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This thesis is a study of important trends in Natal art of the period 1910-1940, with a section on related architectural developments. In Chapter One Natal's colonial background and continued dependence on Britain for cultural guidance is discussed. The foundation of art galleries and the Natal Society of Artists is followed by an examination of artworks produced until 1917. These were found to be mainly Victorian in character. Reliance on British art and an admiration for and emulation of the Royal Academy of Arts strongly influenced the organisation and development of the Natal Society of Artists. Chapter Two examines the desire, during the 1920s and 1930s, to break away from foreign influence and the conscious attempts to establish a "national" style. This phenomenon is traced through the development of landscape painting in Natal. Chapter Three, Survival versus progress, explores the relationship between the artist and the Natal public, in particular those artists who experimented with what were then held to be avant-garde styles. An uninformed public and, consequently, a pronounced hostility towards modernism bad a profound effect on the careers of many artists. Chapter Four concerns the status of the practising artist in Natal. Amateurs outnumbered professionals at all major exhibitions, and the majority of these amateurs were women. Professionalism and amateurism are defined in the text.) The history of the Durban School of Art and its role in the promotion of professionalism ends this survey on art trends. Architectural development during this period is summarised in Chapter Five with reference to the correspondences between art and architecture. Examples are architectural decoration (especially sculpture and faience), stylistic trends, the response to modernism, and the professional status of the architect. Artists and architects active in Natal during the period are identified and listed. This section includes lists of representative works and detailed references. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1986.

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.

Acompanha DVD com o video VT Preparado:AC/JC, de autoria de Walter Silveira e Pedro Vieira / Orientador: Omar Khouri / Banca: José Leonardo do Nascimento / Banca: Neiva Pitta Kadota / Resumo: A proposta deste trabalho se centra na pesquisa das influências da poesia concreta na videoarte, especialmente no video "VT Preparado:AC/JC", de autoria de Walter Silveira e Pedro Vieira. Não se trata, aqui, do vídeo como emissão televisiva ou em suas características técnicas, mas como possibilidade de expressão utilizada pelo artista. Como dois movimentos de vanguarda, a poesia concreta e a videoarte, estão presentes como fundamentos na obra citada, foco desta dissertação. / Abstract: The proposal of this work is centered in research on the influences of concrete poetry upon video art, particularly in the "VT Preparado: AC/JC" video, by Walter Silveira and Pedro Vieira. The point here is neither the video as television emission, nor its technical features, but its possibilities of expression chosen by the artist. Concrete poetry and video art, both cutting edge movements are present as fundamentals of the above mentioned work, in which this dissertation is focused. / Mestre

From Introduction: Willem Boshoff was born in Vereeniging, South Africa, in 1951. The son of a carpenter, Boshoff developed an early interest in art. Although never taught formally by his father, he nevertheless acquired a knowledge of the craft of carpentry, a skill which he continues to utilize in much of his art-making today. Boshoff studied at the Johannesburg College of Art, and obtained a Master's Diploma in Technology in Fine Art in 1984. He taught at that institution for twelve years, becoming a full-time art practitioner in 1996. He produced some significant works prior to and during the time of his teaching tenure, including his KykAfrikaans visual poetry in 1979-1980, Bangboek between 1977-1986, and the researching and writing of the Dictionary of Perplexing English in 1986 (ending in 1999). In this study I will discuss Willem Boshoff's careful employment of language and materials, througb which he propagates his "study of ignorance" (Williamson and Jamal 1996:148). I will investigate two major works by Boshoff, namely The Writing in the Sand and The Blind Alphabet in Chapters 1 and 2 respectively. Both of these installations are concerned fundamentally with the subversion of power relationships and elitism. As I will show, both works offer an opportunity to investigate their objectives in relation to discourses surrounding language and hermeneutics. My study includes a third chapter, in which I discuss my own work entitled The Bread of the Presence in relation to Boshoff's own methodologies. As will be demonstrated with particular reference to The Blind Alphabet and my own work, a discussion of memory proves to be of some relevance within this dialogue.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-10-06T13:02:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-07-14. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2015-10-06T13:19:36Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000849668.pdf: 1903609 bytes, checksum: 8231313fb4e85e981f996294e5732c1e (MD5) / A proposta deste trabalho se centra na pesquisa das influências da poesia concreta na videoarte, especialmente no video VT Preparado:AC/JC, de autoria de Walter Silveira e Pedro Vieira. Não se trata, aqui, do vídeo como emissão televisiva ou em suas características técnicas, mas como possibilidade de expressão utilizada pelo artista. Como dois movimentos de vanguarda, a poesia concreta e a videoarte, estão presentes como fundamentos na obra citada, foco desta dissertação. / The proposal of this work is centered in research on the influences of concrete poetry upon video art, particularly in the VT Preparado: AC/JC video, by Walter Silveira and Pedro Vieira. The point here is neither the video as television emission, nor its technical features, but its possibilities of expression chosen by the artist. Concrete poetry and video art, both cutting edge movements are present as fundamentals of the above mentioned work, in which this dissertation is focused.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-11-10T11:09:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-06-10Bitstream added on 2014-11-10T11:58:09Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000794486.pdf: 1064155 bytes, checksum: 0878cc1a04661628e01d96a1c06bc943 (MD5) / Tem-se por objetivo situar a produção de arte psicodélica vinculada ao movimento de contracultura da década de 1960, em relação à chamada arte contemporânea, que se iniciava no mesmo período e que pode ser tomada como uma arte que se deu no âmbito mainstream, por circular nas principais galerias, museus e fazer parte da História da Arte. A arte psicodélica era também conhecida como arte underground e, de fato, foi uma das expressões desse outro âmbito. Tal arte se vincula ainda a arte outsider, que também engloba várias expressões da chamada arte visionária. Dentro da arte visionária, há uma linha que se desenvolve desde produções que passam pela arte primitiva, antiga e medieval, até o Romantismo, Simbolismo, Arte Nova, Realismo Fantástico, culminando com o Psicodelismo nos anos 1960. Das expressões da arte contemporânea, a Arte Pop, o Minimalismo, a Land Art, a Op Art e o Happening situam-se entre os movimentos em que se pode encontrar relações. O Minimalismo, por exemplo, presentifica um apelo sensorial das superfícies dos materiais similar ao que é experiementado no estado psicodélico. A estética mínima e limítrofe é um estimulante para a formação de alegorias e ilusões sensoriais. O cinema underground se revelou outra importante área de intersecção entre Psicodelismo e arte contemporânea / Our goal is to find the relationship between psychedelic art, which was a part of the 1960’s counterculture movement, and the so called contemporary art, whose first expressions were coming out at the same time. Contemporary art can be assumed to be a mainstream art because it was found at the main galleries and museums and is a well known movement in the History of Art. Psychedelic art, on the contrary, was also known as a kind of underground expression, and is linked with outsider art, which includes in its scope a variety of works of the so called visionary art. Inside its range of artistic expressions we can find a historical line (and at the same time an a-historic essential spirit), that evolves itself between primitive and ancient art, goes following through medieval art, reaching the Romanticism of the nineteenth century, emerging through Simbolism, Art Nouveau, Fantastic Realism, and giving shape to the Psychedelic Art of the 1960’s. On the expressions of contemporary art, we can say that Pop Art, Minimalism, Land Art, Op Art and Happening are between the artistic movements that we can find relationships with psychedelia. Minimal art shows the sensorial appeal of surfaces which is very similar with the kind of sensorial ecstasy enjoyed under the psychedelic state. The minimal aesthetic is so basic that it can provoke mental associations to fulfill its empty meaning and also provoke sensorial illusions like an infinite color fog, for example. Underground cinema is another area that revealed intersections between psychedelic and contemporary art

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-06-04Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:48:48Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 goncalves_ah_me_ia.pdf: 2790115 bytes, checksum: 0be06ec243541cba1a84b36daa789405 (MD5) / Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) / A pesquisa parte da observação de certos vazios percebidos na arte contemporânea e em minha própria produção, para uma investigação sobre alguns aspectos conceituais e estéticos do vazio relacionado às noções de existência e falta. O objetivo é entender porque alguns artistas contemporâneos parecem ter predileção pelo vazio e suas manifestações. Desta forma, o estudo apresenta uma reflexão sobre as mudanças ocorridas no período moderno relacionadas à queda da soberania religiosa, a ruptura da arte com as tradições e questões contemporâneas como narcisismo, indiferença e liberdade. Depois realiza-se um estudo sobre a falta comum a todos e as noções de recalque, sublimação e subjetividade na arte, aproximando o estudo da relação entre arte e psicanálise / The beginning‟s point of this research was the perception of the often emptiness' representation in contemporary art and in my own production. From this, the next point was to investigate some conceptual and aesthetic aspects related with the notions of void, existence, freedom, indifference and lack. The research's purpose is to understand the reason for this kind of predilection in contemporary art. The study began through a short analysis of some artists and their works, where the empty takes place as privileged part of their poetic. After that, the second step was a reflection about the impacts and modifications in the modern time caused by: the religious' decrease, secession between art and traditions, contemporaries' questions such as individualism, indifference and freedom. Finally, the research traces a parallel between the common understanding of absence and psychoanalitical notions like repression, sublimation and subjectivity in art

