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Fibre, Fabricator and Fabric: A Study of Form, Space and Time in ArtsAuthor: Banatanwi Dasmahapatra Date: 2020-07-11 Report no: IIIT/TH/2020/70 Advisor:Navjyoti Singh,Vinoo Alluri AbstractThe aim of this research is to cultivate, nurture and establish the formal foundation of arts and their relations in association with time and space. Primarily we begin with the question that, why there exist so many forms of art? What constitutes the existence of their plural beings? How are they formally distinct from each other? And what are the formal features which connect them as well. We start with the concepts of forms and language in arts and gradually move towards conceiving the following four chapters in the thesis. Chapter 1. Origin and Foundations of Arts Chapter 2. Idea of Form, Mind, Body, and Truth Chapter 3. Blending of Sound and Vision: Study of Rāgamālā Paintings in Association with the North Indian Classical Music Chapter 4. Blending of Site and Architecture: Installation as a Form of Art The idea is to examine a creative mind by re-visiting the rational space of each art form in terms of their formal purity and origin. We use the term ‘purity’ or ‘a pure being’in the sense of exactness, something which is apt, just that and nothing else. It refers to the qualitative existence of a being and doesn’t imply any moral ground. Any work of art necessarily requires actions to move from one space to another in the imaginary horizon. It’s a kind of force for any constructive creation. Is there any creation without construction? We claim that there is no true creation without having a construction. And here comes the question of rationality. To be more specific, the rational being of every art form. Form itself is saṅskār-rahit or devoid of saṅskār-s. But any formal action is necessarily saṅskār- hit or born out of saṅskāra-s. There is an idea of ‘muse’ in the Greek mythology which refers to the spirit of arts. ‘Muse’-s and spirits are plural beings. But how and where does one get the spirit-s/ muse-s from? We instigate that the spirit- s/muse-s are born out of saṅskāra-s. Saṅskāras are sheltered in the cultivated memories. The cultivated memories are born out of repetitive act-s/ habit-s/ ādab-s etc. It gives birth of skills.The skills for imagination, judgement, re-creation and transformation in the process of creating a work of art to investigate the nature of reality beyond its physical existence. The nature of art construes the growth of a creative mind. And the nature of its construal is completely a mental phenomenon until it gets transformed into the material existence. Art can be purely a mental phenomenon. But any work of art necessarily requires a material body. And that’s how it gets visibility in the real world. So the act of giving a material body to the ideas of any creative mind needs to be examined to validate its formal identity and the nature of its transformal quality at the same time. Work of art is a re-creation or anukṛti of imagination and memory. The act of its mechanism involves a rational structure irrespective of conscious or sub-conscious state of any creative mind. We study and examine the fundamentals of arts in connection with their origins and foundations in the first chapter of our thesis. It’ll falsify the notion that the act of an artistic creation is irrational Full thesis: pdf Centre for Exact Humanities |
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