Artist as subject : subject as object

摘要

The artist uses herself as the object of study. Her subjective position isvalidated within a theoretical framework provided by feminism,existentialism and Freudian theory. The three world views provide thecontext for an analysis of sculpture produced between the years 1988and 1997. Three one-person exhibitions held in 1990, 1993 and 1996,are examined in terms of their iconographic emphasis and theirtheoretical bias. The role of the unconscious in the genesis of thesculptures and the problem of author/reader dichotomies in interpretationare dealt with as thematic threads throughout the dissertation.