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Imaginer l’Amérique : Québec à travers les vues d’optique des graveurs allemands Habermann et LeizeltPoirier, Marjolaine 12 1900 (has links)
Publiées dans la Collection des prospects durant la guerre d’Indépendance américaine, les vues d’optique Vuë de la Place capitale dans la Ville basse a Quebec, Vuë de la haute ville a Quebeck, Vuë de la basse Ville a Quebec vers le fleuve St-Laurent, Vuë de la rue des recolets de Quebeck et Vuë de Quebeck gravées par les Allemands Franz Xaver Habermann (1721-1796) et Balthasar Frederich Leizelt (1755-1812) entretiennent des liens ténus avec la configuration réelle de la ville de Québec qu’elles représentent. L’escamotage du paradigme documentaire dans ces images est l’enjeu principal de ce mémoire. Il permet de mettre l’accent sur les contraintes formelles découlant du dispositif optique de lecture utilisé ainsi que sur les modèles culturels concernant la perception du territoire urbain américain ayant prévalu lors de la création et de la réception des cinq vues d’optique à l’étude. L’analyse de la vision fictionnelle du paysage donnera également des indices sur les orientations idéologiques et l’imaginaire du lieu, perçu comme un ailleurs lointain, par un ensemble politique qui n’exerce pas de domination directe sur la colonie installée sur le bord du fleuve Saint-Laurent. / Published during the American Revolution in the Collection des prospects, the perspective views Vuë de la Place capitale dans la Ville basse a Quebec, Vuë de la haute ville a Quebeck, Vuë de la basse Ville a Quebec vers le fleuve St-Laurent, Vuë de la rue des recolets de Quebeck et Vuë de Quebeck were etched by the German engravers Franz Xaver Habermann (1721-1796) and Balthasar Frederich Leizelt (1755-1812). The main goal of this thesis is to show how these five images were perceived as authentic even if the urban scenery that they depict is not topographically accurate. This allows us to highlight the formal constraints stemming from the optical instruments as well as the cultural models prevailing within the dominant perception of the American urban territory at the time of their creation and reception. Analyzing the fictionality of the German engravings also yields clues into the ideological orientations and the collective discourse about Quebec, perceived as a far away land, by a political ensemble which was not exerting direct domination on the colony founded on the shores of the Saint-Lawrence river.
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L'enfant dans la photographie sociale américaine de 1888 a 1941 (Jacob A. Riis, Lewis W. Hine et des photographes dela Farm Security Administration) : enjeux sociaux et esthétiquesLesme, Anne 23 November 2012 (has links)
La naissance de la photographie sociale aux États-Unis à la fin du XIXe siècle est contemporaine d'une place nouvelle accordée à l'enfant dans la structure familiale. Le contraste est grand entre l'enfant riche, sacralisé, à l'innocence louée dans les arts, et l'enfant pauvre, souvent exploité mais représenté de façon surtout pittoresque. Tout en mettant l'enfant pauvre au cœur de leurs préoccupations, les réformateurs font usage de la photographie dans une optique de progrès social et d'intervention où texte et image se révèlent indissociables, qu'il s'agisse de Jacob A. Riis, journaliste et photographe à New York à la fin du XIXe siècle et de l'engagement de Lewis W. Hine dans la lutte contre le travail des enfants avec le National Child Labor Committee, dans un contexte de forte immigration, d'industrialisation et d'urbanisation chaotique, ou des photographes de la Farm Security Administration à la fin des années 30 dans le cadre du New Deal. L'enfant est au centre d'une rhétorique qui s'appuie sur la dimension vivante et vraie de la photographie et sur son pouvoir émotionnel et il contribue à la définition d'un genre photographique : le documentaire social, dont le statut évolue sous l'effet de la diversification des modes de diffusion (presse, conférences, expositions, musée). / Social photography was born in the United States at the end of the 19th century at a time when children were beginning to occupy a new place in the family. There is a stark contrast between the rich children, who tend to be sanctified and whose innocence is praised through art, and the poor children, who are often exploited and depicted in a picturesque way. While putting poor children at the heart of their concerns, the reformers used photography as a means to promote social progress, in such a way that text and image prove to be indissociable. Such is the case with Jacob A. Riis, a journalist and photographer who worked in New York at the end of the 19th century, and Lewis W. Hine, through his commitment to the struggle against child labor with the National Child Labor Committee (at a time marked by high immigration, rapid industrialization, and chaotic urbanization), as well as the photographers who worked for the Farm Security Administration at the end of the 1930s within the New Deal. Children are at the heart of a rhetorical system that exploits the vivid and truthful dimensions of photography and its power to move us. They contribute to the emergence of a new genre of photography, social documentary photography, which evolved according to the various ways in which it was disseminated (the press, conferences, exhibitions, and museums). While the cause of children is most often defended and while they maintain their status as subjects in these photographs, the ways in which they are depicted through different means of communication and dissemination sometimes turn them into mere objects.
