De l'ornement architectural à l'ornement liturgique, de l'ornement langagier à l'encadrement du tableau, de l'ornement musical au tatouage, les formes variés de l'ornement témoignent d'un champ d'application illimité qui couvre tous les domaines de l'art. Si chez Kant l'ornement offre un exemple typique de beauté libre, la philosophie et la théorie de l'art lui attribuent souvent un contenu moral ou symbolique l'associant tantôt à la convenance tantôt à la dégénérescence. En tant que forme primitive d'expression artistique il est rattaché aux arts premiers et à la production artisanale, aux antipodes de la véritable création artistique tout autant que du dessin industriel ou architectural. Sa dimension cosmique, d'autre part, fait que des artistes et des historiens le mettent au centre de leur conception de l'art, le considérant comme la manifestation principale du « vouloir artistique » ou une expression privilégiée de l'impulsion artistique vers l'abstraction. Si la spécificité de l'ornement consiste en son caractère accessoire qui lui assigne un statut ontologique particulier entre l'ergon et le parergon le rendant synonyme de « style », sa transversalité met en question les hiérarchies issues de la théorie de la mimesis et brouille les limites entre art et décoration, majeur et mineur, d'autant plus que les notions dérivées de l'« ornemental » ou du « décoratif » dépassent le domaine des arts appliqués et s'emploient pour designer la forme ou la fonction d’œuvres d'art. À ce titre l'étude des différents aspects de l'ornement et des réponses théoriques qu'il a suscitées, renouvelle la réflexion sur le statut de l'art et sa relation avec la vie. / From architectural decoration to liturgical ornament, from rhetorical ornament to painting frames, from musical ornament to tattoo, the various forms of ornament testify to an unlimited scope that covers all artistic and cultural fields. Despite its being considered, from a kantian point of view, as an example of free beauty, philosophy and theory of art often attribute a moral or symbolic content to ornament, associating it to either convenience or degeneracy. As a primitive form of artistic expression, ornament is related to tribal art and to craft rather than true artistic creation or modern design. Its cosmic dimension, however, leads some artists and historians regard it as the basis for their conception of art, as the chief manifestation of the “will to art”, or as a primary expression of the artistic impulse that leads to abstraction. Since its specific character consists in that of an accessory, ornament receives an intermediate ontological status between the ergon and the parergon. Its transversality challenges the hierarchy of art forms and genres which is based on the theories of mimesis, and blurs the boundaries between art and decoration, high and low, since the derived terms of "ornamental" or "decorative" apply not only to decorative arts but also to the style and the function of art works. The study of the different aspects of ornament and of the theoretical responses it raised, contributes to regarding our understanding of the status of art and its relation to life.

Depuis la fin du XXe siècle, notre monde a été affecté par une grande mutation des activités humaines. Dans cette mutation, les sciences de la cognition jouent sans doute un rôle central. Le développement des sciences cognitives, surtout depuis sa phase de Seconde Cybernétique, fait émerger de nouveaux paradigmes et offrent au monde humain la nouvelle génération des technologies de l'informatique – le numérique. En parallèle avec les technologies numériques qui ont profondément transformé le rapport sensible de l’être humain au monde, les dispositifs scientifiques et conceptuels mis en œuvre dans la Seconde Cybernétique ont également provoqué un grand retentissement dans tous les domaines scientifiques et philosophiques occidentaux. Ces dispositifs nous conduisent à ré-évaluer les connaissances déjà modélisé dans le cadre de la modernité à partir d’une approche totalement nouvelle, celle du système évolutif. Le retentissement de la Seconde Cybernétique a un impact fort dans le domaine de l'art. D'une part, les technologies numériques offrent à la création artistique de nouveaux moyens techniques de modélisation de l'œuvre d'art en s'accompagnant de l'apparition de nouvelles expressions artistiques, de nouvelles esthétiques et de nouveaux enjeux pour les représentations artistiques. D'autre part, les dispositifs conceptuels et scientifiques mis en place par la Seconde Cybernétique ont conduit les théoriciens de l'art et les esthéticiens à réévaluer les phénomènes artistiques (l’œuvre d’art, l’activité artistique, la perception esthétique, l’évolution culturelle de l’art, etc.) dans une perspective totalement nouvelle de l’esprit : le naturalisme de l’esprit. Mes travaux tentent de proposer une réflexion sur l’œuvre d’art en relation avec la cognition à partir des dispositifs scientifiques, technologiques et conceptuels constitués dans le cadre de la Seconde Cybernétique, mais aussi à partir des dispositifs conceptuels issus de l’art lettré traditionnel chinois. Les deux paradigmes de pensées du réel, tout en étant à l'origine de deux cultures très éloignées et très différentes, révèlent par contre un même