This thesis will examine the practice of relational aesthetics as it involves the viewer, as well as the way in which it plays out within and outside of the institutional setting of the museum. I will focus primarily on two unique projects: that of The Machine Project Field Guide at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on November 15, 2008, produced by Machine Project, a social project operated out of a storefront gallery in Echo Park; and David Michalek's Slow Dancing at the Lincoln Center Festival in New York City, July 12-29 2007.

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In 1964 Clement Greenberg suffered his greatest setback as the critical arbiter of modern painting. The "Post Painterly Abstraction" exhibition he had helped to organize at the Los Angeles Museum of Art was critically demolished, definitively shattering the myth of invincibility surrounding Greenberg's modernism, an aesthetic which had been a powerful influence in the United States and Canada in the post-war period. For many contemporary critics, the early to mid-1960's is the period in which a stultified and institutionalized modernism was finally usurped by an approach to culture that was less elitist and more socially engaged. The new cultural model that was taking shape within the Kennedy Administration's vision of the New Frontier sought to remotivate a sense of "national purpose" within the United States to counter the nation's preoccupation with consumerism and affluence. The pragmatic liberal concept of culture sought to rework the relationship between work and play in order to promote a new relationship between individualism and civic virtue. The impetus to re-shape the boundaries between art and society under the New Frontier was a direct response to the political and military challenge posed by the Soviet Union in the late-1950s, especially after the launch of Sputnik in 1957, and the inability of the Eisenhower Administration to respond to the anxieties generated by the intense superpower rivalry. This international environment also exacerbated the ongoing tensions between Canada and the United States, culminating in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis . Canadian Prime Minister Diefenbaker delayed in responding to the U.S. alarm over the presence of Soviet medium range nuclear weapons in Cuba, and the political firestorm that followed this delay highlighted the frictions that had developed in the unequal bilateral relationship between the United States and Canada after World War Two. While the Cold War was approaching its ultimate showdown, Greenberg was proceeding to a geographical margin of North America — Saskatchewan — to participate in the Emma Lake Artists' Workshops. Ironically, while Greenberg was extolling the virtues of Canadian abstract painters such as Art McKay and Kenneth Lochhead, going so far as to argue that the Saskatchewan abstract painters were New York's only competition, Los Angeles was asserting itself as New York's cultural rival . As a consequence of the phenomenal post-war growth of the military - industrial complex in the American Southwest, a fierce rivalry was developing with the traditional bases of power in the Northeast. The Southwest, and Los Angeles in particular, was the major beneficiary of the accelerated defense spending resulting from the heightened tensions of the Cold War in the 1950s. Partially in response to a regional dispute over military appropriations, the economic and cultural elites of Southern California sought to counter the pragmatic liberal agenda of the Kennedy Administration by promoting Los Angeles as the Second City of American Art. Greenberg's "Post Painterly Abstraction" exhibition was intended to draw attention to the Los Angeles cultural renaissance and the maturing of the city's independent cultural identity. Thus, Greenberg's sojourn to Saskatchewan at the height of the Cold War and during a crucial period of his formulation of his theory of modernist painting after abstract expressionism provides the focus for an examination of the status of modernism in the early 1960s, especially in the context of U.S.-Canadian relations and interregional rivalry between the Northeast and the Southwest. This thesis seeks to explain the complex cultural and political dynamic of modernist painting in the United States in the Cold War years of 1957 to 1965 and the effect of this dynamic on the development of Canadian modernist painting.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1992. / Fourteen unnumbered p. containing figures 1-25 have not been filmed at the request of the author. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 222-227).

Modern humour appears to initiate the deconstruction of modern correspondence thinking. A close examination shows the opposite, namely that modern humour forms part of correspondence thought in a complicated reciprocal relationship of disruption and support. Ironically, humour is particularly suited to explicating the deconstruction of correspondence thinking in poststructuralist language theories by being prone to refute cornerstone principles of modernism such as truth, rationality, reliability and permanence. This dissertation focuses on the exceptional suitability of humour to adapt to the loss of the centre and to demonstrate the shift from the modernist ontological approach to the postmodernist creative metaphorical approach to art. Humour, like metaphor, reinvents meaning rather than discovers it; it remains open-ended instead of offering closure. It becomes a valid creative option and enters a new dynamic into a postmodern culture of play where truth and meaning remain infinitely suspended in an ungrounded state of possibility. / Art History, Visual Arts and Music / M.A. (Visual Arts)

