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AN UNTITLED ACT OF WITHHOLDING
by
Lisa Ohlweiler
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF FINE ARTS
August 2010
Copyright 2010 Lisa Ohlweiler
Object Description
| Title | An untitled act of withholding |
| Author | Ohlweiler, Lisa |
| Author email | laohlweiler@gmail.com; lohlweiler@hotmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Fine Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Fine Arts |
| School | School of Fine Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-07-01 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-08-10 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | White, Charlie |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Lockhart, Sharon Tumlir, Jan |
| Abstract | Taking as its premise Susan Sontag’s statement that, “Photographs which cannot themselves explain anything are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy”, this thesis paper looks at the photographic works of Edward Weston, Roni Horn, and James Welling for the clues to how photography might negotiate the complications it faces with regards to communication. Using literature, painting, and sculpture to comparatively assess the entrenched disconnections that thwart explanation in photography, this paper looks to gesture, denial, and the suggestiveness of form as potential divergence from the problem of explanation and the spiral of inexhaustibility. |
| Keyword | James Welling; Roni Horn; Edward Weston; Susan Sontag; Franz Kafka; Gerhard Richter; Georges Bataille; Walter Benn Michaels; photography; Kendall Walton |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3365 |
| Rights | Ohlweiler, Lisa |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Ohlweiler-3991 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Ohlweiler-3991.pdf |
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| Full text | AN UNTITLED ACT OF WITHHOLDING by Lisa Ohlweiler A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF FINE ARTS August 2010 Copyright 2010 Lisa Ohlweiler |
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