Notre recherche interroge les modalités selon lesquelles une pratique artistique peut constituer un vecteur de contestation en contexte autoritaire. Elle se situe à l’intersection de deux aires de questionnement. D’une part, elle examine les multiples rapports qu’un monde de l’art peut entretenir avec un monde politique, éclairant les enjeux politiques qui traversent un champ cinématographique fortement dépendant de l’État, ainsi que les pratiques contestataires spécifiques qui y ont court. D’autre part, elle explore des formes de contestation qui se déploient à la marge d’un espace politique verrouillé, mettant au jour certains mécanismes de l’autoritarisme observés dans les négociations, arrangements et conflits entre acteurs du monde cinématographique et acteurs de l’appareil bureaucratique et étatique. Dans un premier temps, nous montrons comment les relations sociales qui se tissent autour de l’organisation et du fonctionnement de la production cinématographique polarisent et réfractent certaines pratiques et enjeux spécifiques au champ politique tout en les reformulant. Nous plaçons ensuite l’analyse au cœur des films afin de repérer et de décrire, à partir des différents procédés propres au langage cinématographique, des thématiques, des catégories et des objets qui relèvent du politique, sur lesquels les cinéastes posent un regard critique, alors même que l’expression d’une opinion contestataire dans l’espace public s’avère problématique / Our research investigates how an artistic activity can also be a vehicle for contention within an authoritarian context. It relies at the crossroad of two areas of questioning. On the one hand, we explore the various interactions between an art world and a political world, shedding light on the political logics at stake in a cinematographic field greatly dependent upon the state, as well as on the contentious practices emerging from this particular configuration. On the other hand, we scrutinize contention expressed at the margin of a locked political space, unveiling some mechanisms of authoritarianism produced by negotiations, arrangements and conflicts between actors belonging to the cinematographic world and actors of the bureaucratic apparatus. At first, we examine how the social relationships woven around the organization and the functioning of film production polarize and refract practices and issues proper to the political field while reformulating them. Then we shift the focus of our analysis on the very heart of the films to locate and describe, from the specific tools of the film language, subjects, categorizations and objects dealing with politics, upon which filmmakers cast a critical eye, whereas contentious expression in the public sphere proves to be problematic

O presente estudo aborda os Domingos da Criação, encontros de inventividade coletiva, situados entre os campos da arte e da educação. Articuladas pelo crítico de arte Frederico Morais, em parceria com artistas experimentais, essas manifestações ocorreram no espaço externo do Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, em 1971. Nesta investigação, situaremos esses encontros diante de indagações contemporâneas. Pretendemos, desse modo, construir interpretações que articulem condições históricas à categorias estéticas. Tomaremos como ponto de partida as formulações de Frederico Morais e aspectos da produção artística entre os anos 1960 e 1970. Procurando, por fim, produzir uma leitura dos sentidos experimentais desses seis dias, que contemple relações entre estética e política, arte e educação; expondo a atualidade dessas experiências. / This study concerns the Domingos da Criação, meetings of collective inventiveness situated in the fields of art and education. Organized by the art critic Frederico Morais, together with experimental artists, the meetings took place in the outdoor area of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, in 1971. Here we will relate these meetings to contemporary inquiries. We intend to thus interpret these events considering historical conditions and aesthetic categories. We will depart from Frederico Moraiss formulations and the artistic production in Brazil between 1960 and 1970. We aim, at last, to present our view on the experimental meanings of these six days, taking into account the relations between aesthetics and politics, art and education; exposing the contemporary character of these experiences.

Este trabalho se propõe a interpretar o diálogo travado por obras do cinema brasileiro contemporâneo com o repertório do cinema de gênero. A partir de questões suscitadas pela análise fílmica de obras como O invasor (Beto Brant, 2002) e Trabalhar cansa (Juliana Rojas e Marco Dutra, 2011), procura-se refletir sobre o discurso totalizador operado formalmente no cinema contemporâneo de ficção, os valores canônicos de nossa tradição crítica e sua relação com os gêneros cinematográficos e sobre a dinâmica sociopolítica na história recente do país. / This work aims to interpret the dialogue made by works of contemporary Brazilian cinema with the repertoire of genre cinema. As from issues raised by film analysis of works such as The Trespasser (Beto Brant, 2002) and Hard Labour (Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra, 2011), it seeks to reflect on the totalizing discourse formally operated in the contemporary fiction cinema, on the canonical values of our critical tradition and its relation to film genres and on the socio-political dynamics in Brazil\'s recent history.

Connu pour ses qualités de bibliophile, Louis bâtard de Bourbon se distingue aussi par sa proximité avec Louis XI, dont il épouse la fille bâtarde. Propulsé à un rang auquel sa naissance ne le destinait pas, il acquiert avec Jeanne bâtarde de France, à partir de 1465 et durant une vingtaine d’années, une série d’œuvres destinée à affirmer le rang et la puissance de ce nouveau couple princier. L’objectif de ce travail a d’abord été de reconstituer ce corpus, composé d’une tapisserie, un panneau peint, plusieurs manuscrits enluminés et une commande castrale, pour l’étudier ensuite en détail afin de mettre en évidence les interférences entre commande, réseau social, carrière d’officier dans le sillage royal et événements historiques susceptibles d’avoir pu interférer dans le choix des œuvres ou dans les modèles de référence retenus. Cet ensemble a été considéré dans sa globalité, récusant le cloisonnement disciplinaire traditionnel, afin de cerner au plus près le sens et la fonction des œuvres, au profit des approches stylistiques plus traditionnelles. L’étude a cherché ensuite à montrer comment les valeurs royales ont été assimilées par le couple, dans quelles circonstances, et à quelles fins. L’interrogation plus large du contexte de création a mis en lumière la place singulière prise par ce seigneur dans le jeu politique de Louis XI, tout comme celle de son épouse, dont le rôle longtemps négligé apporte un nouvel éclairage sur les échanges entre œuvres et artistes, actifs au sein de ce réseau. / Known for his excellence as a bibliophile, Louis bâtard de Bourbon was also close to Louis XI, whose illegitimate daughter he married. Having attained a station well above that which his birth reserved for him, he and Jeanne batârde de France acquired, after 1465 and over a period of some twenty years, a series of works meant to assert the rank and power of this new princely couple. The object of the present work has been first to reconstitute this corpus, consisting of a tapestry, a painted panel, several illuminated manuscripts and architectural commissions and then to study it in depth in order to shed light on the interconnections between the commissions, the social network, the career of an officer attached to the throne of France and the historical events likely to have influenced the choice of works or of models to which these were expected to refer. This body of work has been studied as a whole without regard for the usual disciplinary separations and with an eye to defining as precisely as possible the meanings and functions of the works, thereby enriching the traditional stylistic approaches. This study then goes on to show how the couple assimilated the values of the monarchy, under what circumstances and to what ends. This examination of the larger context of creation has brought to light the unique role in Louis XI’s political strategy played by this nobleman as well as by his wife, whose long neglected role sheds new light on the exchanges between the works and the artists who participated in this network.

O presente trabalho pretende repensar alguns possíveis pontos de contato entre arte e política - tomando a produção do espaço urbano por práticas artísticas e sua aproximação com o ativismo político - no processo de colaboração entre artistas, coletivos artísticos e Movimento Sem-Teto do Centro (MSTC) na Ocupação Prestes Maia, em São Paulo, entre os anos 2003 e 2007. / The present work aims to rethink some possible points of contact between art and politics - taking the production of urban space for artistic practices and their approach to political activism - through the process of collaboration between artists, artistic collectives and the Homeless Movement [Movimento Sem-Teto do Centro MSTC], Prestes Maia Occupation in Sao Paulo, between 2003 and 2007.

Este trabalho se propõe a interpretar o diálogo travado por obras do cinema brasileiro contemporâneo com o repertório do cinema de gênero. A partir de questões suscitadas pela análise fílmica de obras como O invasor (Beto Brant, 2002) e Trabalhar cansa (Juliana Rojas e Marco Dutra, 2011), procura-se refletir sobre o discurso totalizador operado formalmente no cinema contemporâneo de ficção, os valores canônicos de nossa tradição crítica e sua relação com os gêneros cinematográficos e sobre a dinâmica sociopolítica na história recente do país. / This work aims to interpret the dialogue made by works of contemporary Brazilian cinema with the repertoire of genre cinema. As from issues raised by film analysis of works such as The Trespasser (Beto Brant, 2002) and Hard Labour (Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra, 2011), it seeks to reflect on the totalizing discourse formally operated in the contemporary fiction cinema, on the canonical values of our critical tradition and its relation to film genres and on the socio-political dynamics in Brazil\'s recent history.

