This dissertation explores the emergence of figuration in prehistoric China. It approaches the topic by focusing on image-makers’ engagement with the materials they used to fashion figural works. Chapter 1 presents a survey of zoomorphic and anthropomorphic images created from the Epipaleolithic through the Neolithic periods. It highlights a multiplicity of forms, materials and representational approaches while uncovering recurring patterns. Chapter 2 introduces the principal theories scholars have applied to discuss this corpus, and draws out their similarity with paradigms used in Western scholarship on prehistoric art. The discussion further draws attention to a bi-directional influence exerted on the reception of prehistoric imagery in Europe and China. Chapter 3 focuses on images produced prior to or around 5,000 BCE, and repositions their emergence in the context of broader interests in materiality and representation. The analysis uncovers trends and explores circumstances that notably led image-makers separated in time and space to represent human heads as flat entities. Chapter 4 investigates the role of pareidolia in the emergence of images. It reveals that perceptive imagination informed the creation of some works, when craftspeople drew inspiration from forms in raw materials or artifacts. Chapter 5 explores the possibility that image-makers sought to achieve material-representation synergies. The discussion presents a new taxonomic model addressing materiality and the sensory channels through which figurative images are perceived, and it describes how these factors possibly constituted a core aspect of mimesis. The analysis proposes that some image-makers employed both visual and tactile qualities of substances to represent animals and human beings.

Interested in nurturing beauty, I create paintings that reference life processes through layers of struggle, discovery, recovery and generation. Employing a metaphor of the garden, my paintings can be seen as spaces where I determine what grows, stays, is mulched, or weeded out. I seek a balance between coexisting desires of restraint and control and extravagance with a sense of coming unbound. I emphasize the painting field as a whole, while also paying deep attention to the minute, inviting the viewer to discover complex worlds at different scales within each environment I create. My intimate, domesticated painted environments offer the viewer the possibility to experience the spaces I find beautiful and to add to the conversation of where beauty resides today in contemporary art. / by Kim Spivey. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Orientador : Lidia Maria Rodrigo / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T20:13:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sousa_JoseRenatodeAraujo_D.pdf: 999757 bytes, checksum: ecc4a90849f730bb05b99d0874a7dc81 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: A teoria da mímesis na filosofia de Platão, quase sempre vista no âmbito estético, foi na maioria das vezes interpretada na tradição filosófica e literária como uma teoria negativa. Acreditamos que isso decorre de uma leitura e interpretação um tanto apressada dos diálogos, que não considera o aspecto educacional da atividade mimética. Uma teoria da educação em Platão jamais poderá se dissociar da questão da mímesis. Divergindo da interpretação corrente, que tem destacado mais o papel negativo da mímesis na formação do homem, esta tese tem o intuito de investigar o caráter positivo da mímesis platônica no processo de aprendizagem e aquisição de conhecimentos para a formação moral. Destacando-se a importância dessa mesma teoria na trajetória intelectual desse filósofo, partimos de um pressuposto ou hipótese de que Platão revisa a teoria da mímesis no seu último diálogo as Leis, acentuando sua importância na formação moral da psykhé. / Abstract: The theory of mimesis on Plato's philosophy it almost always was seen in aesthetics sphere and it was interpreted in philosophic and literary tradition like a negative theory. We need that your cause was the accelerate reading and analysis that not considered the educational aspect of mimetic activity. Plato's the theory of education could never set apart the mimesis issue. In contrast with the current interpretative thread, which has pointed out the most the negative aspect of mimesis in men's development, this thesis intends to ferret about the positive aspect of Plato's mimesis in the learning process e knowledge acquisition for the moral development. Emphasizing the importance of this theory the philosopher?s intellectual track, it is supposed that Plato in his last dialog, the Laws, revise the theory of mimesis stressing its importance in moral development of psyche. / Doutorado / Filosofia e História da Educação / Doutor em Educação

This written thesis unpacks the thoughts and motivations behind the decisions I have made in my artistic practice that have ultimately culminated in my M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition: Sub for More. By merging images of my own work as well as internet sourced images of the culture that drives my work, I have created a platform to begin to understand my experience during graduate school. This text examines and explores my belief in the inherent power in pop culture, my obsession with fame, celebrity, and my self-identity as a participant in current pop-culture.

