The hypothesis of this dissertation is that contemporary Norwegian painter, Odd Nerdrum (b 1944), uses tenebrism as a mode of beauty and a device to emphasise psychological states of being. Tenebrism is an effective kitsch device to create an impression of realism and so-called truthfulness while pointing to the deepest human sentiments and emotions. I argue that Nerdrum’s tenebrist art questions dark truths about modernity and its effect on the self. The darkness of his tenebrist style amplifies the emotional states of his human characters, and becomes a negative form of transcendence into absence and the power of its nothingness. Nerdrum’s paintings are a visual record of the human capacity to withstand selfdestruction and strive for restoration from the inane. His physical act of painting opens and refines consciousness by slowing down time, for insight and contemplation. / Dissertation (MA (Fine Arts))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Visual Arts / MA / unrestricted

Orientador: Nelson Alfredo Aguilar / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T02:08:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dunaeva_CristinaAntonioevna_M.pdf: 563718 bytes, checksum: 9e1ff31ec246ac81abb6304ae37d9f1b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: De Sistemas Novos na Arte (O nóvikh sistiémakh v isskûstvie), 1919, é o primeiro tratado teórico de Kazímir Sievierínovitch Maliévitch (1878, Kíiev ¿ 1935, Leningrado), um dos principais artistas da vanguarda russa, criador do suprematismo, teórico da arte, filósofo e pedagogo. No tratado Maliévitch apresenta e analisa os sistemas novos da arte: o impressionismo, o cubismo, o futurismo, a obra pictórica de Cézanne, Van Gogh e Gauguin, assim como a crítica da arte dita primitiva, a arte da Grécia clássica e a romana, o primitivismo moderno e o academismo. A crítica da arte está ligada à reflexão filosófica sobre o contexto histórico e cultural do surgimento da arte moderna e do suprematismo. O tratado está relacionado às atividades pedagógicas desenvolvidas por Maliévitch. Em 1918 ele é o professor dos Ateliês Artísticos Livres do Estado (SVOMAS ¿ Svobódnyie Khudójestviennyie Mastierskíie), em Petrogrado, e em 1919 ¿ o Mestre-Chefe dos I e II Ateliês Artísticos Livres do Estado em Moscou. Em Vítiebsk cria o grupo UNOVIS (Afirmadores da Arte Nova ¿ Utvierdítieli Nóvogo Isskûstva) e embasa o ensinamento na análise dos sistemas pictóricos. O pintor afirmava que o livro editado em Vítiebsk fora a transcrição de uma das palestras supostamente dadas em Moscou1 / Abstract: ¿On The New Systems of Art¿, 1919, it¿s a first theoretical work of Kazimir Severinovich Malevich. This Russian artist of avant-garde, philosopher and pedagogue was the creator of the suprematism. In this work Malevich introduce the new systems of modern art, such as the impressionism, the cubism, the futurism, the painting of Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gaugain; and also represent the critics on the primeval art, the classic art of Greece and Rome, the modern primitivism and academic art. This critic is connected to philosophical reflection about the historical and cultural context of the birth of modern art and suprematism. In this period of time (1919) Malevich was a professor of the State Free Artistic Workshops (SVOMAS) in Petrograd and master of the I and II State Free Artistic Workshops in Moscow. In Vitebsk he created the Affirmers of the New Art (UNOVIS) group and instructed the pupils on the new systems of the art / Mestrado / Historia da Arte / Mestre em História

Orientador: Nelson Alfredo Aguilar / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T21:06:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nucci_Angela_D.pdf: 4545897 bytes, checksum: b757c0ee381a614e4de58b61e1dd3526 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: A presente tese tem por objetivo discutir quais seriam as ligações entre o pensamento artístico-filosófico de Kazímir Sievierínovitch Maliévitch (1879-1935) ao longo dos anos de 1920 em relação aos debates da intelligentsia russa do início do século XX, especialmente aqueles ligados à tradição filosófico-mística. A preocupação de estudar Maliévitch frente a alguns de seus contemporâneos ocorre para entender o "sentido e o espírito" de um determinado período histórico e, embora as escolhas bibliográficas revelem interesse pela Filosofia russa, não se trata de uma tese centrada no âmbito da Filosofia, mas sim da História da Arte e suas ligações com a História Intelectual e a História Cultural. Ao longo