The cadaverous presence: Holbein's dead Christ and Maw's suspended Upritchard

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dc.contributor.advisorBraddock, Chris
dc.contributor.advisorJackson, Mark
dc.contributor.authorChance, Margreta
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-22T03:35:31Z
dc.date.available2014-07-22T03:35:31Z
dc.date.copyright2013
dc.date.created2014
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.updated2014-07-22T00:01:34Z
dc.description.abstractThe Cadaverous Presence investigates two paintings: Hans Holbein the Younger’s "The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb", and Liz Maw’s "Francis Upritchard". Both works of art put a metaphysical quest for an ontological truth into question, and open up an inquiry into the place of death in the image. The project explores how the art works are both a sight, and a site, for exploring ambiguities that cannot partake of a metaphysical closure, but instead expose an aporetic relationship between truth and death. The research is guided by the theorists Maurice Blanchot, and Jacques Derrida. Their deconstructive strategies are employed to expose how the terms of a binary are not mutually exclusive, but co-exist in an infinite undecidability. Firstly, the inquiry explores how Holbein and Maw depict figures that signify an ambivalent play between the teleological and mortal ends of humankind, and how this undecidability is irreducible to a truth about death. Secondly, the inquiry explores how the image itself is the site for an undecidable ambivalence between presence and absence, and how all images are irreducible to an absolute presence. The project argues that the sight of the painted figures, and the site of the image, both expose truth as a relative structure in which death is experienced as a cadaverous, absence of presence.en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/7480
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.publisherAuckland University of Technology
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.subjectDeconstructionen_NZ
dc.subjectAporiaen_NZ
dc.subjectMimesisen_NZ
dc.subjectDeath in the imageen_NZ
dc.subjectCadaverous presenceen_NZ
dc.subjectAbsence of presenceen_NZ
dc.subjectJacques Derridaen_NZ
dc.subjectMaurice Blanchoten_NZ
dc.subjectArt historyen_NZ
dc.subjectPaintingen_NZ
dc.subjectHans Holbein the Youngeren_NZ
dc.subjectDead Christ in the tomben_NZ
dc.subjectLiz Mawen_NZ
dc.subjectFrancis Upritcharden_NZ
dc.subjectIconen_NZ
dc.subjectDead Christen_NZ
dc.subjectMan of sorrows (Vir Dolorum)en_NZ
dc.subjectAssumption of the Virgin Maryen_NZ
dc.subjectMother of sorrows (Mater Dolorosa)en_NZ
dc.subjectPhotographyen_NZ
dc.subjectJoel-Peter Witkinen_NZ
dc.titleThe cadaverous presence: Holbein's dead Christ and Maw's suspended Upritcharden_NZ
dc.typeThesis
thesis.degree.discipline
thesis.degree.grantorAuckland University of Technology
thesis.degree.levelMasters Theses
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Philosophyen_NZ
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