Texte remanié de: Habilitationsschrift--Philosophisch-Pädagogische Fakultät--Eichstätt--Katholische Universität, 1993. / Bibliogr. p. 279-291.

Thesis advisor: Rachel A. Freudenburg / This undergraduate thesis deals with the role of art in national trauma and history. I looked at Joseph Beuys, a post-World War II artist and Kara Walker, a contemporary African American female artist. I used the German installation artist, Joseph Beuys, as a lens for looking at art's reaction and handling of the trauma of World War II. I discussed Kara Walker because she seeks to create a critical understanding of America's racial past through art and who explores, as well, contemporary racial and gender stereotypes. Both artists are important for understanding memory, history, and identity-both personal and national identity. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2007. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Germanic Studies. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

Zugl.: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 2005

Texte remanié de: Diss.--Freie Universität--Berlin, 1996. / Bibliogr. p.329-346. Index.

Orientador: Cassiano Sydow Quilici / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T23:37:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pereira_DanielaAlves_M.pdf: 598883842 bytes, checksum: 6cc7d749e9b14d3eb45d0b2b6c6f7438 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Joseph Beuys pertence a uma geração de artistas que buscou discutir a arte como uma possibilidade de ação e conhecimento. Este trabalho tem como ponto de partida a discussão das Aktiones do artista, que a partir de 1960 passam a ser sua principal prática. As ações apontam as tentativas de Beuys de encontrar na arte uma lugar de recriação dos conceitos de pensamento, vontade, criatividade e sensibilidade. A partir daí, elegemos uma possível crise da ação como mote para análise do teatro contemporâneo. Iniciamos a discussão com uma tentativa de contextualizar a ação teatral contemporânea e como ela tem se distanciado de suas referências dramáticas aproximando-se das ideias de experiência e acontecimento. Em seguida, introduzimos as Aktiones beuysianas para podermos repensar o processo de criação do ator/performer dentro de um possível campo de produção artística diversificado e com limites estéticos expandidos, até mesmo além da arte. Chegamos, por fim, a aproximação do conceito de escultura, proposto por Beuys e do seu conceito de ação numa tentativa de entendê-la como indissociável da vida e dos pensamentos do artista, como uma atitude politica e estética capaz de provocar transformações na qualidade do agir humano / Abstract: Joseph Beuys belongs to a generation of artists who aimed to discuss art as a possibility of action and knowledge. This research takes as its starting point the discussion of the artist Aktiones, which since 1960 become his main practice. The actions leads to Beuys¿ attempts to find a place in the art of recreating concepts of thought, will, creativity and sensitivity. From this point, we elected a possible crisis of the action as a theme for analysis of the contemporary theater, a discussion its started with the attempt to contextualize contemporary theatrical action and how it has distanced itself from the dramatic references and approached the idea of experience and event; then we introduce the beuysians Aktiones in order to rethink the creative process of the actor / performer within a possible diverse artistic production field and expanded aesthetic limits, even beyond art. We finally arrived to an approach to the concept of sculpture, proposed by Beuys and the concept of action in an attempt to understand the action as inseparable from the life and thoughts of the artist, as a political and aesthetic attitude capable of causing changes in the quality of the human act / Mestrado / Teatro, Dança e Performance / Mestra em Artes da Cena

This thesis considers Seven Easy Pieces, Marina Abramović’s 2005 cycle of re-performances at the Guggenheim Museum, as part of a broader effort to recuperate the art of the 1960s and 1970s. In re-creating canonical pieces known to her solely through fragmentary documentation, Abramović helped to bring into focus how performances by Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman, Gina Pane, Vito Acconci, Valie Export, and herself were being re-coded by the mediating institutions. Stressing the production of difference, my analysis revolves around two of the pieces in detail. First, the Deleuzian insight that repetition produces difference sheds light on the artist’s embellishment of her own Lips of Thomas (1975) with a series of Yugoslav partisan symbols. What follows is an examination of the enduring role of this iconography, exploring the 1970s Yugoslav context as well as the more recent phenomenon of “Balkan Art,” an exhibition trend drawing upon orientalizing discourse. While the very presence of these works in Tito’s Yugoslavia complicates the situation, I show how the transplanted vocabulary of body art may be read against the complex interweaving of official rhetoric and dissident activity. I focus on two distinct interpretations of Marxism: first, the official emphasis on discipline and the body as material producer, and second, the critique of the cult of personality as well as dissident notions about the role of practice in social transformation. It is in this sense that a distinctly spiritualist vocabulary also acquires a political dimension in drawing upon movements such as Fluxus and Neo-Dada, and underscoring the value of the immaterial and the non-productive. Finally, I explain how a reversal of Slavoj Žižek’s tripartite structure of ideology can help to articulate how a repetition of Beuys’s actions in this context actually displaces their cosmological aspect by virtue of the re-enactment setting alone.

MFA thesis paper by David Dyck

This thesis considers Seven Easy Pieces, Marina Abramović’s 2005 cycle of re-performances at the Guggenheim Museum, as part of a broader effort to recuperate the art of the 1960s and 1970s. In re-creating canonical pieces known to her solely through fragmentary documentation, Abramović helped to bring into focus how performances by Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman, Gina Pane, Vito Acconci, Valie Export, and herself were being re-coded by the mediating institutions. Stressing the production of difference, my analysis revolves around two of the pieces in detail. First, the Deleuzian insight that repetition produces difference sheds light on the artist’s embellishment of her own Lips of Thomas (1975) with a series of Yugoslav partisan symbols. What follows is an examination of the enduring role of this iconography, exploring the 1970s Yugoslav context as well as the more recent phenomenon of “Balkan Art,” an exhibition trend drawing upon orientalizing discourse. While the very presence of these works in Tito’s Yugoslavia complicates the situation, I show how the transplanted vocabulary of body art may be read against the complex interweaving of official rhetoric and dissident activity. I focus on two distinct interpretations of Marxism: first, the official emphasis on discipline and the body as material producer, and second, the critique of the cult of personality as well as dissident notions about the role of practice in social transformation. It is in this sense that a distinctly spiritualist vocabulary also acquires a political dimension in drawing upon movements such as Fluxus and Neo-Dada, and underscoring the value of the immaterial and the non-productive. Finally, I explain how a reversal of Slavoj Žižek’s tripartite structure of ideology can help to articulate how a repetition of Beuys’s actions in this context actually displaces their cosmological aspect by virtue of the re-enactment setting alone.

Zugl.: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-29T15:08:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_4548_Juliana Bernabe.pdf: 369128 bytes, checksum: 4fd90bb8756597faa63037ffb6a7064e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-12-14 / A intenção desta dissertação consiste em pensar o princípio diretriz que funda e perfaz tanto a concepção artística de Friedrich Nietzsche, quanto a de Joseph Beuys, a fim de compreender o elemento que os reúne em uma mesma perspectiva em relação à arte, a saber, a de que ela é a tarefa propriamente dita da vida. Ampliando o horizonte das questões da arte para além das discussões estéticas, ambos a concebem como um pathos, um impulso, isto é, como uma disposição do homem frente a si mesmo, à vida que ele mesmo é. Trata-se aqui, portanto, do estabelecimento de um diálogo entre o filósofo e o artista acerca da arte como a constituição mais própria da vida, do existir do homem sobre esta terra e, assim, como o solo desde onde se pode proferir uma crítica decisiva à decadência da postura moderna. / The intention of this thesis is to think the guiding principle that grounds and makes both the artistic conception of Friedrich Nietzsche and Joseph Beuys, in order to understand the element that brings them together in the same perspective in relation to art, namely that it is the proper task of life. Expanding the horizon of the issues of art beyond the aesthetic discussions, both view it as a pathos, an impulse, ie, as a disposition of man to himself, to the life he himself is. It is here, therefore, the establishment of a dialogue between the philosopher and the artist about art as the constitution of life itself, of man's existence on this earth, and so long as the soil where it can make a decisive criticism to the decadence of the modern position.