Orientador: José Leonardo do Nascimento / Banca: Cauê Alves / Banca: Sérgio Mauro Romagnolo / Resumo: Esta dissertação investiga a noção de arte moderna presente na reflexão estética do filósofo Maurice Merleau-Ponty, partindo da hipótese de que tal noção está inclusa na meditação sobre as indivisibilidades entre a relação homem, natureza e expressão artística. Apresenta a concepção de arte e arte moderna concomitantemente à trajetória e ao discurso filosófico de Merleau-Ponty. Discorre sobre a tese do filósofo acerca do retorno ao mundo percebido, as indivisibilidades, o corpo vidente e visível, o sensível, a carne do mundo, a pintura, o Ser bruto, a Natureza, logos e a expressão. A partir desses temas, foram desenvolvidas leituras sobre os seguintes textos para dimensionar essa noção de arte moderna: "A dúvida de Cézanne", "A expressão e o desenho infantil", "A linguagem indireta", "A linguagem indireta e as vozes do silêncio" e "O olho e o espírito". Para compreender o pensamento de Merleau- Ponty aproximamos suas ideias a várias teorias da história e da filosofia da arte, a partir dos temas: o espírito moderno, as correspondências, a representação e a expressão. Por fim, destaca os principais valores e ideias que compõem a noção de arte moderna em Merleau- Ponty. / Abstract: This work investigates the notion of modern art in this aesthetic reflection of philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, on the hypothesis that such a notion is included in the meditation about the indivisibilities on the relationship between man, nature and artistic expression. It presents the concept of art and modern art concomitantly to the trajectory and the philosophical discourse of Merleau-Ponty. This work also discuss the thesis of the philosopher about returning to the perceived world, the indivisibilities, the visible and invisible body, the sensitive, flesh of world, the painting, the Being, the Nature, the logos and the expression. On the themes, the following texts were studied to investigate the author's notion of modern art: "Cézanne's Doubt", "Expression and the child's drawing", "The indirect language", "The indirect language and the voices of silence" "Eye and mind". To comprehend Merleu-Ponty's ideas, his thought was related with various History and Art Philosophy theories, under the following themes: the modern mind, correspondence, representation and expression. At last, this work emphasizes the core values and ideas that make up the notion of modern art of Merleau-Ponty. / Mestre

Orientador: Marco Antonio Alves do Valle / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T22:57:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Januario_ElizeteTerezinha_M.pdf: 4484049 bytes, checksum: a4a509d50976eacd4eb6b58469c20f86 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa teve por finalidade apontar a importância da estimulação sensorial no corpo humano por meio do contato com objetos e instalações que possam proporcionar uma experiência sensível (olhar, tatear, ouvir, degustar e falar). Neste sentido, tais experiências mostram a interação entre a arte e a vida do ser humano em seu dia-a-dia, bem como as relações que seguem entre os objetivos de Lygia Clark e Hélio Oiticica, abordando questões relativas à "exploração do corpo¿, focalizando-o como um instrumento ativador de sua própria percepção, e, posicionando os homens a uma proximidade maior com a Arte a partir das vivências sensoriais. Porém, seus caminhos são divergentes. Lygia Clark parte do interior do sujeito, cria dobras em seus objetos para que ele chegue ao mundo e ao outro à partir de seu inconsciente e de seu Self; Hélio Oiticica já propõe o oposto, chegar ao sujeito à partir do exterior, e ainda, levanta questões sociais e políticas a partir da reunião de objetos e pessoas ligados ao seu meio, determinando uma das vertentes mais arrojadas da arte contemporânea brasileira, sinalizando a principal característica de nossa cultura em que o corpo é suporte e meio da expressão artística brasileira. Este interesse surgiu a partir de conclusões adquiridas nos meios em que acontecem as exposições de Arte contemporânea. Foi então que percebeu-se o quanto as inter-relações e os acontecimentos envolvem o artista ao mundo, e fazem com que ele continue as buscas por novas expressões artísticas, experimentando, transformando, sentindo e ingerindo as diversidades que rodeiam a sociedade, principalmente no meio artístico. Estas relações se dão e são proporcionadas pelos cinco sentidos. A consciência do indivíduo se completa ao interagir com o mundo por meio das manifestação dos cinco sentidos. São eles que nos propiciam esta comunicação com o meio externo. O direcionamento do trabalho é apontar o Artista, e, neste sentido, ele exerce um papel de articulador destas relações quando propõe objetos interativos com seu corpo e com os corpos de outras pessoas. As considerações mencionadas nesta dissertação dizem respeito a este processo de construção interior em direção às pesquisas plásticas, que investigam uma série de materiais e novas interpretações sobre espaço, formas, corpo e mundo. Sendo assim, no corpo desta dissertação estarão descritos o caminhar de Lygia Clark e Hélio Oiticica em direção aos questionamentos sobre o conceito da ¿quebra do plano¿, a ¿queda da moldura¿, bem como as experiências sensoriais exploradas em seus objetos e instalações, fator que possibilita a manifestação de todos os órgãos dos sentidos em nosso corpo. O caminhar em direção a tridimensionalidade em conseqüência da exploração dos sentidos nos trabalhos plásticos mencionados neste trabalho, salientando a forte influência dos trabalhos dos artistas acima referidos. Portanto, não podemos deixar de mencionar a fundamentação teórica pautada nas considerações do pensamento fenomenológico existencial. Finalizando, foi feito um apanhado geral sobre o envolvimento dos cinco sentidos como elementos imprescindíveis para que a sensibilidade não se perca na vida do Ser Humano, e ainda, a relação das investigações sensoriais nos trabalhos de Lygia Clark e Hélio Oiticica. Concluindo, então, esta pesquisa com a certeza de que o Corpo não está distante da Arte em momento algum. Ao Ser Humano é dado a capacidade e sentir, vivenciar e captar o mundo a sua volta, desenvolvendo a vida, o movimento e o instinto de criação e transformação a partir do que lhe é oferecido / Abstract: This research had for purpose to point the importance of the sensorial stimulation in the human body by means of the contact with objects and installations that can provide a sensible experience (to look at, to tatear, to hear, to degustar and to speak). In this direction, such experiences day-by-day show to the interaction between the art and the life of the human being in its, as well as the relations that follow between the objectives of Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, approaching relative questions to the "exploration of the body", focusing it as an activator instrument of its proper perception, and, locating the men to a bigger proximity with the Art from the sensorial experiences. However, its ways are divergent. Lygia Clark has left of the interior of the citizen, creates folds in its objects so that it arrives at the world and the other to leaving of its unconscious one and of its Self; Oiticica helium already considers the opposite, to arrive at the citizen to leaving of the exterior, and still, raises social matters and politics from the meeting of on objects and people to its half one, determining one of the sources boldest of the art Brazilian contemporary, signaling the main characteristic of our culture where the body is support and way of the Brazilian artistic expression. This interest appeared from conclusions acquired in the ways where the expositions of Art happen contemporary. It was then that it was perceived how much the Inter-relations and the events involve the artist to the world, and make with that it continues the searches for new artistic expressions, trying, transforming, feeling and ingesting the diversities that encircle the society, mainly in the artistic way. These relations if give and proportionate for the five are felt. The conscience of the complete individual if when interacting with the world by means of the manifestation of the five felt. They are they who in them propitiate this communication with the external way. The aiming of the work is to point the Artist, and, in this direction, it it exerts a paper of articulador of these relations when it considers interactive objects with its body and the bodies of other people. The considerações mentioned in this dissertação say respect to this process of interior construction in direction to the plastic research, that investigates a series of materials and new interpretations on space, forms, body and world. Being thus, in the body of this dissertação they will be described walking of Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica in direction to the questionings on the concept of the "plan in addition", the ¿fall of the frame¿, as well as the sensorial experiences explored in its objects and installations, factor that makes possible the manifestation of all the agencies of the directions in our body. Walking in direction the tridimensionalidade in consequence of the exploration of the directions in the plastic works mentioned in this work, pointing out the strong influence of the works of the artists above related. Therefore, we cannot leave to mention the pautada theoretical recital in the considerações of the existencial fenomenológico thought. Finishing, apanhado on the envolvement of the five was made general felt as elements essential so that sensitivity not if it loses in the life of the Human being, and still, the relation of the sensorial inquiries in the works of Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica. Concluding, then, this research with the certainty of that the Body is not distant of the Art at any moment. To the Human being the capacity is given and to feel, to live deeply and to catch the world its return, developing the life, the movement and the instinct of creation and transformation from that it is offered to it / Mestrado / Mestre em Artes