The problem of this survey is to ascertain the relationship between nine Texas art museums and contemporary art, defined for this study as art of the 1970s. The role of the museum and its involvement with contemporary art are also perceived in respect to the general public. The purpose of this study was (1) to visit nine Texas art museums and interview the director or curator of contemporary art, using a standardized questionnaire, and (2) to present and analyze the responses to the questionnaire. The eight questions comprising the survey were formulated to include both practical and philosophical related concerns. Therefore, the survey responses and final conclusions reflect a variety of issues ranging from the physical accommodation of diverse contemporary works to the more fundamental philosophical issue concerned with contemporary art's presence in the museum and the institution's function.

A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts (History of Art) by coursework and research report March 2017 / In the 1960s and 1970s, farm worker Nukain Mabuza created a painted hillside rock garden on a farm between Barberton and Kaapmuiden, Mpumalanga, South Africa. He transformed his dwellings, and rearranged and painted the surrounding rocks according to a unified scheme of geometric and animal motifs with a carefully selected colour palette. This altered environment went far further aesthetically, and lasted far longer in time, than the signs and scars that might typically result from a farm worker’s dwelling upon the land. His work arguably bears some of the hallmarks of an inhabited ‘total work of art’. I challenge the dominant ‘outsider art’ explanatory framework adopted by JFC Clarke and re-evaluate the fragmentary archive of Mabuza’s life and work. Working from the likelihood that no single context will offer sufficient grounds for situating Nukain Mabuza’s particular creative practice, I assess the relevance of cultural, historical and religious contexts, which might have shaped Nukain Mabuza’s personal vision and contributed to the form of his expressive environment. Nukain Mabuza’s altered landscape has suffered considerable damage – there is no longer any trace of the two dwellings and the stile, and the paintings on the rocks have all but disappeared. My project seeks to contribute to the scholarship on Nukain Mabuza’s work by extending, analysing, interpreting and situating his inhabited painted environment within the worldview of southern African Bantu-speakers, as a unique personal creative expression, and as an expression of the artist’s modernity. / MT2018

A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, for the Degree of Master of Arts in Fine Arts. / This dissertation investigates a particular use of repetition (and `quotation`) in the artistic method of Robert Hodgins, and the pedagogical significance of this method for the author. (Abbreviation abstract) / AC2017

The following statement supports the investigations that culminated in the body of sculptural work entitled “Daoist Garden”. It is an examination of the most basic sculptural issues of form and space, and reverses the roles of prototype and mold to give visual accounting of spaces created by curved planes. These spatial records allude to cycles of disintegration and reconfiguration of matter on various timelines and scales. The philosophical influence behind the work employs the concepts of yin and yang, which relate directly to the mold/positive relationship, and are essential to experiencing Dao, the eternally nameless underlying order of the universe. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2014.. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Orientador: Omar Khouri / Banca: Sérgio Mauro Romagnolo / Banca: Júlio César Mendonça / Resumo: 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 / Abstract: 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 / Mestre

The Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez (b.1923) is an exemplar of modernism both in Europe and in Latin America. This thesis offers a broader understanding of his work by discussing his early paintings as a precedent to his more recognized production. Cruz-Diez's chief aim as an artist is the liberation of colour, a process undertaken with the motivation of being part of art history, in an avant-garde quest for what his original contribution to art could be. Transition, interaction, colour, space and time: these are the crucial concepts of the work of Cruz-Diez investigated in this thesis and positioned in the Latin American/European and Kinetic/Optical context. Today, Cruz-Diez's works from his first Physichromie (1959) onwards have been extensively explored both by him in numerous commentaries and by scholars. In contrast, only few works of the 1950s have been displayed and discussed. The key aspect of my argument is that 1959 is not an abrupt beginning to Cruz-Diez's work but the conclusive stage of a ten-year process of transition from figuration to abstraction. I demonstrate that there is indeed a drawn-out “passage” made of readings and experiments, of “successes” and" “failures”. I argue that this “passage” is articulated along three parallel paths: 1) the detachment from naturalistic or figurative representation; 2) the detachment from the concept of colour as a synonym of pigment on a support; and 3) the shift in emphasis from a “passive” to an “active” spectator.

