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Title

  • Main Title The Desires of Rebecca Horn: Alchemy and the Mechanics of Interpretation

Creator

  • Author: Dunlop, Douglas Donald
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Chair: Platt, Susan Noyes, 1945-
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Major Professor
  • Committee Member: Heinlen, J. Michael
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Committee Member: Gleeson, Larry A.
    Contributor Type: Personal

Publisher

  • Name: University of North Texas
    Place of Publication: Denton, Texas

Date

  • Creation: 1997-08

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the use of alchemy within the work of Rebecca Horn, to elucidate its presence in her work, and to illuminate its purpose as a personal philosophy and as a creative tool. The use of alchemy within Horn's work occurs as a process of revelation and transformation. Alchemy is revealed as a spiritual philosophy and as an interpretative system through the changes that occur in Horn's oeuvre. Throughout Horn's career, alchemy has developed into an interpretive system, a type of spiritual and cosmic perspective, that allows the artist to study, access, and meld diverse realities (sacred and profane) and diverse social systems (religious and scientific) into a more holistic and spiritually infused reality for herself and society-at-large. The purpose of her work is to help reinvest contemporary life with a spiritual presence by offering a model and a means of bringing the sacred into the profane.
  • Physical Description: vi, 198 leaves : ill.

Subject

  • Keyword: Rebecca Horn
  • Keyword: alchemy
  • Keyword: art
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Horn, Rebecca, 1944- -- Criticism and interpretation.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Religion in art.

Collection

  • Name: UNT Theses and Dissertations
    Code: UNTETD

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries
    Code: UNT

Rights

  • Rights Access: public
  • Rights License: copyright
  • Rights Statement: Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.
  • Rights Holder: Dunlop, Douglas Donald

Resource Type

  • Thesis or Dissertation

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Call Number: 379 N81 no.7394
  • Accession or Local Control No: 1002656483-dunlop
  • UNT Catalog No.: b2063979
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc278016

Degree

  • Degree Level: Master's
  • Degree Grantor: University of North Texas
  • Degree Name: Master of Arts
  • Academic Department: School of Visual Arts
  • Degree Discipline: Art History

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