Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2008. / Principal faculty advisor: Ann E. Gibson, Dept. of Art History. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004. / Document formatted into pages; contains 218 p. Includes bibliographical references. Abstract available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 209 March 29.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisor: Richard Shiff. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Also available from UMI.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins University, 1995. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 421-441).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Virginia Commonwealth University, 2010. / Prepared for: Dept. of Art History. Title from resource description page. Includes bibliographical references.

[pt] Este trabalho se propõe a pensar sobre os possíveis pontos de contato entre o neoconcretismo e o minimalismo, analisados a partir de duas formulações teóricas fundamentais sobre esses movimentos: as noções de não-objeto e objetos específicos, elaboradas por Ferreira Gullar e Donald Judd, respectivamente. Essas ideias buscavam conceituar o novo tipo de objeto de arte tridimensional, e nos dois casos consideravam uma superação dos meios artísticos tradicionais da pintura e da escultura. Apesar das semelhanças entre essas noções, a defesa dessa nova produção artística se fez, para cada grupo, em momentos nos quais a sua relação com a herança da história da arte europeia e a presença do modernismo se davam de formas distintas. A análise desses movimentos a partir da relação que estabeleceram com o modernismo, portanto, revela uma série de camadas textuais atreladas tanto à construção desses grupos de artistas enquanto movimentos, quanto à crítica e à história construída sobre eles - desde seu surgimento, até os dias atuais. / [en] This paper aims to think about the possible points of contact between neoconcretism and minimal art, analyzed from two fundamental theoretical formulations on these movements: the notions of non-object and specific objects, elaborated by Ferreira Gullar and Donald Judd, respectively. These notions sought to conceptualize the new type of three-dimensional art object, and in both cases considered an overcoming of the traditional artistic media of painting and sculpture. In spite of the similarities between these notions, the validation of this new artistic production was made, for each group, in moments in which its relation with the heritage of European art history and the presence of modernism occurred in different ways. The analysis of these movements from their relations with modernism, therefore, reveals a series of textual layers linked to the construction of these groups of artists as movements, as well as to the criticism and history built on them - from its inception to the current days.

L’analyse de la réception critique des nouvelles formes d’art apparaissant dès la fin des années 1950 et se développant au cours des années 1960, en particulier dans le champ de la sculpture et des œuvres en trois dimensions, constitue le socle de notre réflexion. Celle-ci vise à mettre en lumière les profondes évolutions que connaissent les processus de conception et de production des œuvres en trois dimensions, chez des artistes que la réception critique « à chaud » puis l’histoire de l’art ont séparés en fonction de critères stylistiques : néo-dada, pop, minimal… L’observation de ces déplacements de la pratique, intégrant des matériaux et des modes de production industriels (ou résistant à ces derniers) offre une autre approche des enjeux de l’art de cette période, qui voit s’éloigner la figure archétypale et héroïque du sculpteur moderniste incarnée par David Smith, et s’élaborer la figure nouvelle de l’artiste « post-studio ». Parallèlement, apparaissent de nouveaux soutiens, institutionnels, financiers et surtout techniques, pour les artistes produisant des œuvres en trois dimensions et délégant tout ou partie de la fabrication à des sociétés industrielles. Un nouveau type d’entreprise voit le jour, spécialisé dans la fabrication d’œuvres en trois dimensions et de sculptures monumentales. Au début des années 1970, les nouveaux modes de fabrication expérimentés durant la décennie précédente sont parfaitement intégrés à l’économie générale de l’art. En proposer une forme d’archéologie afin d’en comprendre les motivations initiales vise à mieux penser les enjeux actuels des pratiques artistiques ayant recours à la fabrication déléguée / The analysis of the critical reception of the new forms of art appearing from the end of the 1950s and developing during the 1960s, especially in the field of sculpture and tridimensional works, constitutes the foundation of our thought. It aims at bringing to light the profound shifts in the conception and production processes of the works in three dimensions, made by artists separated by the critical reception then the art history according to stylistic criteria : Neo-Dada, Pop, Minimal, and so on. To observe these displacements of the art practice, integrating industrials materials and means of production (or resisting them) offers another approach of the art stakes in this period, which sees the archetypal and heroic figure of the modernist sculptor (embodied by David Smith) fading, and elaborating the new figure of the post-studio artist. At the same time, new supports (institutional, financial and especially technical) appear for the artists producing works in three dimensions and delegating all or any of the manufacturing to industrial companies. A new type of company, specialized in the manufacturing of works in three dimensions and monumental sculptures, is born. In the early 1970s, the new means of manufacturing experienced during the previous decade are perfectly integrated into the general economy of art. To propose a kind of archeology of these means in order to understand the initial motivations aims at a better thinking of the current stakes in the artistic practices turning to delegated manufacturing processes

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This dissertation is a study of the early career of the American architect-turned-artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978) that spans the years 1968 to 1972. Immersing himself in SoHo’s vibrant artistic community, of which he was both a catalyst and a nexus, Matta-Clark worked through the essential ideas and concerns that would inform his practice during this condensed but incredibly generative four-year period. The works that resulted are heterogeneous, united less by specific media than by a shared constellation of concepts. Foremost among these concepts is energy: a key trope in the cultural, theoretical, and artistic discourses of Matta-Clark’s late-1960s and early-1970s moment. In histories of this period (spurred, in part, by the attention paid to Matta-Clark’s peer, Robert Smithson), energy has often been aligned with entropy: a negative movement that leads to an ultimate stasis. In contrast, Matta-Clark marshaled energy as a creative force: a motor of the "metamorphic" processes that his works both enacted and pursued. By focusing on these four years, my study opens new perspectives on both Matta-Clark’s project and the artistic and discursive formation, Postminimalism, from which it is inextricable. In doing so, I defamiliarize art history’s current conception of Postminimalism, “requestioning” (to adopt Matta-Clark’s neologism) its central term, process, through his creative energetics.