Este estudo objetiva narrar uma história de obras produzidas por membros das classes populares, reconhecidas por meio de sua individualidade e inventividade, enfocando sua produção e sua recepção no Brasil, entre 1880 e 1990. A abordagem estética e histórica orientada pela fenomenologia foi realizada segundo o método micro-histórico, conduzido pela idéia de \"primitivo\". Os fragmentos das biografias e as imagens evocadas foram cruzados com os discursos de seus intérpretes que formularam designações como: \"arte primitiva\", \"arte psicopatológica\", \"arte bruta\", \"outsider art\", \"arte virgem\" e \"arte incomum\". No horizonte histórico da cultura brasileira abriram-se duas vias principais de interpretação: uma derivada do cientificismo do discurso psiquiátrico e outra do romantismo do discurso acerca da cultura popular. Não obstante a contribuição da noção francesa de Art Brut para questionar essas duas vias, a complexidade da produção artística brasileira solicita uma análise particular que revele o \"primitivo\" em suas ambigüidades / This study aims to narrate a history of art works produced by members of popular classes, recognized by its individuality and inventivety, focusing in the production and reception in Brazil between 1880 and 1990. The aesthetic and historic approaches was oriented by phenomenology followed the micro-historic method, guided by the idea of \"primitive\". The fragments of the biographies and evoked images were crossed with the discourse of its interpreters, that proposed designations as such: \"primitive art\", \"psychopathological art\", \"art brut\", \"outsider art\", \"uncommon art\" and \"virginal art\". In the historical context of the Brazilian culture two principal ways of interpretation were opened: one of them is derivated from the scientificism of the psychiatric discourse and the other from the romantic discourse about the popular culture. Nevertheless the contribution of the french notion of Art Brut to question these ways, the complexity of the Brazilian artistic production impose a particular analyses that reveals the \"primitive\" in its ambiguity

