Orientador: Maria Jose de Azevedo Marcondes / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T23:09:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Piva_MarciaHelenaGirardi_M.pdf: 35482788 bytes, checksum: 0393304bb581c47b50ffd090dd83d342 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa teve por objetivo analisar a série de obras do artista plástico Anselm Kiefer, produzidas a partir da visita ao Brasil no ano de 1987, na qual as vistas aéreas da paisagem urbana de São Paulo tornaram-se elemento propulsor. O registro em fotos, sobre a metrópole brasileira, transformou-se em material para o desenvolvimento de uma nova série de criação que marca mudanças nos temas e nos procedimentos pictóricos dentro do conjunto de sua produção artística. A pesquisa desenvolveu-se através da análise dos registros sobre a obra de Kiefer em arquivos e bibliotecas de Instituições artísticas brasileiras como Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, Pinacoteca do Estado e Instituto Goethe, além da análise de uma obra original da série citada, disponibilizada por uma colecionadora brasileira. O trabalho foi fundamentado através de publicações de autores como Walter Benjamin, Daniel Arasse, Andrea Lauterwein, Andreas Huyssen, Brissac Peixoto, Sérgio Paulo Rouanet, Alberto Tassinari, Márcio Seligmann-Silva, W.J.Mitchell, Mieke Ball, Hans Belting entre outros. Através do material pesquisado, foram desenvolvidas reflexões no âmbito da arte contemporânea, utilizando-se conceitos desenvolvidos pelos teóricos e críticos da arte. Houve a necessidade de retomar a produção do artista desde suas primeiras obras, em que os temas concentravam se na história alemã e na origem do povo germânico. A influência da poesia de Paul Celan reflete uma mudança de temas na produção do artista que passa a explorar a cultura judaica. Estas questões tornaram-se necessárias para a compreensão dos motivos que levaram Kiefer a dedicar-se a uma série de obras sobre a paisagem brasileira. A situação do artista alemão no pós-guerra e a necessidade de mudança na concepção tradicional da representação a partir do Holocausto, a memória e a paisagem em ruínas, são temas transferidos para diversos contextos e passaram a funcionar como metáfora no desenvolvimento de sua produção artística. Assim, no período analisado concluiu-se que há um deslocamento, que parte da problemática gerada pela catástrofe histórica, vivenciada por Kiefer, para a compreensão de vários questionamentos que aludem à paisagem urbana contemporânea. A percepção da transitoriedade é sentida através dos materiais utilizados pelo artista em questão, que guardam as marcas do tempo e abrem um campo complexo de discursos. Relações traçadas através da paisagem de São Paulo partirão do lugar específico da megalópole brasileira, para questões que se colocam em âmbito global / Mestrado / Artes Visuais / Mestre em Artes

This study presents an analysis of the contribution of four painters to the development of contemporary Zambian painting, from 1950 to 1997. This is preceded by a brief history of Zambian painting, including Bushmen rock painting and early Bantu art, which is followed by an account of the way western influence, introduced by the white man, started changing the style of painting in the country as it began to affect indigenous artists. In the work of artists who began painting from about 1900 to 1950, both western and traditional stylistic influences can be seen. While the painters whose work is analysed in this thesis had some knowledge of Zambian art before 1950, they were mainly influenced by western ideas of painting. From a list of more than ten painters ofthis period from 1950 to 1997, I selected: Gabriel Ellison, Cynthia Zukas, Hemy Tayali and Stephen Kappata because I know them personally and therefore had access to them and their work, which facilitated my analysis of their work and its contribution to Zambian painting. This analysis takes the form of four chapters, one for each artist, in which relevant biographical and educational background is outlined, followed by an analysis of examples of\vork. Finally, ways in which each painter, through exposure to the Zambian public and artistic community, contributed to further development in Zambian painting, are emphasised.

