Graduation Year

2024

Document Type

Campus Only Senior Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Department

Philosophy

Reader 1

Daniel Hackbarth

Reader 2

Juliet Koss

Rights Information

© 2024 Caroline Tuck

Abstract

My thesis addresses a selection of the early paper works of Agnes Denes within the contemporary art historical scope. Viewing Denes’s work through the lens of Jack Burnham and James Nisbet’s ecological system theories, my thesis unpacks the utopic and collaborative elements of Denes’s Visual Philosophy and the triangular matrices that make up the drawings within it. Denes’s Visual Philosophy is an ongoing feat, comprised of continually produced artworks and drawings that articulate her goal and mission: collaboration and interdisciplinary action across varying intellectual and creative enterprises. Manipulating intensely intricate triangular matrices to articulate the synergetic utopic potential of the human condition, the legacy of Agnes Denes’s Visual Philosophy is one of great cognitive affect.

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