Referential Art

A Plan B Paper Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota; A Requirement for the Degree Master of Arts (Plan B); by Mark H. Belisle, 1976.In this modest paper I have attempted to allude to the attitudes and references which form a basis for my work. I have refrained not only from discussing specific examples of my work, as seems to be traditional procedure for papers such as tl'1is, but have left myself out of the paper almost entirely, even writing it in the third person. What follows is not a dissertation or a thesis but a series of more or less:. related allusions, hyperboles, and innuendoes, all centered on the problem of the so-called "identity crisis" in modern art. Beginning with a brief discussion of modern art and modern philosophy, the paper in turn touches upon modern art and subjectivity, art and edification, and art and philosophy. It has not been my intention (much less my hope) to write a thorough and definitive paper on these issues; rather, my goal has been to elaborate a bit on my own prejudices