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Os murais dos artistas professores Aldo Locatelli (1915-1962) e de João Fahrion (1898-1970), existentes nos prédios da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) – o Instituto de Artes e a Reitoria –, apesar de já terem sido restaurados, nos anos 2000, os murais ainda não tinham sido estudados pela óptica da historiografia da arte. O significado destas obras foi analisado aqui, através da inferência das intenções dos autores, expressas nas obras, no contexto de sua concepção. Assim, os murais artísticos da UFRGS foram examinados em relação aos eventos comemorativos ao cinquentenário de fundação do então Instituto de Belas Artes do RS – o 1º. Congresso Brasileiro de Arte e o 1º. Salão Pan-Americano de Arte – realizados em abril de 1958. Naquela ocasião, artistas e intelectuais colocaram em discussão as teorias e as práticas modernistas no processo de criação da imagem artística. / The murals of the professor artists Aldo Locatelli (1915-1962) and João Fahrion (1898-1970), existent in the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) buildings – the Instituto de Artes and the Rectory – , despite of those works had already been restored in the 2000’s, the murals were not studied by the optic of the art historiography yet. The meanning of these works was analysed here through the inference of their authors intentions, expressed in those works of art, in their conception contex. Then, the artistic murals of the UFRGS were examinated in relation to the commemorative events of the Instituto de Belas Artes do RS foundations 50º. – the 1º. Congresso Brasileiro de Arte and the 1º. Salão Pan-Americano de Arte – held in april 1958. On that ocasion, artists and intellectuals discussed the modern theories and practices in the artistic image process of criation.

Os murais dos artistas professores Aldo Locatelli (1915-1962) e de João Fahrion (1898-1970), existentes nos prédios da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) – o Instituto de Artes e a Reitoria –, apesar de já terem sido restaurados, nos anos 2000, os murais ainda não tinham sido estudados pela óptica da historiografia da arte. O significado destas obras foi analisado aqui, através da inferência das intenções dos autores, expressas nas obras, no contexto de sua concepção. Assim, os murais artísticos da UFRGS foram examinados em relação aos eventos comemorativos ao cinquentenário de fundação do então Instituto de Belas Artes do RS – o 1º. Congresso Brasileiro de Arte e o 1º. Salão Pan-Americano de Arte – realizados em abril de 1958. Naquela ocasião, artistas e intelectuais colocaram em discussão as teorias e as práticas modernistas no processo de criação da imagem artística. / The murals of the professor artists Aldo Locatelli (1915-1962) and João Fahrion (1898-1970), existent in the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) buildings – the Instituto de Artes and the Rectory – , despite of those works had already been restored in the 2000’s, the murals were not studied by the optic of the art historiography yet. The meanning of these works was analysed here through the inference of their authors intentions, expressed in those works of art, in their conception contex. Then, the artistic murals of the UFRGS were examinated in relation to the commemorative events of the Instituto de Belas Artes do RS foundations 50º. – the 1º. Congresso Brasileiro de Arte and the 1º. Salão Pan-Americano de Arte – held in april 1958. On that ocasion, artists and intellectuals discussed the modern theories and practices in the artistic image process of criation.

Os murais dos artistas professores Aldo Locatelli (1915-1962) e de João Fahrion (1898-1970), existentes nos prédios da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) – o Instituto de Artes e a Reitoria –, apesar de já terem sido restaurados, nos anos 2000, os murais ainda não tinham sido estudados pela óptica da historiografia da arte. O significado destas obras foi analisado aqui, através da inferência das intenções dos autores, expressas nas obras, no contexto de sua concepção. Assim, os murais artísticos da UFRGS foram examinados em relação aos eventos comemorativos ao cinquentenário de fundação do então Instituto de Belas Artes do RS – o 1º. Congresso Brasileiro de Arte e o 1º. Salão Pan-Americano de Arte – realizados em abril de 1958. Naquela ocasião, artistas e intelectuais colocaram em discussão as teorias e as práticas modernistas no processo de criação da imagem artística. / The murals of the professor artists Aldo Locatelli (1915-1962) and João Fahrion (1898-1970), existent in the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) buildings – the Instituto de Artes and the Rectory – , despite of those works had already been restored in the 2000’s, the murals were not studied by the optic of the art historiography yet. The meanning of these works was analysed here through the inference of their authors intentions, expressed in those works of art, in their conception contex. Then, the artistic murals of the UFRGS were examinated in relation to the commemorative events of the Instituto de Belas Artes do RS foundations 50º. – the 1º. Congresso Brasileiro de Arte and the 1º. Salão Pan-Americano de Arte – held in april 1958. On that ocasion, artists and intellectuals discussed the modern theories and practices in the artistic image process of criation.

In this dissertation, I investigate connections between French philosophy and the theory of architecture from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s. In the mid-1960s, many architects became acutely aware of the crisis of modern architecture embodied in the failings of social housing, the routinized corporate modernism of the postwar period, and the commodification of design. They questioned the principles of the Modern Movement and emphasized the “arbitrary” nature of the relationship between form and function while turning to French structuralism, semiology, and post-structuralism for potential answers. My period of study spans from the the period of political uprisings of the 1960s to the advent of digital design in the early 1990s.To date, little in-depth research has been done on the close relation between French philosophy and architecture in this period and its role in foreshadowing postmodern developments. My dissertation addresses this gap by presenting case studies of the theoretical work of six different architects: Aldo Rossi, Alan Colquhoun, Mario Gandelsonas and Diana Agrest, Bernard Tschumi, and Peter Eisenman. These case studies share a common thread: a preoccupation with structuralist and poststructuralist concerns with language. However, concepts such as “structure,” “event,” and “meaning” often have different meanings for each of these architects. Thus, my project could be described as a history and criticism of architectural theory—one that focuses specifically on the dissonances and contradictions present within the theoretical writings of these architects, while examining the polemics and discussions between them. I consider their built work only to the extent that it helps to elucidate or challenge theoretical concepts. Thus, in my case study on Aldo Rossi’s writings, I interrogate the analogy between the structuralist concern for articulating discrete and finite linguistic units and the latter’s notion of “type” and urban morphology. In the chapter on Alan Colquhoun, I discuss the influence that the work of Roland Barthes, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Ferdinand de Saussure had on his reflections about “meaning” and “convention” in architecture. In the case study on the work of Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas, I examine the extent to which their understanding of “theory” and of “ideology” is indebted to the work of Louis Althusser and trace the influence of Roland Barthes, whose seminar on S/Z they attended in Paris before moving to New York in 1971. Likewise, I analyze the role that thinkers such as Henri Lefebvre, Roland Barthes, and the Tel Quel circle in the late 1970s, and Jacques Derrida in the early 1980s had on Bernard Tschumi’s writings on the “polysemy of meaning” and on the “event.” Finally, I examine Peter Eisenman’s collaboration with Jacques Derrida in the 1980s questioning Eisenman’s eclectic appropriation of Derrida’s philosophical concepts. Besides elucidating this significant period of architecture in which many of the fundamental principles of modern architecture were overturned, in the conclusion of this study, I discuss briefly the “post-critical turn” in the architectural scholarship of the past two decades with the hope of challenging its basic assumptions. My hope is to contribute, through its critical reevaluation, to theory’s renewal.

This research presents a synchronic and a diachronic investigation of six Italian translations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice) across a century (1872-1988). This work draws on Antoine Berman's method for the analysis of literary translations and integrates it with interdisciplinary theoretical approaches focused on the investigation of children's literature in translation. The premises of children's literature studies, translation studies, and retranslation studies underpin the analytical framework that supports the textual analysis. The examination focuses in particular on the translation strategies used to convey in Italian the culture-specific references that contribute to fashion the identity of Alice and her Wonderland. The research operates on two different levels. Firstly, it presents a synchronic investigation concerned with a close reading and analysis of each translation in linguistic and textual terms. The elements examined in the detailed survey offer the opportunity to retrace the translators' unique understanding of Alice and discuss how it was conveyed to the Italian readers. Secondly, it proposes a diachronic investigation comparing, from a chronological perspective, the translation solutions previously identified and examines how the concepts of the image of the child and dual readership have evolved in the Italian translations. The purpose of the study is to investigate the translation strategies to convey Alice in Italian, observe the patterns that emerge from the analysis of the texts and advance explanatory hypotheses that would account for the changes in the translators' understanding of Carroll's novel over time. The close reading the research centres on aims to provide a meticulous collection of the translation solutions found in the texts; these are not confined to particular passages of the book but are found throughout it, thus offering support for future analysis on the translations of Alice. Finally, this research also aims to contribute to the analysis of children's literature in translation by providing an analytical framework able to support the investigation of different aspects of books for children in translation in other languages other than Italian.

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The history of video art has tended to be told through a narrow lens, one that understands video as a single, coherent medium, or as defined by a single political project: an opposition to broadcast television. This thesis proposes instead to look at “actually existing video”, a methodology adapted from music scholar Benjamin Piekut that looks at the concrete variety of forms that video took at particular moments and in particular places, and in the hands of particular people. Such an approach does not seek to predetermine what video is, but rather insists on video’s heterogeneity. This thesis applies this methodology by outlining the contours of what I call, following critic Jud Yalkut, “the alternative video network”. This network was an open-ended assemblage of people, instruments, practices and shared ideas that, in the 1960s and early 1970s, embraced video as a means of engaging with the politics of technology. It included the New York-based figures Nam June Paik, Woody and Steina Vasulka, Aldo Tambellini, Juan Downey and the Raindance collective (especially Paul Ryan, Frank Gillette, Michael Shamberg, Beryl Korot and Phyllis Gershuny), and a contingent from the West Coast and Canada including the collectives T.R. Uthco, Ant Farm, Image Bank and General Idea. Its ideas and practices were circulated at places like The Kitchen in New York and the Everson Museum in Syracuse (under the guidance of curators James Harithas and David Ross), and in the publications Radical Software (edited by Korot and Gershuny) and FILE (edited by General Idea). Ultimately, I argue that this network, which assembles a variety of different art histories, and social and theoretical concerns, was unified by a shared engagement with the central problem of Cold War US discourse: how to integrate humans with the new electronic technologies that proliferated in the US in the wake of World War Two. The alternative video network analyzed the dominant solutions to this problem, and offered their own alternatives.