de sua trajetória, Maliévitch fez uso de conceitos relacionados à tradição filosófica como intuição, mística, não-objetividade, infinito e transfiguração. Houve, portanto, a intenção de apresentar e discutir estes termos dentro de uma coerência interna que integrasse aspectos históricos e artísticos. Desconfiando da razão iluminista e das abordagens cientificistas do conhecimento, muitos pensadores russos viam na intuição, na individualidade criativa e no espírito o caminho para um conhecimento transcendente; pensamento perseguido pelo regime soviético, que no início de 1920 determinou a prisão e a deportação para o Ocidente de uma série de intelectuais russos. Dentre este grupo é possível citar alguns dos mais destacados pensadores russos do início do século XX, como Nikolai A. Berdiáev, Nikolai O. Losski, Pável A. Floriênski e Sierguéi N. Bulgákov. Estes filósofos retomavam alguns dos debates eslavófilos do século XIX e buscavam gerar novas discussões no campo filosófico, social e cultural, frente aos contextos pré e pós-revolucionários. A partir desse panorama, buscou-se pensar em um quadro mais amplo sobre os significados de algumas das questões abordadas por Maliévitch em seus tratados e em suas obras. Em um primeiro momento, buscou-se refletir sobre a produção pictórica pós-suprematista de Maliévitch, tanto no que diz respeito a sua ligação com a tradição popular e religiosa, quanto aos problemas e significados no contexto ideológico e artístico do período soviético. Um segundo ponto discutido, refere-se aos desdobramentos dos debates místicos no projeto artístico de Maliévitch, especialmente no período em que o artista viveu na cidade de Vitebsk, a qual acolheu pela mesma época figuras da importância de Mikhail M. Bakhtin e Pável N. Miedvédiev; estudiosos que estavam ligados a discussões e associações religiosas. Em um terceiro nível, a redação concentra-se no problema da representação artística e da livre criação no quadro da reconstrução social e de um "novo homem" no período em que existia um forte enfrentamento ideológico entre as correntes produtivistas, defensoras do desenvolvimento de uma "cultura material" e as correntes não-figurativas, nomeadas como "místicas" ou "subjetivas" por defenderem valores espirituais. Por fim, buscou-se evidenciar como a questão da representação artística na obra de Maliévitch, ligada ao reconhecimento de uma verdade dissociada da concepção objetiva da realidade, estava inserida em um conjunto de ideias que ganhou proporção suficiente para se tornar uma ameaça e ser diretamente combatido pelo regime soviético / Abstract: The present thesis aims to discuss what would be the connections between the artistic and philosophical thought of Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1879-1935) along the 1920s compared to the debates of the Russian intelligentsia of the early twentieth century, especially those related to philosophical and mystical tradition. The concern of studying Malevich before some of his contemporaries is to understand the "meaning and the spirit" of a particular historical period, and although the bibliographic choices show interest in the Russian philosophy, it is not a thesis centered within the philosophy, but on Art History and its links to Intellectual History and Cultural History. Throughout his career, Malevich made use of concepts related to the philosophical tradition, such as intuition, mysticism, non-objectivity, infinite and transfiguration. Therefore, the intention was to present and discuss these terms within an internal coherence that integrates historical and artistic aspects. Distrusting enlightenment reason and scientistic approaches to knowledge, many Russian thinkers saw on intuition, creative individuality and spirit, the way to a transcendent knowledge; idea pursued by the Soviet regime, which in the early 1920s led to the arrest and deportation to the West of a number of Russian intellectuals. Among this group we can mention some of the most prominent Russian thinkers of the early twentieth century, as Nicolai A. Berdyaev, Nicolai O. Lossky, Pavel A. Florensky and Sergei N. Bulgakov. These philosophers retook some of the Slavophiles debates of the nineteenth century and sought to generate new discussions on philosophical, social and cultural fields, compared to pre and post-revolutionary contexts. From this background, we tried to think of a broader picture of the meanings of some of the issues addressed by Malevich in his treatises and in his works. At first, we tried to reflect on the pictorial production post-Suprematist