Exegesis (MA--Art and Design) -- Auckland University of Technology, 2005. / Also held in print (68 leaves : col. ill. ; 30 cm.) in Wellesley Theses Collection. (T 700.458 MAT)

Contemporary debates in anarchism, particularly the conceptual debates sparked by the development of post-anarchism and those surrounding the emergence of the anti-globalization movement, have brought an old question back to the table: what is anarchism? This study analyzes the canonical representations of anarchism as a political movement and political philosophy in order to reflect on the ways in which that critical question, 'what is anarchism?' has been answered in mainstream literature. It examines the way that the story of anarchism has been told and through a critical review, it discusses an alternative approach. For this purpose, two seminal canon-building texts, Paul Eltzbacher's The Great Anarchists, and George Woodcock's Anarchism have been identified and their influence is discussed, together with the representations of anarchism in textbooks describing political ideologies. The analysis shows how assumptions, biases, and hidden ideological perspectives have been normalized and how they have created an official history of a political movement. In challenging the official account, this study highlights the exclusions and omissions (third world anarchists, women anarchists, queer anarchism and artistic anarchism) that have resulted in the making of the core. The question of how to tell the story of anarchist past carries us to the shores of postmodern history where theoreticians have been discussing the relationship between past and history and the politics of representation. The anarchism offered in this study demands an engagement with a network-like structure of information rather than a linear, axial structure. Consequently, this study aims to show several layers of problems in the existing dominant historical representation of one of the richest political ideologies, anarchism; and then to discuss ways of representing the past and especially the anarchist past, to seek an answer to a principal question: what is anarchism?

A presente pesquisa analisa ações de movimentos e coletivos atuantes no Brasil, evidenciando práticas que questionam problemáticas urbanas e propõem modos alternativos para a vida nas cidades. O estudo investiga a potência crítica e a capacidade disruptiva de ações e intervenções urbanas realizadas em diferentes cidades do Brasil, propondo a existência de um olhar comum entre elas, que questiona os padrões estigmatizados da cidade global mediados pelo discurso repressivo do capitalismo neoliberal. Essas práticas se configuram como um gesto de enfrentamento e resistência, que articulam micropolíticas na cidade e propõem novas possibilidades para a vida urbana. Instauram-se, por meio dessas ações, novos olhares sobre a cidade, trazendo, além da dimensão do direito de uso e participação, a extensão do direito ao prazer e ao lúdico na experiência de cidade. Defendendo desde pautas pontuais a agendas mais abertas, os movimentos e coletivos aqui apresentados representam diferentes vozes e olhares, políticos e poéticos, que articulam uma rede de afetos na cidade e tomam a potência de resistências urbanas. / The following research analyses actions from ongoing movements and collectives in Brazil, focusing on practises wich question urban problems and propose alternative ways to look at urban living. The study investigates the crictic power and the disruptive capability of actions wich took place after the turn of the 20th century in different cities in Brazil, proposing the existence of a common thought pattern between them, questioning the stigmatazed standarts of the global city, mediated by the reppressive speach of neoliberal capitalism. These practises configure themselves as a gesture of resistance, wich articulate micropolicis in the city and proposes new possibilities to urban life. It establishes, by mean of these actions, new ways to look upon a city, bringing beside the right to use and participate, the extension to the right of pleasure and leisure in the urban experience. Defending and speaking out from puncutal issues to wide agendas, the movements and collectives presented here represent diferent voices who articulate a network of affections and gather the power of urban resistances.

Abstract The nexus between Uganda’s contemporary art and politics forms the overarching theme of this thesis. The trajectory of Uganda’s contemporary art as a political expression has been retraced. The different political dispensations which have shaped Uganda’s political art have been analysed. The political postures and visual symbols Uganda’s contemporary artists have engaged have been analysed in the context of the wider socio-political discussions which have shaped, and been shaped by, the country. It has been contended that different political epochs have invited response from Uganda’s artists since the early- 1940s. Whereas this debate has been attempted by varied scholars, it has not been rigorously pursued. Formalist discourses seeking to prioritise formal aesthetics have been engaged; conclusions that after 1986 contemporary Ugandan art[ists] became apolitical have been made. With emphasis on two contemporary artists—Fred Kato Mutebi and Bruno Sserunkuuma—this formalist reading has been decentred; the socio-political relevance of Uganda’s contemporary art has been retraced and prioritised. It has been argued that although initially depoliticised through colonial modernity, Uganda’s contemporary artists have been sensitive to the socio-political conditions affecting their space and time; issues of governance and service delivery have preoccupied them albeit in different but often complementary ways.

Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / A partir do final da década de 1960, no mundo e no Brasil, o fenômeno de crítica sociopolítica com arte tem se desenvolvido expressivamente e apresentado um considerável conjunto em termos de quantidade, mas também de qualidade de produções. De meados da década de 1990 até a presente data, esse fenômeno se apresenta de maneira mais acelerada, e em torno de coletivizações artísticas. Tais coletivizações caracterizam-se por desenvolver ainda mais as aproximações entre a arte, o sociopolítico e o cultural, e também por revelar lugares outros para o desenvolvimento de expressões artísticas e de formas variadas de atuação artística no e sobre o espaço público no sentido de subversão e de crítica sobre os sistemas sociais. A presente dissertação observa o desenvolvimento do fenômeno em suas diferentes nuances ao longo do tempo, bem como faz uma análise apreciativa e investigativa sobre algumas obras individuais e de coletivos. Visa apontar e percorrer as diferentes produções artísticas presente e passado aqui elencadas, dado que incorporam uma visada de crítica sociopolítica com arte, o que nos possibilita observar a potência da arte para tratar questões que emergem dos ambientes sociopolítico e cultural; sua reincidência, variedade, conexões e diferenças / Since the 1990's until the present date, in the world and in Brazil, the phenomenon of sociopolitical critic through art has been evolving expressively and presenting a considerable set of productions. In a more accelerated manner, and surrounding artistic collectivizations, is characterized by developing even further the approximations between art, the sociopolitical and the cultural, and also for revealing other places for the development of artistic expressions and and various forms of artistic acting on and over the public space in the sense of subversion and critic over the social systems. The present dissertation observes the development of said phenomenon in its different nuances throughout historical time, as well as does an investigative analysis over some of the individual and collective works. Aims to point and go over the different artistic productions present and past here presented, given that they incorporate an aim of sociopolitical critic through art, what makes possible, in this dissertation, our observation of the potency of art for dealing with questions which emerge in the social, political and cultural environments, its re-incidence, variety, connections and differences

Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / A partir do final da década de 1960, no mundo e no Brasil, o fenômeno de crítica sociopolítica com arte tem se desenvolvido expressivamente e apresentado um considerável conjunto em termos de quantidade, mas também de qualidade de produções. De meados da década de 1990 até a presente data, esse fenômeno se apresenta de maneira mais acelerada, e em torno de coletivizações artísticas. Tais coletivizações caracterizam-se por desenvolver ainda mais as aproximações entre a arte, o sociopolítico e o cultural, e também por revelar lugares outros para o desenvolvimento de expressões artísticas e de formas variadas de atuação artística no e sobre o espaço público no sentido de subversão e de crítica sobre os sistemas sociais. A presente dissertação observa o desenvolvimento do fenômeno em suas diferentes nuances ao longo do tempo, bem como faz uma análise apreciativa e investigativa sobre algumas obras individuais e de coletivos. Visa apontar e percorrer as diferentes produções artísticas presente e passado aqui elencadas, dado que incorporam uma visada de crítica sociopolítica com arte, o que nos possibilita observar a potência da arte para tratar questões que emergem dos ambientes sociopolítico e cultural; sua reincidência, variedade, conexões e diferenças / Since the 1990's until the present date, in the world and in Brazil, the phenomenon of sociopolitical critic through art has been evolving expressively and presenting a considerable set of productions. In a more accelerated manner, and surrounding artistic collectivizations, is characterized by developing even further the approximations between art, the sociopolitical and the cultural, and also for revealing other places for the development of artistic expressions and and various forms of artistic acting on and over the public space in the sense of subversion and critic over the social systems. The present dissertation observes the development of said phenomenon in its different nuances throughout historical time, as well as does an investigative analysis over some of the individual and collective works. Aims to point and go over the different artistic productions present and past here presented, given that they incorporate an aim of sociopolitical critic through art, what makes possible, in this dissertation, our observation of the potency of art for dealing with questions which emerge in the social, political and cultural environments, its re-incidence, variety, connections and differences

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Esta dissertação analisa as primeiras associações de artistas na cidade de São Paulo, no início dos anos 1930. Tem como foco principal o Clube de Artistas Modernos (CAM), uma agremiação que se manteve ativa desde fins de 1932 até janeiro de 1934, dissidente da Sociedade Pró-Arte Moderna (SPAM), formada por artistas e intelectuais da elite. Em uma tentativa de adequação às tendências culturais e políticas do período, o grupo visava, primordialmente, a divulgação da arte moderna e a expansão do seu público para, como conseqüência, obter tanto a liberdade ideológica como financeira, afastando-se, assim, dos mecenas e do jogo de interdependência existente entre eles. Para tanto, criou um projeto cultural amplo, abrangendo sessões musicais, danças, bailes, conferências e apresentações teatrais. A grande diversidade dos eventos baseou-se em dois eixos fundamentais: as experimentações dentro da estética modernista (novas linguagens) e a união da arte à política, visando a divulgação da ideologia de esquerda. / This work discusses the first artistic associations created in the city of São Paulo in the early 1930\'s. Its main focus is the Clube de Artistas Modernos (CAM) an association active between the end of 1932 and January 1934, a dissidence of the Sociedade Pró-Arte Moderna (SPAM), formed by local artists and the Paulista intellectual elite. Trying to adapt to the cultural and political tendencies of the period, the group wanted, above all, to propagate modern art and to broaden its audience in order to obtain ideological and financial freedom. CAM tried to end its dependency on the Maecenas tradition dependency, thus it created a large cultural project which included musical and dance sessions, balls, lectures, and plays. The great variety of events was based on two fundamental axis: the modernist experience (new languages) and the connection between art and politics, in order to spread the gospel of the leftist ideology.

This study focuses on the rhetorical and political conditions for answering the question 'what is kulturpolitik?'. The most common translation of kulturpolitik is 'cultural policy', but 'cultural politics' is an alternative - perhaps policies must al­ways involve broader notions of politics. Here, politics is understood as struggles and conflicts in community, struggles that take place between rules and practical cases, between law and freedom. It is argued that language is a key to an awareness of political conditions, although politics also might involve aesthetics and violence. According to Aristode and Ricoeur, language is something that occurs 'when somebody says something to somebody about something' - and, as added in the dissertation: 'for a certain purpose and in a certain manner'. The general conditions for saying what kulturpolitik is, can thus be studied with reference to the interplay between six aspects: author; utterance, audience, reference, purpose and manner These rhetorical aspects can be used differendy in different cases. Four particular cases are examined in the dissertation. These are chosen pardy because they allow a gen­eral overview of the connections between politics and the arts, or policy and cul­ture, mainly in Western Europe; and pardy because they allow a demonstration of the importance of rhetoric. The cases are: (1) a comparison between two major Government Bills to the Swedish Parliament, concerning the general formulation of state cultural policy; (2) an analysis of the meaning of goals in policy, with particular reference to the Council of Europe's evaluations of cultural policies in France, Sweden, Austria, the Netherlands, and Finland; (3) an overview of the political uses of the concept of culture in Germany between 1800 and 1932; (4) a study of the French state's effort to engage the arts in the service of the republic between 1789 and 1983. It is, furthermore, argued that a rhetorical 'manner' can be understood as a way of employing the faculty of judgement. Following Aristode and Kant, and es­pecially according to Arendt and Lyotard, it is shown that judgement is a pre- eminendy political faculty. It allows those who use language - authors as well as audiences — to reflect upon the conditions of agreement in the absence of precon­ceived rules, but with the help of aesthetical awareness and imagination. / Digitalisering@umu

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-115).