principe de l'appréhension du monde. À partir de ce principe, la réalité doit être analysée en tant que phénomène d’émergence en cours relevant d'un rapport d'interaction ; le monde se définirait comme réseau des relations dynamiques capables de s'auto-organiser pour l’émergence de nouvelles structures. Cette approche du réel nous conduit à reposer la question de l’œuvre d’art, à la fois en tant qu’objet de création et en tant qu’objet de réception esthétique, à partir des nouveaux paradigmes liés aux processus d’émergence comme processus biologiques ou processus numériques. Cette thèse peut être résumée par les quatre points suivants : 1. L’art relève d’une capacité cognitive créatrice qui résulte de la phylogenèse de l’espèce humaine et qui est individualisé par le développement ontologique de chaque personne. 2. L’art, comme culture, relève d’un système d’appréhensions cognitives du réel ; ce système s’organise dans le même principe que l’algorithme évolutionniste basé sur la variation, l’accumulation, la sélection darwinienne et l’hérédité. 3. L’œuvre d’art relève d’une extériorisation expressive de l’artiste, de ses états mentaux, de son imaginaire du réel se produisant dans son cerveau ; la création de l’œuvre d’art s’inscrit dans un processus d’émergence qui relève d’un rapport dialectique s’effectuant entre un schéma mental se produisant dans le cerveau de l’artiste et son extériorisation progressive en œuvre d’art par les actions. 4. Les systèmes numériques, à la fois en tant qu’outils technologiques autant que paradigme de représentations du monde, constituent une interface d’interaction entre les différentes cultures dans le cadre de la création artistique. / Since the end of 20th century, our world has been affected by a grand mutation of human activities. The cognitive science plays the central role without any doubt in this mutation. The development of the cognition science, especially since its second cybernetic phase, does emerge new paradigms and offers a new computer science generation, digitization, to the world. In parallel with the digital technologies that has profoundly transformed human senses to the world, the scientific and conceptual devices implemented in the second cybernetics have also caused a great impact in almost all scientific and occidental philosophic aspects. These devices made determinant concepts for all contemporary theories of evaluative system in the world. We propose to, based on this concept, revaluate all modelled knowledge in the context of modernity. The impact of the second cybernetics has a strong impact in the art’s field, as well as in the theoretical studies of the art in the creation of art’s works. On one hand, digital technology, especially the artificial intelligence systems and devices from the second cybernetics, provides the artistic creation of new techniques for modelling the artwork accompanied by the emergence of new arts, new look and new challenges for the performing arts. On the other hand, conceptual and scientific arrangements put in place by the second cybernetics, led the art theorists and designers to evaluate the artistic phenomena (the work of art, the artistic aesthetic perception, cultural evolution, art, etc.) in a totally new perspective in mind: naturalism of spirits. My work attempts to propose a reflection on the work of art related to cognition which based on scientific, technological and conceptual devices, set up within the framework of the second network device, but also from the ancient chinese concept from the mind, especially taoist and chinese lettered thoughts.The two paradigms of thinking, while the origin of the two cultures are very remote and different, but released from the same principle of the understanding of the world. Based on this principle, the reality must be analysed as a phenomenon of the emergence ; the world would be defined as a network of relationships and self organize to the emergence of new structures.This approach leads us to raise the question on the issue of work of art, at the same time as a subject of creation, as an object of esthetic reception and an artifact which is a network of intersubjective relations (culture), based on the new paradigms associated with processes of emergence like biological processes or digital processes. This thesis can be conclute by the four following points: 1. art is a creative cognitive ability, which is the result of the phylogeny of human beings and is tailored to the ontological development of each individual. 2. Art, like culture, releases a real concern cognitive system. this system is on the same principle as the evolutionary algorithm based on the change, the accumulation, darwinian selection and heredity. 3. the work of art is an representation of the artist's expression, of his mental states, of his imagination of the real occurring in his brain; the creation of a work of art is a part of the process of development which releases a dialectical relationship between a mental pattern produced in artist’s brain and his progressive expression of work of art. 4. the digital systems, at the same time as technological tools as well as the paradigm of representations of the world, build up an interface of interaction between different cultures in the context of artistic creation.

