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Thesis (Ph. D.)--McMaster University, 2005. / Advisor: Mary O'Connor. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 203-213). Also available via World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University, 2008. / Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 43 p. : ill. (some col.) Includes bibliographical references.

Techn. Hochsch., Diss., 2000--Aachen.

Master of Architecture

The purpose of this study was to determine whether The Large Glass was a negation of women for Marcel Duchamp. The thesis is composed of five chapters. Chapter I is the introduction to the thesis. CHapter II includes a synopsis of the major interpretations of The Large Glass. Duchamp's statements in regard to The Large Glass are also included in Chapter II. Chapter III explains how The Large Glass works through the use of Duchamp's notes. Chapter IV investigates Duchamp's negation of women statement in several ways. His personal relationships with relatives including his wives and other women, and his early paintings of women were examined. His idea of indifference was seen within the context of the Dandy and his alter ego, Rrose Selavy as a Femme Fatale. His machine paintings are also seen as a part of his idea of detachment and negation of women. Detachment as an intellectual pursuit was probed with his life-long interest in chess. The Large Glass was then seen as not only showing inconographically a negation of women but also as being an intrinsic component of his life and his work.

Esta pesquisa investiga a ironia na obra do artista chileno Patricio Farías, a partir de sua vinda para o Brasil, na década de 1980. Constatada a reincidência desse recurso retórico na trajetória do artista, a pesquisa busca problematizar as circunstâncias em que isso se faz presente e se desenvolve. A metodologia aplicada envolve o uso de entrevistas e leitura de imagens. Ao pretender estabelecer uma certa tipologia, que aponte diferentes nuances da ocorrência da ironia e do humor, a dissertação apresenta três estudos de caso, privilegiando na análise obras bastante distintas: o primeiro capítulo aborda Desaparecidos (1999/2000), o segundo capítulo discute Entendere-new-now (2005), e o terceiro capítulo traz não apenas uma obra, mas um conjunto, em que a relação irônica se dá sob a perspectiva de um comparativo com a produção de Marcel Duchamp. A partir desses procedimentos, objetiva-se refletir e dar destaque ao tema da ironia nas artes visuais na contemporaneidade, ao mesmo tempo, observar criticamente a produção de Patricio Farías, que ainda não mereceu estudos de maior fôlego no país. / This research investigates the irony in the work of the Chilean artist Patricio Farías after his arrival in Brazil in the 1980s. After detecting the recurrence of this rhetorical device in the trajectory of the artist, the research seeks to problematize the circumstances in which irony evolves itself. The adopted methodology involves the use of interviews and image reading. In order to establish a certain typology, which points out different nuances of irony and humor, this dissertation presents three case studies, focusing the analysis on quite distinct works: the first chapter covers the work Desaparecidos (1999/2000), the second chapter discusses Entendere-new-now (2005), and the third chapter brings not only one work, but a group of them, in which the relationship with irony takes place from a comparative perspective of Marcel Duchamp’s work. Based on these procedures, the objective is to highlight and ponder the irony in the visual arts in the contemporaneity, while at the same time critically observing the production of Patricio Farías, who has not received deep studies in Brazil.

Partant d'une formulation énigmatique du philosophe allemand Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781), « Paressons en toutes choses, hormis en aimant et en buvant, hormis en paressant », ce mémoire est constitué d'une série d'exemples qui permettent d'interroger le potentiel subversif, critique, de la paresse dans un système basé sur les idéologies du travail et de la productivité, mais aussi, dans le monde de l'art dominant où règnent ces mêmes idéologies. Nous avons mis au cœur de cette réflexion le paradoxe que comporte le fait même de travailler sur la paresse et, comme on le dit en d'autres mots, le paradoxe de performer la paresse. Sans chercher à résoudre ce paradoxe, ce mémoire postule plutôt l'existence d'une paresse active, décidée ou même effective qui permet justement d'activer sa dimension heuristique et critique. Les cas de figure de Marcel Duchamp, Mladen Stilinović et Goran Dordevic, exacerbent ce paradoxe pour articuler sa faille logique et nous invitent à découvrir la problématique de la paresse en art comme manière d'être plutôt que comme producteur d'objets d'art, ce qui correspondrait à la logique productiviste. La structure de ce mémoire reprend la formule de Lessing que nous avons décomposée partie par partie, chapitre par chapitre. Le premier chapitre a pour assise théorique la figure de Bartleby, héros d'une nouvelle d'Herman Melville qui a inspiré les penseurs modernes et contemporains Gilles Deleuze, Michael Hardt et Antonio Negri, Slavoj Zizek et Giorgio Agamben, et constitue aussi une synthèse des lectures sur la critique du productivisme (André Gorz). Dans le second chapitre, en partant des auteurs Raoul Vaneigem, Roland Barthes et Giorgio Agamben, il s'agit d'imaginer ce que serait une communauté de paresseux, une communauté fondée sur l'amour. Dans le troisième chapitre, il s'agit de démontrer qu'en art il est possible d'être occupé tout en étant paresseux, à condition qu'on n'ajoute rien à ce qui est déjà là. Dans le quatrième et dernier chapitre, la paresse est vue en fonction de son ontologie à partir de Spinoza, de Nietzsche et de Barthes. Une lecture d'un entretien avec l'artiste Mladen Stilinović témoigne d'une façon d'entendre la paresse dans la perspective de l'art. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : paresse en art, performer la paresse, art conceptuel, Mladen Stilinović, Marcel Duchamp, Goran Dordevic.

Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2000. Graduate Programme in Music Composition. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [39-41] of unnumbered sequence at the end. Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ59209.

This thesis considers the notion that it is the future which judges the present and that judgement is always guilty. In effect to understand modernity on its own terms one would have to inquire if we have any more right to affirm a given future than to deny one? / The question arises as follows. If a subject exists prior to the process which is its being, an uncomfortable aporia ensues. / Firstly, if being human is understood as "becoming", i.e. humans can and do appear through the enactment of change, then "being" itself is temporal. How then does this self secure its appearance other than through the very process it assumes itself to be prior to? Such a securing would imply an absolute uniformity and homogeneity not predicated on human-enacted change. If securing is in fact the aim of appearance, and therefore the operative term in judgement, what then are the consequences of action in terms of created results? / In other words, what are the consequences of the temporality of "being"? It continues to produce a world. The second question then is: how does one judge, make and act, toward a future which properly speaking, cannot be our rightful concern? / The question is approached initially through a discussion of the integral terms. In the final chapters, an attempt is made to understand the premise of Marcel Duchamp's Etant Donnes. Duchamp's work is taken as paradigmatic of making circumventing the aporia of self-revelation through becoming.