Four Quarters of the Earth (dissertation)
World art offers opportunities for pan human
narratives and their subsequent common goals, which, given our shared habitat
degradation, growing population and rapid technologic changes in a global era of
instant communication, are quite urgent. Art making serves as our individual and
collective memory-heritage, the birthright of every human being, and a great
hope for our future. This world art research unites individual art making
experiences with the collective art making of world art history.
Part One
explores context as a field in which meaning is situated. Part Two emphasizes
visual art symbolization while acknowledging other modalities. Art objects of
paper, clay, and available stream (recyclables and the natural world) represent
each of the four quarters of the earth: Africa 100,000BCE; Oceania 50,000BCE;
Eurasia, 25,000BCE; the Americas, 12,500BCE
present.
Four Quarters
of the Earth (dissertation) file
( 6 MB pdf file; 239 pages )
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