Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1983. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-162).

Thesis (M.Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1981. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH / Includes bibliographical references. / by David Lewis Chandler. / M.Arch

Thesis (M.A.)--Duquesne University, 2009. / Title from document title page. Abstract included in electronic submission form. Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-105) and index.

Dissertation (DPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2006. / Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-01-19T10:47:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Diane Sousa da Silva Lima.pdf: 31398514 bytes, checksum: 309c3b9f66ff0634d0cf6863b107f3ad (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-19T10:47:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Diane Sousa da Silva Lima.pdf: 31398514 bytes, checksum: 309c3b9f66ff0634d0cf6863b107f3ad (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - PUCSP / This research analyzes the effects of sense of a set of Afro-Brazilian contemporary works and artistic practices from the discursive mechanisms of enunciation that configure the regime of meaning, interaction and risk. Analyzing a corpus formed by a set of practices and actions that intervene in urban, media and institutional spaces, taking as a temporal cut the beginning of the 21st century to the present day, it aims to understand how this black body by means of enunciative mechanisms of its choices aesthetic arrangements of plasticity, figurativeness and thematization of a set of works. By discursively recombining the arrangements, they construct new narratives, new senses endowed with criticality that we aim to show, collaborate for the deconstruction of racial stereotypes. The central hypothesis of the research is that the fact that a target blackbody becomes an enunciator, enjoying its own faculty of the human condition of giving meaning to the world, is able through artistic practices to create ruptures that contribute to make the racial stereotypes of the country. The second hypothesis is that these practices, by creating interventions in the media, urban and institutional spaces, break the regimes of invisibility that, under the effect of structural racism, operate in the official circuits and legitimating national cultural production. When accessing a memory of the body, the third hypothesis proposes that these practices actualize in an ancestral knowledge, resignifying the social imaginary, encompassing new ways of doing and aesthetic possibilities. Using as a framework the semiotics of Algirdas Julien Greimas, the semiotics of the social of Eric Landowski and the contributions to the plastic semiotics of Ana Claudia de Oliveira, we verified that through the transitivity of enunciating, the set of works analyzed show that there were significant ruptures in the visibility schemes in support of a process of re-signification that is under way; also, that by being an act of resistance, they actualize in the present, an ancestral and mythical memory that keeps connected different times and spaces. Still, producing affections and intervening in the media, urban and institutional spaces, we saw that before the structure of the racial program, the practices are still focused and restricted, limiting their communication amplitude. At the end, we find that the aesthetic possibilities that we inaugurate point us to a future of learning where more investment in aestheticity and strategies of visibility are essential to potentiate their senses being sensed / Esta pesquisa analisa os efeitos de sentido de um conjunto de obras e práticas artísticas contemporâneas afro-brasileiras a partir dos mecanismos discursivos da enunciação que configuram os regime de sentido, interação e risco. Analisando um corpus formado por um conjunto de práticas e ações que intervém nos espaços urbanos, midiáticos e institucionais tendo como recorte temporal o início do século XXI até os dias de hoje, objetiva-se entender como esse corpo negro por mecanismos enunciativos de suas escolhas monta arranjos estéticos da plasticidade, figuratividade e tematização de um conjunto de obras. Ao recombinar discursivamente os arranjos, constroem novas narrativas, novos sentidos dotados de criticidade que objetivamos mostrar, colaboram para a desconstrução dos estereótipos raciais. A hipótese central da pesquisa é de que o fato de um corpo negro destinador assumir-se enunciador, gozando da sua faculdade própria da condição humana de dar sentido ao mundo, é capaz através das práticas artísticas, de criar rupturas que contribuam para fazer sentir os estereótipos raciais do país. A segunda hipótese é que essas práticas ao criar intervenções nos espaços midiáticos, urbanos e institucionais rompem os regimes de invisibilidade que, sob efeito de um racismo estrutural, operam nos circuitos oficiais e legitimadores da produção cultural nacional. Ao acessar uma memória do corpo, a terceira hipótese propõe que essas práticas atualizam em ato um conhecimento ancestral ressignificando o imaginário social, inaugurando novas formas de fazer e possibilidades estéticas. Usando como arcabouço a semiótica de Algirdas Julien Greimas, da semiótica do social de Eric Landowski e as contribuições para a semiótica plástica de Ana Claudia de Oliveira, verificamos que através da transitividade do se enunciar, o conjunto de obras analisadas mostram que houveram significativas rupturas nos regimes de visibilidade corroborando para um processo de ressignificação que se encontra em curso; também, que ao ser ato de resistência, elas atualizam no presente, uma memória ancestral e mítica que mantém ligados diferentes tempos e espaços. Ainda, que produzindo afetações e intervindo nos espaços midiáticos, urbanos e institucionais, vimos que diante da estrutura do programa racial, as práticas ainda são focalizadas e restritas, limitando sua amplitude comunicacional. Ao fim, constatamos que as possibilidades estéticas que inauguram nos apontam um futuro de aprendizado onde mais investimento em esteticidade e estratégias de visibilidade são imprescindíveis para potencializar os seus sentidos ser sentidos