In my thesis, I focus on the role of an author in a work of art, and film in particular, based on Jan Mukařovský. Firstly, I describe Mukařovský's structuralist concept of an art work. Thus, following Ferdinand de Saussure's ideas, he views a work of art as an autonomous sign. At the same time, he uses de Saussure's terms langue and parole. In this text, I explain Mukařovský's terms of an aesthetic function, a norm and a value. I also examine the difference between an individual and a subject of art, and between intentionality and unintentionality. I compare Mukařovský's view of the author with other theorists, namely, Umberto Eco, Roland Barthes and Michael Foucault. Hence, I show historical changes within the concept of the author, and also explain Pierre Levy's cyber-cultural understanding of it. In addition, I discuss other authors, who bring together film arts and the interplay of signs. In particular, I introduce James Monaco and Jerzy Plaževski, and connect their thoughts with ideas of Mukařovský. These authors create a bridge between the concept of a film author and Mukařovský, who does not discuss this authorship in particular. The focus here is on Jaroslav Vančát's theory of a multi-layered film, examining three layers of film with different authors. Focusing on films with actual actors,...

“What is Zen for Film?”, I was asked on the occasion of a preparatory meeting for Revisions, an exhibition to feature Zen for Film (1962–64), Nam June Paik’s “blank” film projection. Despite the many discussions that preceded the meeting, when it came to the question of what the main—and the only—artwork of this exhibition was, we felt as if we’d been left in the dark. Is Zen for Film an idea, a concept—or rather, an event, a performance, or a process? In its original form, Revisions: Zen for Film combined a research project, pedagogy, an exhibition, and an exhibition catalogue. Revised again in the following pages, Revisions is an exercise in slow looking. It questions the ambition of constructing the work with a fixed identity, a product that moves seamlessly from the studio to the world of dissemination, distribution, and display. Instead, Zen for Film will appear once again as an assemblage of people, things, and events, a vibrant materiality destined for a changeable future.