[pt] A presente Tese de Doutorado investiga algumas das relações entre arte, política e movimentos sociais que permeiam nosso presente, partindo de uma constelação insurgente composta por exposições, ações, trabalhos de arte e de ativismo ocorridos no Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo e Pernambuco, circunscritos no período entre 2004 e 2018. Em uma abordagem transversal de arte e política, cada um dos seis capítulos coloca um determinado elemento estético em cena: duas ações do coletivo Frente Três de Fevereiro (1) e uma do Política do Impossível (2); o coletivismo artístico em torno da ocupação Prestes Maia (3) e seu desdobramento na exposição Zona de Poesia Árida e no suporte instalativo Poética do Dissenso (4); duas performances de Elilson (5); dois trabalhos de Bárbara Wagner em colaboração com grupos de evangélicos neopentecostais (6). Partindo desta constelação, discutimos problemas como a poética da política, uma educação pelo silêncio, a crítica institucional e a institucionalidade crítica, uma política do luto e da memória, além de questões relativas a coletivos, minorias, alteridades, identidades e lugares de fala. Nos baseamos especialmente no pensamento de Jacques Rancière, amparado por autores como Bruno Latour, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler e Suely Rolnik. Assumimos uma abordagem fragmentária, que tangencia o método cartográfico de Suely Rolnik; as constelações benjaminianas; as cenas rancierianas; os traços barthesianos; e o composicionismo de Bruno Latour. Esta estratégia absorve certos modos de inteligibilidade comuns aos procedimentos de curadoria ou de montagem, em que a reunião de uma série de imagens singulares pode agenciar múltiplas possibilidades de sentido. Na presente Tese, ela permite a emergência de um presente composto enquanto um campo irresoluto de vibração dissensual. / [en] This Doctoral Thesis investigates some of the relationships between art, politics and social movements that permeate our present, starting from an insurgent constellation composed of exhibitions, activist actions and art works that took place in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Pernambuco, in the period between 2004 and 2018. In a transversal approach to art and politics, each one of the six chapters enacts a certain aesthetic element: two actions held by Frente Três de Fevereiro collective (1) and one action held by Política do Impossível collective (2); the artistic collectivism around Prestes Maia occupation (3) and its unfolding in the exhibition Zona de Poesia Árida and in the installation work Poética do Dissenso (4); two performances conceived by Elilson (5); two pieces made by Bárbara Wagner, in collaboration with neopentecostal groups (6). Starting from this constellation, we discuss matters such as the poetics of politics, an education through silence, institutional critique and critical institutionality, a politics of mourning and memory, as well as issues related to collectives, minorities, alterities, identities and speaking places. This research draws especially on the thought of Jacques Rancière, supported by authors such as Bruno Latour, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and Suely Rolnik. Seeking to privilege a fragmentary approach, our method derives from Suely Rolnik s cartographic method; benjaminian s constellations; rancierian s scenes; barthesian s traces; and Bruno Latour s compositionism. This strategy absorbs certain modes of intelligibility common to curatorship, editing and assembly procedures, in which the gathering of a series of singular images can bring together multiple possibilities of meaning. Inside this Thesis, that method allows the emergence of a present compound as an unresolved field of dissenting vibration.

