This thesis is an auto-ethnographic study of teaching methods proposed to be effective in developing thinking skills that advance meaning making in my middle school art classes. The study explored the use of Visible Thinking Routines Ritchart et all, 2001) and Art Investigations (Herz, 2010) in middle school art classes.Reflections and other field texts reveal the extent to which I found these methods effective in guiding students to develop higher order thinking skills that support more meaningful outcomes in art and could be beneficial in other areas of their lives.

In this study I have sought to explore the theoretical foundations of the French artist Daniel Buren's work and its subsequent resonance in a context of emergent cultural conservatism. The study also traces, the increasingly tenuous position of the avant-garde, the survival of which is contingent on the presence of certain liberal democratic institutions. For me these concerns led to a systematic investigation of the censorship of Buren's installation at the 1971 Guggenheim International Exhibition. This was the last in a series of exhibitions that was to promote international goodwill by bringing together the best of recently produced works by contemporary avant-garde artists from around the world, and awarding prizes to those considered outstanding. But the real ideological significance of this show was apparent in the aggressive attempt by the administrators of the Guggenheim to promote American cultural superiority. Buren was invited to contribute a piece to the show in the belief that his work fit into the formalist mode around which the exhibition was organized. Yet the day before the show opened Museum officials suddenly decided to remove his work from the exhibition. The official explanation provided by the authorities of the Guggenheim cited the size and placement of Buren's work as being in direct conflict with the work of other artists in the exhibition. However, this explanation was clearly specious given that the Guggenheim officials knew months in advance exactly what this work would look like, and its intended place of installation. Moreover, Museum officials used the complaints of four participating artists as justification for their actions. Meanwhile, fifteen other artists in the show objected to the Museum's use of censorship. The issue of the Guggenheim Museum's sudden decision to withdraw Buren's installation from the Sixth Guggenheim International is thus more complex than the official explanation would indicate. My thesis contends that the abrupt removal of Daniel Buren's work is traceable to efforts by Guggenheim officials to protect other works in the exhibition, and the International series as a whole, from floating into the avant-gardist-traditionalist polemic that had again flared up in the New York art world. Chapters One and Two examine the organization of the 1971 Guggenheim International and the rationale behind that organization. Chapter Three looks at the threefold controversy surrounding the 1971 International: the conflict that arose between participating artists, the questions of censorship that were raised by the actions of Museum officials, and the overwhelmingly hostile critical response to the exhibition. This study investigates a period of social and epistemological rupture in American art, the reverberations of which continue to be felt today. / Arts, Faculty of / Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Department of / Graduate

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007. / Description based on contents viewed Feb. 4, 2008; title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-73).

Arquitectura y estructura han ido siempre íntimamente ligadas, pero con la aparición del acero y el hormigón surgieron nuevas necesidades formales o estéticas. El Estilo Internacional se inclinó por separar la retícula estructural de los cerramientos. En cambio, la Escuela de Chicago forjó las bases de una arquitectura optimizada y racional. Frank Lloyd Wright, entre estas dos situaciones, optó por seguir las pautas naturales de los materiales, de forma “orgánica”, recuperando la integración entre los diferentes componentes de la arquitectura. Dentro del recorrido sobre el papel de la estructura en la historia de la arquitectura, parece apropiado detener el análisis en la obra de Frank Lloyd Wright y su particular utilización de la estructura. El Guggenheim Museum es el edificio que recoge muchas de las constantes, por lo que merece la pena estudiarlo analizándolo a través de su estructura. En este sentido, la figura de Jaroslav J. Polivka resulta de particular interés debido a la colaboración mantenida con Wright. De esta relación surgen en ocasiones las claves, no sólo de las soluciones concretas de la estructura, sino de los condicionantes finales dentro del conjunto arquitectónico / Architecture and structure have always been closely related, but the advent of the steel and reinforced concrete created new needs in the formal aspects. The International Style opted to separate the structural framework from the walls. On the other hand, the Chicago School forged the basis of a rational and optimized architecture. Between these two situations, Frank Lloyd Wright chose the approach of following the natural patterns of materials, in ¿organic¿ manner, recovering the interaction between the different elements of the architecture. Into the range about the role of the structure in the history of architecture, it seems appropriate to stop the analysis in the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and his particular use of structure. The Guggenheim Museum is the building that reflects many of the constants, so it is worth analyzing its structure. In this sense, the figure of Jaroslav J. Polivka has a particular interest because of his collaboration with Wright. From this relationship sometimes arise the keys, not just the specific solutions for the structure, but the final conditions within the architectural form. Key words Architecture, structure, Structural typologies, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jaroslav Joseph Polivka, Guggenheim Museum, Organic Architecture, Plates and shells, Cantilevers, Dendriform columns.

Este trabalho tem como principal objetivo a análise da qualidade espacial em dois museus, a Fundação Iberê Camargo em Porto Alegre e o museu Guggenheim em Nova York. A Fundação Iberê Camargo foi escolhida em função da aclamação de crítica que recebeu e seu destaque no panorama arquitetônico da cidade gaúcha, onde o trabalho foi desenvolvido. Da mesma forma, o museu Guggenheim foi selecionado por ser uma edificação icônica, consagrada no imaginário arquitetônico mundial. Os dois exemplares foram escolhidos também, e principalmente, em função de suas semelhanças em termos de partido arquitetônico e forma, programa, dimensões e escala. As análises serão realizadas à luz do conceito da qualidade espacial, noção essa definida pela relação como os espaços acolhem, ou não, o corpo dos usuários. A pesquisa consiste, portanto, em um trabalho de natureza prática/empiríca, que buscará avaliar os desempenhos das edificações a partir da aplicação do “método do observador”. Para tal, serão utilizados parâmetros de avaliação como a legibilidade e a funcionalidade de diversas situações ao longo dos percursos analíticos realizados em ambas as edificações. / This work aims to analyze the spatial quality in two museums, Fundação Iberê Camargo in Porto Alegre and Guggenheim Museum in New York. Fundação Iberê Camargo was chosen due to the critical acclaim it has received and its prominence in the architectural panorama of Porto Alegre, city where the work was developed. Similarly, the Guggenheim museum was selected because it is an iconic building, enshrined in global architectural imagination. The two buildings were chosen also, and mainly, due to their similarities in terms of architectural concept and form, program, size and scale. Analyzes will be carried out in the light of spatial quality, a concept that is defined through the relationship of space and body, and the way the first receive, or not, the second. This work is, therefore, a work based on practical/empirical approach, which seek to evaluate the performance of these buildings from the application of “the observer method”. In order to achieve this, evaluation parameters such as legibility and functionality, will be used in various situations along the analytical paths performed in both buildings.

Este trabalho tem como principal objetivo a análise da qualidade espacial em dois museus, a Fundação Iberê Camargo em Porto Alegre e o museu Guggenheim em Nova York. A Fundação Iberê Camargo foi escolhida em função da aclamação de crítica que recebeu e seu destaque no panorama arquitetônico da cidade gaúcha, onde o trabalho foi desenvolvido. Da mesma forma, o museu Guggenheim foi selecionado por ser uma edificação icônica, consagrada no imaginário arquitetônico mundial. Os dois exemplares foram escolhidos também, e principalmente, em função de suas semelhanças em termos de partido arquitetônico e forma, programa, dimensões e escala. As análises serão realizadas à luz do conceito da qualidade espacial, noção essa definida pela relação como os espaços acolhem, ou não, o corpo dos usuários. A pesquisa consiste, portanto, em um trabalho de natureza prática/empiríca, que buscará avaliar os desempenhos das edificações a partir da aplicação do “método do observador”. Para tal, serão utilizados parâmetros de avaliação como a legibilidade e a funcionalidade de diversas situações ao longo dos percursos analíticos realizados em ambas as edificações. / This work aims to analyze the spatial quality in two museums, Fundação Iberê Camargo in Porto Alegre and Guggenheim Museum in New York. Fundação Iberê Camargo was chosen due to the critical acclaim it has received and its prominence in the architectural panorama of Porto Alegre, city where the work was developed. Similarly, the Guggenheim museum was selected because it is an iconic building, enshrined in global architectural imagination. The two buildings were chosen also, and mainly, due to their similarities in terms of architectural concept and form, program, size and scale. Analyzes will be carried out in the light of spatial quality, a concept that is defined through the relationship of space and body, and the way the first receive, or not, the second. This work is, therefore, a work based on practical/empirical approach, which seek to evaluate the performance of these buildings from the application of “the observer method”. In order to achieve this, evaluation parameters such as legibility and functionality, will be used in various situations along the analytical paths performed in both buildings.

Este trabalho tem como principal objetivo a análise da qualidade espacial em dois museus, a Fundação Iberê Camargo em Porto Alegre e o museu Guggenheim em Nova York. A Fundação Iberê Camargo foi escolhida em função da aclamação de crítica que recebeu e seu destaque no panorama arquitetônico da cidade gaúcha, onde o trabalho foi desenvolvido. Da mesma forma, o museu Guggenheim foi selecionado por ser uma edificação icônica, consagrada no imaginário arquitetônico mundial. Os dois exemplares foram escolhidos também, e principalmente, em função de suas semelhanças em termos de partido arquitetônico e forma, programa, dimensões e escala. As análises serão realizadas à luz do conceito da qualidade espacial, noção essa definida pela relação como os espaços acolhem, ou não, o corpo dos usuários. A pesquisa consiste, portanto, em um trabalho de natureza prática/empiríca, que buscará avaliar os desempenhos das edificações a partir da aplicação do “método do observador”. Para tal, serão utilizados parâmetros de avaliação como a legibilidade e a funcionalidade de diversas situações ao longo dos percursos analíticos realizados em ambas as edificações. / This work aims to analyze the spatial quality in two museums, Fundação Iberê Camargo in Porto Alegre and Guggenheim Museum in New York. Fundação Iberê Camargo was chosen due to the critical acclaim it has received and its prominence in the architectural panorama of Porto Alegre, city where the work was developed. Similarly, the Guggenheim museum was selected because it is an iconic building, enshrined in global architectural imagination. The two buildings were chosen also, and mainly, due to their similarities in terms of architectural concept and form, program, size and scale. Analyzes will be carried out in the light of spatial quality, a concept that is defined through the relationship of space and body, and the way the first receive, or not, the second. This work is, therefore, a work based on practical/empirical approach, which seek to evaluate the performance of these buildings from the application of “the observer method”. In order to achieve this, evaluation parameters such as legibility and functionality, will be used in various situations along the analytical paths performed in both buildings.

Hannes Beckmann (1909-1977). Dessau - Prague - New York This PhD thesis is dedicated to an exceptional, though still forgotten personality, an artist of German descent, Hannes Beckmann |1909-1977|. A graduate of Germany's Bauhaus, he was one of the refugees fleeing Nazism to Czechoslovakia, and among many other achievements, he later became the director of the photography department of the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Through his work, he fulfilled avant-garde ideas on the synthesis of artistic fields: he was a painter, stage designer, art theorist and pedagogue, but also a creator of abstract objects moving along the boundaries of minimalistic and kinetic constructions. His fate in life and created body of work began gaining a clearer form in the framework of research on visual artists, who found sanctuary in interwar Czechoslovakia from demagogic political systems. Until that time, Hannes Beckmann had been utterly unknown to Czech art history and elsewhere. This is seen in the absence of his name in Czech technical literature, but also because he was never mentioned even in publications published by the Bauhaus with which he had been involved for some time. There was only sketchy information on his pedagogical and artistic work in the area of Op-Art (optical art) from the 1960s to 1970s in the United...

The main focus of this diploma thesis is Jiří Kotalík, his relationship with the United States of America and projects in which he participated as the director of the National Gallery in Prague. To understand projects, it was necessary to clarify the broader circumstances, especially the relationship of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic to the United States of America and the cultural policy of both states. Therefore, the time frame was extended, both in the historical introduction and the first exhibition of American art in Czechoslovakia in 1947. It was also necessary to put into context the purpose for which large traveling exhibitions and other US cultural projects were organized and what reception they caused in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. The six largest exhibitions of American art, which took place in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in the years 1967-1990, were selected as a sample. In the end, other forms of cooperation of the National Gallery, respectively Jiří Kotalík with American institutions were indicated but also other forms of promotion of Czechoslovak art in the United States of America were indicated. Key words: Jiří Kotalík, National Gallery in Prague, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, USA, Thomas Messer, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, propaganda, cultural policy,...

Submitted by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2012-02-24T12:12:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 PaulaCamargo.pdf: 6055758 bytes, checksum: 626103ea804201de5c019d18ad607c70 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2012-02-24T12:12:50Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 PaulaCamargo.pdf: 6055758 bytes, checksum: 626103ea804201de5c019d18ad607c70 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marcia Bacha (marcia.bacha@fgv.br) on 2012-02-24T12:13:01Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 PaulaCamargo.pdf: 6055758 bytes, checksum: 626103ea804201de5c019d18ad607c70 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-02-24T12:13:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PaulaCamargo.pdf: 6055758 bytes, checksum: 626103ea804201de5c019d18ad607c70 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / A presente dissertação trata de verificar as interfaces entre projetos políticos e a formação das cidades, com foco na cidade do Rio de Janeiro durante as gestões do prefeito Cesar Maia de 2001 a 2004 e de 2005 a 2008. A consolidação do planejamento estratégico como ferramenta de gestão urbana é analisada, com foco nos planos estratégicos da cidade do Rio de Janeiro desenvolvidos ao longo da Era Cesar Maia: Rio Sempre Rio (1995/96) e As Cidades da Cidade (2004). A cidade de Bilbao, cuja recuperação é identificada com a implantação de uma filial do Museu Guggenheim, é estudada, revelando caminhos que outras cidades ao redor do mundo buscaram seguir. Finalmente, são analisados o contexto político e as implicações dos projetos para o Museu Guggenheim, no Porto, e para a Cidade da Música, na Barra da Tijuca, ambos no Rio de Janeiro. Estes casos foram selecionados por tratarem-se de projetos icônicos, que viriam a ser a representação construída da figura política que os orquestrou e que, cada qual à sua maneira, não tiveram o desfecho planejado. / This work presents an analysis of the interfaces between political projects and the forming of cities, focusing on the city of Rio de Janeiro during two of the periods in which Cesar Maia responded as mayor – 2001 to 2004 and 2005 to 2008. The consolidation of strategic planning as a tool for urban management is analysed, focusing on the strategic plans for the city of Rio de Janeiro developed during the Cesar Maia Era: Rio Sempre Rio (1995/96) and As Cidades da Cidade (2004). The city of Bilbao, which’s recuperation is identified with the building of a Guggenheim Museum, is also studied, revealing paths which other cities around the world tried to pursuit. Finally, the political context and the implications of the projects for the Guggenheim Museum, in the Harbor, and the ‘Cidade da Música’, in Barra da Tijuca, both in Rio de Janeiro. These cases have been selected for their iconic character, which was meant to be the built representation of the political figure who orchestrated the projects and which, each in its own way, didn’t have the expected closures.