Thesis (M.S.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2001. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2810. Typescript. Abstract appears on leaves 1-2. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-60).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2010. / "Graduate Program in Art History." Includes bibliographical references (p. 328-344).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2006. Graduate Programme in Language, Culture and Teaching. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 286-314). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR29534

Honors Project--Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 30-31).

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-207). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

In this dissertation I analyse and contextualise stereotypical notions associated with the concept of home, and what that constitutes, in the work of South African artists Antoinette Murdoch, Bronwen Findlay, Doreen Southwood and Penelope Siopis, each of whom displays a different perspective of the concept in their artwork. I further consider how these selected South African artists engage with the dichotomies surrounding issues of home and the gendered position assigned to women in this area. I address the strategies the selected artists use in bringing the realm of the private sphere into the public arena and how they transgress the boundaries of private and public spaces. In addition I consider how concepts of home are reflected in my own work and how they are informed by a feminist perspective. The choice of white female artists as the subject of this research is a conscious one, in that I wish to avoid an investigation into cross-cultural gendered subjectivities which will inevitably become entangled with questions of race, politics and culture. As western feminist thought often tends to ignore the specific experiences of ethnic groups located outside western cultural experience, my focus on artists whose context is in part shared by my own is intended to provide an insider perspective. In the context of this research, 'home' is defined as a traditionally acknowledged place where woman is identified in relation to domesticity and the family unit. The term 'home' is therefore partly applicable to a type of domestic environment regardless of its geographic and cultural associations. Home has been defined as a 'group of persons sharing a home or living space (whereas) most households consist of one person living alone, a nuclear family, an extended family or a group of unrelated people' (Scott and Marshall 2005:276). The home is regarded as a place of security where the most intimate of relationships takes place, but it is also an arena of complex human relationships associated with domestic, family, personal and cultural identity. The home is further regarded as a private space and as being somewhat inaccessible, as opposed to the public domain which is open to scrutiny. The home houses a corridor of emotion, however, and may often become a place of entrophy. A subtle shifting and subverting of the conventions which society places upon women and men to conform to particular behavioural constructs will be deconstructed to reveal the concept of home as a site where the boundaries between reality and illusion become blurred. My own artistic practice is concerned with the deconstruction of the home as an idealised space and the façade that often conceals a dystopian reality that lurks beneath such idealisation. I share assumed cultural and class values with the selected artists and will critique the subject from a personal perspective, in part as a self-narrative. Within the context of this research, the term 'middle class' is defined as 'the class of society between the upper and working classes, including business and professional people' (The Oxford English Dictionary 1994:509). / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2011.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:18:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PATRiCIA CHANELY SILVA RICARTE.pdf: 1302489 bytes, checksum: be95cb02270e98d720c0137835469038 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-21 / In this thesis we analyze the fictional images of the idea of art that may be deduced from Lúcio Cardoso s Crônica da casa assassinada (The murdered house chronicle). Taking Nina s (the protagonist) constitution in the main narratives of the book as the starting point, we attempt to establish a sort of analogy between the artistic and the philosophical thoughts about art in order to propose a reflection on the relationships between two kinds of knowledge. Therefore, starting from a perspective in which Nina consists of the literary image of the philosophical idea of art, in the first chapter, a comparative study between the conjectures surrounding this character is undertaken through four narrators in the novel (Timóteo, Betty, Ana and André) and the views of four philosophers about the work of art (Plato, Kant, Nietzsche and Heidegger). Throughout this study, we have focused on the relationship between beauty and truth, which is the main aspect of the philosophical discussion on art, and is also, from our perspective, symbolized by Nina in Crônica da casa assassinada. In the second chapter we discuss the question of art s death decreed by Hegel, so that we attempt to reveal the relationship between such questions and Lúcio Cardoso s concept of the tragic in his most important novel. Based on the philosophical and anthropological view of the tragic, and taking important authors such as Werner Jaeger, Albin Lesky, Gerd Bornheim and Emil Staiger s points of view, we have studied the discourses on death which are brought up in Crônica da casa assassinada in order to verify the perspectives of each one of the narrators that were studied related to the question of transcendence, here considered in his deep linkage to the religious basis of art. In the third chapter we attempt to defend the notion of art as a project which, from our perspective, encompasses the widest sense of Lúcio Cardoso s work. Considered from an existentialist point of view with a sartrean and heideggerian basis, the project consists in the possibility of the author s self-excelling in the sense that he reveals his personal truth through a fragmented and multifaceted thinking developed as a novel and, at the same time, constructs a new idea of man, having to revitalize or even threaten the so dear in his highly Christian view existence of God in order to reach such aim. / Nesta dissertação, procedemos a uma análise das imagens ficcionais da idéia de arte que podem ser depreendidas do romance Crônica da casa assassinada, de Lúcio Cardoso. A partir da constituição da protagonista Nina nas mais importantes narrativas que compõem essa obra, procuramos estabelecer uma espécie de analogia entre o pensamento artístico e o pensamento filosófico sobre a obra de arte, de modo a propor uma reflexão em torno das relações entre esses dois tipos de conhecimento. Assim, partindo do ponto de vista segundo o qual Nina consiste em imagem literária da idéia filosófica de arte, empreendemos, no primeiro capítulo, um estudo comparativo entre as conjecturas em torno dessa personagem por quatro narradores do romance (Timóteo, Betty, Ana e André) e as visões de quatro filósofos sobre a obra de arte (Platão, Kant, Nietzsche e Heidegger). Em todos os tópicos dessa análise, nosso foco é a relação entre beleza e verdade, que é o principal aspecto da discussão filosófica sobre a arte, e que, a nosso ver, é simbolizada por Nina em Crônica da casa assassinada. No segundo capítulo, desenvolvemos uma discussão em torno do problema da morte da arte decretada por Hegel, procurando lançar uma luz sobre a relação entre tal problema e a concepção trágica assumida por Lúcio Cardoso nesse que é o seu mais importante romance. Com base no sentido filosófico e antropológico do trágico, a partir de autores como Werner Jaeger, Albin Lesky, Gerd Bornheim e Emil Staiger, investigamos os discursos sobre a morte que aparecem em Crônica da casa assassinada, a fim de verificar a posição de cada um dos narradores estudados em relação ao problema da transcendência, que aqui é considerado em seu vínculo com o fundamento religioso da arte. No terceiro capítulo, procuramos defender a noção de arte como projeto, que, na nossa opinião, recobre o sentido mais amplo da obra de Lúcio Cardoso. Considerado a partir de um ponto de vista existencialista de base sartreana e heideggeriana, o projeto vem a consistir na possibilidade de auto-superação por parte do escritor no sentido de, mediante um pensamento fragmentado e multifacetado, desenvolvido em termos de romance, desvendar a sua verdade pessoal e, ao mesmo tempo, construir uma nova idéia de homem, tendo que, para isso, relativizar ou mesmo colocar em xeque a existência de Deus, tão cara à sua visão eminentemente cristã.