is understood through the work of Abram not as the pictorial scene, but rather as the living ecosystem and natural environment in which a culture is situated, and thus part of. I contest, referring Professor Joseph Campbell, that such relationship inspires and requires the articulation of the language of myth and its creative expression. By presenting the work of Western artists Paul Cézanne and Bettina Reiber, I further investigate on the connection between perception, artistic creation and the correlation of these with the landscape. An attentive etymological study will help at drawing a conclusion on such inquiry.
Read full dissertation paper attached.
Myth, art, and language in the phenomenological presence of the landscape:
An investigation into the creative qualities of human experience and the
relationship of these with language and the natural landscape.
ABSTRACT
The aim of this research is to consider what might be structural differences underlying the artistic framework between literate Western culture and oral, indigenous societies from North America and Australia. I argue that such differences manifest due to the divergent modalities of construction and expression of meaning through the use of language. With reference to the phenomenological perspectives of Merleau-Ponty and the work of David Abram, I investigate the nature of language as an articulation of the animistic quality of perception, that far from being exclusive to humans, belongs primarily to the more-than-human world. Here landscape is understood through the work of Abram not as the pictorial scene, but rather as the living ecosystem and natural environment in which a culture is situated, and thus part of. I contest, referring Professor Joseph Campbell, that such relationship inspires and requires the articulation of the language of myth and its creative expression. By presenting the work of Western artists Paul Cézanne and Bettina Reiber, I further investigate on the connection between perception, artistic creation and the correlation of these with the landscape. An attentive etymological study will help at drawing a conclusion on such inquiry.
Read full dissertation paper attached.
Guido Balbo Di Vinadio is a visual artist and researcher.
Download resource below