I am currently trying very hard to summon up both courage and motivation to start on my dissertation. It’s not going brilliantly.
I have decided to write my dissertation on the concept of beauty in relation to art, in particular to consider whether art has to be beautiful to be considered “art”, whether that matters, and also whether in the 21st century it is somewhat superficial to create ‘beautiful’ work given all the horrors that have been seen worldwide in the last few decades.
This theme seems to be ideal for me to pursue as it is very much linked to my own practice and it has meant that I can look into artists that inspire my own thinking and working. Sue Collis and Robert Rauschenberg being particularly influencial both with my practice and my plans for my dissertation but I am also taken quite strongly by the works of Rineke Dijkstra in relation to the concepts behind my proposed dissertation.