of Malevich, both with regard to their connection with the popular and religious tradition, the problems and meanings in the ideological and artistic context of the Soviet period. A second point discussed refers to the unfolding of the mystics debates in the artistic design of Malevich, especially in the period in which the artist lived in the city of Vitebsk, which hosted the same time figures of the importance of Mikhail M. Bakhtin and Pavel N. Medvedev; scholars who were linked to discussions and religious associations. On a third level, the essay focuses on the problem of artistic representation and free creation in the context of social reconstruction and a "new man" in the period in which there was a strong ideological confrontation between the productivist currents, advocates the development of a "material culture" and the current non-figurative, named "mystical" or "subjective" for defending spiritual values. Finally, we sought to show how the issue of artistic representation in the work of Malevich, linked to the recognition of a dissociated truth of the objective conception of reality, was inserted into a set of ideas that gained sufficient proportion to become a threat and be directly fought by the Soviet regime / Doutorado / Historia da Arte / Doutora em História

The dissertation work deals with the organization of artistic life in the context of totalitarian regimes and its reflection in the Czech lands with the attention to fine arts education. It defines two types of artistic education - academic and modernistic. Significant interest is modern art infiltration into a cultural field in connection with social changes of interwar Russia and Italy. Historical research, Pierre Bourdieu's analytical approaches, analysis of Czechoslovak cultural, fine art and fine art pedagogically oriented magazines printed between 1919 - 1939 are the methods used for searching information. In terms of possibilities in Russia the biggest independence appeared in graphic design as means of modern visualization. However, the artists reached the position in the artistic field and following token power by taking social posts, especially teaching jobs, and often at the expense of their own espression. Italian authors voluntarily adapted their modernist creation to political development. Forms of their styles were much wider. The avantgarde quite smoothly managed to integrate into official culture. The most significant examle is aeropittura, which encouraged the cult of modern technologies and military power of fascistic Italy, and also which fluently continued in futuristic basis....

The prevalence of images of the fragmented bodies of nonhuman animals is largely unaccounted for in the history of interwar European art, photography, and cinema, a result of the historical marginalization of the slaughterhouse to the edges of Western culture. But despite, and sometimes because of, the suppression of the visibility of the abattoir, visions of the grisly world of modern animal production form a sizeable and important subset of avant-garde art, photography, film, and literature beginning in the 1920s. No significant studies have placed images of real, disassembled animals into a broader account of avant-garde photography, nor have they made the connection between the great increase in photographic and filmic art and media in the period and the simultaneously rapid growth of animal production leading up to and during it. I argue that the interwar period witnessed a profound interplay between the industrial slaughterhouse, visual culture, and avant-garde art, marked by the dual meaning of Nicole Shukin’s conceptualization of rendering as both the creating of images of and the material processing of nonhuman animal bodies. I assert that through the use of animal-derived gelatin, the industrial processing of animals helped to fuel the explosive growth of photography, cinema, and thus visual culture in the period. I examine a number of examples of artistic and photographic works that picture slaughter animals, ironically through a medium (photography) that is materially tied to the history and conditions of the abattoir, revealing a poignant connection between the content of the images seen and the form of their material substrate. I further read the photographic projects under study in this dissertation as each in their own way turning our attention to the material precarity of the animal body, both human and nonhuman, and a questioning of the human/animal divide that had been accelerating since the nineteenth century.

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Focusing on works between the 1960s and the early ’80s, this thesis sets the literature of Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) and J.G. Ballard (1930–2009) within the context of twentieth-century architectural theory and history (written), design (drawn), productions (built), professional practice (managed), and pedagogy (taught). The primary aim of this study is to explore the discursive exchange between literature and architecture, while probing the putative association between postmodernity and architecture. By introducing a broader set of social phenomena into debates about postmodernity, my thesis enables a revaluation of how the architectural idiom is interpreted in literature. Using textual and visual analysis, this thesis argues that Barthelme’s and Ballard’s literary works operate at an intersection of the visual arts and mass media. Responding to American and European twentieth-century visual avant-gardes and socio-cultural transformations, architecture participates in the formulation of avant-garde conceptual frameworks. Critically, architecture is not only an aesthetic discipline; it is also a social discourse. Through the discipline’s alignment with ‘new’ and ‘old’ avant-gardes, Barthelme and Ballard use architecture as a point of creative departure to undertake formal and thematic literary experiments. For both authors, contact with the architectural avant-garde has literary consequences. This thesis considers four interconnecting ways literature and architecture ‘speak’ to each other: representation, discourse, formal comparisons, and influence or inspiration. Within my study these topics are examined through critical meditations on architecture from geographical (Fredric Jameson, David Harvey), architectural (Robert Venturi, Charles Jencks) and visual cultural (W. J. T. Mitchell, Marshall McLuhan) sources. Also figuring prominently are epitextual materials, especially archival documentation from the Donald Barthelme Literary Papers at the University of Houston and the Papers of J. G. Ballard collection at the British Library. This thesis opens up new ways of understanding the interart pluralism that characterises the postmodern.

<p>This study is an inquiry into design-theoretical aspects of architectural design in Finland based mainly on the pragmatist philosophy of John Dewey. The study comprises two case studies. The . rst case deals with a young family designing their future home – a detached house built from prefabricated components – in cooperation with an architect. The second case deals with the design process of a leading Finnish architect, Professor Ilmari Lahdelma, as he prepares his proposal for an architectural competition for a new city library in Lohja, a competition he eventually wins. The case describes and interprets Lahdelma’s design process, the processes of other competition entries made by the of. ce staff, as well as the process of the jury’s evaluation of the competition entries. The two cases are analysed and interwoven with aspects from three different theoretical perspectives: existing design theories, Pierre Bourdieu’s . eld theory and John Dewey’s thinking regarding art and research. In the study I argue that Dewey’s philosophy can provide a framework for a design-theoretical epistemology. I also arrive at conclusions regarding the interpretation of some key design-theoretical concepts and the position of design theory and its structures. I further argue that the Finnish architectural competition system is a strong tool for generating developments in the production of the architectural avant-garde, which acts as the leading light for the rest of the . eld of architecture. The present study also highlights the gap between ‘high-’ and ‘low culture’ in the . eld of architecture, yet points out that the design of a simple family house – assumedly a case of ‘low culture’ – is by no means trivial to the family itself, and is indeed . lled with moments of aesthetic experiences, which is a central issue in Dewey’s description of creative processes.</p>