Orientador: Suzi Frankl Sperber / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T06:31:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Hirson_RaquelScotti_D.pdf: 2988136 bytes, checksum: c54c0496f18c6048e8787d5dfd42915a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: "Alphonsus de Guimaraens: Reconstruções da Memória e Recriações no Corpo" é uma pesquisa que engloba memória e atuação como alimentos para uma escrita que possa adentrar em um campo de sensações que, embora não possa traduzir, pelo menos toque em pontos semelhantes ao da efemeridade da experiência cênica. O texto, portanto, é o resultado da maneira que encontrei de exprimir as recriações - experimentadas no corpo - das memórias pessoais que me conectam ao meu bisavô, o poeta simbolista mineiro Alphonsus de Guimaraens (1870-1921). A tese escrita é um exercício de criação tanto quanto o é a prática em sala de trabalho. Através da poesia cheguei ao homem e, então, à curiosidade de saber quem foi esse homem capaz de poetar, em meio à monotonia de seus longos dias provincianos. No decorrer da pesquisa, percebi que a fantasia seria elemento fundamental para a recriação dessa memória e para a criação de uma dança cheia de imagens, em um devir outro, próprio do trabalho do ator. A apreensão do sentido de singularidade cultivado na trajetória de vinte e seis anos do Lume, dos quais eu tenho acompanhado dezoito de dentro (como membro integrante e em atividades de criação e pesquisa), foi tomada ao "pé da letra" neste trabalho - foi o que o impulsionou e o tem mantido em intensidade. Houve necessidade de um mergulho solitário, porém conectado com a prática de dezoito anos de descobertas coletivas. O que é novo é a constelação de fatores que compõem a especificidade desta pesquisa, mas a experiência vem de anos. A repetição potencializa a diferença e é capaz de gerar novas nuances, sustentadas, construídas e compostas de vários elementos. Desta forma, revisito a metodologia da mímesis corpórea e adentro em uma questão diferencial, a mímesis da palavra como possibilidade de preenchimento de espaços. A palavra em ação pode conter todas as dimensões das conexões de imagens que detona e, ainda, as dimensões do corpo, jogando Alphonsus de Guimaraens: Reconstruções da Memória e Recriações no Corpo com espaço e tempo. A junção dos elementos escolhidos para a pesquisa torna possível a estruturação de metodologias e caminhos de codificação e criação / Abstract: "Alphonsus de Guimaraens: Reconstructions of Memory and Recreations within the Body" is a survey that includes memory and performance as sources for a text able to enter in a field of sensations, which it may not be able to translate, but may at least touch some points similar to the ephemeral scenic experience. The text is therefore the result of the way I found to express recreations - experienced in the body - of personal memories that connect me to my great-grandfather, the symbolist poet Alphonsus de Guimaraens (1870-1921). The written thesis is an exercise in creation, as much as the praxis in the staging room. Through poetry I arrived at the man, thus, at the curiosity to know who this man was, able to write poetry amid the monotony of his long provincial days. During the research, I realized that fantasy would be fundamental to recreate that memory and to create a dance full of images, in a different becoming, inherent to the actor's work. The seizure of a sense of uniqueness, cultivated along the trajectory of twenty-six years by Lume, eighteen of which I myself have followed from within (as an active member, creating and researching), was taken at "face value" in this task - which maintained Lume and promoted its intensity. A kind of individual submersion was needed, but connected with the practice of eighteen years of collective discoveries. New is the constellation of factors that make up this specific research, but my experience was built up along many years. Repetition enhances the difference and is able to generate new nuances, sustained, constructed and composed of various elements. Thus, I revisit the methodology of corporeal mimesis and penetrate into a different issue, mimesis of the word as the possibility of filling empty spaces. An active word can contain all the dimensions of the connections of the images it generates, as well as the dimensions of the body, playing with space and time. The Alphonsus de Guimaraens: Reconstruções da Memória e Recriações no Corpo combination of elements chosen for the survey makes it possible to structure methodologies and ways of coding and creation / Doutorado / Artes Cenicas / Doutor em Artes

Orientador: Suzi Frankl Sperber / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T00:32:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Okamoto_Eduardo_D.pdf: 767422 bytes, checksum: 3435c1e2b3abd022ab7ce7af78b89a23 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: O objetivo deste trabalho foi localizar, em experiência prática, como criação cênica, a chamada dramaturgia de ator no contexto brasileiro. Isto se deu a partir da interação, observação e imitação (Mimese Corpórea tal qual sistematizada pelo Lume Teatro) de construtores e tocadores de rabeca - instrumento de arco e cordas, como o violino, presente em muitas manifestações da tradição popular do Brasil. Esta tese corresponde ao paralelo teórico de uma pesquisa da arte de ator que resultou no espetáculo "Eldorado". A dramaturgia de ator é uma possibilidade de criação teatral em que a narrativa do espetáculo tem seu fundamento na organização de um repertório físico e vocal previamente codificado pelo ator. Até aqui, esta dramaturgia de ator é bastante influenciada pelas pesquisas transculturais da Antropologia Teatral. Este campo de estudo se detém em reconhecer o bios cênico do ator estudando diferentes tradições teatrais em diferentes épocas e geografias. Diferentemente desta análise transcultural, este trabalho propõe uma dramaturgia de ator fundada na pesquisa de circunstâncias locais: uma dramaturgia de ator na intracultura. Desenvolveu-se, assim, a face complementar àquela proposta pela Antropologia Teatral: em vez do estudo de princípios gerais do trabalho de ator, buscou-se a criação desta dramaturgia na vivência de especificidades. / Abstract: The objective of the present work is to localize actor's dramaturgy in the Brazilian context. Its realization was possible departing from the interaction with, observation and imitation (Lume - The Interdisciplinary Nucleus of Theatrical Research of the State University of Campinas has named and systematized these procedures as Body Mimesis) of manufacturers (luthiers) and players of rabeca - Brazilian fiddles: an instrument with bow and string, as the violin, present in several manifestations of popular tradition in Brazil. This thesis is the theoretical synthesis of an actor's research, wich resulted in the performance "Eldorado". Actor's dramaturgy is a possibility of theatre's creation in which the narrative of the show is based on the organization of a physical and vocal repertoire previously encrypted by the actor. Today, this actor's dramaturgy is strongly influenced by cross-cultural principles studied by Theatre Anthropology. This field of research recognizes the actor's bios scenic studying various theatrical traditions in different seasons and geographies. Instead of this cross-cultural examination, this thesis proposes an actor's dramaturgy based on the local circumstances: an actor's dramaturgy in the intracultural research. This study has developed the complementary face of the Theatre Anthropology: instead of the research of general principles of the actor's work, it intends to create this dramaturgy based on the experience of specific features - and its specific dialogue with the general principles. / Doutorado / Doutor em Artes