Thesis Format
Monograph
Degree
Master of Fine Arts
Program
Visual Arts
Supervisor
Migone, Christof
Abstract
This Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Thesis Dossier, together with the MFA Thesis Exhibition Marvelous Monsters (2021), presents: a Comprehensive Artist Statement; Practice Documentation; a Case Study on Canadian artist David Altmejd; a Bibliography; and my curriculum vitae. The Practice Documentation section of this dossier highlights key pieces of my creative explorations over my time in the Visual Arts Department at Western University as well as photographic documentation of Marvelous Monsters. Taken as a whole, this MFA Thesis Dossier explores and situates immersive digital installation studio practice with research into beauty, abjection, monstrosity, hybridity, Surrealism, and speculative worlding as guided by key thinkers and artists (including Edmund Burke, William Hogarth, Mary Shelley, André Breton, Max Ernst, Julia Kristeva, David Altmejd, Rona Pondick, and Kelly Richardson).
Summary for Lay Audience
This Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Thesis Dossier, together with the MFA Thesis Exhibition Marvelous Monsters (2021), presents: a Comprehensive Artist Statement; Practice Documentation; a Case Study on Canadian artist David Altmejd; a Bibliography; and my curriculum vitae. The Practice Documentation section of this dossier highlights key pieces of my studio work in the Visual Arts Department at Western University as well as photographs of the Marvelous Monsters exhibition. Altogether, this MFA Thesis Dossier looks at ideas of beauty and ugliness through concepts of monsters, bodies, and other worlds.
Recommended Citation
Bourque, Thomas, "Marvelous Monsters" (2021). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 7914.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/7914
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