O interesse desta tese reside na persistência da questão da \"arte brasileira\" na crítica de Frederico Morais (Belo Horizonte, 1936) em três períodos distintos de sua produção, os quais nomeio, de acordo com o comportamento de seu discurso: \"Contestação\" (1966-1973), \"Dúvidas\" (1974-1984) e \"Conciliação\" (1985-2012). Parte-se do fato de que a formulação de um debate em torno da definição do que seria uma \"arte brasileira\" surgiu ainda no século XIX - embora já tivesse se delineado em termos literários no século anterior - e foi se transformando com o passar do tempo, mantendo-se vivo, porque ainda em discussão, durante o século seguinte. Nesse contexto, procurou-se identificar, na produção de Frederico Morais, a sobrevivência da questão do nacional e, ainda, mostrar de que maneira ele se utiliza de uma prática constante de revisão da história - por meio de textos publicados na imprensa, mas também manuais, cronologias e \"enciclopédias\" - para manter essa discussão em pauta. No Capítulo 1 (\"Contestação\") analiso o primeiro período de sua crítica de arte, caracterizado pela adoção de um discurso assertivo e militante, em defesa de uma \"arte brasileira\" como um espaço privilegiado para a experimentação e a resistência. Nessa época, ele apoia incondicionalmente a \"vanguarda brasileira\", movimento que, segundo o autor, estaria sediado no Rio de Janeiro, expandindose a partir da antiga capital para o restante do país. No Capítulo 2 (\"Dúvidas\") trato de sua fase de transição, em que se revela certo desencanto com a situação da vanguarda no Brasil. No Capítulo 3 (\"Conciliação\") abordo o segundo período do crítico, quando se consolida o processo em que Frederico Morais abdica da defesa do \"novo\" enquanto principal saída para a \"arte brasileira\", passando a revisar tanto suas posições como parte significativa da história da arte brasileira. Nesse percurso, seus vai adotando posturas mais conciliatórias, menos intransigentes para o que entende como possibilidades de uma produção artística de caráter brasileiro. Esta tese procurou demonstrar que é possível encontrar ecos do desejo por uma arte nacional em críticas, ensaios e artigos que atravessam as três fases do percurso de Morais. Buscou ainda apontar as contradições e fragilidades que surgiram entre duas posturas distintas do crítico em relação à produção artística do período no país: uma, a escolha pelo que seria \"genuinamente nacional\", aproximando-se de algo que singularizasse a arte produzida no Brasil em relação àquela que se apresentava assertivamente como internacional; outra, colocandose contra o risco do isolamento, do atraso e do descompasso em relação ao mundo, adotava a opção por se deixar levar pelas correntes artísticas que vinham dos Estados Unidos e Europa. / The interest of this thesis lies in the persistence of the question of Brazilian art in the criticism produced by Frederico Morais (Belo Horizonte, 1936) in three distinct periods of his production, which I have named, according to the behavior of his discourse, as \"Contestation\" (1966-1973), \"Doubts\" (1974-1984) and \"Conciliation\" (1985-2012). The starting point resides in the debate formulated around the definition of what Brazilian art is, which emerged in the nineteenth century -- although it had already been delineated in literary terms in the previous century --, a debate that changed over time, kept alive in discussion throughout the following century. In this context, the thesis aims to identify the survival of this question of the national in Morais\' production. It also proposes to show -- through texts published in the press, but also in chronologies, manuals and \"encyclopedias\" -- how he makes constant use of historical revision to keep the discussion relative to Brazilian art on the agenda of public debate. In Chapter 1, I analyze his first period, characterized by the assertive and militant discourse adopted in defense of Brazilian art as a privileged space for experimentation, resistance and, above all, for the avant-garde. In his view, this movement was based in Rio de Janeiro, expanding from the former capital to the rest of the country. In Chapter 2, I deal with his transitional period, which reveals a certain disenchantment with the situation of the avant-garde in Brazilian art. In Chapter 3, I address the critic\'s second period, which consolidates the process in which Morais abdicates the defense of the \"new\" as the principal \"way ahead\" for Brazilian art, and comes to revise not only his positions, but a significant part of the history of the Brazilian art as well. Over the course of time, Morais gradually adopts positions that are less intransigent and more conciliatory regarding what he understands as possibilities for an artistic production with Brazilian character. This thesis has attempted to demonstrate the possibility of finding echoes of this desire for a national art in criticism, essays and articles that intersect the three phases in the trajectory of Frederico Morais. It has also sought to indicate the contradictions and fragilities that emerged between two distinct stances adopted by the critic in relation to the period\'s artistic production: the option for what could be considered \"genuinely national\", making advances in the direction of something that would singularize it in relation to an art that presents itself assertively as international; or the option to counter the danger of isolation, backwardness and being out-of-step with the world, by choosing to be carried along by the artistic currents imported from the United States and Europe.

