Meaning, gesture and Gauguin

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This thesis discusses the difference between two dimensional painting and sculpture although they have proceeded along parallel paths. Feminist. Post-colonial and psychoanalytical discourses intertwine to cover complexities within the artwork of Gauguin and
\nmy own. Just as painting and sculpture run along parallel paths though covering problems inherent in their differences so to do I attempt to describe similarities at the same time as recognising the areas where the two do not meet. Issues covered include the search for
\nmeaning, in such a way as to make the art works relevant at the close of the twentieth century. A major consideration for a sculptor, that will be discussed, is that reading visual, two dimensional images is something everyone is practised at, in contrast to reception
\nof three dimensional works. Audiences are less familiar with semiotic readings of sculpture. It is my contention that Gauguin's art and life can be compared to the way an audience views

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