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Lutheran piety and visual culture in the Duchy of Württemberg, 1534 – c. 1700Watson, Róisín January 2015 (has links)
Early modern Lutherans, as is well known, worshipped in decorated churches. They adopted a path of reform that neither disposed of all ornament nor retained all the material trappings of the Catholic church. This thesis studies the fortunes of ecclesiastical art in the Duchy of Württemberg after its Reformation in 1534 and the place images found for themselves in the devotional lives of Lutherans up to c. 1700. The territory was shaped not just by Lutheranism, but initially by Zwinglianism too. The early years of reform thus saw moments of iconoclasm. The Zwinglian influence was responsible for a simple liturgy that distinguished Württemberg Lutheranism from its confessional allies in the north. This study considers the variety of uses to which Lutheran art was put in this context. It addresses the different ways in which Lutherans used the visual setting of the church to define their relationships with their God, their church, and each other. The Dukes of Württemberg used their stance on images to communicate their political and confessional allegiances; pastors used images to define the parameters of worship and of the church space itself; parishioners used images, funerary monuments, and church adornment to express their Lutheran identity and establish their position within social hierarchies. As Lutheranism developed in the seventeenth century, so too did Lutheran art, becoming more suited to fostering contemplative devotion. While diverse in their aims, many Lutherans appreciated the importance of regular investment in the visual. Ducal pronouncements, archives held centrally and locally, surviving artefacts and decoration in churches, and printed sources enable the distinctive visual character of Lutheranism in Württemberg to be identified here.
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FEMME: extinct stereotypesBonnet, Claire January 2019 (has links)
My research is about stereotypes of women. Responding to scepticism towardsfeminist movements, my degree project aims to challenge the power structure of today’s Western society. How does visual communication play a big role in creating and/or reproducing inequalities? I have created a retro-futuristic exhibition, placed in an imaginary museum. In a utopian world based in 2050, the exhibition femme: extinct stereotypes, aims to show, explain and deconstruct how women were portrayed around 2020; how society and (pop)culture were deforming humans into stereotypical women.I have created a speculative scenario through different objects and artifacts displaying the expectations and instructions on how women should or should not behave. By showcasing the past and its conventions, this retro-futuristic exhibition questions their normality and rationality.
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Art Contemporain et télévision : formes de résistance, appropriation et parodie / Contemporary Art and Television : forms of Resistance, Appropriation and ParodySpampinato, Francesco 15 June 2018 (has links)
La présente thèse cartographie et condense l'histoire des relations entre l'art et la télévision au cours du demi-siècle environ durant lequel la télévision maintint sa position de média de masse par excellence dans la société, des années 1950 au tournant du millénaire, jusqu'à la phase de vaporisation des médias récemment apportée par la profusion des technologies numériques et d'Internet. La centaine d'artistes étudiés appartient à différentes générations, des pionniers des années 1960 tels que Nam June Paik, Andy Warhol et divers collectifs de la guerilla television aux figures postmodernistes telles que Dara Birnbaum et General Idea, des artistes issus des années 1990 comme Phil Collins, Christian Jankowski et Matthieu Laurette aux figures émergées au XXIe siècle comme Keren Cytter, Hito Steyerl, Ryan Trecartin et les Yes Men.Les travaux abordés sont des vidéos, installations, performances, interventions et programmes télévisés conçus comme des formes de résistance, d'appropriation et de parodie de la télévision grand public, qui exposent les mécanismes par lesquels le média de masse influence notre perception de la réalité et de nous-mêmes. Les genres et les formats télévisuels les plus populaires sont ciblés : les informations, publicités, soap operas, talk-shows, émissions pour enfants, vidéoclips, téléréalité, divertissements éducatifs et séries télévisées. En permettant de « voir à distance », la télévision produit chez le spectateur un sentiment étrange de déplacement physique. Les travaux étudiés mettent en évidence et tentent de surmonter cette séparation entre les corps factuels et télévisés, qui est aussi une séparation entre réalité et représentation. / The present study maps and condenses the history of the relationships between art and television during the rough half century in which television maintained its position as society’s quintessential mass medium, from the 1950s to the turn of the millennium, through to the phase of vaporization of media recently brought by the profusion of digital technologies and the Internet. The close to one hundred artists discussed belong to different generations, from 1960s pioneers such as Nam June Paik, Andy Warhol and various guerrilla television collectives to postmodernist figures such as Dara Birnbaum and General Idea, from artists emerged in the 1990s such as Phil Collins, Christian Jankowski, and Matthieu Laurette up to figures emerged in in this early XXI century such as Keren Cytter, Hito Steyerl, Ryan Trecartin, and the Yes Men.The works discussed are videos, installations, performances, interventions and television programs conceived as forms of resistance, appropriation and parody of mainstream television, that expose the mechanisms through which the mass medium influences our perception of both reality and ourselves. To be targeted are the most popular television genres and formats including news, commercials, soap operas, talk shows, children's programs, music videos, reality shows, edutainment, and TV series. By allowing to “see at distance,” television produces in the viewer an uncanny feeling of physical displacement. What the works discussed highlight and try to overcome, is that split between factual and televised bodies, that is also a split between reality and representation.