一提到「中國現代藝術」，就讓人立刻連想到一群極受注目的中國藝術家、藝評人、策展人和理論家，當中包括王廣義、徐冰、高名潞、栗憲庭、呂澎等人。他們現時在中國藝術圈的地位已不容置疑，而要研究文革後中國的藝術發展概況，他們的理論及研究已被確立並普遍為學者應用。由1990年開始，他們的出版、展覽、研討會，都圍繞著一班八十年代借用歐美現代藝術風格及主張來創作的青年藝術家，並稱他們的作品為「中國現代藝術」及「中國當代藝術」。但讓人不理解的是，這些藝評人等始終未能就「現代」和「當代」這兩個概念作出恰當的解釋，有時甚至混淆不清；而且自九十年代初開始，大部份有關他們所詮譯的「中國現代藝術」的研究、著作及展覽已見既定模式、參與藝術家及籌劃人，當中某些論點亦見牽強。基於這些問題，現在我們所理解的「中國現代藝術」能否代表中國真正的現代藝術？在現時「中國現代藝術」似乎是某一撮人的「現代藝術」的情形下，而他們又是如此具權威地發表觀點時，我們需要重新了解八十年代的政治社會及文化氣候，以及當時藝術圈的各種關係，從而對現在所認識的「中國現代藝術」作一個客觀的理解及評論。 / 中國美術家協會所出版的《美術》雜誌，就能讓我們探究八十年代的各類政治、社會、藝術狀況。透過對其文章及投稿人的分析後發現，當時有三個不同的藝術圈，各自因應政治氣候及藝術圈的屬性，去詮譯自己的「現代藝術」，它們在這論文分別被稱為「官方藝術的現代性」、「中國傳統藝術現代化」及「新藝術潮流」，而「新藝術潮流」亦演化成今天的「中國現代藝術」。八十年代的「中國現代藝術」的面貌與今天截然不同，究其原因，可利用法國社會學理論家皮埃爾．布迪厄的「場」、「習性」及「文化資本」理論作出分析。總括而言，透過《美術》的文本闡析，再配合社會學理論的支持，這個研究運用了嶄新角度去剖析「中國現代藝術的意義與內涵」，並讓我們進一步反思「文化製造」、「文化權力」及「藝術史撰寫」等一系列問題。 / The first names that come to mind when one talks about "Chinese modern art" are the group of high-profile Chinese artists, art critics, curators and theorists, including well-known names such as Wang Guangyi, Xu Bing, Gao Minglu, Li Xianting, Lu Peng etc. Their current standing within the Chinese art circle is almost indisputable. In terms of the study of the development of Chinese art in the post-Cultural-Revolution era, their theories and research have been well-established, and widely adopted by other scholars. Ever since 1990, their publications, exhibitions and symposiums have centered on a group of young artists, who borrowed from Euro-American modernist artistic styles and views to create in the post-Mao period. Furthermore, such art critics-curators have coined these artworks as "Chinese modern art" and "Chinese contemporary art". However, these art critics-curators have yet to come up with appropriate definitions for the notions of "modern" and "contemporary", allowing them to be used in confusing and ambiguous ways at times. Since the 1990s, the majority of their research, publications and exhibitions on "Chinese modern art" have developed into fixed models, with set participating artists and contributors. At the same time, certain arguments within such discourses are deemed unconvincing and far-fetched. In view of such issues, this paper begs to ask - whether the "Chinese modern art" that we have come to know nowadays, is a truthful representation of modern art in China? Under such circumstance where "Chinese modern art" seems to be a "modern art" history of a selected few; and, as these art critics-curators carry on professing their view however authoritatively, if we want to formulate a more objective understanding and commentary on the “Chinese modern art that we now know of, we will need to start afresh in our understanding of the political and cultural climate in the 1980s, and the various relations within the art field at the time. / Meishu, published by the China Artists' Association, provides us an entry point in which the political and artistic situations in the 1980s can be examined. An analysis on the articles and the contributors reveals that there were three different art circles, each formulating their own interpretation of "modern art", in accordance to the political climate and the nature of their own artistic field. They have been discussed in this paper as "Officialdom", "Modernization of Chinese traditional painting" and "New Trends in Art" ; among which, "New Trends in Art" became the "Chinese modern art" in today's term. Hence, the landscape of "Chinese modern art" in the 1980s was different from today's situation. To understand why there was such a difference, then, concepts of "fields", "habitus" and "cultural capital" proposed by the French social theorist, Pierre Bourdieu, can be adopted as analytical tools. All in all, through literary review of Meishu, with the support of sociological theories, this research offers a different angle to dissect the meanings and inner values of "Chinese modern Art", and allow us to further reflect on the various issues in relation to "cultural production", "cultural power", and "the practice of writing art history". / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Li, Ting Lin. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013. / Includes bibliographical references. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in also in Chinese; includes Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.iv / Table of Contents --- p.vi / Chapter CHAPTER ONE: --- INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND / Chapter A) --- WHY 1979 TO 1989? THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT --- p.1 / Chapter B) --- WHY MEISHU MAGAZINE? / Chapter 1. --- Magazines as a form of documentation of social and cultural developments --- p.4 / Chapter 2. --- The unique background and character of Meishu --- p.17 / Chapter C) --- THE DISCUSSION ABOUT MODERN ART: TWO PERIODS --- p.26 / Chapter D) --- THE VALUE AND STRENGTH OF THIS RESEARCH --- p.30 / Chapter E) --- SCOPE OF RESEARCH AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY --- p.34 / Chapter CHAPTER TWO: --- MEISHUMAGAZINE--ITS BACKGROUND, ROLE AND SIGNIFICANCE / Chapter A) --- INTRODUCTION --- p.38 / Chapter B) --- THE BEGINNINGS OF MEISHU AND ITS LATER DEVELOPMENT --- p.41 / Chapter C) --- STRUCTURE OF THE CHINA ARTISTS' ASSOCIATION AND MEISHU --- p.42 / Chapter D) --- EDITORIAL LINE --- p.46 / Chapter E) --- CONTENT ANALYSIS / Chapter 1. --- Areas Covered and System of Classification --- p.57 / Chapter 2. --- Content Composition --- p.65 / Chapter 3. --- Trends and Later Developments --- p.75 / Chapter 4. --- Modern Art: Three Discourses --- p.80 / Chapter F) --- COMPOSITION OF MEISHU'S EDITORIAL GROUP --- p.86 / Chapter G) --- MEISHU AND THE TREND OF ART THOUGHT, JIANGSU PICTORIAL, AND FINE ARTS IN CHINA, AND THEIR FASCINATION WITH "NEW TRENDS IN ART" --- p.97 / Chapter H) --- CONCLUSION --- p.115 / Chapter CHAPTER THREE: --- DISCUSSION OF "CHINESE MODERN ART":A REVIEW FROM MEISHU ZAZHI 1979-1989 / Chapter A) --- INITIATION / "Chinese Modern Art": Celebrated yet illusory --- p.121 / Chapter B) --- "CHINESE MODERN ART IN THE POST-MAO PERIOD: CURRENT DISCUSSION1990-2010 / Chapter 1. --- The 1990s as a demarcation period --- p.125 / Chapter 2. --- A review of art publications from 1990 to 2010 --- p.129 / Chapter 3) --- Problems encountered with current discussion --- p.148 / Chapter C) --- DISCUSSION OF "CHINESE MODERN ART" IN WIDER CONTEXT: A PERSPECTIVE FROM MEISHU ZAZHI 1979-1989 --- p.169 / Chapter 1. --- Ideological liberty and Two Hundreds policy in the art field --- p.173 / 「牡丹好，丁香也好」 --- p.179 / Chapter 2. --- Officialdom --- p.188 / Contributors to "Officialdom" --- p.190 / Changes in viewpoints between 1979 and 1989 --- p.197 / "Modern" qualities in the art of "Officialdom" --- p.201 / China's interpretation of modern art of foreign countries --- p.214 / Attacks on "New Trends in Art" --- p.225 / Chapter 3. --- Modernization of Chinese traditional painting --- p.229 / Contributors to the discussion about "Modernization of Chinese traditional painting --- p.235 / Changes in viewpoints between 1979 and 1989 --- p.236 / The path to modernization: different ways of reforming Chinese traditional painting --- p.242 / Chapter 4. --- New Trends in Art --- p.262 / Contributors to "New Trends in Art" --- p.264 / Changes in viewpoint between 1979 and 1989 --- p.267 / Chinese modern art: a sphere of ideological liberty --- p.276 / Chapter CHAPTER FOUR: --- EVALUATING THE DISCUSSION ON MODERN ART IN CHINA FROM 1979 TO 2010 IN LIGHT OF PIERRE BOURDIEU'S SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVES --- p.303 / Chapter A) --- "FIELD OF ART" AND "HABITUS": DISCUSSION OF MODERN ART FROM 1979 TO 1989 --- p.306 / Chapter B) --- "FIELD OF COMMERCE" AND "FIELD OF PUBLICATION": DISCUSSION OF MODERN ART FROM 1990 TO 2010 --- p.318 / Chapter CHAPTER FIVE: --- CONCLUSION --- p.323 / ILLUSTRATIONS --- p.336 / TABLES AND CHARTS --- p.398 / INTERVIEWS WITH LI SONGTAO, TANG QINGNIAN, WANG XIAOJIAN, AND FEI DAWEI --- p.408 / APPENDIX I --- p.436 / APPENDIX II --- p.447 / APPENDIX III --- p.727 / APPENDIX IV --- p.753 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.787