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilmment in compliance with the requirements for the Masters Degree in Technology: Fine Art, Department of Fine Art, Durban University of Technology, 2009. / This paper explores the chronological relationship between the fine art market and the work produced by black South African artists since the emergence of a black urban class in the 1940s. It stems from the hypothesis that historically the art market had (and to some degree, still has) a major influence on the works produced by black artists in South Africa. In the introduction I contextualized the title of this dissertation by discussing the definitions of the terminology which feature therein. In Chapter One I have contextualized the study by looking at the historical background (the pre-1994) of South African art. I have specifically looked at how the socio-political conditions of that time influenced the work produced by black South African artists, hence the emergence of Township Art and Resistance Art. In Chapter Two I looked at the roles played by art institutions, galleries, and organizations in the stylistic developments made by black South African artists between the 1950s and 2000. The discussion of the influential role played by such informal institutions as Polly Street Art Centre, Jubilee Art Centre, the Johannesburg Art Foundation and many others on black artists forms a greater part of this chapter. Also included in this chapter is the discussion which examines the hypothesis that many black artists who do not have a formal academic background constitute a greater part of the informal art market. Tommy Motswai, Joseph Manana and Sibusiso Duma are examples of such artists and their work is discussed in depth. David Koloane, De Jager, Anitra Nettleton and other writers who have made literary contributions to South African art history, have been extensively cited and critically engaged in this chapter. iv In Chapter Three I discussed contemporary perceptions of the formal art sector, particularly in the post apartheid period. In this regard I looked at what defines mainstream or high art and how it differs from the marginal forms of art which are discussed in the preceding chapter. In this discussion I looked at the work of Sam Nhlengethwa, Colbert Mashile and my own work. In my discussion of their work I mapped out the characteristics of contemporary mainstream art, focussing primarily on 2-dimensional art. / M

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilmment in compliance with the requirements for the Masters Degree in Technology: Fine Art, Department of Fine Art, Durban University of Technology, 2009. / This paper explores the chronological relationship between the fine art market and the work produced by black South African artists since the emergence of a black urban class in the 1940s. It stems from the hypothesis that historically the art market had (and to some degree, still has) a major influence on the works produced by black artists in South Africa. In the introduction I contextualized the title of this dissertation by discussing the definitions of the terminology which feature therein. In Chapter One I have contextualized the study by looking at the historical background (the pre-1994) of South African art. I have specifically looked at how the socio-political conditions of that time influenced the work produced by black South African artists, hence the emergence of Township Art and Resistance Art. In Chapter Two I looked at the roles played by art institutions, galleries, and organizations in the stylistic developments made by black South African artists between the 1950s and 2000. The discussion of the influential role played by such informal institutions as Polly Street Art Centre, Jubilee Art Centre, the Johannesburg Art Foundation and many others on black artists forms a greater part of this chapter. Also included in this chapter is the discussion which examines the hypothesis that many black artists who do not have a formal academic background constitute a greater part of the informal art market. Tommy Motswai, Joseph Manana and Sibusiso Duma are examples of such artists and their work is discussed in depth. David Koloane, De Jager, Anitra Nettleton and other writers who have made literary contributions to South African art history, have been extensively cited and critically engaged in this chapter. iv In Chapter Three I discussed contemporary perceptions of the formal art sector, particularly in the post apartheid period. In this regard I looked at what defines mainstream or high art and how it differs from the marginal forms of art which are discussed in the preceding chapter. In this discussion I looked at the work of Sam Nhlengethwa, Colbert Mashile and my own work. In my discussion of their work I mapped out the characteristics of contemporary mainstream art, focussing primarily on 2-dimensional art.

As art historians uncover the many sources and catalysts that have contributed to the emergence of black contemporary art in South Africa, one of the principal influences is that derived from the Christian mission churches and breakaway separatist groups - the African Independent Churches (AICs). Histories of African art have failed adequately to consider the art that emerged from these contexts, regarding it perhaps as too coerced and distinctive – merely religious art subject to the rigours of liturgical or proselytizing function. The purpose of this dissertation is to foreground this art and its position in the development of both pioneer and contemporary South African art and to identify the many features, both stylistic and thematic, which distinguish this work. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2003.

Art is the outward, visual manifestation of the undying soul of a people. The genius displayed in the day to day articles produced in traditional tribal society is equally present in the art produced by the Contemporary African Artist. The Contemporary African Artist finds himself in an interesting position, in that he is, at one time, a part of two different worlds, two different cultures, has taken place, the and his art provides evidence of the acculturation that coming together of indigenous, traditional African culture and 'European' or 'Western' culture. It follows that the contemporary African artist's work would display characteristics and elements derived from both of these worlds, since art is not created in a vacuum, but is, invariably, the outward, visible expression and symbol of an artist's environment, culture, emotional and intellectual responses and his beliefs. The study of Contemporary African Art reveals that despite the many divergences from the traditional or classic forms, a great many traditional influences and characteristics still persist in the same. An analysis of Contemporary African Art will also show that a significant body of works bear a marked influence of Christian teachings and biblical themes, as well as the influence of exposure to various forms of Swedish Medieval, Byzantine, Romanesque and Carolingian art.

Thesis (PhD (Visual Arts))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006. / In this thesis I deconstruct key concepts, terminologies, and rhetorical conventions employed in white South African writing on modern black art. I trace the genealogy of the dominant discursive practices of the apartheid era to the cultural discourses of the colonial era, which in turn had their origins in the Enlightenment. This genealogical tracing aims to demonstrate that South African art writing of the 20th century partook of a tradition of Western writing that was primarily intent upon producing the Western subject as a rational Enlightenment agent via the debased objectification of the colonial Other. In the process of the deconstruction, I identify the most significant discursive shifts that occurred from the 1930’s, when the first publications emerged, to the 1990’s, when South Africa’s new political dispensation opened up a different cultural landscape.