Zugl.: Bamberg, Universiẗat, Diss., 2005.

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En tant que préalable à l’appréciation d’une forme, le cadre demeure une question centrale en esthétique de l’image. Où débute une forme, où s’achève-t-elle ? Si le cadre délimite l’image en y circonscrivant un espace au regard, il peut jouer de ses plasticités et renverser ce présupposé en son contraire : la tendance all-over de l’expressionnisme abstrait montre bien des exemples où le cadre se défait dans une ouverture qui rend l’espace à son indétermination, fut-elle fixée à l’avant de notre regard. Le point de départ de cette recherche vient du concept établi par Meyer Schapiro du cadre comme « véhicule matériel » où il y fait distinction entre l’image-objet (absence de limites de surface et visibilité du support) et l’image-signe (limite de surface liée à la représentation). Faisant état de cette différence fondamentale, nous proposons un travail interdisciplinaire – le cinéma expérimental et sa relation avec les autres arts – où l’œuvre d’Andy Warhol servira de fil conducteur. A partir d’une première occurrence appelée cadre-surface, il semble important de revenir sur certains malentendus concernant le Pop art tant sur le plan historique, philosophique, qu’esthétique en proposant le concept de « ready-made illusionniste ». Dans un deuxième temps, le cadre-perception sera l’occasion d’affiner notre travail en revenant sur la position du spectateur face aux images à travers le concept de « Pensée visuelle » développé par Rudolf Arnheim. On verra de quelle façon le cinéma expérimental à tendance structurelle et matérialiste (Michael Snow, Paul Sharits, Peter Gidal) se nourrit de la relation figure-fond établit par la psychologie de la forme (gestalt). Par là, comment le film ouvre aux possibles phénoménologiques d’un autre rapport à l’image ? Enfin, la dernière partie situera le cadre à sa propre destitution physique dans un chemin qui va du cadre-écran au cadre-performance. Devant cette typologie quelque peu taxinomique, nous souhaitons moins y penser un cloisonnement entre les différents types de cadre qu’y trouver force circulaire afin de répondre à l’hypothèse suivante : en quoi la matérialité des premiers films de Warhol nous engage progressivement dans une réflexion ambiguë parce qu’ambivalente autour d’une image spectrale et dématérialisée ? / As a prerequisite to the assessment of a form, the framework remains a central issue in the aesthetics of the image. Where does a form begin, where does it end? If the frame defines the image circumscribing there a space for the eye to see, it can play of its plasticity and overturn this assumption into its opposite: the all-over pattern of abstract expressionism shows examples where the frame opens up to an undetermined space, whether it might have been fixed or not before we set eyes on it. The starting point for this research comes from the concept established by Meyer Schapiro of the frame as a "material vehicle" where he makes a distinction between the image-object (no surface boundaries and visibility of support) and the image-sign (surface boundary associated with the representation). Stating this fundamental difference, we propose an interdisciplinary work - experimental cinema and its relationship to the other arts - where Andy Warhol’s work will serve as a guideline. From a first occurrence called frame-surface, it seems important to revisit some misunderstandings about Pop art, historically, philosophically, and aesthetically, by proposing the concept of "ready-made illusionist". Secondly, the frame-perception will be an opportunity to refine our work by returning to the position of the viewer facing images through the concept of "visual thinking" developed by Rudolf Arnheim. We'll see how experimental film with structural and materialistic tendency (Michael Snow, Paul Sharits, Peter Gidal) feeds on the figre-ground organization established by the psychology of form (Gestalt). Then, how does the film open to the phenomenological possibilities of another connection to the image? The last part will place the frame over its own physical removal on a path that goes from frame-screen to frame-performance. Given this typology somewhat taxonomic, we wish to think of it less as a division between different types of frame than to find circular strength in it, in order to meet the following hypothesis: how does the materiality of early Warhol films progressively engage us in an ambiguous, since ambivalent, reflection around a spectral and dematerialized image?

This project is concerned with exploring the relationship between postconceptual dance and its state as object. As a practice-led research project it aims to do so both through the written thesis and through artistic practice, which is here presented as a series of video projects that extend representations of dance. Over five chapters I trace the permutation of the ‘object’ from choreographer to spectator, participant, editor, collector and ‘reframer’, arguing for the multiplicity of roles that choreographers, and by extension dancers, take on at the beginning of the 21st century. My interdisciplinary research draws from a variety of theoretical discourses including performance theory, visual cultures and critical theory, and is therefore both relevant to the field of dance studies and beyond the discipline. Given the practice-led nature of the project, my aim has been to expand choreographic performance practices and to increases the range of ‘objects’ that can be considered dance. Therefore, the project resides in the gaps and tensions between practice and theory, performance and documentation, language and dance, text and movement, choreography and objecthood. Throughout I argue that post-conceptual dance operates within an extended field in which dancers and choreographers are expanding the boundaries of the art form, making dance relevant to a broader artistic, cultural, political and social context.

Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable (EPI) was a drug-fueled rock concert-cum-multimedia art event where layers of mediation mixed with immediate experience: The Velvet Underground performed their innovative music in front of films of themselves performing, Factory Superstars danced and performed poetry, various Warhol films projected on the walls, flashing lights flickered on mirrored surfaces, and a crowd of spectators – both famous and unknown – packed in to see and be seen, to dance and trip into the early hours of the morning. The experience of the EPI was a potent combination of alienation, mediation, and commercialization. The EPI was a promotional vehicle for Warhol, Warhol's Factory crew, and the Velvet Underground, but is also a complex example of spectacle that has been under-analyzed in recent scholarship. The EPI's unabashed emphasis on marketing, packaging, consumer goods, and empty celebrity are all manifestations of fears of late capitalist excess, but beneath the veneer of vapidity was an undercurrent of counterculture political activism and social awareness. Original contributions include cultural analysis, interpretation of contemporary reviews and reports, examination of the event's lack of art historical presence, and incorporation of music scholarship into the Warhol historical canon.

The purpose of this paper was to examine the concept of an individual who hangs an exhibition poster from Moderna Museet on their wall and shares it on Instagram. Questions regarding what that individual wants to tell the audience about themselves, their individuality and lifestyle, through sharing it on a public forum have been the main topic. The material was an image of a poster from Moderna Museet in Stockholm (an Andy Warhol exhibition from 1968) hanging inside someone's home. The picture was found amongst Instagram-posts that had been tagged to connect with the account @modernamuseet_butiken. At the basis of the analysis is the theoretical framework of Pierre Bourdieu concerning capital, taste, beauty and museums. The method was a qualitative social semiotic approach that began by looking at the material on a denotative and connotative level, before branching out to the social semiotic level by applying the theoretical framework. The research found that through the content it is possible to make strong connotative readings concerning the person's education, background and awareness of art and art history. A conclusion is made concerning Bourdieus work in a modern day, which says that it is possible to use it to get a fundamental understanding, but it is at the same time important to approach the theories critically, because of the fact that the lines between different social classes are getting more blurred.

<p>The aim of this thesis is to study the Swedish art field during the 1980s, from the perspective of the artistic production of Lars Nilsson. During this decade he became one of the most well known young artists associated with postmodernism.</p><p>The thesis is divided into three parts, where the first part examines different influences and aspects of the art of Lars Nilsson, as well as the contexts he was a part of. This is performed through a chronological as well as a categorizing presentation, based upon different exhibitions where Nilsson participated during the 1980s.</p><p>In the second part the subject is the Swedish art field, and how Lars Nilsson came to be part of a a new established category of a young generation of artists, mostly born in the 1950s, who were associated with youth, postmodernism and contemporaneousness. This part also puts attention to the importance of Lars Nittve, then art critic and curator, in introducing postmodernism, as well as establishing this new categorization of artists in Sweden.</p><p>The last part of the thesis studies four different group exhibitions, and how they all exemplify how "a younger generation of artists" were to be connected with notions of postmodernism and contemporaneousness through curatorial practice. Lars Nilsson participated at the thirst three of these exhibitions. This is followed with a last group exhibition, where the idea of younger artists as <em>the</em> most contemporary were to be questioned. The thesis ends with a summary and a discussion.</p>

The aim of this thesis is to study the Swedish art field during the 1980s, from the perspective of the artistic production of Lars Nilsson. During this decade he became one of the most well known young artists associated with postmodernism. The thesis is divided into three parts, where the first part examines different influences and aspects of the art of Lars Nilsson, as well as the contexts he was a part of. This is performed through a chronological as well as a categorizing presentation, based upon different exhibitions where Nilsson participated during the 1980s. In the second part the subject is the Swedish art field, and how Lars Nilsson came to be part of a a new established category of a young generation of artists, mostly born in the 1950s, who were associated with youth, postmodernism and contemporaneousness. This part also puts attention to the importance of Lars Nittve, then art critic and curator, in introducing postmodernism, as well as establishing this new categorization of artists in Sweden. The last part of the thesis studies four different group exhibitions, and how they all exemplify how "a younger generation of artists" were to be connected with notions of postmodernism and contemporaneousness through curatorial practice. Lars Nilsson participated at the thirst three of these exhibitions. This is followed with a last group exhibition, where the idea of younger artists as the most contemporary were to be questioned. The thesis ends with a summary and a discussion.

Esta proposta procurou estabelecer o desenvolvimento e as obras do período pop, principalmente do artista Andy Warhol, como registros da história recente americana. Mostra também, uma correlação entre estas obras com a ideologia do consumo estabelecida nos anos seguintes a II Guerra Mundial, e que possibilitou a estabilização da hegemonia política, cultural e econômica dos Estados Unidos. Associou-se ainda a participação dos meios de comunicação de massa e da publicidade nesse processo, como divulgadores e propagadores da ideologia do consumo e, concomitantemente, fontes temáticas das obras de Warhol e outros artistas pop. Apresenta também a relação entre as mudanças geradas no pós II Guerra com elementos da atualidade, que sugerem um possível declínio desta hegemonia e, que se denominou contemporaneidade pop. Para isso realizou-se análises de algumas das obras mais características desse artista, associado a estudos bibliográficos específicos e gerais relacionados ao tema. / This essay proposes to demonstrate the development and the works of the pop art period, principally of Andy Warhol, as registered in recent American History. This essay also shows a correlation between those works and the ideology of consumerism established in the years following the Second World War, which made political, cultural and economical hegemony possible in the USA. Means of mass communication and publicity will be associated with this process as disseminators and propagators of consumerism and at the same time, thematic works of Warhol and other pop artists. The relationship between post war changes and present day elements will also be presented, which suggests a possible decline in this hegemony, which has been named contemporary pop.To this end, analyses of some of the most characteristic works of this artist will be realised, associated with specific and general bibliographic studies related to the subject.