Cette thèse vise à répondre à la question L’entreprise d’ameublement IKEA peut-elle être envisagée comme les prémices de réalisation d’une œuvre d’art totale ? La réflexion est menée en deux grandes parties distinctes. La première se concentre sur le concept wagnérien d’œuvre d’art totale. Grâce à la littérature scientifique sur le sujet, il est montré l’importance du wagnérisme pour la culture occidentale du XXe siècle et l’intérêt du concept au sein du champ des études intermédiales. Puis, l’exposition des origines du concept et de plusieurs applications ou réappropriations, telle que celle du Bauhaus, permet d’en souligner la nature socioesthétique et d’en distinguer deux dimensions : une purement idéaliste, celle de l’utopie sociétale en devenir (l’œuvre d’art totale accomplie) ; et une dimension plus concrète, visant l’atteinte de cet idéal grâce aux arts, ce que je nomme les amorces partielles de l’œuvre d’art totale (outil de mise en place de l’œuvre d’art totale). Enfin, en vue de l’étude d’IKEA, l’attention se concentre sur la dimension concrète du concept et est ainsi proposée une liste de caractéristiques propres aux amorces partielles permettant d’évaluer l’objet d’étude. Celle-ci concerne : l’impact massif des actions de l’objet étudié, l’expression d’ambitions sociales, voire utopiques, par celui-ci, et sa capacité à représenter un « commun » du peuple. La seconde partie entièrement dédiée à IKEA vise à vérifier la correspondance entre l’entreprise (les actions de ses acteurs, ses produits et ses effets) et les trois caractéristiques identifiées des amorces partielles de l’œuvre d’art totale. Ceci est réalisé à partir de trois recherches différentes : une étude stylistique comparative entre certaines icônes du design du Bauhaus et du design scandinave avec les produits IKEA ; l’exposition du storytelling mis en place par l’enseigne et l’observation des déclarations de son fondateur, Ingvar Kamprad ; une étude des mises en scène d’aménagements intérieurs au sein des catalogues et des showrooms de la marque. Les résultats de l’ensemble semblent indiquer qu’IKEA est un élément socioculturellement structurant de notre rapport aux objets du quotidien et de notre domesticité . Et que, sous condition d’une authenticité des valeurs exprimées par l’entreprise et d’une correspondance de celles-ci avec les actions mises en place par ses acteurs, elle pourrait peut-être atteindre ses ambitions de créer « a better everyday life for the many people ». En ce sens, IKEA pourrait être considérée comme une manifestation d’une amorce partielle, tout en étant porteuse d’une évolution conceptuelle bien plus fondamentale qu’il n’y paraît. / This thesis aims to answer the question Can the IKEA furniture company be seen as the beginnings of a total work of art? The reflection is carried out in two main parts. The first part focuses on the Wagnerian concept of the total work of art. Through the scientific literature on the subject, the importance of Wagnerism for twentieth-century Western culture and the interest of the concept within the field of intermedial studies are shown. Then, the exposition of the origins of the concept and of several applications or reappropriations, such as that of the Bauhaus, allows us to underline its socio-aesthetic character and to distinguish two dimensions: a purely idealistic one, that of the societal utopia to become (the accomplished total work of art); and a more concrete one, aiming at the attainment of this ideal thanks to the arts, what we call the amorces partielles (partial triggers) of the total work of art (a tool for fulfillment of the total work of art). Finally, in view of the study of IKEA, attention is focused on the concrete dimension of the concept and a list of characteristics of the amorces partielles is proposed to evaluate the object of study. This concerns: the massive impact of the actions of the object studied, its expression of social, even utopian, ambitions, and its capacity to represent a "commun" (common) of the many people. The second part, entirely dedicated to IKEA, aims to verify the correspondence between the company (the actions of its agents, its products and its effects) and the three characteristics identified as amorces partielles of the total work of art. This is achieved through three different research projects: a comparative stylistic study between certain Bauhaus and Scandinavian iconic design objects and IKEA products; the exposition of the storytelling set up by the brand and the observation of the statements of its founder, Ingvar Kamprad; a study of the staging of interior design in the brand's catalogues and showrooms. The results of all these studies seem to indicate that IKEA is a socio-cultural element shaping our relationship with everyday objects and our domesticity. And that, provided that the values expressed by the company are authentic and correspond with the practices adopted by its agents, it could perhaps achieve its ambitions to create "a better everyday life for the many people". In this sense, IKEA could be seen as a manifestation of an amorces partielles, yet at the same time as the bearer of a much more fundamental conceptual shift than it appears.

