The intent of this study is to give credit to the female Renaissance painter, Sofonisba Anguissola of Cremona, Italy, for the amalgamation of the portrait and genre traditions in art. Anguissola indirectly influenced the Dutch artists of the Golden Age, who are now liberally assigned credit for the blending of the portraiture and genre painting styles in the· late seventeenth century. Her overlooked innovation affected genre and portrait paintings for centuries to come, consequently having a remarkable impact on the history of art. This study will clarify how Anguissola came about this revolutionary approach to painting and to demonstrate the manner in which her work was almost certainly filtered through the eyes and hands of subsequent genre and portrait artists. This study will elucidate these concepts through an investigation of her social environment, her innovations, her artistic training, and her seemingly inexorable limitations as a woman artist.

Ce travail met sur un plan de comparaison deux auteurs apparemment écartées l’un de l’autre: C.E.Gadda et M.Merleau-Ponty. La "Meditazione Milanes"e constitue le premier plan d'approche entre eux: écrite dans le cadre de l’éventuel diplôme de Gadda en philosophie, ce texte est aussi point de référence et de départ de son œuvre littéraire, plus connue et importante. Sur les rélations entre philosophie et littérature s'axe la confrontation avec Merleau-Ponty, qui pérçoit l’exigence d’élargir le domaine de la philosophie à l'art, et la littérature notamment. La première partie, «Une phénoménologie», analyse d'abord la problématique posée à la philosophie et à la littérature par la phénoménologie, et se concentre ensuite sur la comparaison entre la conception merleau-pontienne de corps et les propositions corporelles présentées dans l’œuvre de Gadda.La deuxième partie, «Le baroque», scrute de près les structures du baroque (gaddien et merleau-pontien) à travers l’analyse des notions de structure et de monade, puis des problématiques liées à l’expression et au travail de Saussure; ensuite introduit les thèmes de la multiplicité et du devenir à partir de la confrontation des deux auteurs avec le langage cinématographique. Le chapitre final approfondit le thème gaddien du rapport entre totalité et multiplicité par le biais des figures merleau-pontiennes du chiasme et de la chair, et montre tout acte de language comme déformation, c'est-à-dire tant comme création que comme passivité, où le silence est cosubstantiel aux paroles. / This doctoral thesis conducts a comparison between two authors seemingly distant from each other: C. E. Gadda and M. Merleau-Ponty. The Meditazione milanese represents a first step of approximation between them: written by Gadda with a view to his eventual philosophy degree, this text is also the point of departure of his more noted and important literary work. The comparison with Merleau-Ponty is based on the relationship between philosophy and literature, as, like Gadda, Merleau-Ponty maintains that philosophy must abandon its conceptual vocabulary in order to broaden its own horizon towards art and literature in particular. Entitled “A Phenomenology”, the first part of this thesis analyses above all the contribution of phenomenology to philosophy and literature; subsequently, it concentrates on the analogies between Merleau-Ponty’s notion of the body and the theme of corporeality as it is present in Gadda’s writings. The second part, “The Baroque”, scrutinises the baroque structures evident in the works of Gadda and Merleau-Ponty by examining the ideas of the system and the monad; it then broadens the topic of language on the grounds of F. Saussure’s Cours de linguistique; finally, departing from an engagement with cinematic language, it introduces the themes of multiplicity and becoming which the two authors have in common. The final chapter deepens Gadda’s concern with the relationship between totality and multiplicity through Merleau-Ponty’s figures of the chiasm and the flesh, describing every linguistic and expressive act as a deformation, i.e. as a movement which is both creation and passivity, where silence is the co-substance of words. / Questo lavoro mette a confronto due autori apparentemente distanti tra loro: C.E Gadda e M. Merleau-Ponty. La Meditazione milanese costituisce un primo livello di accostamento tra loro: questo testo, scritto da Gadda in previsione dell'eventuale laurea in filosofia, è anche il punto di partenza della sua opera letteraria, più nota e importante.Sulla relazione tra filosofia e letteratura si struttura il confronto con Merleau-Ponty, il quale, al pari di Gadda, ritiene che la filosofia debba rinunciare ad un vocabolario concettuale, per allargare il proprio orizzonte all'arte, e alla letteratura in particolare.La prima parte di questo lavoro, “Una fenomenologia”, analizza anzitutto il contributo della fenomenologia alla filosofia e letteratura; si concentra in seguito sulle analogie tra la nozione merleau-pontiana di corpo e le tematiche della corporeità presenti negli scritti di Gadda.La seconda parte, “il barocco”, scruta le strutture del barocco (gaddiano e merleau-pontiano) attraverso l'analisi delle nozioni di sistema e di monade; approfondisce poi il tema del linguaggio sulla base del Cours de linguistique di Saussure; introduce infine i temi della molteplicità e del divenire a partire da un confronto con il linguaggio cinematografico, comune ai due autori. Il capitolo conclusivo, approfondisce il problema gaddiano del rapporto tra la totalità e la molteplicità attraverso le figure merleau-pontiane del chiasma e della carne, e mostra ogni atto linguistico ed espressivo come una deformazione, ovvero come un movimento che è insieme creazione e passività, dove il silenzio è consustanziale alle parole.

Esta tese ocupa-se da investigação da semiótica da agudeza, utilizando como corpus poemas do final do século XX, chamados neobarrocos, e fragmentos de Galáxias, de Haroldo de Campos, e Finnegans1Wake, de James Joyce. As recepções contemporâneas aos séculos XVI e XVII não entendem as produções literárias como barrocas, mas como clássicas, diferentemente, portanto, do valor atribuído ao estado de barroco constante dos textos da crítica do século XX. Da investigação das obras de Peregrini, Gracián, Hansen e Pécora, depreende-se a agudeza como sistematizadora das produções barrocas dos seiscentos. Além disso, esta pesquisa constata não a presença eufórica de barroco sincrônico ou a existência de um possível neobarroco, mas gradações da agudeza como um operador formal da poesia dita barroquista. Com base nessa agudeza, propõe-se, dentro do quadro teórico-metodológico da semiótica tensiva, demonstrar como essa poesia, vista por muitos críticos como neobarroca, é regida segundo uma oscilação que a regula, reconhecendo nela uma dominância de agudeza do plano da expressão (PE) e/ou uma dominância de agudeza do plano do conteúdo (PC). Observadas as propriedades da agudeza, os objetos poéticos apresentam diferenças tensivas que os encaminham para uma poesia que conhece a graduação entre mais fluida e mais nítida, manifestando diferenças de acentuação no obscurecimento formal do enunciado. O enunciador, ao privilegiar a vivificação das agudezas, promove uma tensão estetizante: um jogo entre o rápido prazer da conservação sensível e o demorado prazer do reconhecimento inteligível do objeto estético, dois tipos diferentes de fruição. Dividida em cinco capítulos, a tese aborda inicialmente a ausência e a presença do recorte de barroco nos estudos literários, bem como a dominância do sobrevir nos semas de barroco e a sincronia e diacronia dos estados de barroco em direção a uma agudeza idiossincrônica. Em seguida, examina o jogo tensivo entre agudeza da expressão e agudeza do conteúdo, focalizando sobretudo os tratadistas seiscentistas e as propriedades da agudeza. Ocupa-se também da negação da euforia barroquista em direção à visualidade na poesia da agudeza. Como o conceito de neobarroco varia de autor para autor, examina-se o ponto de vista de Umberto Eco, Omar Calabrese, Severo Sarduy, Lezama Lima, Alejo Carpentier, Haroldo de Campos, Affonso Ávila, Affonso Romano SantAnna, Horácio Costa, Ana Hatherly, Ivan Teixeira, para estabelecer um modelo mais conforme à semiótica tensiva. A tese trata ainda dos limites entre sensível e inteligível na poesia aguda do século XX, realizando uma recapitulação da fenomenologia em diálogo com a semiótica tensiva, da qual sobressai o conceito de fé perceptiva e de perobjeto zilberberguiano. Finalmente, entra em cena a agudeza do final do século XX na direção do objeto fluido. / This thesis is concerned with the investigation of semiotics of sharpness. Its corpus consists of poems from the late 20th century which are called \"neo-baroque\", and fragments of Haroldo de Campos Galáxias and James Joyces Finnegans Wake. Contemporary receptions to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries do not understand the literary productions as baroque, but as classical, therefore unlike the value assigned to the \"state of baroque\" in critical texts of the 20th century. Sharpness is inferred from the research of the works of Peregrini, Gracián, Hansen and Pécora as systematizing baroque productions of the 1600s. Furthermore, this research finds not the euphoric presence of synchronous baroque or the existence of a possible neo-baroque but gradations of sharpness as a formal operator of the so-called baroqueist poetry. Based on this sharpness, and within the theoretical and methodological framework of tensive semiotics, it is proposed to demonstrate how this poetry, regarded by many critics as \"neo-baroque\", is governed according to an oscillation that regulates it, recognizing in it a sharpness dominance of the level of expression (PE plano da expressão) and / or a sharpness dominance of the level of content (PC plano do conteúdo). Once observed the properties of sharpness, poetic objects show tensive differences that forward them for a poetry that knows the graduation from more fluent to more clear, manifesting differences of emphasis in the formal obscuration of the enunciation. The enunciator, while privileging the enlivenment of sharpness, promotes aesthetic tension: a game between the quick pleasure of sensitive conservation and delayed enjoyment of intelligible recognition of the aesthetic object two different types of enjoyment. Divided into five chapters, the thesis first addresses the absence and the presence of baroque slice in literary studies as well as the dominance of occurrence in baroque units of meaning and the synchrony and diachrony of baroque states towards an idiosynchronic sharpness. Then it examines the tensive game between sharpness of expression and sharpness of content, particularly focusing on the seventeenth-century treatise writers and the properties of sharpness. It also deals with the denial of baroqueist euphoria towards the visuality in the poetry of sharpness. As the concept of \"neo-baroque\" varies from author to author, the thesis examines the viewpoint of Umberto Eco, Omar Calabrese, Severo Sarduy, Lezama Lima, Alejo Carpentier, Haroldo de Campos, Alfonso Ávila, Affonso Romano Sant\'Anna, Horácio Costa, Ana Hatherly, Ivan Teixeira, in order to establish a model more consistent with tensive semiotics. It also addresses the boundaries between sensible and intelligible in the sharp poetry of the 20th century, making a recapitulation of phenomenology in a dialogue with tensive semiotics, from which the concepts of perceptual faith and zilberbergian perobject stand out. Finally, the sharpness of the late 20th century comes into play towards the fluid object.

Esta tese ocupa-se da investigação da semiótica da agudeza, utilizando como corpus poemas do final do século XX, chamados neobarrocos, e fragmentos de Galáxias, de Haroldo de Campos, e Finnegans1Wake, de James Joyce. As recepções contemporâneas aos séculos XVI e XVII não entendem as produções literárias como barrocas, mas como clássicas, diferentemente, portanto, do valor atribuído ao estado de barroco constante dos textos da crítica do século XX. Da investigação das obras de Peregrini, Gracián, Hansen e Pécora, depreende-se a agudeza como sistematizadora das produções barrocas dos seiscentos. Além disso, esta pesquisa constata não a presença eufórica de barroco sincrônico ou a existência de um possível neobarroco, mas gradações da agudeza como um operador formal da poesia dita barroquista. Com base nessa agudeza, propõe-se, dentro do quadro teórico-metodológico da semiótica tensiva, demonstrar como essa poesia, vista por muitos críticos como neobarroca, é regida segundo uma oscilação que a regula, reconhecendo nela uma dominância de agudeza do plano da expressão (PE) e/ou uma dominância de agudeza do plano do conteúdo (PC). Observadas as propriedades da agudeza, os objetos poéticos apresentam diferenças tensivas que os encaminham para uma poesia que conhece a graduação entre mais fluida e mais nítida, manifestando diferenças de acentuação no obscurecimento formal do enunciado. O enunciador, ao privilegiar a vivificação das agudezas, promove uma tensão estetizante: um jogo entre o rápido prazer da conservação sensível e o demorado prazer do reconhecimento inteligível do objeto estético, dois tipos diferentes de fruição. Dividida em cinco capítulos, a tese aborda inicialmente a ausência e a presença do recorte de barroco nos estudos literários, bem como a dominância do sobrevir nos semas de barroco e a sincronia e diacronia dos estados de barroco em direção a uma agudeza idiossincrônica. Em seguida, examina o jogo tensivo entre agudeza da expressão e agudeza do conteúdo, focalizando sobretudo os tratadistas seiscentistas e as propriedades da agudeza. Ocupa-se também da negação da euforia barroquista em direção à visualidade na poesia da agudeza. Como o conceito de neobarroco varia de autor para autor, examina-se o ponto de vista de Umberto Eco, Omar Calabrese, Severo Sarduy, Lezama Lima, Alejo Carpentier, Haroldo de Campos, Affonso Ávila, Affonso Romano SantAnna, Horácio Costa, Ana Hatherly, Ivan Teixeira, para estabelecer um modelo mais conforme à semiótica tensiva. A tese trata ainda dos limites entre sensível e inteligível na poesia aguda do século XX, realizando uma recapitulação da fenomenologia em diálogo com a semiótica tensiva, da qual sobressai o conceito de fé perceptiva e de perobjeto zilberberguiano. Finalmente, entra em cena a agudeza do final do século XX na direção do objeto fluido. / This thesis is concerned with the investigation of semiotics of sharpness. Its corpus consists of poems from the late 20th century which are called \"neo-baroque\", and fragments of Haroldo de Campos Galáxias and James Joyces Finnegans Wake. Contemporary receptions to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries do not understand the literary productions as baroque, but as classical, therefore unlike the value assigned to the \"state of baroque\" in critical texts of the 20th century. Sharpness is inferred from the research of the works of Peregrini, Gracián, Hansen and Pécora as systematizing baroque productions of the 1600s. Furthermore, this research finds not the euphoric presence of synchronous baroque or the existence of a possible neo-baroque but gradations of sharpness as a formal operator of the so-called baroqueist poetry. Based on this sharpness, and within the theoretical and methodological framework of tensive semiotics, it is proposed to demonstrate how this poetry, regarded by many critics as \"neo-baroque\", is governed according to an oscillation that regulates it, recognizing in it a sharpness dominance of the level of expression (PE plano da expressão) and / or a sharpness dominance of the level of content (PC plano do conteúdo). Once observed the properties of sharpness, poetic objects show tensive differences that forward them for a poetry that knows the graduation from more fluent to more clear, manifesting differences of emphasis in the formal obscuration of the enunciation. The enunciator, while privileging the enlivenment of sharpness, promotes aesthetic tension: a game between the quick pleasure of sensitive conservation and delayed enjoyment of intelligible recognition of the aesthetic object two different types of enjoyment. Divided into five chapters, the thesis first addresses the absence and the presence of baroque slice in literary studies as well as the dominance of occurrence in baroque units of meaning and the synchrony and diachrony of baroque states towards an idiosynchronic sharpness. Then it examines the tensive game between sharpness of expression and sharpness of content, particularly focusing on the seventeenth-century treatise writers and the properties of sharpness. It also deals with the denial of baroqueist euphoria towards the visuality in the poetry of sharpness. As the concept of \"neo-baroque\" varies from author to author, the thesis examines the viewpoint of Umberto Eco, Omar Calabrese, Severo Sarduy, Lezama Lima, Alejo Carpentier, Haroldo de Campos, Alfonso Ávila, Affonso Romano Sant\'Anna, Horácio Costa, Ana Hatherly, Ivan Teixeira, in order to establish a model more consistent with tensive semiotics. It also addresses the boundaries between sensible and intelligible in the sharp poetry of the 20th century, making a recapitulation of phenomenology in a dialogue with tensive semiotics, from which the concepts of perceptual faith and zilberbergian perobject stand out. Finally, the sharpness of the late 20th century comes into play towards the fluid object.

Possibly, Maybe is an exhibition of polychromatic, process-based objects made out of acrylic paint. Working with and against the limits of the material, the paint is systematically cast, peeled, and stretched colour by colour transforming it into three-dimensional hybrid forms. The working process I devise is predetermined and regulated, yet the element of chance is integral to the work due to material constraints. I explore the sculptural potential and plasticity of a material traditionally used for painting. While acrylic is a relatively new material, designed to be durable and long lasting, the forms I create out of acrylic paint are vulnerable to climate, gravity, and time and therefore counter plastic’s perceived resilience. Possibly, Maybe looks within the marginalized and the failed of our everyday, and uses these as aesthetic elements, which can constitute contemporary cultural potential. Through an engagement with the fallibility of plastic, with the hybridity of artistic practice, and the excess, opulence, and decay of the Baroque, my work plays with the paradoxes and relationships between the high and the low, pure and impure, precious and throw-away, which I find are all elements that exemplify our contemporary culture.

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Possibly, Maybe is an exhibition of polychromatic, process-based objects made out of acrylic paint. Working with and against the limits of the material, the paint is systematically cast, peeled, and stretched colour by colour transforming it into three-dimensional hybrid forms. The working process I devise is predetermined and regulated, yet the element of chance is integral to the work due to material constraints. I explore the sculptural potential and plasticity of a material traditionally used for painting. While acrylic is a relatively new material, designed to be durable and long lasting, the forms I create out of acrylic paint are vulnerable to climate, gravity, and time and therefore counter plastic’s perceived resilience. Possibly, Maybe looks within the marginalized and the failed of our everyday, and uses these as aesthetic elements, which can constitute contemporary cultural potential. Through an engagement with the fallibility of plastic, with the hybridity of artistic practice, and the excess, opulence, and decay of the Baroque, my work plays with the paradoxes and relationships between the high and the low, pure and impure, precious and throw-away, which I find are all elements that exemplify our contemporary culture.

Tesis--Bologna, 1966. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thèse--Lyons. / Bibliography: p. [197]-216.

Tesis--Bologna, 1966. / Includes bibliographical references.