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A COLÔNIA CECÍLIA ENQUANTO ELEMENTO DE ANÁLISE PARA A COMPREENSÃO DA HISTÓRIA LOCAL A PARTIR DO JORNAL GAZETA DE PALMEIRA: UM RECORTE DOS ANOS 1990 – 1991 / 2003 / 2015 – 2016Mehret, Rafael de Castro 28 August 2018 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2018-08-28 / O presente trabalho tem por finalidade a busca em perceber a relevância da história local e especificamente da Colônia Cecília e sua ideologia norteadora para a construção da memória histórica da cidade Palmeira-Pr. Desta maneira, a realização do trabalho se dá através da análise do jornal “Gazeta de Palmeira”, entre os anos de 1990 – 1991 (período que incorpora o centenário da Colônia), 2003 (ano da formação da rota rural “Caminhos da Cecília”) e também entre os anos de 2015 - 2016 (período da inauguração oficial do Memorial da Colônia Cecília e da retomada do projeto da rota da Colônia), os quais foram selecionados devido a ligação com momentos específicos da história da Colônia Cecília. Buscamos, enfim, através desta análise compreender como a sociedade de Palmeira vai ressignificar a experiência da Colônia Cecília. Para isso, associamos a visão do Jornal com as atitudes da comunidade e do Estado em seu esforço para resgate e preservação deste evento enquanto componente formativo fundamental para o entendimento da história local. / The present paper aims to perceive the relevance of the local history, specifically, Colonia Cecília’s and its guiding ideology for the construction of the historical memory of the city of Palmeira -PR. Thus, the work’s accomplishment is done through the analysis of the newspaper “Gazeta de Palmeira” in the years between 1990-1991 (period which incorporates the Colony’s centennial), 2003 (year of “Caminhos da Cecília” rural route’s formation) and also between the years 2015-2016 (period of the official inauguration of Colonia Cecília’s Memorial and the and the retake from the Colony’s route project), such years were selected for its connection to specific moments of Colonia Cecilia. Finally, through this analysis we aim to comprehend how the society of Palmeira will reframe Cecilia Colony’s experience. To achieve it, we associated de Newspaper’s view with the attitudes of the community and the State in its effort to recall and preserve such event as a fundamental formative component to understand the local history.
