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1	The body part in contemporary sculpture : a thematic consideration of fragmentation during the 1990s Hutchinson, Kristen January 2007 (has links) The thesis identifies sculptures of body parts as a significant, yet under discussed, trend in sculpture production during the 1990s By looking closely at key artworks by British, American and Canadian artists, the thesis interweaves the thematic threads of portraiture, materiality, the technique of casting from the body, viewer interactions, body memory, depictions of skin, fragmentations of subjectivity and selfhood, reconsiderations of artistic traditions and the fragment as a means of accessing history. The thesis focuses upon the ways in which feminisms, reconsiderations of phenomenology and scientific and technological developments have shaped changing perceptions of the body. I argue that sculptures of the fragmented body assert the crucial role played by bodies in the lived experiences of individual subjects. Chapter one examines Janine Antoni's Lick and Lather (1993) and Christine Borland's L 'Homme Double (1997). Through the use of unusual materials, subjects and viewer interactions, the conventions of the portrait bust as a commemorative object are re-conceptualised. In chapter two, Sarah Lucas's sculptures created from casts of her own body will be discussed in relation to the aggressive gesture and female masculinity. In Chapter three, the theoretical concepts of "traumatic body memory", the "Skin Ego" and "haptic visuality" will be utilised as tools to consider the fragmentation of the skin in videos and sculptures by Mona Hatoum. Chapter four examines the relationship between Gober's sculptures of disembodied legs and the notion of "the phantom limb", gay male sexuality and body memory. Chapter five examines the sculptures of heads and skulls in Borland's The Dead Teach the Living and English Family China. In these two installations, the fragment functions as an access point to troubling historical moments when subjects were rendered less than human: the slave trade in Liverpool, England and the study of Nazi eugenics in Minister Germany. 735.23
2	Sculpture et cinéma : emprunts et perméabilités dans le champ de l'art contemporain et du cinéma / Sculpture and cinema : borrowings and interrelationships in the field of contemporary art and cinema Honore, Thibault 16 January 2015 (has links) La rencontre entre le cinéma et les arts du volume relève d’un principe de perméabilité. Le travail des cinéastes, qui se sont essayés à l’installation, témoigne de phénomènes d’hybridations connexes. Si le cinéma gagne l’espace d’exposition, c’est pour y retrouver les données séculaires de sa monstration. Le septième art voit dans sa déterritorialisation vers l’objet d’art tridimensionnel, l’expression réaffectée de son histoire. Le déplacement du cinéma dans le champ des œuvres d’art en volume doit donc être interrogé selon un principe de survivance. En feignant d’amortaliser les êtres qu’il capture, le cinéma trouve dans la sculpture un moyen de présentifier la mort. Dans notre travail plastique, cette entreprise passe par un procédé formel reconnaissable : le renversement. De ce geste plastique, dont nous postulons qu’il est métonymique d’une forme d’enfouissement, naît l’idée que le cinéma et la sculpture s’inscrivent tous deux dans un régime funéraire de l’art. / The meeting of cinema and sculpture must be analyzed through a principle of interrelationships. The work of movie directors, who tried to realize sculptures and installations, proves similar phenomena of hybridization. When cinema leaves the theatre for an exhibition, it is also to find again, with the updating of new plastic forms, the secular data of its screening. With its transfer towards the sculpture the cinematographic art acquires the new expression of its personal history. Knowing this, the movement of cinema towards sculpture must also be questioned in the light of a principle of survival. By pretending to a-mortalize the beings that it shoots, the cinema find in sculpture a means to nurture its macabre labour. Besides, this display of death undergoes a very identifiable formal process : the inversion. We may then identify this plastic gesture with the metonymical figure of a burying. Thus, both cinema and sculpture seem to join in a funeral system of art. Cinéma Sculpture Installation Exposition Corps Mémoire Enfouissement Renversement Empreinte Mort Survivance Cinema Sculpture Installation Exhibition Body Memory Burying Inversion Footprint Death Survival 735.23 735.24 791.4
3	Les représentations de la mort dans la création artistique actuelle : histoire, contextualisation, comparaisons / The representations of death in present artistic creation : history, contextualisation, comparison Heyd, Marie 10 April 2015 (has links) Alors que les individus dans la société contemporaine sont unis non par une propriété mais par un devoir et par une dette, par un manque, par une limite prenant la forme d’une charge pour celui qui en est affecté, la postmodernité rend à la mort et à l’absence toute sa densité. À travers la répétition, entre jubilation et désespérance, les artistes figurent la temporalité de l’épreuve par une écriture qui travaille l’instant. Ils racontent ces évènements infimes qui sont les plus fragiles, les plus précaires, ayant pourtant une forte efficacité. Il s’agira ici d’étudier les nouvelles postures devant l’événement historique, quand l’artiste se tient au plus singulier. / While individuals in contemporary society are united not by property but by a duty and a debt, a lack, by a limit taking the shape of a responsibility for the one who is affected, postmodernism returns to death and absence all its density. Through repetition, between jubilation and despair, the artist represents the temporality of the event. His writing works the moment. He tells these tiny events that are the most fragile, the most precarious, having nevertheless a strong efficiency. This thesis will try to study the new postures in front of the historic event, when the artist stands in the most singular. Crâne Orbite Danse macabre Trauma Étrange Corps liquide Cérémonie Rituel Vanité Fantôme Archive Grotesque Ironie Skull Orbit Dance of death Trauma Strangeness Liquid body Ceremony Ritual Vanity Ghost Archive Grotesque Irony 735.23 735.24

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