{"id":53,"date":"2014-02-05T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T09:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pullinen.net\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2014-04-17T08:29:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T08:29:10","slug":"following-a-master-visual-dialogue-seen-from-a-hermeneutical-perspective","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/pullinen.net\/?page_id=53","title":{"rendered":"Following a Master – Visual Dialogue Seen from a Hermeneutical Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Author: Jouko Pullinen<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Institution:\u00a0University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Doctoral dissertation \/ Title: Following a Master –\u00a0 Visual Dialogue Seen from a\u00a0 Hermeneutical Perspective<\/p>\n

My doctoral thesis is a philosophical\u00a0 account of a journey to investigate the crucial questions an art educator must address: in which way and under which conditions does new understanding come about in visual expression and interpretation?<\/p>\n

My aim in this study was to explore the artistic dialogue process and how it can be perceived as a hermeneutical interpretation.\u00a0 The study is divided into two parts:<\/p>\n

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  1. The art\u00a0 work, which consisted of a dialogue between me as an artist as a researcher and two of\u00a0 Albrecht D\u00fcrer\u2019s works of art,\u00a0\u00a0Adam and Eve<\/em>\u00a0andMelancholy<\/em>.\u00a0 The dialogue lead to art exhibitions which were displayed in Galleria G in 1997, and in 1999 in the H\u00e4meenlinna Art Museum and in the Sinebrychoff Art Museum.<\/li>\n
  2. The theoretical part is an investigation I conducted into the visual dialogue process employed. My frame of reference is philosophical, in particular Gadamerian hermeneutics.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I approach the making of a work of art as a method of study. My starting point is that a visual artist can find a parallel in, say,\u00a0 a hermeneutician working as an anthropologist.<\/p>\n

    The dissertation consists of\u00a0 two main parts.\u00a0 Firstly, I discuss the explorative nature of visual arts from the following view points: (1) What is an artist researcher\u2019s relationship to the surrounding reality and to the object of his\/her study? This question is expanded to encompass researchers\u2019 position in, and\u00a0 relationship to, the world at large: are researchers like a fly on the wall, on-lookers, or by-standers, or are they more actively involved, with all their senses, taking in the world?\u00a0 (2) What is artist researchers\u2019 relationship with their own art work? Here, I examine the method of study.\u00a0 What has \u2018skill\u2019 to do with anything, and how is silent knowledge conveyed in the works of art created?<\/p>\n

    (3) What is the relation of a work of art to reality? I\u00a0 approach this relation from the perspective of semiotics, which provides points of view for the discussion of\u00a0 an art work and its meanings.<\/p>\n

    In the second part I discuss hermeneutics, and in particular Hans-Georg Gadamer\u2019s views of hermeneutical interpretation,\u00a0 in order to propose a research method for the visual arts. Gadamer\u2019s main ideas on the dialogic structure of understanding a text are (1) identification of preunderstandings; (2) the interactive process of the dialogue which leads to a fusion of horizons; and (3) the application of the interpreted.\u00a0 These phases of understanding are relevant to an artist researcher. An understanding cannot\u00a0 emerge from \u2018out there\u2019 but is always based on the encounter of the already known with the present, subject to our preunderstandings. The preunderstanding will evolve in the dialogue with the object of interpretation, and in the fusion of horizons we gain new understanding. When the horizons of those involved in the dialogue intersect or engage, a third horizon, broader than the first two, comes into existence. In \u2018application\u2019 an emphasis is given to the interpreter\u2019s horizon or tradition, on the one hand,\u00a0 and on the application of the interpreted in the interpreter\u2019s life. A Gadamerian interpretation brings about a change in the interpreter by enriching his\/her horizon.<\/p>\n

    My dissertation incorporates a lot of visual material which aims to throw light on the dialogue process and to document my art exhibitions, which form an integral part of the study. The work is\u00a0 comprised of\u00a0 both academic and belletristic texts. I wish to invite the reader to join in a dialogue with the visual and with these texts, in a dialogue aimed at providing the reader with new understanding of research in the visual arts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Author: Jouko Pullinen Institution:\u00a0University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH Doctoral dissertation \/ Title: Following a Master –\u00a0 Visual Dialogue Seen from a\u00a0 Hermeneutical Perspective My doctoral thesis is a philosophical\u00a0 account of a journey to investigate the crucial questions an art educator must address: in which way and under which conditions does new understanding … Jatka lukemista Following a Master – Visual Dialogue Seen from a Hermeneutical Perspective<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233,"parent":21,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pullinen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pullinen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pullinen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pullinen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pullinen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/pullinen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"http:\/\/pullinen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions\/710"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pullinen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pullinen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pullinen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}