[pt] O propósito desta pesquisa é qualificar O Livro Vermelho de C. G. Jung como obra de arte. Para isso buscou-se primeiramente quais os conceitos e critérios de validação do livro como tal. Circunscritas as espécies que transitam nessa categoria – livros raros e livros de artista – contemplamos, por meio de um percurso histórico pela história do livro, suas especificidades, pressupostos e aproximações, pois, se por um lado, semelhante aos manuscritos medievais iluminados, tal publicação revigora o livro como obra de arte, por outro lado o processo de criação da obra rompe com o paradigma da feitura do livro através de um processo colaborativo e especializado em vigor desde aquela época, no qual, tradicionalmente, o autor escreve textos, não produz livros. Essa mudança de paradigma vem a ser um dos principais pressupostos da categoria que recoloca na história o livro como obra de arte por meio do campo do livro de artista – em seu sentido lato –, segundo o qual o autor não apenas escreve, mas faz o livro, e estuda-se a si mesmo no processo, então como circunscrevê-lo? Com isso esperamos atingir o objetivo subjacente ao tema central – resgatar o valor cultural e artístico do livro, ressaltando o potencial plástico e criativo que ele oferece. / [en] The purpose of this research is to qualify The Red Book of C.G. Jung as a work of art. For this, we first sought what concepts and validation criteria of the book as such. Circumscribed the species that pass through this category – rare books and artist books – we contemplate, through a historical journey, through the history of the book, its specificities, assumptions and approximations, because, if on the one hand, similar to the illuminated medieval manuscripts, such publication reinvigorates the book as a work of art, on the other hand, the process of creation of the work breaks with the paradigm of book making through a collaborative and specialized process in force since that time, in which, traditionally, the author writes texts, does not produce books. This paradigm shift is one of the main assumptions of the category that relocates in history the book as a work of art through the field of the artist s book – in its broad sense – according to which the author not only writes, but makes the book, and is studied to himself in the process, so how to circumscribe it? With this we hope to achieve the objective underlying the central theme – to rescue the cultural and artistic value of the book, highlighting the plastic and creative potential it offers.

This dissertation considers the ways that artistic collectives have become legible and value-producing social forms as they circulate within the institutions and economic geographies of contemporary art. My project focuses on Slavs and Tatars, a multilingual artist collective that began as a geographically dispersed reading group in 2006, and has been based in Berlin since 2014. I highlight the aesthetic, semiotic, and infrastructural dimensions of their practice and its modes and forms of production. I position the group as a lens through which to analyze the language and labor of knowledge production across economic geographies of contemporary art, the value projects of the German cultural state, migration and mobility politics, and the tensions of 'multicultural' Berlin. The design of the dissertation reflects two strategic methods. First, I instrumentalize the mobility of the collective in order to better understand the structural interdependencies across scalar geographies of cultural value. Second, I bring attention to Slavs and Tatars' linguistic and discursive practices, and the aesthetic forms these produce. Across the arc of the dissertation, I analyze how Slavs and Tatars is discursively produced, and thus mobilized through the spaces and public contexts of contemporary art. Each chapter discusses a distinct instance of the collective's circulation, semiotic practice, and the entailments of value that emerge across the situated publics and economic geographies of contemporary art: from translation and exhibition projects that engage the collective's conceptual region of Eurasia, to the linguistic infrastructures of studio practice in Berlin's Moabit neighborhood; from a lecture performance at renowned public institution Haus der Kulturen der Welt, to the circulation of books in market, gallery, and exhibition contexts. I analyze these forms in contexts of their public circulation in order to understand the effects of semiotic labor in the production of cultural value. I chart how semiotic practices of the collective productively engage economies of global art and state cultural funding—indexing place and social identity to derive value from a liberal politics of representation, on the one hand—while fostering emergent counterpublics through knowledge production on the other. Strategic language practices work to shift the accumulation and redistribution of material resources to artistic collectives and social projects throughout their region. I argue that this moves away from a politics of art that contests the state on ideological grounds, to one that engages regional, state, and municipal cultural economies in an effort to redistribute social capital and material resources. The dissertation puts forward a model for theorizing the political and economic geographies of contemporary art and culture, and the semiotic practices through which value, resources, attention, and meaning are made redistributable.

