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L’alchimie, science de la manipulation des influences spirituelles par une métallurgie sacrée, et la pataphysique, esthétique pseudo-scientifique associant l'ésotérisme à l'humour, sont les deux principaux fondements idéologiques qui unissent Marcel Duchamp et Roberto Matta. Tandis que Duchamp s'intéresse déjà à l'ésotérisme dès 1910, soit près d'une vingtaine d'années avant sa rencontre avec Matta. Ce dernier aborde, dans sa production, des thèmes propres à la littérature alchimique, soit les opérations occultes, les états merveilleux de la matière et les appareils de laboratoire. De plus, les écrivains symbolistes et pseudo-scientifiques, lus par Duchamp, puis par Matta, influencent l'humour pataphysique, teinté d'ésotérisme, qui s'exprime dans la production de ces deux artistes. Ainsi, Les Célibataires, vingt ans plus tard, est une huile sur toile, réalisée en 1943, par Roberto Matta, qui représente un paysage cosmique, composé d'astres et de trous noirs, de trois alambics et d'une grande machine noire. Dans cette œuvre, Matta réinterprète très librement certains éléments du Grand verre, une peinture sur verre de Marcel Duchamp, laissée inachevée en 1923. Le présent mémoire de maîtrise étudie l'influence de l'alchimie et de l'iconographie duchampienne sur Les Célibataires, vingt ans plus tard. Dans un premier temps, cette étude vise à mettre en exergue et à examiner les influences alchimiques et pataphysiques dans l'œuvre de Matta. Dans un deuxième temps, notre mémoire vise à démontrer comment l'œuvre de Matta s'intègre dans le projet surréaliste de création d'un mythe nouveau, dans la continuité du projet duchampien. / Alchemy, the science of handling spiritual influences through sacred metallurgy, and Pataphysics, a pseudo-scientific aesthetic combining Esotericism and humor, are the two main ideological foundations uniting Marcel Duchamp and Roberto Matta. On one hand, while Duchamp already has an interest for Esotericism in 1910, that is to say, about twenty years before his first encounter with Matta. On the other hand, Matta addresses, in his production, themes specific to alchemical literature, that is to say occult operations, marvelous states of matter and laboratory equipment. Also, symbolist and pseudo-scientific writers, read by Duchamp, and then by Matta, have an influence on the pataphysical humor, permeated by Esotericism, expressed in the production of both artists. Therefore, Les Célibataires, vingt ans plus tard, is an oil on canvas, elaborated in 1943, by Roberto Matta, representing a cosmic landscape, made of stars and black holes, of three alembics and of a large black machine. In this painting, Matta very freely reinterprets some elements from the Grand verre, a painting on glass by Marcel Duchamp, left unfinished in 1923. This master thesis examines the influence of Alchemy and of the iconography of Duchamp on Les Célibataires, vingt ans plus tard. In the first part, this study aims to highlight and to examine alchemical and pataphysical influences within the work of Matta. In the second part, our thesis aims to demonstrate how the work of Matta integrates in the Surrealist project of creating a new myth, in the continuity of the project of Marcel Duchamp.

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'.

[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.

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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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.

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