One medium has dominated accounts of American art in the years following the Second World War. The period witnessed, in the words of one critic, a 'Triumph of American Painting', with advances in the easel picture far surpassing those in other media. Whilst more recent accounts have nuanced this view, drawing attention to developments in music and sculpture, literary contributions to the new American modernism have gone almost without assessment. Were there advances in literature comparable to those of Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, David Smith and John Cage? Drawing extensively on his unpublished writings, After the New Failure of Nerve reveals the poet Charles Olson to have been the keenest literary advocate of the new American avant-garde and one of the most astute observers of its conditions and possibilities. Paying special attention to unpublished notes, lectures, and correspondence, the thesis utilises Olson's early writings in order to examine the momentum given early postwar modernism by a potent contemporary reaction against abstract rationality, a reaction identified at the time as a 'New Failure of Nerve'. Born of recent disillusionment with 'scientific' Marxism and New Deal progressivism, the thesis demonstrates the several ways in which this 'New Failure of Nerve' fuelled vanguard American art from the middle of the Second World War to the end of the decade. It argues that the new critique of abstract rationality - which was also reflected in the contemporary American work of the Frankfurt School - defined the way American artists understood the function of postwar modernism, the posture of the postwar modernist artist, and the status of the postwar modernist artwork. This pivotal moment in the history of modernism was shaped, I contend, by a philosophical critique explored most ambitiously by an American poet.

The concepts "capital building" and 'Institutionalisation" are analysed and applied to community arts centres as instruments for socio-economic development (SED) in South Africa. Theories of neo-classicism, Marxism, development economics and socio-economic development show that building physical, financial, human, social and cultural capital in a complementary configuration is crucial to sustainable socio-economic development. The concept "capital building for SED" is formulated in this regard. New institutional economics and critical extensions of this theory show that institutions play a key role in capital building for SED, as they entail embeddedness, normativity, e-ntreprcneurship, partnership, structure and complementarity. The arts sector contributes considerably to capital building for SED, in particular arts centres in marginalized communities in the UK, USA and South Africa. Community arts centres built political, cultural and human capital in black townships during the South African democratic struggle (1950-92). In accordance with proposals from the arts sector, the post-1994 South African government developed 42 arts centres. However, the contribution of most old and new centres to socio-economic development appears to be insignificant and few are sustainable. The causes of failure are difficult to explain due to lack of information and theory. Through the application of a theoretical framework to the South African arts sector and three case studies the hypothesis is tested that community arts centres can contribute considerably to capital building for SED if they are appropriately institutionalised, while an appropriate focus on capital building for SED results in stronger institutions. An analysis of arts sector shows that strong institutions achieve high returns on investments in capital building, but that few benefit the poor. The application of an analytical matrix consisting of indicators of the above-mentioned five types of capital and six institutional components, shows significant positive correlations between the levels of inslitutionalisation and capital building for SED in the Community Arts Project, the Katlehong Art Centre and ArtsforAIl. The findings result in recommendations on policy and practice of community arts centre development in South Africa. / Development studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Development Studies)

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O tratamento dispensado ao rock and roll produzido no Brasil na década de 1970 é residual, inclusive na academia, contribuindo para a formação de uma imagem subdimensionada da produção musical daquele período. A pesquisa tem início com uma reconstituição do campo de produção da música popular brasileira da década de 1960, na qual se insere o nascente rock brasileiro, a fim de compreender como este gênero estrangeiro é recebido e interage com os demais gêneros populares com os quais concorria. Em seguida, procede-se a uma análise de trajetória com base na história da banda de rock A Bolha, conjunto que atravessa a década de 1970 enfrentando a falta de espaço para o gênero e a falta de interesse da mídia e da indústria fonográfica. Com isto, pretende-se descortinar as estruturas sociais vigentes constritoras do desenvolvimento do gênero naquele período. Trata-se de uma época marcada pelas restrições das liberdades civis em função do regime militar que vigorou de 1964 a 1985, o que foi, sem dúvida, fator fundamental para a conformação do campo de produção musical daqueles anos. A década de 1970 assistiu à consolidação da MPB como gênero musical dominante devido, entre outras coisas, ao prestígio acumulado na época dos festivais de música popular televisionados, à posição de enfrentamento ao regime, adotada pelos artistas que a ela se filiavam, e ainda, à aceitação da crítica e público consumidores por sua maior afinidade com as tradições musicais brasileiras pregressas. Por meio de uma análise estrutural do campo de produção musical à maneira bourdieusiana, pretende-se localizar os agentes tributários da constituição da representação social erigida em torno do gênero rock and roll no Brasil, de modo que se possa compreender como este segmento, que chegou a ameaçar o domínio da MPB em meados da década de 1960, passou a ocupar praticamente apenas os canais e espaços independentes da produção cultural que compõem a chamada “cena underground.” / The work that follows seeks to elucidate the social history of rock and roll musical genre in Brazil. This genre has been treated with indifference by critics and historians of popular music, reducing its social history the seemingly random waves of popularity, marked by the “Jovem Guarda” and the emergence of “BRock” in the 1980s. The treatment of the rock and roll produced in Brazil in the 1970s is residual, including the academy, contributing to the building of an undersized image of the musical production from that period. The research begins with a reconstruction of the Brazilian popular music production course of the 1960s, in which is included the incipient Brazilian rock in order to understand how this foreign genre is received and interacts with other popular genres which it contended with. A track analysis based on the rock band “A Bolha” (The Bubble), that had to face the lack of space for the genre as well as the lack of interest of the media and the music industry throughout the 70’s follows hereupon. It is intended to uncover the existing social structures constricting the development of the genre in that period. That was a time marked by restrictions on civil rights due to the military regime that ruled the country from 1964 to 1985, which was undoubtedly a key factor for shaping the musical production field of those years. The 1970s saw the consolidation of Brazilian popular music as the dominant musical genre owing to, among other factors, the prestigie accumulated by the Brasilian Pop Music Festivals shown on TV at that time, the facing off agaisnt the political regime adopted by the artists that joined it in, and yet, the acceptance of review critics and public consumers for their greater affinity with former Brazilian musical traditions. Through a structural analysis of the music production field to the Bourdieusian way, I intend to place the tax agents of the constitution of social representation built around the rock and roll genre in Brazil, so that you can understand how this segment, which threatened the MPB area in the mid-1960s, was to occupy only the channels and independent spaces of cultural production that make up the so-called "underground scene."

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Tal gênero tem sido tratado com certa indiferença por críticos e historiadores da música popular, reduzindo sua história social a ondas de popularidade aparentemente desconexas, marcadas pela jovem guarda e pelo surgimento do BRock na década de 1980. O tratamento dispensado ao rock and roll produzido no Brasil na década de 1970 é residual, inclusive na academia, contribuindo para a formação de uma imagem subdimensionada da produção musical daquele período. A pesquisa tem início com uma reconstituição do campo de produção da música popular brasileira da década de 1960, na qual se insere o nascente rock brasileiro, a fim de compreender como este gênero estrangeiro é recebido e interage com os demais gêneros populares com os quais concorria. Em seguida, procede-se a uma análise de trajetória com base na história da banda de rock A Bolha, conjunto que atravessa a década de 1970 enfrentando a falta de espaço para o gênero e a falta de interesse da mídia e da indústria fonográfica. Com isto, pretende-se descortinar as estruturas sociais vigentes constritoras do desenvolvimento do gênero naquele período. Trata-se de uma época marcada pelas restrições das liberdades civis em função do regime militar que vigorou de 1964 a 1985, o que foi, sem dúvida, fator fundamental para a conformação do campo de produção musical daqueles anos. A década de 1970 assistiu à consolidação da MPB como gênero musical dominante devido, entre outras coisas, ao prestígio acumulado na época dos festivais de música popular televisionados, à posição de enfrentamento ao regime, adotada pelos artistas que a ela se filiavam, e ainda, à aceitação da crítica e público consumidores por sua maior afinidade com as tradições musicais brasileiras pregressas. Por meio de uma análise estrutural do campo de produção musical à maneira bourdieusiana, pretende-se localizar os agentes tributários da constituição da representação social erigida em torno do gênero rock and roll no Brasil, de modo que se possa compreender como este segmento, que chegou a ameaçar o domínio da MPB em meados da década de 1960, passou a ocupar praticamente apenas os canais e espaços independentes da produção cultural que compõem a chamada “cena underground.” / The work that follows seeks to elucidate the social history of rock and roll musical genre in Brazil. This genre has been treated with indifference by critics and historians of popular music, reducing its social history the seemingly random waves of popularity, marked by the “Jovem Guarda” and the emergence of “BRock” in the 1980s. The treatment of the rock and roll produced in Brazil in the 1970s is residual, including the academy, contributing to the building of an undersized image of the musical production from that period. The research begins with a reconstruction of the Brazilian popular music production course of the 1960s, in which is included the incipient Brazilian rock in order to understand how this foreign genre is received and interacts with other popular genres which it contended with. A track analysis based on the rock band “A Bolha” (The Bubble), that had to face the lack of space for the genre as well as the lack of interest of the media and the music industry throughout the 70’s follows hereupon. It is intended to uncover the existing social structures constricting the development of the genre in that period. That was a time marked by restrictions on civil rights due to the military regime that ruled the country from 1964 to 1985, which was undoubtedly a key factor for shaping the musical production field of those years. The 1970s saw the consolidation of Brazilian popular music as the dominant musical genre owing to, among other factors, the prestigie accumulated by the Brasilian Pop Music Festivals shown on TV at that time, the facing off agaisnt the political regime adopted by the artists that joined it in, and yet, the acceptance of review critics and public consumers for their greater affinity with former Brazilian musical traditions. Through a structural analysis of the music production field to the Bourdieusian way, I intend to place the tax agents of the constitution of social representation built around the rock and roll genre in Brazil, so that you can understand how this segment, which threatened the MPB area in the mid-1960s, was to occupy only the channels and independent spaces of cultural production that make up the so-called "underground scene."