<p>Predmet istraživanja u ovom radu jeste identifikacija i osvetljavanje dominantnih obrazaca avangardnog i hri&scaron;ćanskog identiteta u delu Rastka Petrovića. Rastko uvek nastupa sa pozicije nekog ko je blisko upoznat sa umetno&scaron;ću, istorijom i njenim nepredvidivim i nepravednim političkim projektima. Poku&scaron;avajući da rastumači njihove uzroke i posledice, stalno ističe potrebu za integralnim čovekom, kulturom i dru&scaron;tvom uop&scaron;te, kako po pripadnike sopstvenog naroda, tako i na regionalnom i globalnom nivou. Rastkovo opredeljenje da je svet u nastajanju povezan s ideologijom deča&scaron;tva (mladića), znači da je čovek po njemu u događaju Bogomladenca doživeo vrhunac, tj. u potpunosti ispunio cilj ka kome oduvek teži. Su&scaron;tinsko, a ne tek sporedno, akcidentalno određenje čoveka jeste da nadiđe sebe i stremi ka Bogu. Centralnu ulogu u okviru ove transcedencije trebalo bi da ima analiza apriorne strukture čovekovog bića i u njima prepozna otvorenost i sposobnost da se avangardna/hri&scaron;ćanska poruka čuje i adekvatno razume. Rastko u tradiciji vidi istinsko upori&scaron;te transcendencije i afirmacije verodostojnog bića i odgovarajuće slobode gde apsolutna sloboda i apsolutni autoritet nisu suprotstavljena svojstva, već izraz istog bića. Rastkove ideolo&scaron;ke evropske pretenzije mogu se okvalifikovati kao veliki intelektualni napor i pregnuće da se stvori,&nbsp;usvoji i inkorporira jedan novi (obnovljeni) kulturni i religiozni mit koji se kao takav projektuje u praistoriju, a potom samoreguli&scaron;e mnoge savremene fenomene.</p> / <p>The main subject of this PhD thesis was to identify and shed the light on the dominant form of avant-garde and the Christian identity in the work of Rastko Petrovic. Rastko always acted from the perspective of someone who was closely familiar with the art, with history and its unpredictable and unjust political projects. Trying to understand its causes and consequences, Rastko Petrovic has repeatedly stressed the need for the integral and comprehensive man, culture and society in general, both in terms of his own people, and at the regional and global levels. Rastko&rsquo;s commitment to the idea that the emerging World is connected with the ideology of boyhood, means that the man as an individual has culminated in Divine Child event, and only through that event has fully met the purpose towards which it has always aspired. The essential and not only secondary and accidental determination of man is to transcend himself and strive towards God. An a priori analysis should have the central role within this transcendence of the structure of human beings with its ability to recognize in them the openness and the ability to properly hear and understand the avant-garde / Christian message. Tradition is in the eyes of Rastko Petrovic the only true stronghold of such transcendence and affirmation of one true and credible human being and adequate freedom where absolute&nbsp;freedom and absolute authority are not contradictory properties, but an expression of the one same being. Rastko&rsquo;s ideological European claims may be characterized as a great intellectual effort and endeavor to create, adopt and incorporate a new (renewed) cultural and religious myth which, as such, projects in prehistory, and then self-regulates many contemporary phenomena.</p>

This study is an inquiry into design-theoretical aspects of architectural design in Finland based mainly on the pragmatist philosophy of John Dewey. The study comprises two case studies. The . rst case deals with a young family designing their future home – a detached house built from prefabricated components – in cooperation with an architect. The second case deals with the design process of a leading Finnish architect, Professor Ilmari Lahdelma, as he prepares his proposal for an architectural competition for a new city library in Lohja, a competition he eventually wins. The case describes and interprets Lahdelma’s design process, the processes of other competition entries made by the of. ce staff, as well as the process of the jury’s evaluation of the competition entries. The two cases are analysed and interwoven with aspects from three different theoretical perspectives: existing design theories, Pierre Bourdieu’s . eld theory and John Dewey’s thinking regarding art and research. In the study I argue that Dewey’s philosophy can provide a framework for a design-theoretical epistemology. I also arrive at conclusions regarding the interpretation of some key design-theoretical concepts and the position of design theory and its structures. I further argue that the Finnish architectural competition system is a strong tool for generating developments in the production of the architectural avant-garde, which acts as the leading light for the rest of the . eld of architecture. The present study also highlights the gap between ‘high-’ and ‘low culture’ in the . eld of architecture, yet points out that the design of a simple family house – assumedly a case of ‘low culture’ – is by no means trivial to the family itself, and is indeed . lled with moments of aesthetic experiences, which is a central issue in Dewey’s description of creative processes.