From Introduction: The Artist was denied any role in Plato's Republic because of his ability to impair reason by imitating reality through his works. Aristotle, however, welcomed the artist because of his ability to express ideas about society through artistic form. Ernst Fischer agrees with the latter view, "Art enables man to comprehend reality, and not only helps him to bear it but increases his determination to make it more human and more worthy of mankind. Art is itself a social reality, society needs the artist ... and it has a right to demand of him that he should be conscious of his social function" (Fischer: 1963:46). Fischer adds to Aristotle's view by stating that society has a right to demand a social function from the artist. This issue has been the subject of controversial debate throughout the history of art. In a society based on class, the classes try to recruit art to serve their particular purposes. Art is seen by some as a powerful weapon - a means by which people can be swayed towards certain ideals. At the time of the Counter Reformation Italian artists were given strict instructions by the Jesuits on how to persuade and educate the people with their paintings. Napoleon urged his men of letters, painters and architects to refer to the classical ideals of ancient Greece and Rome to shape the emergent French Republic. The French philosopher, Dennis Diderot, stressed the futility of art unless it expressed great prinCiples or lessons for the spectator. Ideals of justice, courage and patriotism were embodied in the Neo-Classical movement. The didactic paintings of Jacques Louis David portray the above ideals. History records several attempts by those in power to coerce artists into conforming to their idea of society, indicating that authoritative manipulation of the arts is not purely a twentieth century phenomenon. This thesis intends to examine aspects of Russian art since 1917. Because Soviet art was dominated by policies which enabled authorities to determine its content, its history raises ideological issues which are relevant to the study of art. The theories of Suprematism, Constructivism and Socialist Realism will be discussed and conclusions will be drawn as to whether these theories succeeded as art movements which were ostensibly designed for the improvement of mankind. Present attitudes toward the visual arts in Russia will also be examined. However, in order to examine the above it is necessary to place the development of art into historical perspective.

The introduction establishes the goal of the research, which is to discover that art concerned with re-evaluating the relationship to the environment and spirituality can serve to connect people to one another, and to the environment. The context of the research is the contemporary ecological and spiritual crisis of the postmodern world. The background places the discussion within the contexts of modernism and postmodernism. The historical background focuses on the period from the 1960s to the present day. Land and Environmental artists who work in a manner that is conscious of environmental issues and who suggest a sacred and creative attitude to ecology are discussed. My own creative work which is a response to both ancient and contemporary sites as well as to contemporary theories of art and spirituality is discussed. The four projects, are discussed in chronological order, they are: Quest - A journey into Sacred Space; Gaika's Kop - Sacred Mountain; Labyrinth - Journeys to the Centre; and Transforming the Centre. The conclusion shows that the multi-faceted, intertextual and relativistic philosophy of postmodernism has brought about a significant change in the attitude of humanity towards the environment. Artists who reject the modernist aesthetic and philosophy are making art that emphasises relationship to, rather than separation from the natural world.

The Royal Academy exhibition of 1832 opened in London in the midst of a political crisis over the passage of the Great Reform Bill. An analysis of the critical response to four of the leading pictures in the exhibition: A Family Portrait by C.R. Leslie, The Preaching of Knox by David Wilkie, The Destroying Angel by William Etty, and Chiide Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy by J.M.W. Turner, provides evidence that the ongoing political conflict permeated the Academy exhibition. In an atmosphere of increasing tension caused by parliamentary deadlock and street rioting, art critics argued about the pictures' quality and meaning in highly politicized terms. This investigation focuses upon these four pictures and their critical reception, in order to probe the extent to which art and politics were connected at that specific historical moment. Documentary evidence of viewer responses is provided by anonymous reviews of the pictures which were published in ten major London newspapers and journals during the weeks following the opening of the show. The bias of each publication is carefully examined since, during the 1830's, most publications were highly partisan affairs, often receiving direct subsidies from particular interest groups. The analysis of these paintings offers a new perspective on the tensions, alignments, shifts, and ambiguities of British social classes and political parties in 1832. While the reception of Leslie's portrait points out the short-term divisions between Whigs and Tories over the issue of parliamentary reform, that of Wilkie1s history painting demonstrates that despite their differences, these two groups were united by a shared fear of the radical working class. Etty's academic sketch provides an example of how members of the conservative upper class rationalized rejecting the notion of reform, while Turner's landscape reveals how progressive middle-class reformers challenged tradition with a positive assertion of modernity. By examining the response to these pictures, one finds there is no clear separation between political and artistic spheres. / Arts, Faculty of / Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Department of / Graduate

This paper is intended to be a discussion of the paintings which comprise the candidate's exhibition and which represent the product of two years' work as a graduate student at Florida State University. / Typescript. / "June, 1959." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science."

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