Esta Tese é composta de projetos de intervenção realizados no período de 2004 a 2008. Os trabalhos de arte apresentados aqui são alterações na arquitetura de espaços de museus, galerias ou centros culturais. A natureza destes trabalhos é de uma resposta a estes contextos por meio de transformações operadas em sua luz ambiente. O uso de anteparos semi-transparentes que denomino filtros, cria um sistema temporário de dispositivos e efeitos que afetam o lugar e seus frequentadores. Esta tese aborda a qualidade mimética desta intervenções observando a estratégia comum a elas e também suas especificidades táticas. Os trabalhos são apresentados como \"máquinas de transformar\" que criam estados alterados do lugar. / This Thesis is constitued by intervention projects made from 2004 to 2008. The artworks presented here are alterations made in architectural spaces at museums, galleries, cultural centers, etc. The nature of these works is to respond to those contexts operating transformations in their ambient light. By using partially transparent surfaces that I define as filters, a temporary system of devices and effects is created to affect the place and its users. This thesis approaches the mimetic condition of these artworks, observing the strategy they have in common and also their tactical specificities. The artworks are presented as \"transformation machines\" that create altered states of the place.

Esta dissertação tem como objetivo aprofundar o conhecimento sobre o uso da tipografia como elemento arquitetônico na cidade de São Paulo, particularmente em edificações de estilo Art Déco, de 1928 a 1954, demonstrando como a tipografia arquitetônica estabeleceu uma nova relação, não apenas limitada ao edifício em si, mas também com a paisagem urbana e seus habitantes, acompanhando os avanços das relações comerciais, da indústria da informação e do entretenimento durante esse período. A partir da seleção de uma amostra significativa de exemplares de tipografias arquitetônicas nominativas, foi desenvolvida uma série de análises, através de um embasamento teórico, fornecido por uma ampla revisão bibliográfica. Como resultado, foi possível verificar que o estilo Art Déco, de grande penetração na arquitetura da cidade de São Paulo no período estudado, se valeu da tipografia de uma maneira particular, conseguindo com isso promover em várias ocasiões uma relação integral dela com a arquitetura. Também foram encontrados indícios de que a reprodução de um determinado desenho de letra, presente em várias edificações no centro da cidade, pode ter se originado a partir de sua utilização no edifício do antigo Banco de São Paulo. Outros indícios apontam ainda para o possível surgimento desse desenho de letra, a partir da instrumentalização do alfabeto escrito manualmente, utilizado nas pranchas dos projetos desenvolvidos pelo escritório do arquiteto Álvaro Botelho, autor do Edifício Banco de São Paulo. / The aim of this Master Thesis is to increase the knowledge about the use of typography as an architectural element in the city of São Paulo, specially in Art Déco style buildings, built between 1928 and 1954, demonstrating how architectural typography established a new relation, not only restricted to the building itself, but also with the urban landscape and its inhabitants, keeping up with the developments in commercial trade and in the communications and entertainment industry. A series of analysis was developed, on a significative sample of nominative architectural letterings, through a theoretical basis provided by a comprehensive literature review. As a result, it was possible to ascertain that the Art Déco style, which was higly pervasive in São Paulo city architecture during the time considered, made use of lettering in a very particular way, enabling it, in many occasions, to set an integral relationship with architecture. Also, traces were found indicating that the reproduction of a certain lettering style, present in several buildings in downtown São Paulo, may have been inspired by its use in the Banco de São Paulo building. Other indication, also points to a possible origin of this lettering style as derived from the handscript forms, used in the architectural plans drawn in the office headed by Álvaro Botelho, the architect responsible for the design of the Banco de São Paulo building.

Esta Tese é composta de projetos de intervenção realizados no período de 2004 a 2008. Os trabalhos de arte apresentados aqui são alterações na arquitetura de espaços de museus, galerias ou centros culturais. A natureza destes trabalhos é de uma resposta a estes contextos por meio de transformações operadas em sua luz ambiente. O uso de anteparos semi-transparentes que denomino filtros, cria um sistema temporário de dispositivos e efeitos que afetam o lugar e seus frequentadores. Esta tese aborda a qualidade mimética desta intervenções observando a estratégia comum a elas e também suas especificidades táticas. Os trabalhos são apresentados como \"máquinas de transformar\" que criam estados alterados do lugar. / This Thesis is constitued by intervention projects made from 2004 to 2008. The artworks presented here are alterations made in architectural spaces at museums, galleries, cultural centers, etc. The nature of these works is to respond to those contexts operating transformations in their ambient light. By using partially transparent surfaces that I define as filters, a temporary system of devices and effects is created to affect the place and its users. This thesis approaches the mimetic condition of these artworks, observing the strategy they have in common and also their tactical specificities. The artworks are presented as \"transformation machines\" that create altered states of the place.