This thesis constitutes the first comparative study of the phenomenon of alternative art galleries functioning during the 1970s in two neighbouring state socialist regimes, namely, the German Democratic Republic and the People's Republic of Poland. Firmly contextualised in the cultural-political climate of Honecker's and Gierek's quasi-liberalisation, it examines the socio-cultural function of non-conformist exhibition spaces and focuses, specifically, on two case studies: Galerie Arkade in East Berlin and Galeria/Repassage in Warsaw. By looking at a wide variety of practices produced in those spaces, this thesis investigates the commonalities and differences in how the galleries operated and how they related to the divergent post-Stalinist conditions. For instance, due to more repressive cultural-politics in the GDR, it proved more difficult to accommodate experimental practices in Arkade, since even exhibiting abstract art was problematic for the East German officials. Conversely, in Poland Gierek's liberalisation resulted in the state's limited acceptance of radical artistic practices such as performance and conceptual art but only in the marginal spaces of artist-run galleries. Despite their alternative status, the galleries were, to a certain degree, dependent administratively and financially on these socialist institutions and were at the same time exposed to surveillance by the state security services. These aspects of galleries' activities are often neglected and so to remedy this lack this thesis offers new perspectives on and insights into various aspects of the functioning of alternative culture in this region. The originality of this research lies also in its references to new archival material which has not been published, nor interpreted before. The interpretation of these rich primary sources makes use of a new theoretical framework that combines Michel Foucault's theory of heterotopia in a macro-level analysis and Henri Lefebvre's ideas on the social production of space in a micro-level analysis. In particular, the galleries' histories are seen in this thesis as intertwined with the advancing process of disintegration of state socialism in the Eastern Bloc as this was perceptible to varying degree in different socialist states. Accordingly, it argues that the galleries were symptomatic of and, simultaneously, contributed through various practices to the 'post-socialist condition'.

Cette thèse analyse la position problématique et paradoxale du groupe Forces Nouvelles dans le large mouvement du retour à la figuration réaliste qui s’opère dans l’esthétique de l’entre-deux-guerres. Lancé en 1935 comme un groupe à la fois antimoderne et anticonformiste, Forces Nouvelles avance un nouveau langage pictural, un réalisme plus sensible investi dans l’expression de l’intériorité de l’être et éloigné de toute connotation sociale et idéologique, au-delà de toute trivialité ou de classicisme éteint. Pour beaucoup, ce réalisme d’esprit humaniste donnait au groupe un profil esthète et noble. Cette ambivalence entre réalisme et classicisme, entre activisme et esthétisme, est perpétuée dans la critique d’art même après la dissolution de l’ensemble en 1942. Cette identité ambiguë et obscure de Forces Nouvelles prend son sens une fois mise en relation avec les quêtes spirituelles et idéologiques de l’intelligentsia des années 1930. Révoltée contre l’idéologie matérialiste - dans sa forme libérale ou marxiste -, cette intelligentsia non-conformiste aspire à une nouvelle modernité plus spirituelle et morale ; explorant une voie alternative, ni à droite ni à gauche, elle vire souvent au conservatisme le plus anachronique et frôle la dérive fasciste. Forces Nouvelles, partageant une forme de pensée analogue à celle de l’élite contestataire – à la fois nihiliste et synthétique –, s’investit dans la recherche d’une esthétique originale, moderne et spirituelle, dans la recherche d’une nouvelle Renaissance ; s’inspirant d’une tradition picturale supposée authentique, le groupe élabore jusqu’au bout un style réaliste, grave et austère, effleurant l’archaïsme. En résonance avec la vision de cette génération non-conformiste, avec l’avènement d’un nouvel ordre moral, Forces Nouvelles propose un style réaliste au fondement existentiel comme horizon d’une nouvelle esthétique ultramoderne. / This dissertation analyses the problematic, paradoxical position of the group known as Forces Nouvelles within the large movement of a return to realistic figuration, which takes place in the context of interwar aesthetics. Forces Nouvelles, launched in 1935 as an anti-modern, anti-conformist group, proposes a new pictorial language, a more sensitive realism at the service of the expression of the interiority of human beings and remote from social and ideological associations, beyond trivial realism and jaded classicism. This humanistic realism would confer a noble aesthete's profile to the group. Such ambivalence between realism and classicism, between activism and aestheticism is carried over in art criticism even after the dissolution of the group in 1942. This ambiguous, obscure identity of Forces Nouvelles becomes meaningful in the light of the spiritual and ideological quest of the 1930s intelligentsia, which revolted against materialist ideology, whether liberal or Marxist, aspiring to a new, more spiritual and moral, modernity. In its exploration of a new alternative, which is neither right nor left-oriented, it veers towards the most anachronistic conservatism verging on fascism. Having intellectual affinities with the radical elite, this both nihilistic and eclectic group, strives to achieve original aesthetics - modern and spiritual - and a new Renaissance. Based on a supposed authentic pictorial tradition Forces Nouvelles adopts a realistic style, grave and sober, verging on archaism. Resonating with the vision of this non-conformist generation and the advent of a new moral order Forces Nouvelles puts forward a realistic style with an existential basis as the aesthetics of ultra-modernity.