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The making of clothing and the making of London, 1560-1660Pitman, Sophie January 2017 (has links)
In recent years, urban historians have established that the period from 1560 to 1660 was a key era for London’s development from a relatively small European urban centre into a large dynamic global capital. This dissertation attempts to intervene in London scholarship by drawing attention to the economic, political, religious and – most significantly – cultural importance of clothing in the city in this period. Using material, visual, literary and archival sources, it explores the ways clothing contributed to the development of early modern London and, in turn, how London’s rapid growth changed the making, wearing, and meaning of clothing. This dissertation places material evidence at the fore using extant objects from museum collections. It also employs the new methodology of reconstruction to explore craft, ingenuity, and emotional self-expression in dress. As clothing infused economic and social life, it draws upon on a wide range of evidence, from London guild records, to portraits, travel accounts, personal letters, diaries and account books, plays, sermons and poems. With a focus on urban experience, this dissertation discusses not only elite luxury consumption, but also investigates the wardrobes of guildsmen, immigrant craftspeople, apprentices and maids – asking what they wore, what they thought about what they were wearing, and how they used clothing to navigate through the city during this time of rapid change. A chapter on the ‘London Look’ shows how inhabitants and visitors documented the visual and material styles of the city. Exploring the collaborative processes by which clothing was made, worn and appreciated by craftspeople and consumers, a chapter on making and buying clothing demonstrates how clothes were made and charts the emergence of a new consumer culture. Existing scholarship on sumptuary laws is challenged in a chapter that demonstrates how laws were enforced in the city while also integrating extant objects into the discussion for the first time. Finally, using a sample of London wills, the dissertation shows how Londoners owned, bequeathed and inherited clothing, and imbued it with emotional meaning. In sum, this dissertation aims to integrate scholarship on early modern London with material culture studies, and to promote the new methodology of reconstruction for historians. In revealing how London was conceived during a time of rapid change, clothing can be used as a lens through which to explore wider discourse about a city that by 1657 was being described as ‘Londinopolis.’ Clothing helped to make London into a wealthy, dynamic, and diverse urban centre, and these changes dramatically shaped the way clothing was made and appreciated.
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A presença dos aparelhos e dispositivos ópticos no Rio de Janeiro do século XIX / The presence of the optical aparatus and the optical devices of the 19th century in Rio de JaneiroSilva, Maria Cristina Miranda da 09 May 2006 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2006-05-09 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The study investigates the presence of optical apparatus and optical devices in Brazil of century XIX, in special in the city of Rio de Janeiro, objectifying examining its users and diffusers, as well as the forms of comment and social contexts of the use the same ones
The research is based on the studies of the early cinema, especially in Tom Gunning and Charles Musser, and in the workmanship of the historian of the art Jonathan Crary, the authors that help us, respectively, in the process of the recontextualizing of the use of optical devices and the dimensionality of the observer of modernity. The empirical work consists of the analysis of the orders of license to the city council of Rio de Janeiro for the exhibition of the devices in the period of 1830 the1890, and in the systematic study of the announcements published in newspapers in that period like Jornal do Commercio from 1850 to 1870. The organization and the categorization of the findings of the research prove that the popularization of the devices mentioned, over all in the street parties. Special emphasis was conferred on the arrival of the photograph in Brazil and the precocity with that the photographer Revert Henrique Klumb developed the Stereoscopy. Thematic that they had been the reference for the Brazilian visuality had been mapped and the Brazilian photographers who had developed this technique had been inventoried. From the announcements published in the Almanak Laemmert, between 1844 and 1889, we have done a survey of the establishments that imported and commercialized the apparatus and devices in the period in question. Taking into account all the information provided, the study questioned the presence of the optical apparatus and devices in the city of Rio de Janeiro in the 19th century, considering the particularities of them in the historical, economical and social context of the time / O estudo investiga a presença dos aparelhos e dispositivos ópticos no Brasil do século XIX, em especial na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, objetivando examinar os seus usuários e difusores, bem como as formas de observação e os contextos sociais de utilização dos mesmos. A pesquisa é fundamentada nos estudos do primeiro cinema, especialmente em Tom Gunning e Charles Musser, e na obra do historiador da arte Jonathan Crary, autores que nos ajudam a analisar, respectivamente, o processo de recontextualização do uso dos dispositivos ópticos e do redimensionamento do observador da modernidade. O trabalho empírico consiste na análise dos pedidos de licença à Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro para a exibição dos dispositivos, no período de 1830 a 1890, e no estudo sistemático