There was a little feeling of disappointment when I had my tutorial today, - regarding my proposal for my dissertation, simply because my tutor, perhaps, was a little too honest with me, in that he admitted that he had "no worries" with regards to whatever I submit, and so he hadn't prioritised much time to read my proposal in detail. - Whilst I should take this as a positive stroke, I was a little deflated for purely selfish reasons...
What I did get though, was some positive feedback, together with suggestions to try and narrow down my scope of research, for example, perhaps to consider changing the title of my dissertation from looking generally at German contemporary artists, changed to just looking at the works of Anselm Kiefer.
With regards to philosophical research my tutor recommended in addition to the existing philosophers of Brian Massumi and Michael Taussig, it might also be worth looking at the works of Clive Bell who has done extensive studies on the subject of aesthetic emotion, and his descriptive accounts of the tension between emotion and affect.
With regards to another good German artist to compare Anselm Kiefer, and the notions of affect theory presented through contemporary paintings, see the works of Gerhard Richter and his own unique type of paintings.
In conclusion, my dissertation would best be centred around a chosen work of art by Anselm Kiefer, and for the narrative within the dissertation to discuss the "test" of it with Affect theory. This would best be conducted by finding a particular feature of a specific painting, and then to test it first within the essay, by finding the peculiarity of the specific image in order to explore it in depth. This seems to be a logical and rational approach that I will pursue.
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