The canon of Western art history provides a selection of artists that have supposedly made an 'original' contribution to stylistic innovation within the visual arts. Although a process of selection cannot be avoided, this procedure has resulted in a Eurocentric and patriarchal art canon. For example, the Western art canon consists of certain white male artists who are given exclusive authority and are often referred to as the 'fathers of art'. As the status of a 'father of art' pertains to the highest level of achievement within artistic creativity, I argue that this excellence in creativity is based on a gender specific criteria. This issue refers to the patrilineage within Western art history and how this father-son model, in a general sense, excludes women artists from the canon. Further, the very few women included in the art canon are not given the equivalent status as a 'father of art'. I address this patriarchal bias through focussing on the father/daughter relationship as a way of challenging the patrilineage within Western art history’s patrilineage. Through this process of intervention, I position the daughter an assertive figure who directly confronts the fathers of Western art. Within this confrontation, I emphasise that the daughter has an assertive identity that is also beyond the father. On this premise my paper is based on the argument that the application of a father/daughter model, within a metaphorical and mythological sense, is useful in subverting the father figures within Western art history. That is, I construct myself as the metaphorical and mythological daughter of the Dada artist, Marcel Duchamp and the Fluxus artist, Joseph Beuys. As an assertive daughter, I insert myself into the patriarchal framework surrounding these two canonical figures in order to decentre and subvert their authority and phallocentric art practice. It is important to note that both Duchamp and Beuys are addressed as case studies (not as individual arguments) that illustrate the patriarchal constructs of the art canon. Within this premise, I draw upon the female artists Sherrie Levine and Jana Sterbak who directly subvert Western father figures as examples of assertive daughter identities. Within this exploration of the assertive daughter identity, I discuss feminist psychoanalysis (particularly the 'object relations' theorist Nancy Chodorow and the French feminist, Luce Irigaray) in order to offer metaphorical representations of the assertive daughter. These metaphors also assist in subverting the gender (male) specific criteria for creativity under the 'law of the father'.

Cette thèse se propose de circonscrire et d'étudier les équivalents littéraires du ready-made duchampien dans la poésie moderne et contemporaine. historiquement issu du domaine des arts plastiques, cette pratique connaît des équivalents poétiques depuis le début du vingtième siècle (cendrars 'dernière heure') sans que l'on puisse pour autant toujours parler d'importation ou d'appropriation de la part des poètes concernés. on essaiera ainsi de définir l'appellation de << poésie ready-made >> dans un sens davantage générique que proprement généalogique, à l'aide de critères permettant de la distinguer de pratiques proches comme le plagiat ou le collage. on essaiera de montrer que, tout comme le ready-made duchampien, ces pratiques bouleversent la conception traditionnelle de la poésie et de l'écriture poétique. qu'on l'envisage en termes de production (le geste d'écriture se voit nié et remplacé par un geste de sélection / prélèvement / déplacement d'éléments non littéraires) ou en termes de réception (les effets de sens du ready-made en poésie reposent en grande partie sur des logiques non discursives, et l'objet déplacé n'est pas nécessairement écrit), la définition du << poétique >> se voit mise en question, amenant par là-même à une << chute des paradigmes >> (thierry de duve), ce qui pose alors la question de savoir quels outils peuvent être mis en place pour analyser ces objets et leur fonctionnement.

[pt] A presente dissertação faz parte da linha de pesquisa Novos Cenários da Escrita e investiga as relações entre corpo e arte contemporânea, propondo aproximações entre uma ideia de espectro e os conceitos devir-imperceptível (cf. Deleuze e Guattari) e infraleve (cf. Marcel Duchamp). Provocada por algumas obras de artistas contemporâneos (Silueta Series, de Ana Mendieta, The Ruins of Detroit, de Marchand e Meffre, a exposição Contemporáneo 30, de Elba Bairon, e Underlie 04, de Marc Atkins), realiza uma leitura das mesmas, atravessada por esses conceitos. / [en] This dissertation is part of the research line New Scenes for Writing and relates body and contemporary art, proposing similarities between a certain idea of spectrum and two concepts: becoming-imperceptible (as in Deleuze and Guattari) and infrathin (as in Marcel Duchamp). Provoked by a few works from contemporary artists (Siluetas Series, by Ana Mendieta, The Ruins of Detroit, by Marchand and Meffre, Contemporáneo 30, by Elba Barion, and Underlie 04, by Mark Atkins), it makes a reading effort of them, crossed by these concepts.

