On the human canvas: a novel ontology of tattoos
| dc.contributor.author | Minarik, Julia | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Murray, Adam (Philosophy) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Mahrenholz, Simone (Philosophy) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Matheson, Carl (Philosophy) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-08-18T19:58:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-08-18T19:58:33Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2021-08-18 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-08-10 | en_US |
| dc.date.submitted | 2021-08-10T16:20:09Z | en_US |
| dc.date.submitted | 2021-08-18T19:55:46Z | en_US |
| dc.degree.discipline | Philosophy | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts (M.A.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Some tattoos are artworks. This paper claims that art-tattoos have an interesting ontological feature: their artistic properties are partially determined by the people they are tattooed on. In other words, tattoos are artistically contextualized by their recipients. I further suggest that this contextualization is ongoing: that the artistic properties of a tattoo aesthetically change over time as the tattoo recipient changes. I present an ontology of tattoos that focuses on this feature of tattoos. The argument in this paper notably rests on an inference from aesthetic intuitions and art-historical facts about tattoos to claims about their ontological features. | en_US |
| dc.description.note | October 2021 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/35812 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | Tattoos | en_US |
| dc.subject | Philosophy | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ontology | en_US |
| dc.subject | Aesthetics | en_US |
| dc.title | On the human canvas: a novel ontology of tattoos | en_US |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |