My thesis exhibition is comprised of approximately eleven large-scale portrait paintings done primarily in oil paint on canvas. This body of work investigates the ways the identity of both artist and subject can coexist in a portrait and evolved from my desire to combine portrait painting with writing as well as to develop methods of using paint to express a merging of myself with the individual depicted in the portrait. My creative research has focused on the traditional form of the portrait as a powerful form of representing an individual and how meaning can be expanded through scale, brushstroke, color, texture, composition and the many variables that portraiture deals with. I expanded on the traditional portrait painting by cataloguing my memories and thoughts along with the thoughts of the subject by painting under, into and over the subject in my own handwriting. My "hand" is visible both in the brushstroke and in the cursive writing, preserving my identity in a "readable" way both literally and through graphology, or handwriting analysis. / by Christina Maya Major. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2010. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Resumo: O trabalho enfatiza o pensamento de Lessing no seu limiar sobre a teoria da tragédia, singularizando o conceito de compaixão e a fundamentação desse elemento no contexto trágico segundo a Poética de Aristóteles. Para tanto, é proposta uma tradução das Briefwechsel über das Trauerspiel (Cartas sobre a Tragédia), onde Lessing desenvolve diálogos epistolares com Christoph Friedrich Nicolai e Moses Mendelssohn na formação de conceitos sobre a poética do trágico. Conclui com a tarefa de reflexão crítica capaz de estabelecer uma concepção filosófica da tragédia. / The work emphasizes Lessing\'s thought on his threshold on the theory of tragedy, singling out the concept of compassion and the grounding of this element in the tragic context according to Aristotle\'s Poetics. Therefore, a translation of the Briefwechsel über das Trauerspiel (Letters on Tragedy) is proposed where Lessing develops epistolary dialogues with Christoph Friedrich Nicolai and Moses Mendelssohn to build on concepts about the poetics of the tragic. Finally, it ends with a critical reflection capable of establishing a philosophical conception of tragedy.

Na década de60, Andy Warhol começou a trabalhar com as técnicas da serigrafia. Copiava imagens gráficas e fotográficas e as transferia diretamente para a tela. O artista abandonou os modos mais tradicionais de pintura e passou a trabalhar com a apropriação de imagens reproduzidas em série nos cartazes, fotografias, embalagens e no cinema. O uso destes clichês gráficos causou controvérsia. Uma série de discussões tentava entender a escolha do artista a partir de interlocuções dele com a obra de outros criadores e como uma interpretação de fatos da realidade social. A partir destas análises, este trabalho busca construir uma interpretação alternativa que entenda as razões para a modificação de procedimentos e linguagens na obra de Andy Warhol e o seu impacto na produção do século XX. / Andy Warhol started to work with the silkscreen techniques in the 1960s. Graphic and photographic images were copied and transferred straight onto canvas. The artist abandoned the traditional modes of painting and began working with the appropriation of serialized images from billboards, photos, packages and film. The use of such clichés was controversial. In several discussions, critics tried to understand Warhol\'s choices from his dialogue with other artists and as an interpretation of the facts of social reality. This study attempts to build an alternative interpretation that tries to understand the reasons for the modification of procedures and poetics in the Andy Warhol\'s work and his impact on the 20th century art.

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo reconstruir o conceito de ciência do sensível na obra do filosofo alemão Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714- 1762). Partimos do pressuposto de que a investigacão das faculdades do conhecimento empreendida pelo autor na Metafisíca (1739) pode revelar o alcance e a finalidade da Estética (1750/58), a qual se encontra mais comprometida com as possibilidades em geral de expressão do belo do que com a definicão de uma teoria do objeto artístico em sua particularidade. Esse último aspecto, na verdade, pode prejudicar a interpretacão de sua obra, pois assume que ela estipula a existencia um ideal de beleza atemporal. Para Baumgarten, os princípios que regem o conhecimento sensível coincidem com as regras de expressão do belo, tal como aquelas definidas nas poéticas e retóricas antigas, mas apenas na medida em que eles podem ser derivados das verdades metafisicas. / This study investigated the concept of asthetics as science of sensibility in the work from the philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714- 1762). We believe that the investigation of the cognitive faculties what happens in Metaphysica (1739) can reveal with someone precision the wasteness and finality of Aesthetics (1750/1758), situated between theorie of art and philosophy of life. Our argument is that the subordination of these science make she incapable to consider directly the artistic object in your particularity. While this justify the opposition that find the methaphysics of beauty in the posterity, indicated the emptiness what come face to face every theorie of art that not introduce yours cognitive pretexts.

Resumo: O trabalho enfatiza o pensamento de Lessing no seu limiar sobre a teoria da tragédia, singularizando o conceito de compaixão e a fundamentação desse elemento no contexto trágico segundo a Poética de Aristóteles. Para tanto, é proposta uma tradução das Briefwechsel über das Trauerspiel (Cartas sobre a Tragédia), onde Lessing desenvolve diálogos epistolares com Christoph Friedrich Nicolai e Moses Mendelssohn na formação de conceitos sobre a poética do trágico. Conclui com a tarefa de reflexão crítica capaz de estabelecer uma concepção filosófica da tragédia. / The work emphasizes Lessing\'s thought on his threshold on the theory of tragedy, singling out the concept of compassion and the grounding of this element in the tragic context according to Aristotle\'s Poetics. Therefore, a translation of the Briefwechsel über das Trauerspiel (Letters on Tragedy) is proposed where Lessing develops epistolary dialogues with Christoph Friedrich Nicolai and Moses Mendelssohn to build on concepts about the poetics of the tragic. Finally, it ends with a critical reflection capable of establishing a philosophical conception of tragedy.

To evaluate specific architectural theories, an analytic methodology was used. The specific architectural theories evaluated all have in common the fact that their formative models can explain how their original ideas manifest in the practice of architectural works. Although these architectural theories researched are thousands or in some cases hundreds of years apart, a way to compare and contrast them was to use philosophies of art common to all. This contemporary approach to analysis was done with the use of ?analytic philosophy? for its effectiveness to clarify concepts. Central aspects of architectural theories will be analyzed in detail through the lenses of four contemporary theories of the philosophy of art. They are: formalism (including neo-formalism and theories that emphasize the connection between form and function), expression theories, representation theories (including neo-representational and mimetic accounts), and theories based on aesthetic experience. Looking at architecture from the viewpoint of analytic philosophy of art provides new insights into the nature of architecture and illuminates the field in significant ways. A recommendation for further study is enclosed.

Hegel's view of poetry clarifies the overall role of language in his system and allows him to makes sense of a difficult linguistic issue: how to distinguish between poetry and prose. For Hegel, this distinction is crucial because it illuminates the different ways poetry and prose allow us to understand ourselves as members of an ethical community. In this paper, I argue, using Hegel, that the distinction between poetry and prose can only properly be understood in terms of their fundamentally different kinds of content instead of in terms of any formal differences between the two. Then, I address an objection to Hegel by Paul de Man which uses Hegel's concept of memory to collapse the distinction between poetry and philosophical prose. Finally, I argue that Hegel can respond to this objection by showing how de Man misunderstands how philosophical thought conceptually develops from memory.

This essay have collected texts from the philosophers Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, science anthropologist and professor Bruno Latour and science biologist writer Janine Benyus, focused on bio mimicry. The essay is called “Moving Matter” and is focused on how these writers relate to materials and how it connects to nature and furthermore to ecology. In the first part of my study I connect, through a personal reading, these writers because I found shared views on materials , nature, as active, trans-disciplinary, related to science and part of a big collective. I divided the text by chapters of each writer where I try to build my case with examples from each author. What I try to conclude is that for these writers materials are not only a single matter waiting but to be formed, it is an active moving agent which contains complex chemical and biological structures, connects to history, have a social, cultural and political role. All this complex relations could be said to form a kind of science related material culture of materials, a moving matter. By using this method an implicit ethical relations to nature and ecology is created, a Geo philosophy In the second part, “Connecting the Material”, I wish to conclude and summarize how this theories discussed in the first part could be relevant working and treating materials both as makers ,consumers, wearer of jewelry. I wish to use the so called functions of jewelry by adapting the thoughts from the first part of the essay and also by including works from different jewelry artists. By this I am posing the question: -What could it mean when we say that materials are active and intelligent in the context of Jewelery and Jewelery art?

Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s literary relation to Walter Pater has already been established in the secondary literature; nevertheless, the Frau ohne Schatten has not been analysed with respect to this relation. This project investigates the role of the arts (especially that of architecture, painting, poetry, music and the carpet) in the story and connects this role with the aesthetics that Pater sets out in The Renaissance. It will be shown that art in its various forms is closely connected to the plot and action of the story. In the work of Pater and Hofmannsthal, art even has a vivifying or animating function. Important characteristics of art for Hofmannsthal and Pater are the relation of the arts to and amongst one another, the idea that all things flow (following Heraclitus’ panta rhei, Gr.), and the concept of Anders-streben. The world of art and the world of reality in its everyday sense will be shown through their ambiguous and even paradoxical relation to one another. Hugo von Hofmannsthals literarisches Verhältnis zu Walter Pater ist in der Sekundärliteratur schon belegt; trotzdem ist Die Frau ohne Schatten hinsichtlich dieses Verhältnisses nie analysiert worden. Diese Arbeit untersucht die Rolle der Künste (besonders der Architektur, Malerei, Dichtung, Musik und des Teppichs) in der Erzählung und verbindet diese Rolle mit der Ästhetik, die Pater in The Renaissance darlegte. Es wird gezeigt, dass die Kunst in ihrer verschiedenen Gestalten sehr eng mit der Handlung der Erzählung verbunden ist. Bei Pater und Hofmannsthal hat die Kunst sogar eine belebende Wirkung. Wichtige Merkmale der Kunst für Hofmannsthal und Pater sind das Verhältnis der Künste untereinander, die Idee, dass alles fließt (nach Heraklits panta rhei, Gr.), und das Konzept des Anders-strebens. Die Welt der Kunst und die Welt der Wirklichkeit im alltäglichen Sinne werden durch ihre vieldeutige und zumal paradoxe Beziehung zueinander gezeigt.

Disertacijos tyrimo objektas yra estetikos sampratos transformacijos problema kontinentinėje XX amžiaus Vakarų filosofijoje. Šiuolaikiniame mąstyme susiduriame su būtinybe peržiūrėti modernistinę estetikos sampratą, nes tampa vis labiau akivaizdu, kad ja vadovaujantis neįmanoma paaiškinti subjektyvios meno patirties keliu prieinamos išskirtinių būties tiesų atverties. Dėl šios priežasties šiuolaikinėje filosofijoje kvestionuojamas pats „estetikos“ terminas, argumentuojant, kad estetika, arba meno filosofija, turėtų ne nustatyti meno kūrinio vertinimo kriterijus, bet kelti sau tikslą mąstyti dėka tų prieštaravimų, kurie neišvengiamai lydi meno patirtį. Disertacijoje estetikos sampratos transformacija analizuojama nagrinėjant italų filosofo Benedetto Croce‘s estetiką ir vokiečių mąstytojo Hanso Georgo Gadamerio meno filosofiją. Teigiama, kad Croce ir Gadameris, nesutikdami su Kanto filosofijos įtakoje susiformavusia subjektyvistine modernistinės estetikos samprata, skirtingais būdais įrodo, jog meno patirties keliu pasiekiami tokie bendražmogiški patyrimo aspektai, kurie niekaip kitaip nėra prieinami. Parodoma, kad Croce‘s filosofijoje prie modernistinės estetikos sampratos transformacijos priartėjama pamatiniu pažinimu įvardinus ne jusles ir ne protą, bet kūrybinę intuiciją. Konstatuojama, kad Gadameris savo hermeneutikoje transformuoja subjektyvistinę modernistinės estetikos sampratą į meno filosofiją, meno kūriniui suteikdamas ontologinį statusą ir iškeldamas meno... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The object of the dissertation is the problem of the transformation of the concept of aesthetics in Western continental philosophy of the 20th century. In contemporary thought the need to review the modernist concept of aesthetics becomes more and more evident as on the basis of this concept it is impossible to explain how revelation of unique metaphysical truths is attained by way of subjective experience of art. For this reason, in contemporary philosophy the very term of “aesthetics” is questioned, arguing that aesthetics or the philosophy of art, instead of establishing the criteria of judgement of an artwork, should rather aim at thought due to the controversies and paradoxes inevitably surrounding the experience of art. In the dissertation the transformation of the concept of aesthetics is analysed by examining the aesthetics of the Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce and the philosophy of art of the German thinker Hans Georg Gadamer. The study argues that by opposing the subjectivist concept of modernist aesthetics formed under the influence of Kant, Croce and Gadamer prove, in different ways, that the way of the experience of art allows to attain the aspects of common human experience that are unattainable in any other way. The research demonstrates that in Croce’s philosophy the transformation of the modernist concept of aesthetics is approached by choosing creative intuition, rather than senses or reason, as a fundamental way of knowing. The dissertation states... [to full text]