Cette thèse a pour objet l’étude de l’origine et de la création des fonds régionaux d’art contemporain (FRAC) entre 1981 et 1986. Le plan se divise en trois grandes parties. La première partie analyse les modes d’acquisitions et d’expositions qui, au cours du XX° siècle en France, ont été des modèles pour la constitution des FRAC. La seconde partie étudie l’engagement du ministère de la culture dans une politique ambitieuse qui aboutit à la création des FRAC après l’arrivée de la gauche au pouvoir en 1981. La troisième partie, à proprement parlée d’histoire de l’art, porte sur les collections des FRAC. Cette étude des collections a constitué l’essence de la recherche établie à partir de données informatiques de videomuseum qui a opéré un recensement de toutes les acquisitions. La thèse s’appuie également sur des documents d’archives, des travaux existants, une étude sur le terrain dans chaque collection de FRAC, d’entretiens et d’un dépouillement de la presse artistique. Issus des revendications politiques formulées dans le programme de la gauche1 pour les élections présidentielles de mai 1981, les FRAC, financés à parité par l’Etat et par les régions, constituent un exemple fort de la réussite d’une politique culturelle décentralisée. Entre 1983 (date des premières acquisitions) et mars 1986 (date de la défaite de la gauche aux élections législatives) les vingt et un FRAC en activité ont acquis un total de 5 438 oeuvres provenant de 1 377 artistes. Fonds d’exception dans le paysage culturel français, les FRAC sont l’aboutissement d’une volonté de démocratisation revendiquée depuis les années 60. Jusqu’en 1986, la croissance constante des crédits d’acquisition - autant du côté de l’Etat que des conseils régionaux - aurait pu conduire à l’établissement d’une esthétique officielle. Nous verrons qu’il y a eu tout au plus des « zones d’influence » qui sont apparues pour compenser de réelles absences dans les collections des musées en région. Toutefois, malgré cet incontestable investissement institutionnel, la puissance publique ne pouvait prétendre à devenir un acteur majeur dans l’histoire de l’art. / This thesis studies in depth, the origin and the creation of theRegional Contemporary Art Collection (FRAC) between 1981 and 1986. The plan is divided into three main parts. The first part analyses the patterns of acquisitions and eexhibitions, which were models for the formation of the FRAC during the twentieth century in France. The second part examines the commitment of the Ministry of Culture in an ambitious policy that led to the creation of the FRAC after the arrival of the labour party who came to power in 1981. The third part, strictly concerning the history of art, focuses on the collections of the FRAC. This study of the collections has been the core of the research, established from computer data created by Videomuseum, who made a census of all acquisitions. The thesis is also based on archival documents, existing works, an onsite study of each collection of the FRAC, interviews and a literature of artistic media. Included in the labour party’s political program for the presidential elections of May 1981, the FRAC, funded equally by the State and the Regions, is a strong example of the success of a decentralized cultural policy. Between 1983 and March 1986 twenty-one FRAC in activity acquired a total of 5,438 works of art from 1,377 artists.Since the 1960s, the FRAC is an exception in French cultural funding and the result of a desire for democratisation. Until 1986, the continued growth of acquisition loans - offered by the State and regional councils - could lead to the establishment of a formal aesthetic. “Zones of influence" emerged to compensate for absences in the museum collections in the region. However, despite this undeniable institutional investment, public power was not entitled to become a major player in the history of art .

This thesis is an examination of contemporary artist Mariko Mori's use of fashion in her work from 1993 to 2001. Contained within her sartorial phrasing is an involved relationship with the body, female and Japanese, as it exists within technological modernity. Tumult characterizes Mori's body as she images it early on in her career. This highly alienating space in which she positions herself gradually transitions to a space of respite for the performative body of another actor by 2001's Wave UFO. Wave UFO creates a mediated space for healing the modern body plagued with isolation through transcendence provided by technological means. Minimalist fashion, as a kind of plastic mechanization of corporeal experience, helps to accomplish this healing. Mori's Wave UFO attendant costumes present minimalist fashion as a location for reconciling spiritual identity in a postmodern age. The flat-panel costumes have the effect of disfiguring the bodies of the attendants into amorphous plasticized shells (much like the backdrop of the Wave UFO) and mechanizing the movements of the wearer. The sleek technological sensibility of the costumes, in conjunction with the stark sterility of the immersive Wave UFO interior, are the culminating expression of the ambivalent liminality Mori's body takes from 1993-1999. This is a body that floats between absence and presence, self and other. This thesis begins with a survey of Mori's 1990s work, including her 1994 self-portrait series that launched the artist into international recognition. The 1993-94 self-portraits present a playful mimicry and a self-aware exploration of regional dress as it is found on the streets of Tokyo. By the end of the decade the play shifts to minimalist self-denial that achieves a transcendence of the imaged body once grounded in the urban self-portraits. After exploring necessary and appropriate contexts of Japanese fashion and other cultural contexts, the thesis culminates in an extended analysis of Mori's 2001 Wave UFO installation. Mori's suggestion that technology can achieve transcendence of the body furthers the theorization that minimalist fashion overcomes the physical and ideological boundaries of human existence in a modern world.

隨著金融市場自由化、國際化腳步的加快，新金融商品不斷推陳出新。然而，屬於非傳統性資產的「藝術投資」卻往往被人們所忽略。2006年，以目前世界最高價格成交的藝術品—美國抽象表現主義大師波洛克(Jackson Pollock)的作品《No.5, 1948》，以大約新台幣46億元成交。一幅畫比一棟世界最頂級的豪宅還昂貴，令人側目。據統計，全世界約有5兆美元投入藝術市場，每年成交量220億美元。但在台灣，這樣龐大的產業卻不像金融市場，至今猶未能發展出完整的理論架構。無論何種投資，成功投資的關鍵必須掌握四大金律：一是懂理論，二是懂歷史，三是懂心理，四是懂交易。本研究亦希望涵蓋藝術投資的這四個面向。 藝術品評價困難：不似一般商品，藝術品的價格並無所謂公定價，也不似股票淨值或共同基金有淨資產價值(NAV)可以計算。究詰其故，至少有下列九個原因：1、傳統評價模型難以直接應用2、藝術品與private equity皆有兩個特色：有liquidity risk、無市價，評價上較為困難3、流動性差4、透明度低5、炒作6、非理性驅動力7、專家偏誤8、市場風險9、其它變數。