Date of Award
Spring 5-15-2022
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Art
Advisor(s)
Lewis, Jude
Keywords
Grief, Jewelry, Metalworking, Sculpture
Subject Categories
Arts and Humanities | Fine Arts
Abstract
The relationship between mere objects, richly aesthetic objects, and the emotional structure ofexperience is considered in three parts. The first part attempts to develop the relationship between object-ness and art-ness from the intellectual tradition of ordinary language philosophy. The first part ends with the death of my wife. The second part provides a view of the emotional structure of grief-experienced in the form of a poem. The third part attempts to reconcile the lost and the kept, as intellectual and emotional structures are re-aligned. The thesis therefore attempts to both show and tell the origin and nature of the material works I developed over the past six years.
Access
Open Access
Recommended Citation
Kalish, Michael, "To Have and to Hold" (2022). Theses - ALL. 603.
https://surface.syr.edu/thesis/603
