Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2018-02-15T11:59:35Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ArileneLucenaDeMedeiros_DISSERT.pdf: 4245921 bytes, checksum: b136d05868354bdbaba77438119a7a0f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2018-02-19T19:00:14Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 ArileneLucenaDeMedeiros_DISSERT.pdf: 4245921 bytes, checksum: b136d05868354bdbaba77438119a7a0f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-02-19T19:00:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ArileneLucenaDeMedeiros_DISSERT.pdf: 4245921 bytes, checksum: b136d05868354bdbaba77438119a7a0f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-09-25 / O presente trabalho analisa a trajet?ria biogr?fica do artista pl?stico e escritor natalense Dorian Gray Caldas (1930-2017), tido como um dos precursores da modernidade art?stica no Rio Grande do Norte. Sua produ??o pict?rica incluiu desenho, pintura de cavalete, pintura mural, mosaico, escultura, cer?mica, gravura e tape?aria. O objetivo principal da disserta??o ? investigar como Dorian Gray construiu uma identidade pessoal alicer?ada na arte moderna e de que forma seu protagonismo interferiu na constitui??o de uma arte potiguar. Prioriza um recorte temporal que vai de 1950, ano que marca o in?cio de sua atividade profissional, com o I Sal?o de Arte Moderna de Natal, em parceria com os artistas Newton Navarro e Ivon Rodrigues, at? 1989, com a publica??o do livro ?Artes Pl?sticas do Rio Grande do Norte (1920-1989)?, obra de sua autoria que consolida a ideia de uma identidade art?stica potiguar. O primeiro cap?tulo analisa de que forma a arte se tornou uma op??o de vida para Dorian Gray e como ele construiu a ideia de uma tradi??o art?stica para sua fam?lia. O segundo cap?tulo investiga sua produ??o cultural no per?odo demarcado, as redes de sociabilidade constru?das por ele e sua participa??o na constru??o de uma modernidade art?stica natalense. O terceiro cap?tulo examina, de um lado, as imagens que Dorian construiu sobre si e sobre o que considerava ter feito para o mundo cultural e intelectual do Rio Grande do Norte, e, de outro, como os seus contempor?neos representavam o artista e sua obra. Recuperam-se alguns discursos produzidos ap?s sua morte e os mecanismos mobilizados pela fam?lia e institui??es culturais para promover a manuten??o da mem?ria do artista. Como aportes te?ricos, utiliza as no??es de biografia (DOSSE, 2009; LORIGA, 2011), configura??o social (ELIAS, 1994), modernidade (BERMAN, 1986) e enquadramento da mem?ria (Pollack, 1989, 1992) e o referencial te?rico-metodol?gico da hist?ria oral de vida (PORTELLI, 1997). A rela??o entre hist?ria e espa?o ? discutida na perspectiva do ge?grafo Yi-Fu Tuan (2013), para quem o espa?o ? o lugar que constr?i identidade. As principais fontes utilizadas s?o entrevistas fundamentadas na hist?ria oral de vida, not?cias publicadas nos jornais A Rep?blica, O Poti e Di?rio de Natal, discursos e textos de memorialistas. / This current essay analyzes biographical trajectory of the plastic artist and natalense writer Dorian Gray, well known as one of the artistic modernity precursors in Rio Grande do Norte. His pictorial production included drawing, easel painting, mural painting, mosaic, sculpture, ceramics, picture and tapestry. The main goal of this dissertation is to explore how Dorian Gray made a personal identity based on modern art and in what way his protagonism interfered in the formation of Potiguar art. It prioritizes a temporal cut, from 1950, the year which he started his professional career, in the I Sal?o de Arte Moderna de Natal in partnership with the artists Newton Navarro and Ivon Rodrigues, to 1989, when was published the book ?Artes Pl?sticas do Rio Grande do Norte (1920-1989)?, work of his own which consolidates an idea of the potiguar artistic identity. Its first chapter analyzes how art became an option of life to Dorian Gray and how he created the idea of an artistic tradition to his family. Its second chapter investigates his cultural production in the delimited period, sociability networks made by him and his participation in the formation of the Natalense artistic modernity. The third chapter examines, from a point, the pictures that Dorian created about him and about what considered to have done to the cultural and intellectual areas of Rio Grande do Norte, and to another point, how his contemporaries represented the artist and his work. Some speeches made after his death and strategies used by his family and cultural institutions to preserve the artist?s memory were recovered. As theoretical contribution, uses the perception of biography (DOSSE, 2009; LORIGA, 2011), social setting (ELIAS, 1994), modernity (BERMAN, 1986) and memory framing (POLLACK, 1989, 1992) and the theoretical-methodological referential of Oral History of life (PORTELLI, 1997). The relation between History and space is discussed in the perspective of the geographer Yi-Fu Tuan (2013), to whom the space is a place which creates identity. The main sources used are interviews based on Oral History, news published in the newspapers A Rep?blica, O Poti e Di?rio de Natal, speeches and memorialist texts.