La recherche se donne pour objectif de définir comment la construction des régimes de valeurs artistiques, mémorielles et historiques du Guernica - œuvre d’art réalisée par Pablo Picasso en 1937 - participe à l’écriture patrimoniale du tableau-monument, d'une part, et devient opératoire dans la réactivation ou l’actualisation de la mémoire des événements auxquels il réfère, dans le cadre de la visite muséale, d'autre part. Trois niveaux de recherche ont été pensés. Le premier a été de circonscrire l’objet Guernica en tant qu’objet d’art en posant un socle d’analyse de l’objet détaché de tout contexte, et ce, afin de mieux appréhender ceux par lesquels il existe en tant qu’objet culturel signifié dans des contextes temporels et géographiques. Dans un deuxième temps, l’analyse des différentes mises en exposition du Guernica ont permis de saisir les différentes valeurs d’usage qui lui ont été attribuées et comprendre ainsi comment il s'est construit en tant qu’objet patrimonial. Enfin, dans un troisième temps, au regard d’une analyse détaillée de la mise en exposition du Guernica au MNCARS en 2009 et 2013, 60 entretiens menées selon une méthodologie qualitative après la visite ont été analysé afin de comprendre les valeurs d’usage que mobilisent les espagnols lors de la réception et pour quelles raisons. L’intérêt de l’enquête est d’avoir révélé qu’il existait un éventail de mémoires et d’appréhensions afférentes à l’objet Guernica. Les enquêtes ont été analysées sous le prisme de la sensibilité politique (Républicains et Nationalistes), mais surtout sous celui du prisme générationnel, et pour lequel quatre générations sont identifiées. Les résultats d’analyse par générations, permettent de distinguer deux types de rapport au Guernica : réactivation et actualisation. Les notions de réactivation et d’actualisation (Georgescu-Paquin, 2013) s’insèrent dans une logique de rupture-continuité, nécessaire à tout processus de patrimonialisation (Davallon, 2006). Dans ce cas d’étude, le MNCARS propose un cadre portant sur un versant de l’histoire qui, à défaut d’apaiser les tensions, les ravivent pour certains (Nationalistes) ; tandis que d’autres, se retrouvent dans un processus entamé depuis peu (Républicains), suite à la Loi dite de « mémoire historique » (2007). En revanche, les nouvelles générations présentent un regard apaisé et distancié qui leur permet de rendre opératoire l’écriture patrimoniale du Guernica. / The research aims to define how the construction of regimes of artistic, memorial and historical values ​​of Guernica - a work of art made by Pablo Picasso in 1937 - participates in the patrimonial writing of the painting-monument, on the one hand, and becomes operative in the reactivation or updating of the memory of the events to which it refers, as part of the museum visit, on the other hand. Three levels of research have been thought out. The first was to circumscribe the Guernica object as an art object by placing a base of analysis of the object detached from any context, and this, in order to better understand those by which it exists as a cultural object signified in temporal and geographical contexts. In a second step, the analysis of the different exposures of Guernica made it possible to grasp the different values ​​of use which were attributed to him and this to understand how it was constructed as a patrimonial object. Finally, in a third step, in the light of a detailed analysis of the exhibition of Guernica at MNCARS in 2009 and 2013, 60 interviews conducted according to a qualitative methodology after the visit were analyzed in order to understand the use values ​​that mobilize the spaniards at the reception and for what reasons. The interest of the investigation is to have revealed that there was a range of memories and apprehensions related to the Guernica object. The surveys were analyzed under the prism of political sensitivity (Republicans and Nationalists), but especially under that of the generational prism, and for which four generations are identified. The results of analysis by generations, allow to distinguish two types of report to Guernica: reactivation and actualization. The notions of reactivation and actualization (Georgescu-Paquin, 2013) are part of a logic of rupture-continuity, which is necessary for any heritage-making process (Davallon, 2006). In this case of study, the MNCARS proposes a framework on a side of the history which, if not soothing the tensions, revives them for some (Nationalists); while others, find themselves in a process started recently (Republicans), following the so-called law of "historical memory" (2007). On the other hand, the new generations present a calm and distanced glance which allows them to make operative the patrimonial writing of Guernica.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T17:27:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Edison Silvestre Petenussi Silva.pdf: 3671113 bytes, checksum: 0213ca62fbae90f771744562024b91bb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-04-30 / This present work has as objective a discussion about the statute of photographic image, its uses and characteristics from an analysis of the work of plastic artist Rosângela Rennó and from the approach of two philosophers, Walter Benjamin and Roland Barthes. It was presented a brief historic of the birth of photography and after, an introduction of the ideas of Walter Benjamin, specially his considerations about the work of art and its technical reproduction. Subsequently, it was introduced the considerations about photography developed by French philosopher Roland Barthes in his famous book Camera Lucida . It was examined the work of plastic artist Rosângela Rennó in the light of these philosopher s works. The analysis is about a specific work, Bibliotheca a compiled images redeemed by artist and reused as support for the development of her artistic universe. The issue of photography as a possibility of memory rescue, the massification of photographic images and the appropriation of existing images resignified in the art guided this dissertation / O presente trabalho possui como objetivo a discussão sobre o estatuto da imagem fotográfica, seus usos e características a partir da análise da obra da artista plástica Rosângela Rennó e das abordagens de dois pensadores, Walter Benjamin e Roland Barthes. Tratamos inicialmente de um breve histórico do nascimento da fotografia e posteriormente uma introdução ao pensamento de Walter Benjamin, especialmente suas considerações acerca da obra de arte e sua técnica de reprodução. Posteriormente a isso introduzimos as considerações sobre fotografia elaboradas pelo pensador francês Roland Barthes em seu célebre livro A Câmara Clara . Examinamos a obra da artista plástica Rosângela Rennó sob a luz das teorias dos pensadores em questão. A análise destina-se a uma obra específica, a Bibliotheca , um compilado de imagens resgatadas pela artista e reutilizadas como suporte para o desenvolvimento do seu universo artístico. A questão da fotografia como possibilidade de resgate da memória, a massificação das imagens fotográficas e a apropriação de imagens existentes ressignificadas na arte pautam a presente dissertação

Ce mémoire s’intéresse à la présence des œuvres d’art fictives dans le roman contemporain. Leur description précise remet en question les codes de la représentation et soumet le lecteur à une autre forme d’expérience face à l’œuvre d’art. C’est à travers les concepts d’immersion, d’intermédialité et d’interaction que la fiction de l’œuvre d’art dans le texte sera ici abordée à travers trois différents romans, soit The Body Artist de Don DeLillo, La Carte et le territoire de Michel Houellebecq et Œuvres d’Édouard Levé. La transformation de l’expérience de lecture suggère un renouvellement de l’esthétique littéraire, accentuant l’importance de la participation du lecteur dans la démarche créatrice, et ouvrant les possibilités de la transmission de l’art contemporain. Les dispositifs propres au récit sont mis de l’avant pour intégrer le médium visuel, et ainsi questionner le rapport à l’attribution du sens de l’œuvre d’art, à son interprétation et à sa perception. Le présent mémoire tentera de proposer des possibilités pour l’art contemporain de se manifester à l’extérieur des institutions muséales traditionnelles, permettant ainsi de considérer l’immersion littéraire comme étant non seulement une expérience de lecture, mais aussi une approche face à l’art visuel. / This thesis focuses on the presence of fictional works of art in the contemporary novel. Through their precise descriptions, the fictional works of art challenge the codes of representation and transform the reader’s experience in front of the artwork. It is through the concepts of immersion, intermediality and interaction that the fictional nature of the works of art in the text will be addressed here through three different novels which are The Body Artist by Don DeLillo, La carte et le territoire by Michel Houellebecq and Oeuvres by Édouard Levé. The transformation of the reading experience suggests a renewal of literary aesthetics, showing the importance of the reader’s participation in the artistic process and creating new opening possibilities for the transmission of contemporary art. Specific narrative devices are put forward to integrate the visual medium and to questions the meaning of the work of art, its interpretation and perception. This thesis attempts to provide opportunities for contemporary art to manifest itself outside the traditional museum institutions, thus considering the literary immersion not only as a reading experience, but also as an approach to experience visual art .