Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rijksuniversiteit te leiden, 1956. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Department of Art History, June 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available of the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1973. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1987. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 347-353).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Humanities Programme, Concordia University, 1999. / "May, 1999." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 459-479). Available also on the Internet.

Orientador: Agnus Valente (Agnaldo Valente Germano da Silva) / Banca: Lucimar Bello Frange / Banca: José Paiani Spaniol / Resumo: Enquanto "ser-com-os-outros", consequentemente somos feitos de camadas, de afecções de outros corpos sobre os nossos corpos. Refletir a produção artística individual e coletiva resultantes destas afecções é o propósito desta dissertação, que tem como base reflexiva as inter-relações desenvolvidas dentro de projetos artísticos relacionais que trazem em sua constituição a presença sensível e corporal do outro, em que a arte é a intermediadora das relações humanas. Projetos artísticos - nos quais ora sou a artista propositora, ora a artista colaboradora - como em Ultramar-Ilha Diana (2013), de autoria de Maurício Adinolfi, e em Invasão (2013-2015) e Tramas (2011-2015), proposições autorais. Apresento ainda as produções artísticas individuais resultantes deste processo de alteridade / Abstract: As "being-with-others", hence we are made of layers, of affections from other bodies on our own bodies. Reflect the individual and collective artistic production result of these affections is the purpose of this dissertation, which has at its basis the reflective inter-relationships developed inside of the relationals art projects that brings in their constitution the sensitive and corporal presence of the other, in which the art is mediator of human relations. Art projects - in which sometimes I am the artist proponent, sometimes I am the artist collaborator - as in Ultramar-Ilha Diana (2013), authored by Maurício Adinolfi, and in Invasão (2013-2015) and Tramas (2011-2015), my own propositions. I also present individual artistic productions resulting from this otherness process / Mestre

Orientador: Lúcia Regina Vieira Romano / Banca: Daniele Pimenta / Banca: Alexandre Luiz Mate / Resumo: Esta pesquisa propõe uma análise das referências estéticas das práticas teatrais da Cia. Artehúmus de Teatro, grupo paulista fundado em 1987. Nas pegadas do teatro contemporâneo, esta companhia teatral mobiliza múltiplos elementos estéticos ao longo de uma experiência artística que dá a mesma importância a todas as etapas do processo criativo. Diante de tamanha pluralidade, a pesquisa aqui projetada mobiliza um instrumento metodológico também plural - a "crítica genética" - que se notabiliza por desvelar a gênese criativa da obra artística ao invés de se prender ao espetáculo finalizado. Contudo, como a "crítica genética" ainda se prende a um referencial exclusivamente estético e, considerando que nenhuma obra vaga num vácuo social, esta pesquisa também propõe a "sociologização" do processo criativo, isto é, propõe desvelar as escolhas estéticas que engendram a obra, conectando-as às raízes sociais dos artistas e do grupo. Em suma, se o espetáculo final é um ponto de condensação da experiência criativa, esta, por sua vez, é a condensação das múltiplas experiências sociais dos artistas envolvidos no processo criativo. / Abstract: This research suggests an analysis of the aesthetic references of the theatrical practices of Cia. Artehúmus de Teatro, a theatre company founded in São Paulo in 1987. Following the paths of contemporary theatre, this company has applied several aesthetic elements throughout its history based on giving equal importance to each stage of the creative process. In order to address such a wide variety, the present research employs an equally plural methodological instrument - the 'genetic criticism' - known to be effective in unveiling the creative genesis of a work of art, instead of simply evaluating the final performance. Nevertheless, once the 'genetic criticism' grantedly focus on a merely aesthetic referential and considering that no work of art operates in a social vaccum, this research also proposes a deeper look over the social roots of the artists and their work, in order to understand their aesthetic choices. In a nutshell, if we consider the final performance to be the 'condensation point' of a creative experience, this last one is the epitome of multiple social experiences lived by each and every artist involved in the creative process. / Mestre

M.Tech. / The aim of my research is to discover how the garments, beadwork and accoutrements worn and used by proponents of the ukuthwasa1 subculture manifest meaning and significance amongst healers and initiates in the White River area, Eastern Mpumalanga. The visual language and style of traditional healers in this region is unique in South Africa, as it is informed by belief systems incorporating primarily the Nguni2 and the Emandzawe3 cultures. Also, they are influenced by the combined garment styles of the Swazi, and to a lesser extent the Shangaan and Tsonga people resident in this area. I suggest, therefore that ukuthwasa style in this region acts as a visual repository of these amalgamated cultures, which I visually substantiate through relevant photographic documentation. This study includes considerations of the way in which ritual objects, shrines and architectural spaces are dressed and decorated. Furthermore I examine how the beadwork and apparel aid in constructing and establishing identity and status within the designated society, and how, over and above the dictates of their tradition, personal preferences and different ways of teaching doctrine allow for individual interpretation. I also examine ways in which dress and beadwork serve as a site of knowledge and healing, and results in a fluidity of artistic expression, which defies categorisation and constantly invigorates the existing culture. Lastly, I consider change through urbanization and its impact on this culture.

This study presents a sociology of art knowledge. It explores relationships between art knowledge and institutional structures, making visible how and why certain conceptions of art are hierarchized and generalized so as to be considered essential to the nature of all art. It renders problematic the existing situation in which the art traditionally taught in schools and universities is, for the most part, insular and culturally singular in basis, and examines why this cultural singularity persists in a society which is culturally pluralistic. The thesis is that the university art department has the monopoly on defining, legitimating, and perpetuating this insular and culturally singular art knowledge for transmission through the school' system to all cultural and social groups. The ways in which the university effects art knowledge are discussed in terms of ' the university's curricular structuring and disciplinary ties; its social role as patron, producer, definer, legitimator, and socializer in the arts; and in terms of its ability to neutralize "avant-garde" attacks, including the postmodernist incursion of popular culture into the realm of "sacred" culture. The theoretical framework of this critical analysis is a sociology of knowledge, and the materials for analysis were obtained by reviewing public documents on art programs, policy on the arts in postsecondary education, and a cross-disciplinary selection of literature in social theory, educational theory, aesthetics, and art history. The institutional structures and norms described throughout the study present significant resistance to the postmodernist commitment to challenge conceptual parameters and hierarchies of art knowledge that hinder a broadening of the cultural base of art. The study makes imperative the need to seriously consider this resistance if educational systems are to embrace the artistic activities of a diverse population and if art is to move into a more vital and relevant role in society. It makes imperative for sociological study of art systems (which in the past has concentrated almost exclusively on the role of museums, galleries, critics, dealers, and artists' "lofts") to take into account the role of the university art department as a primary institutional basis of art knowledge, and as a definer of cultural knowledge about art. / Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies / Graduate