Alfred Jarry est connu en tant qu’écrivain, poète et dramaturge, comme le créateur d’Ubu roi, du théâtrede l’absurde et d’opéras bouffes. Personnalité farouche, extravagante, sauvage, il fut admiré par l’avantgarde,que ce soit par Apollinaire, Marinetti, Tzara, Breton, mais aussi par de nombreux artistes.Cependant, Alfred Jarry reste aujourd’hui un inconnu de l’histoire de l’art.L’objet de cette recherche est de découvrir l’autre facette d’Alfred Jarry, celle de l’artiste, du critiqued’art, de l’esthète, du prophète et de comprendre la place de l’art dans sa vie et son influence sur lemilieu et la production artistique avant-gardiste. Au cours de cette étude nous chercherons à savoirpourquoi tant d’artistes divers, issus de différentes générations, lui ont rendu hommage tout au long duXXe siècle. Mais aussi pourquoi Jarry et sa créature Ubu sont devenus les fétiches créatifs d’artistescomme André Derain, Pablo Picasso et Joan Miró. La question se pose enfin de savoir pourquoi AndréBreton voit en Alfred Jarry un initiateur et un éclaireur esthétique dont le feu sauvage illumine lecheminement de l’avant-garde au XXe siècle. / Alfred Jarry was a renowned writer, poet and playwright, the famous creator of Ubu roi, he pioneeredthe Theatre of the Absurd and comic operas. Jarry’s fierce, extravagant and wild personality wasadmired by the key figures of the avant-garde such as Apollinaire, Marinetti, Tzara, Breton and otherartists alike. Nevertheless, Jarry still remains largely out of focus of current art historical research.The main objective of this survey is to uncover a different facet of Jarry’s personality that of an artist,art critic, aesthete, prophet, and to assess the role of art in his life as well as his influence on the avantgardecreative circles and its artistic outcome. This survey outlines the reasons for generations ofvarious artists paying homage to Jarry throughout the 20th century. The research uncovers the groundsfor Jarry’s and his creation Ubu’s turning into fetish-like figures for artists such as André Derain, PabloPicasso and Joan Miró. Finally we will focus on Andre Breton’s vision of Jarry as aesthetic pioneer andan innovator whose wild ideas served as a beacon to illuminate the way forward for the 20th centuryavant-garde.

Thesis (M.A.)--Marshall University, 2003. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 80 p. including illustrations. Bibliography: p. 73-78. "Works cited": p. 67-72.

The sources of the theories underlying Czech Cubist architecture before World War I have been only sketchily studied to date. To analyze these theories and identify their sources, I focus on the work of architect and theorist Pavel Janak (1882-1956), an early proponent of Cubist architecture in Bohemia. The thesis incorporates my translation of Janak's unpublished journal for 1911-1914, the dominant years of Czech Cubism. Through this journal and Janak's published writings, together with an examination of his own readings, I trace the development of his theories, and situate his sources, within their historical context. Janak was no mere imitator of French Cubism but was concerned to develop innovative architecture that yet possessed both historical continuity and universal validity, thanks to its space-creating qualities. / The thesis includes a facsimile of Janak's journal with its numerous sketches, a translation en face, and a complete bibliography of his sources.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2007. / Typescript.

This thesis examines works by the British interwar writers W.H. Auden and Louis MacNeice in the context of their relationship with the contemporary style of visual art known as Art Deco or the Moderne. It is my contention that, having absorbed many of the Art Deco idioms as an accepted part of the world they experience, these are reflected in the writers' works, firmly relating the work to a unique historical moment, place and social and cultural environment. In my reading of their work I identify sources of inspiration in their themes, idioms and imagery common to the artistic style, and investigate the extent to which their work has been informed in content and composition by visual art. Using diaries, travelogues, letters, essays, prose and poetry, I will argue that if Art Deco characterised the interwar period, it follows that it will also characterise the work of Auden and MacNeice. As such, I seek to reframe their work in an entirely new context, one seemingly unnoticed by earlier critics. My project also considers the ways in which a worldview is formed and environments are learned from childhood, with reference to early twentieth-century psychologists Erich Fromm, Lev Vygotsky and Maria Montessori, in order to posit the notion that growing up in the heyday of Art Deco, Auden and MacNeice may have subceived a great many of its motifs. I also identify the ways in which the writers engage visual art with intent, and establish a relationship between the writers and Art Deco's politics, imagery and composition through discussion of individual poems and their co-authored book Letters From Iceland (1937). In particular, the thesis examines the presence and impact of Art Deco elements in their work, such as Cubism (using both visual and literary examples), Futurism, the cinema, the Ballets Russes, and interwar attempts at producing what Wagner termed gesamtkunstwerk, the 'total work of art'.

Thesis "Orientalism or Ornamentalism?" is dealing with two rather different explanations of the nature of British imperialism. The work compares Edward Said's concept of Orientalism with Cannadine's Ornamentalism. Both concepts are not seen as contestant theories that have to be necessarily in a clash with each other. An opinion is presented that both theories aspire to explain and describe an identical subject - British Empire. Only they do so from different standpoints. As a way out of understanding them as a contradictory approaches is suggested "cubist thinking" of Empire.

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I investigate the depths of memory, the entanglement of personal recollections with communal knowledge (learned semantic information from media and society such as facts and social norms) and the changing perceptions of environments over time. Memories define us. Throughout life we are exposed to vast quantities of imagery through a variety of media and personal experiences. Over time our firsthand experiences and what we witness in film, print, photography, and the internet become indistinguishable in our memory. My work recreates consequential scenes from my past through technical drawings and blended imagery while exploring the possibilities provided by the interaction of common knowledge and the ambiguous nature of memory.