Orientador: Ernesto Giovanni Boccara / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T12:47:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_MariaSilviade_M.pdf: 48527171 bytes, checksum: 669545299ee1899c435ca675ae113d43 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo dissertar sobre "Étant Donnés: 1º la chute d'eau, 2º le gaz d'éclairage", uma poderosa criação realizada silenciosamente ao longo de 20 anos e eternizada através da sobrevivência das idéias de Marcel Duchamp. Espelho ou porta, o fato é que entre nós e as formas irreais que esfolam o olhar com suas arestas, há uma sala escura, tornando-nos sujeitos irremediavelmente cinematográficos. Aqui o cinema, mais especificamente o documentário, por registrar parcialmente a representação de fatos, envidou noções de verdade e realidade, abrindo um espaço privilegiado ao ser utilizado como fonte na sua forma mais envolvente e instigadora, alavancando dados norteadores para o desenvolvimento cognitivo do raciocínio. Ao atravessarmos a quietude de Étant Donnés vemos a "falta", um pedaço de tempo detido na mise-en-scène "feita para não ver" e somos transformados, à revelia, em voyeurs. Diante de tal espetáculo voyeurístico, embaraçoso e revelador, nossa culpabilidade é de quem surpreendeu um segredo. Partindo para novos padrões de interpretação desta obra inusitada, eclipsada e essencialmente carnal, vimo-nos forçados a passar pelo emaranhado tecido da memória de Marcel Duchamp. Enfim, saciando a fome de nossas almas famintas, Duchamp concretiza sua imagem cenográfica nesta iluminura tridimensional e nos permite colher, de um jardim medieval, a "Rosa de um Romance" e encontrar um banquete anadiômeno de maravilhas, onde, através de sonhos e espelhos, somos colocados frente a frente a nós mesmos / Abstract: This research had his focus on the study of "Étant Donnés: 1º la chute d'eau, 2º le gaz d'éclairage", a powerful creation performed silently for 20 years and immortalized through the survival of the Marcel Duchamp ideas. Mirror or door, the fact is that between us and the unreal forms that hurt the eyes with its edges, have a dark room, making us subject hopelessly cinematographic. Here the film, specifically the documentary, that made the partly record of the representation of facts and showed notions of truth and reality, opened a privileged space to be used as a data source in its most engaging and instigator, that guided us to the development of the cognitive reasoning. When we go through the stillness of Étant Donnés see the "lack", a piece of time detained in mise-en-scène "made not to see" and we are processed, involuntarily, in voyeurs. Faced with such a voyeuristic spectacle, embarrassing and revealing our guilt are some who surprised a secret. Leaving for new Standards of interpretation of this unusual masterpiece, eclipsed and essentially carnal, we found ourselves forced to pass through the tangled memory texture of Marcel Duchamp. Finally, satiating the hunger of our hungry souls, Duchamp realizes his scenographic image in this three-dimensional miniature and allows us to reap, of a medieval garden, the "Rose of a Romance" and find an anadyomene banquet of wonders, where, through dreams and mirrors, we are placed face to face ourselves / Mestrado / Multimeios / Mestra em Multimeios

This study investigates the extent to which subversive practices of conceptual art can be identified in contemporary works. It attempts to understand if, despite the widespread understanding of conceptual art as a mainstream in today's art scene, there may still be examples of contemporary practice that are as deviant and challenging to the notion of art today as those that came at the forefront of the conceptual art movement.       The standard historical definition of 'conceptual art' generally refers to the artistic movement taking place between 1966 and 1972. The aim of this study, however, is to give an account of its development both prior to and beyond that narrow temporal window, seeking to identify both the roots and the legacy of the philosophical aspects of conceptual practice.       The study traces these roots to the actions of Duchamp, who shifted the focus from aesthetics to a more cognitive valuation of art, by designating an everyday object as an artwork; an action that paved the way for the notion that, rather than being skilled craftsmen, artists are the authors of meaning, and artworks are the creation and transmission of ideas.       This ‘Duchampian’ approach which pushes and explores the boundaries of art within the framework of the artwork themselves has also influenced the selection of works for analysis. Like most other contemporary artworks, Michael Mandiberg's After Sherrie Levine and Banksy’s The Walled off Hotel, are considered conceptual in the sense that they work to transmit ideas to the viewer, but yet, like Duchamp’s ready-mades a hundred years earlier, they sit beyond commonly accepted understandings of the formal boundaries of the artwork, thus risking not being perceived as artworks at all. For that reason, these works potentially constitute radical practices that could be understood as questioning the limits of art making today.       From a theoretical point of view the study engages in hermeneutics and constructivism in order to construct an analysis of these two artworks relating their websites as well as artists’ intentions to the philosophical notions of conceptual art. The results show that the After Sherrie Levine is a critique of Levine's aura as well as of the art institutions. It also proposes that artistic appropriation as an art form can have an instrumental value in exploring the limits of art making. It further shows that it is possible to create art that is neither exclusive nor mysterious. The analysis of The Walled off Hotel shows that while operating as a local company with an ambition to lead the creative resistance movement in the West Bank through art, the hotel also constitutes a political satire with real effects in the area. The thesis proposes that this work is deviant and ‘organic’ in the way it renegotiates both the role of the artist and the very notion of 'art' itself.        Thus both After Sherrie Levine and The Walled off Hotel can be regarded as rather ‘Duchampian’ practices today.

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MFA Thesis for Shanell B. Papp on Loners, textiles, video/film, re-purposing and pattern breaking.<p> w/ work from Marcel Duchamp, Edward Keinholz, Rene Magritte, Joseph Beuys, Eugene Atget, Arthur Fellig (Weegee), David Hoffos, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin, Mike Kelly, Allyson Mitchell, Madonna, Weird Al.

MFA Thesis for Shanell B. Papp on Loners, textiles, video/film, re-purposing and pattern breaking.<p> w/ work from Marcel Duchamp, Edward Keinholz, Rene Magritte, Joseph Beuys, Eugene Atget, Arthur Fellig (Weegee), David Hoffos, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin, Mike Kelly, Allyson Mitchell, Madonna, Weird Al.