This thesis examines the role of the Manichean dualism, the pervasive colour symbolism of white as good and black as evil. It looks at the manifestation of this symbolism in representations of Christianity, and the subsequent implications for race and racism in Western society. Through images of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary, I posit that the Western conflation of holiness with whiteness is a primary means through which whiteness retains hegemony. I argue that Renaissance painting has had a pivotal role in privileging the white body through its hyper-whitening of both Jesus and Mary. Both figures emerge as improbable ideals of male and female whiteness, demonstrating the anxiety around the intersection of race, gender and religion. I am primarily interested in Mary and how the canon of Western art has didactically laid out the terms of her representation as a means of controlling the female body, dependant on the disavowal and whitening of her body. The privileging of religious Renaissance art results in the continued infection of the construction and reception of the Virgin's image as an ideal figure of feminine whiteness. As such, I analyze the lasting effects of the whitening of her image in the controversy surrounding the display of Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary (1996) at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, as well as her representation in Hail Mary (1985) and The Passion of the Christ (2004). These readings attempt to draw out the specious nature of the Manichean dualism of black and white, aiming to help in the creation of a space for alternative readings of race through the eyes of hegemonic society.

Freie Univ., Diss.--Berlin, 2002. / Literaturverz. S. 267 - 286.

From Introduction: In his influential treatise, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Wassily Kandinsky refers to Goethe's "prophetic remark" made in connection with the relationship between the arts in which Goethe had asserted that "painting must count this relationship her main foundation". Kandinsky went on to say that Painting in his day stood "at the first stage of a road by which she abstraction of composition". I will, according to her thought and arrive own possibilities, make art an finally at purely artistic What he seems to have been suggesting is that form, colour and sound are differentiated expressions of a unifying spiritual content, that this spiritual content lives also somehow in the human soul and that it is the new task of the artist to awaken original creativity from out of this spirit by working consciously in creative empathy with the laws implicit in form, colour and sound. The extent to which this view of creativity is indebted to Goethe is only fully realised when it is discovered how closely Kandinsky's writings on colour recapitulate his. In an unpublished essay: Goethe's Theory of Colours : Its relation to some aspects in . the history of Art, Michael Grimly argues that not only Kandinsky in Germany but also Chevreul, the colour-theoretician who was, in France, the leading light, in a technical sense, both of Delacroix and of the Impressionists simply repeats in his writings on Colour many of the ideas that Goethe had already formulated.

Orientador: Lúcia Eustáchio Fonseca Ribeiro / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T09:17:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_AmiltonDamasde_M.pdf: 8198814 bytes, checksum: 690cce01c2fdb055e6661374d1277864 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo desenvolver um estudo e considerações sobre a presença da cor na minha produção, por meio do processo subtrativo, composta por uma série de xilogravuras coloridas, em sua maioria no processo matriz perdida, realizada entre os anos de 2009 e 2011. A temática é construída de narrativas provenientes de vivencias cotidianas rurais e urbanas e, principalmente, com as expressões da cultura popular das festas, folias e folguedos religiosos do Estado de São Paulo. Para efetivar a pesquisa, busco retomar o processo criativo envolvido na elaboração dessas gravuras, bem como rememorar momentos de vida que colaboraram na construção de minha trajetória pessoal e profissional. Como um "contador de estórias", recorro ao desenho e a coleta de falas dos festeiros para apreender, compreender e registrar aspectos da religiosidade popular e sua rica diversidade plástica. Na história da arte geral e brasileira, destaco artistas que apresentam produção significativa na área da gravura, enfatizando a cor na técnica de xilogravura / Abstract: This research aims to develop a study and consideration of the presence of color in my production of woodcuts by the subtractive process. Consisting of a series of colored woodcuts mostly lost in the process matrix, performed between the years 2009 and 2011. The conceptual relationship between printmaking and drawing will be explored and revealed through the very theme of the works (parties of popular Catholicism) and graphics processing. In the case of visual poetics, there will be a gradual process in which, concurrently, the results obtained experimentally subsidize further investigations, and thus successively over this research to achieve the final pointers / Mestrado / Artes Visuais / Mestre em Artes Visuais

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Doctorat en philosophie et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished