Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-02-28Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:27:48Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 oliveira_srm_me_ia.pdf: 3367855 bytes, checksum: d8b28ad336f25c88adc37255b01c951a (MD5) / A presente dissertação aborda o conceito de Grotesco na Estética e na História da Arte, analisados sob dois aspectos principais: da forma como esse conceito foi transformado desde a época da Grécia Antiga até o século XIX (período de grandes mudanças formais da representação humana nas Artes) e do exemplo do artista Francisco de Goya, através de sua série de gravuras Los Desastres de la Guerra, composta por imagens violentas; grotescas, híbridas e trágicas, que refletem esteticamente o horror advindo da Guerra de Independência e do retorno de um Estado Monárquico e Absoluto. Nossa pesquisa tem por meta avaliar as mudanças políticas, sociais e culturais que influenciaram a transformação desses conceitos estéticos e a aceitação desses novos paradigmas que resultaram numa mudança de visão e fruição da própria Arte entre os séculos XVII e XIX (época de ascensão do Liberalismo e Iluminismo), mostrando como os acontecimentos históricos podem transformar os conceitos artísticos de acordo com as necessidades humanas de retratar seu próprio tempo. Os procedimentos metodológicos foram de revisão bibliográfica parcial sobre as questões do Grotesco na Arte e uma pesquisa sobre a vida e obra de Goya, utilizando as imagens acima citadas, que aqui são analisadas do ponto de vista iconológico / The current dissertation accosts the concept of “Grotesque” in Aesthetics and history of Arts analysed under two main aspects: the way this concept was transformed since the times of Ancient Greece until the nineteenth century ( a period of great formal changes of the human representation and other pictorial genres, and the example of the artist Francisco de Goya through his series of etchings The Disasters of War, composed by violent, hybrid and tragic images, which reflect aestheticly the horrors resulted from the War of Independence and the return of a Monarchic and Absolutist State. Our research objectives have the aim of appraising political, social and cultural factors that influenced the processing and acceptance of new paradigms such as the Grotesque in art making, that resulted in a change of vision and enjoyment of the Art itself between the seventeenth the nineteenth centuries (time of the rise of Liberalism and Iluminism), showing how this concept was transformed by artistic, cultural and historical events according to the Human needs of portraying their own time. The methodological procedures were of a partial bibliographical review about the issues of the Grotesque in art and a research of the life and work of Goya, using the prints cited before, which are here analysed from an iconological point of view

Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2014. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the significance of stop motion puppetry as an artistic device that enables illustrators to explore the notion of the ‘grotesque’. Mikhail Bakhtin and Wolfgang Kayser’s theorisation of the grotesque provides the foundation for my analysis of the manifestation of the grotesque in the puppets and stop motion techniques utilised in Jan Švankmajer’s Something from Alice (1988) and a selected film from my own work entitled Bad Man He Comin’ (2011). A comparative study of these two films demonstrate that stop motion puppetry is an apt medium for facilitating and exploring forms of the grotesque. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die klem in hierdie tesis val op die belangrikheid van stop-aksie poppespel as ‘n artistieke toestel wat kunstenaars kan gebruik om idees van die groteske weer te gee deur die gebruik van objekte sowel as die destruktiewe aard van die animasie proses. Mikhail Bakthin en Wolfang Kayser se idees rondom the groteske, vestig die grondslag vir die studie, om karaktereienskappe van die groteske te ontbloot in die poppe en metodes wat gebruik is in Jan Švankmajer se film Something from Alice (1988), sowel as ‘n geselekteerde film van my eie werk genaamd Bad Man He Comin’ (2011). ‘n Vergelykende studie, weerspieël dat groteske karakteruitbeelding verkry kan word deur sekere materiale te gebruik om poppe-liggame te skep. Die studie ontul verder dat die groteske geïdentifiseer kan word in die animasie proses waarin die verwronging en afbreking van objekte, tyd, spasie en beweging plaasvind.