Orientador: Rosangela da Silva Leote / Banca: Lucimar Bello Pereira Frange / Banca: José Paiani Spaniol / Resumo: Nesta dissertação descrevo as experiências da série O Bagaço da Pintura, que procuram responder ao problema da morte da arte e investigam a linguagem pictórica em campo expandido. No ambiente acadêmico, esta pesquisa abriu uma nova vertente poética, também aqui descrita e analisada: as Pictocartografias / Abstract: In this dissertation I describe the experiences of series The Bagasse of the Painting, which seek to respond to the problem of the death of art and investigate the pictorial language in expanded field. In academic environment, this research has opened a new poetic dimension, also described and analyzed here: the Pictocartografias / Mestre

Orientador(a): Omar Khouri / Banca: Elaine da Graca de Paula Caramella / Banca: Jose Leonardo do Nascimento / Resumo: Partindo da desmaterialização observada nas artes do século XX por Lucy Lippard, isto é, da perda de interesse dos artistas na evolução física do trabalho de arte, assumo como objeto de estudos um subgrupo de tal fenômeno, distinto por visar à desmaterialização completa como o próprio objeto artístico. Tais propostas, aqui denominadas "Artes do Vazio", desafiam nossa compreensão e dificultam sua caracterização por não resultarem em materialidade física na sua exibição. Neste trabalho, ofereço uma interpretação semiótica e uma resposta aos seus desafios. No primeiro capítulo, abordarei seu contexto de desenvolvimento e sua diversidade através do século XX, ao qual acompanha, simultaneamente, o desenvolvimento de algumas hipóteses interpretativas. Estas, por sua vez, serão analisadas em seus alcances e limites no segundo capítulo. Já o terceiro visa a uma interpretação dos dilemas que as artes do vazio apresentam por contrariarem alguns pressupostos comuns a toda obra de arte, o que as coloca sob o risco de um relativismo em sua interpretação. Para tal, será apresentada a teoria semiótica de Charles S. Peirce, que, articulada à sua fenomenologia e ao seu realismo, mostrar-se-á frutífera na construção de um argumento que oferece uma resposta a tais dilemas. Neste ponto, serão esclarecidos os papeis tomados por alguns elementos necessários à cadeia semiótica de uma obra do vazio, e.g., os elementos contextuais de apresentação artística e o impacto de uma quebra de expectativa na... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Starting from Lucy Lippard's observation of the dematerialization of arts in the twentieth century, that is, of the artists' loss of interest in the physical evolution of the artwork, I take as an object of study a subclass of such phenomenon, distinguished by taking the complete dematerialization as the artistic object itself. These artistic proposals, here labeled as "Emptiness Arts", challenge our comprehension and characterization as they are not materially constituted in their exhibition. In this work, I offer a semiotic interpretation and an answer to these challenges. In the chapter 1, I'll restate its historical development and diversity throughout the twentieth century, and simultaneously offer some interpretative hypothesis. These will be properly discussed and analyzed, in their strengths and weakness, in the chapter 2. Then, chapter 3 will offer a separate interpretation for the dilemmas that emptiness arts offer to our comprehension, as they tend to deny some basic suppositions about the art phenomena, one that could put their interpretations into relativistic risk. For such, the semiotic theory of Charles S. Peirce will be presented. This theory, together with his phenomenology and realistic approach, will show itself fruitful in putting together an answer to such dilemmas. In this point, the roles that some constitutive elements play in a semiotic chain involving an emptiness art will be clarified, e.g., the contextual elements of an artistic show and the... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre