Theory of Incompleteness, from Abstraction to Fragmentation, the Correlation Between Mary Miss' Art and Deconstructivism

THEORY OF INCOMPLETENESS, FROM ABSTRACTION TO FRAGMENTATION, THE CORRELATION BETWEEN MARY MISS' ART AND DECONSTRUCTIVISM By MR. Likit KITTISAKDINAN A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Doctor of Philosophy (Architecture) Department of Architecture Graduate School, Silpakorn University Academic Year 2018 Copyright of Graduate School, Silpakorn University ทฤษฎีแห่งความไม่สมบูรณ์ จากความเป็นนามธรรมมาสู่การกระจายแยกย่อย การเทียบเคียงระหว่างศิลปะของแมรี่ มิส กับแนวความคิดทางสถาปัตยกรรมการรื้อ สร้าง โดย นายลิขิต กิตติศักดินันท์ วิทยานิพนธ์นี้เป็นส่วนหนึ่งของการศึกษาตามหลักสูตรปรัชญาดุษฎีบัณฑิต สาขาวิชาสถาปัตยกรรม แบบ 1.1 ปริญญาปรัชญาดุษฎีบัณฑิต ภาควิชาสถาปัตยกรรม บัณฑิตวิทยาลัย มหาวิทยาลัยศิลปากร ปีการศึกษา 2561 ์ ลิขสิทธิของบณั ฑิตวิทยาล ยั มหาวิทยาลยั ศลิ ปากร THEORY OF INCOMPLETENESS, FROM ABSTRACTION TO FRAGMENTATION, THE CORRELATION BETWEEN MARY MISS' ART AND DECONSTRUCTIVISM By MR. Likit KITTISAKDINAN A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Doctor of Philosophy (Architecture) Department of Architecture Graduate School, Silpakorn University Academic Year 2018 Copyright of Graduate School, Silpakorn University 4 Title Theory of Incompleteness, from Abstraction to Fragmentation, The Correlation between Mary Miss' Art and Deconstructivism By Likit KITTISAKDINAN Field of Study (Architecture) Advisor Tonkao Panin Graduate School Silpakorn University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy Dean of graduate school (Associate Professor Jurairat Nunthanid, Ph.D.) Approved by Chair person (Professor VIRA INPUNTUNG , Ph.D.) Advisor (Assistant Professor Tonkao Panin , Ph.D.) External Examiner (Professor Emeritus ORNSIRI PANIN ) D ABSTRACT 58054907 : Major (Architecture) Keyword : Abstraction, Polarity, Fragmentation, Mary Miss, Incompleteness, Deconstructivism MR. LIKIT KITTISAKDINAN : THEORY OF INCOMPLETENESS, FROM ABSTRACTION TO FRAGMENTATION, THE CORRELATION BETWEEN MARY MISS' ART AND DECONSTRUCTIVISM THESIS ADVISOR : ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TONKAO PANIN, Ph.D. This dissertation delves into an overarching interrelation between the philosophical, historical, aesthetical, and architectural perspectives surrounding the term Incompleteness. In philosophy, Incompleteness is traced back to the time of the ancient Greek Presocratics, at the period when the concepts of abstraction and polarity were commonly used in the methodical process of early Greek truth- claims. In history, Incompleteness was bounded within the concept of fragment during the time when the Roman ruins were studied, recaptured, and restored―ever since the modernity of late Italian Renaissance up to the transition between the architecture of polarized tendencies of Neoclassicism versus Eclecticism in France. In art, Incompleteness is perceptually scoped within the vast spectrum of movements in modern art between the dualistic tendencies either toward restorative but inorganic abstraction or toward degenerative but organic fragmentation. Until the late 1960s when the cultural reform propelled art toward experimentations and concepts beyond conventionalized aesthetics or institutionalized establishment of art form, the demise of late Abstract Expressionism infused the advent of Minimalism and Conceptualism. Ultimately, Land Art exemplified by the work of Mary Miss extends Modern art and eventually developed into a type of anti-aesthetics in spatial experience, within which lies the theoretical fabric of Incompleteness―identified in six operative terms; three of which catalyze the stabilized tendencies, while the other three catalyze the opposites. In Architecture, due to the shared grassroot fundaments of regenerative partiality and degenerative fragmentation, the theory of Incompleteness is comparatively analyzed in correlation to the architecture of Deconstructivism. While the Theory of Incompleteness identifies the stabilized tendencies upon the work of Mary Miss; this theory highlights the destabilized traits or disjunctive blueprints behind the constructs of Deconstructivism. In the contemporary world, the architecture of Incompleteness is reestablished among the group of so-called Japanese Constellation Architects who are currently redefining the scope of their stabilized design through the renewed realization of abstraction, through the reformulated concept of Japan-ness, and through the decisive synthesis of control upon the altogether excess of open-endedness, indeterminacy, and destabilization. E ACKNOWLEDGE MENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the following individuals who gave me immense courage, knowledge and opportunity to complete this dissertation. I am forever indebted to my thesis advisor; Assistant Professor Tonkao Panin, Ph.D., for her belief in my strengths and passions from day one. I would like to thank two of my thesis committees; Professor Emeritus Ornsiri Panin and Professor Vira Inpuntung, Ph.D., for their insightful criticisms and positive approvals upon prospects of future academic contributions based on potentials within the Theory of Incompleteness proposed in this dissertation. My deepest gratitude goes to Mary Miss for her kindest generosity during our memorable interview session in New York City as well as for the direct access into her invaluable visual archives. My warm gratitude additionally goes to Dr. Sorachai Kornkasem and Brian McGrath who thoughtfully linked me to Mary. As there have been numerous friends who have inspired me to write better, my special thanks go to their brief but profound impacts; from Steven in 1994 to Cody in 2014, I shall remember those one-on-one moments until the end of my existence. Finally, I wish to thank both of my parents for their unconditional support and encouragement. With love, I dedicate this book to my mother. Likit KITTISAKDINAN F TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ABSTRACT ......................................................................................................................... D ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ..................................................................................................... E TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................................................ F LIST OF TABLES................................................................................................................... I LIST OF FIGURES ............................................................................................................... K INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................. 1 CHAPTER 01: Abstraction in its Polarity and Ruin in its Fragmentation .......................... 23 Abstraction in its Polarity ............................................................................................... 23 Ruin in its Fragmentation .............................................................................................. 50 antique fragment: an evidence of positive fragment ............................................. 59 historical fragment: an evidence of negative fragment ......................................... 67 Summary of Chapter One: Abstraction in its Polarity and Ruin in its Fragmentation... 73 CHAPTER 02: Internalization and Externalization, Trace of Incompleteness in Art ......... 76 Internalization of Abstraction and Externalization of Fragmentation ............................ 76 Internalization of Art ...................................................................................................... 79 Art of Externalization ..................................................................................................... 85 Abstract Expressionism, the Paradox between Internalization and Externalization .... 93 Toward Internalization; absence, illusion, subjectivity ................................................. 96 Toward Externalization; fragment, contradiction, referentiality .................................. 107 Summary of Chapter Two: .......................................................................................... 117 Internalization and Externalization, Trace of Incompleteness in Art .......................... 117 G CHAPTER 03: Trace of Incompleteness, Polarity in Miss’ Art between Concept and Methodology .................................................................................................................... 122 Part One: Internal Inputs; Genealogy of Miss’ Land Art ............................................. 123 From Abstract Art to Conceptual Art .................................................................... 123 From Minimalism to Conceptualism ..................................................................... 128 From Conceptualism to Process Art .................................................................... 134 From Process Art to Land Art ............................................................................... 140 Miss’ Land Art and her contemporaries ............................................................... 145 Part Two: External Outputs; Methodology of Miss’ Art ............................................... 163 External Outputs of Miss’ Art Complex ................................................................ 163 Miss’ Methodology of Photo/Drawings Concept .................................................. 171 Between Inputs of Internalized Concept and Outputs of Externalized Methodology ....................................................................................................................

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