de anúncios publicados nos periódicos do período, em especial no Jornal do Commercio, entre as décadas de 1850 e 1870. A organização e categorização dos achados da pesquisa comprovam a popularização dos referidos dispositivos e aparelhos, sobretudo nas festas de rua. Especial ênfase foi conferida a chegada da fotografia no Brasil e a precocidade com que a estereoscopia foi aqui desenvolvida pelo fotógrafo Revert Henrique Klumb. As temáticas que foram referência para a visualidade brasileira foram mapeadas e os fotógrafos brasileiros que desenvolveram esta técnica em seus trabalhos foram inventariados. A partir dos anúncios publicados no Almanak Laemmert, entre os anos de 1844 e 1889, realizamos um levantamento dos estabelecimentos que importavam e comercializavam os aparelhos e dispositivos no período referido. A partir das informações coligidas, a investigação problematiza a presença dos dispositivos e aparelhos ópticos na cidade do Rio de Janeiro no século XIX, considerando as particularidades dos aparelhos e dispositivos no contexto histórico, econômico e social da época
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A luta pela democracia em foco : fotojornalismo e movimentos sociais no Rio Grande do Sul (1977-1979)Dienstmann, Gabriel January 2016 (has links)
A segunda metade da década de 1970 foi marcada pelo início da política de abertura da ditadura civil-militar brasileira e por um fortalecimento dos setores de oposição ao regime. Nesse período, os movimentos sociais retomaram as ruas como espaço de manifestação e de luta pela democracia no país após mais de dez anos de ditadura. O objetivo desta pesquisa é compreender a importância desse processo para o contexto de transição democrática no Brasil e a forma como a imprensa gaúcha participou nessa conjuntura por meio da construção de representações sobre esses acontecimentos através do fotojornalismo. Tendo em vista essas questões, no presente trabalho proponho-me a analisar as fotografias produzidas e veiculadas pelos jornais Zero Hora e Folha da Manhã, buscando analisar as representações visuais acerca da atuação do movimento estudantil, pela anistia e sindical na conjuntura do final dos anos 1970, e compreender o processo de construção dessas representações e as disputas em torno delas. Para dar conta destes objetivos, serão comparadas as narrativas fotojornalísticas que tais veículos de imprensa elaboraram sobre os acontecimentos em questão, analisando o contexto da cultura visual e do campo jornalístico da época, as práticas e relações sociais que envolviam o processo de produção, transmissão e consumo das imagens fotojornalísticas. / The end of the 1970s was marked by the beginning of the „opening‟ policy of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship and by a strengthening of the opposition sectors to the regime. During this period, social movements retrieved the streets as a riot space to fight for the democratization of the country after more than ten years of dictatorship. The objective of this research is to understand the importance of this process for the democratic transition context in Brazil and how the press participated in this the construction of representations about these events through photojournalism. Given these issues, in this work I propose to analyze the photographs produced by the newspapers Zero Hora and Folha da Manhã, trying to understand the patterns of visual representation regarding the role of social movements in the fight for democracy, analyzing the process of construction of visual representations and the disputes that involves them in the struggles for symbolic power. To accomplish these objectives, the photojournalistic narratives about the riots in issue constructed by the newspapers will be analyzed in its articulations with the historical context of Brazilian redemocratization and rise of social movements, the context of visual culture and the journalistic field of the period, the practices and social relations involving the process of producing, transmission and consumption of photojournalistic images.
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Anne d’Autriche en ses images : légitimation du pouvoir féminin et culture visuelle de la majesté dans la France du XVIIe siècle / The images of Anne of Austria : legitimation of feminine power and visual culture of majesty in 17th century FranceBril, Damien 03 December 2018 (has links)
Anne d’Autriche occupe une place importante, longtemps négligée, dans le développement de l’iconographie royale en France au XVIIe siècle. Ecartée du pouvoir sous le règne de son mari Louis XIII, elle est pourtant le sujet de très nombreuses représentations. Sa présence dans le champ des images connaît un net développement lorsqu’elle accède aux responsabilités du gouvernement à la mort du roi, en 1643, en devenant régente au nom de son fils mineur, Louis XIV. Au-delà de sa majorité en 1651, elle conserve un rôle éminent, jusqu’à la mort de Mazarin en 1661. Ces deux décennies sont marquées par une profonde crise politique qui culmine dans l’épisode de la Fronde. Dans ce contexte, l’image d’Anne d’Autriche devient le support d’un discours sur l’autorité monarchique et sur la défense du pouvoir royal. A partir d’un corpus constitué des représentations de la régente, et en les croisant avec des sources textuelles, cette thèse analyse la construction visuelle de ce discours, et ses effets sur l’évolution de l’image de la royauté en France après le règne de Louis XIII. La « majesté », qui constitue dans le corpus des textes, juridiques, politiques et symboliques, la qualité essentielle du souverain et la marque de son identité, doit ainsi être traduite visuellement dans une incarnation féminine, dans un pays où les lois fondamentales, notamment la loi salique, écartent pourtant les femmes du pouvoir. La richesse du corpus rassemblé pour cette thèse, près de cinq cent images, offre une source essentielle pour