The purpose of this project is to explore the historical image of Hell in Medieval Europe as an agent of socialization for illiterate Christian communities. The project focuses on a literary work, Tundale’s Vision, written in 1149 C.E in Cashel, Ireland. Tundale’s Vision came from a genre of vision literature derived from popular oracular folk tradition surrounding the image of Hell that served the purpose of socializing Christian communities to certain social norms and stigmas presented by the author. Vision literature would be used by preachers in vernacular sermons throughout the Medieval period in order to reinforce moral and social messages presented in to their congregations, and it drew much of its themes and imagery from folk traditions in order to be more relatable to local communities. This research provides a historical context from which this genre of literature emerged including a discourse on how it gained power as an agent of socialization in Medieval Europe. Time is devoted to the historical state of what are generally considered primary agents of socialization in human societies throughout Medieval Europe, and research reveals that much of these agents, aside from religion, were inaccessible to the majority of Medieval Europeans, especially those of the lower class. Additionally, this project provides information on the rise in popularity of the artistic image of Hell in the Medieval period. The analysis of Tundale’s Vision, a work that emerged from this environment saturated with artistic depictions of Hell, reconstructs potential social norms and stigmas of 12th century Ireland relating to a contemporary reform movement within the Irish Christian church. This analysis provides the historical origin of many images commonly associated with the popular Medieval conception of Hell as it appears in Tundale’s Vision, and it analyzes the use of the fear of a painful afterlife in order spread and reinforce ideals presented by the Christian Church. Much of this project draws from the scholarly works of Gwenfair Adams and John Seymour who produced research concerning Tundale’s Vision, other works of vision literature, and their impact on Medieval Christian communities. The power of religious artwork in the process of socialization in Medieval Ireland should become apparent throughout this work.

The current culture of commodity fetishism that surrounds both modern art and tattoos are disproportionately a part of the perpetuation of an artificial sense of society and community. It promotes the notion that by simply by inking the deeper layers of their skin or by spending millions on a painting that somehow one becomes elevated and enters an elite space, or club, of people like them.

Jenny Holzer's text-based projects have attracted the attention of critics, historians, and curators from Des Moines to Dresden. An understanding of the complex interplay between language, gender, power, and site within Holzer's work demonstrates how a singular interpretive approach is insufficient for discussing the multitude of meanings her projects produce. Perhaps most significantly, a fresh analysis of Holzer's work and critical reactions to it challenges the story of modernism and postmodernism and the relationship between these two terms.

This dissertation investigates the extent of knowledge of China in Europe and, more particularly, Chinese influence on European art and architecture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It attempts to answer the following questions: 1. What visual and literature resources on China and Chinese art in Europe were available in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? 2. To which extent was there any understanding of Chinese art and architecture in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? 3. To which extent might this understanding have affected European art and architecture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Although European contacts with China began in the early sixteenth century, few scholars have touched on the evidence that exists of the extent of European knowledge of Chinese architecture before 1720, even on the possible impact of the Chinese architectural designs that were depicted on Chinese porcelains and other merchandise imported into Europe for two centuries before that date. This dissertation examines the evidence for the employment of new and differing aesthetics derived from Chinese artifacts and then assimilated in European art, architecture and landscape in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. After examining the variety of resources from which the new aesthetics derived from Chinese artifacts imported into Europe was evolved, the dissertation analyzes Chinese influence in different nations in an order which follows the most consistently open and effective communications to the Far East. In the process, the dissertation quotes the contemporary historical descriptions of those Chinese artifacts as well as attempting to identify their influence on European art and architecture, thus providing evidence that the interaction between China and Europe served as subtle but active, generative force in European art throughout the period. In sum, the thesis attempts to explore the European understanding of Chinese art in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and to examine the consequences of that influence as they were reflected in European art and architecture. It analyzes some of the most influential and related social, political, and religious aspects that acted as powerful stimuli, which in turn affected in the growth of Chinese influence on European art, architecture and landscape. This dissertation thus attempts to push back the significance of the Chinese influence on aspects of European artistic styles from the accepted date of the early eighteenth century to the seventeenth and even earlier - the sixteenth century.

Texte remanié de: Thèse de doctorat--Art et archéologie--Besançon, 1996. Titre de soutenance : Gisors et l'architecture flamboyante dans le Vexin français. / En appendice, choix de documents. Bibliogr. p. 627-637. Notes bibliogr. Index.

Thesis (M. Arch. D.U.)--University of Notre Dame, 2006. / Thesis directed by Steven W. Semes for the School of Architecture. "April 2006." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 49-50).

The submitted work deals with the topic of the gate. The theoretical part analyses this structural and cultural feature, particularly from its architectural point of view, and focuses on the origin of gateway, its evolution throughout the centuries, and on the description of the best known and most famous gates, both throughout the world and in the Czech Republic. In the thesis, the gate is characterised as a symbol with different meanings in various cultural contexts. The implementation of the author´s photographic project entitled ?The Gates to the Past? is further presented in the practical part of the work. The text also describes a brief essay on the relation of aesthetic education to the environmental artistic works and develops its potential for educational goals emphasizing humanistic objectives.