In 1964 Clement Greenberg suffered his greatest setback as the critical arbiter of modern painting. The "Post Painterly Abstraction" exhibition he had helped to organize at the Los Angeles Museum of Art was critically demolished, definitively shattering the myth of invincibility surrounding Greenberg's modernism, an aesthetic which had been a powerful influence in the United States and Canada in the post-war period. For many contemporary critics, the early to mid-1960's is the period in which a stultified and institutionalized modernism was finally usurped by an approach to culture that was less elitist and more socially engaged. The new cultural model that was taking shape within the Kennedy Administration's vision of the New Frontier sought to remotivate a sense of "national purpose" within the United States to counter the nation's preoccupation with consumerism and affluence. The pragmatic liberal concept of culture sought to rework the relationship between work and play in order to promote a new relationship between individualism and civic virtue. The impetus to re-shape the boundaries between art and society under the New Frontier was a direct response to the political and military challenge posed by the Soviet Union in the late-1950s, especially after the launch of Sputnik in 1957, and the inability of the Eisenhower Administration to respond to the anxieties generated by the intense superpower rivalry. This international environment also exacerbated the ongoing tensions between Canada and the United States, culminating in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis . Canadian Prime Minister Diefenbaker delayed in responding to the U.S. alarm over the presence of Soviet medium range nuclear weapons in Cuba, and the political firestorm that followed this delay highlighted the frictions that had developed in the unequal bilateral relationship between the United States and Canada after World War Two. While the Cold War was approaching its ultimate showdown, Greenberg was proceeding to a geographical margin of North America — Saskatchewan — to participate in the Emma Lake Artists' Workshops. Ironically, while Greenberg was extolling the virtues of Canadian abstract painters such as Art McKay and Kenneth Lochhead, going so far as to argue that the Saskatchewan abstract painters were New York's only competition, Los Angeles was asserting itself as New York's cultural rival . As a consequence of the phenomenal post-war growth of the military - industrial complex in the American Southwest, a fierce rivalry was developing with the traditional bases of power in the Northeast. The Southwest, and Los Angeles in particular, was the major beneficiary of the accelerated defense spending resulting from the heightened tensions of the Cold War in the 1950s. Partially in response to a regional dispute over military appropriations, the economic and cultural elites of Southern California sought to counter the pragmatic liberal agenda of the Kennedy Administration by promoting Los Angeles as the Second City of American Art. Greenberg's "Post Painterly Abstraction" exhibition was intended to draw attention to the Los Angeles cultural renaissance and the maturing of the city's independent cultural identity. Thus, Greenberg's sojourn to Saskatchewan at the height of the Cold War and during a crucial period of his formulation of his theory of modernist painting after abstract expressionism provides the focus for an examination of the status of modernism in the early 1960s, especially in the context of U.S.-Canadian relations and interregional rivalry between the Northeast and the Southwest. This thesis seeks to explain the complex cultural and political dynamic of modernist painting in the United States in the Cold War years of 1957 to 1965 and the effect of this dynamic on the development of Canadian modernist painting. / Arts, Faculty of / Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Department of / Graduate