comprendre de quelle manière la reine a su dépasser cette contrainte et contribuer, en renouvelant ses modèles, à la représentation de l’autorité monarchique. Cette étude permet ainsi de reconsidérer le rapport des femmes au pouvoir. Pour analyser ces différentes questions, la thèse s’organise en quatre parties. La première partie s’attache à comprendre l’image de la reine régnante, en analysant dans un premier chapitre la définition juridique de la reine, pour montrer de quelle manière l’ordre juridique détermine l’ordre symbolique. On peut ainsi expliquer en quoi le mariage de la reine en 1615 et son introduction à la cour constitue une « naissance iconographique ». Le second chapitre explore les différents aspects de ce portrait de la reine en montrant qu’il relève à la fois de caractères propres et de réactions à la situation – politique et civile – de la reine. La deuxième partie soulève la question des moyens mis en œuvre pour opérer la transformation de cette image, qui permet à la reine d’apparaître en régente du royaume. Le troisième chapitre analyse plus particulièrement les étapes chronologiques de cette transformation, tandis que le quatrième chapitre étudie, sur un plan pratique, la « fabrication » de cette image. La troisième partie envisage ensuite le contenu des images, en dressant une analyse en trois temps de son iconographie. Le cinquième chapitre aborde ainsi le corps de la reine comme support des dimensions morales de son portrait. Le sixième chapitre approfondit cette question dans la perspective religieuse, en étudiant de quelle manière la régente parvient à produire l’image d’une reine « très chrétienne ». Le septième chapitre conclut cette analyse iconographique sur la dimension politique de l’image d’Anne d’Autriche. La quatrième et dernière partie est enfin l’occasion d’analyser le « fonctionnement » de ces images. Le huitième chapitre montre combien la situation des représentations de la reine dans les décors est déterminante pour leur interprétation, en envisageant les cas des résidences royales puis des intérieurs privés. Enfin, le neuvième chapitre propose une étude de la performance des images, en étendant l’analyse aux usages publics des représentations de la reine, dans les monuments ou au cours des cérémonies. / Anne of Austria offers an important part, yet neglected, in the the development of royal iconography in seventeenth century France. Devoided from management of power under the reign of her husband Louis XIII, she is however the subject of many representations. The number of her images increases when she accedes to the responsibilities of the government at the death of the king, in 1643, becoming regent in the name of her minor son, Louis XIV. Beyond its majority in 1651, she maintains herself at a prominent place, until the death of Mazarin in 1661. During these two decades, a deep political crisis in France culminates in the so-called Fronde. In this context, the image of Anne of Austria becomes the instrument of a visual narrative on monarchical authority and for the defense of the royal power. Crossing a large corpus of representations of the regent with textual sources, this thesis analyzes the visual construction of this narrative, and its effects on the evolution of the image of power in France after the reign of Louis XIII. In contemporary legal and symbolic literature, "majesty" is presented as he essential quality of the sovereign and the mark of his identity. It must then be visually translated in a female incarnation, despite the fundamental laws, in particular the Salic law, which however exclude women from power. The abundance of the images collected for this thesis, nearly five hundred items, offers an essential source to understand how the queen was able to overcome this constraint and contribute, by renewing its models, to the representation of the monarchical authority. This thesis allows us to reconsider the relationship between women and power. To analyze these different issues, the thesis is organized in four parts. The first part attempts to understand the image of the reigning queen, analyzing in a first chapter the legal definition of the queen, to show how the legal order determines the symbolic one. One can thus understand how the marriage of the queen in 1615 and her arrival at the court can be apprehended as an "iconographic birth". The second chapter explores the different features of this portrait of the queen, showing that it is at the same time a revelation of personal characteristics of the queen and a reaction to the queen's political and civil situation. The second part raises the question of the means implemented to operate the transformation of this image, which allows the queen to appear as regent of the kingdom. The third chapter analyzes in particular the chronological stages of this transformation, while the fourth chapter studies, from a practical point of view, the "fabrication" of this image. The third part then considers the content of the images, drawing up a three-step analysis of its iconography. The fifth chapter addresses the body of the queen as a support for the moral dimensions of her portrait. The sixth chapter deepens this question in the religious perspective, studying how the regent manages to produce the image of a queen "très chrétienne". The seventh chapter concludes this iconographic analysis by studying the political dimension of Anne of Austria's image. The fourth and last part gives finally an analysis of the way these images "operate". The eighth chapter shows how the situation of the queen's representations in decor is decisive for their interpretation, considering the cases of the royal residences and the private interiors. Finally, the ninth chapter proposes a study of the performance of images, extending the analysis to the public uses of representations of the queen, in monuments or during ceremonies.
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