ZERO apparaît le 24 avril 1958 à l’occasion de la septième « exposition d’un soir » qui a lieu à Düsseldorf, dans l’atelier d’Otto Piene et de Heinz Mack. La thématique de cette exposition, « Le tableau rouge », rejoint celle du premier numéro de cette nouvelle revue d’artistes, ZERO. S’ensuivent deux autres numéros, respectivement sortis en octobre 1958 (« Vibration ») et en juillet 1961 (« Dynamo »). Autour de la revue pilotée par Mack et Piene se nouent alors différents projets collaboratifs et expositions collectives, à partir desquels ZERO devient une sorte d’échangeur entre plusieurs tendances nées au tournant des années 1950-1960. Cette recherche monographique a pour ambition première de renouveler les perspectives sur une revue et une mouvance artistique peu étudiées en France, et ce à partir de la question de l’immatériel réfractée au prisme de la technique. L’optimisme technologique présumé de ZERO est réexaminé à l’aune du « discours autorisé », de la poïétique des œuvres, de l’expérience esthétique et de leur réception critique. Dès lors, les œuvres et les discours dévoilent une image bien moins nette du passé, tissée de contradictions, qui traduit d’une part la difficile négociation d’un tournant sociétal marqué par la mécanisation et l’automation, l’information, l’accélération et la menace nucléaire et, d’autre part, l’ambition pour l’art dynamique (vitaliste) et « idéaliste » de ZERO de jouer un rôle actif dans la définition de l’époque, en s’adressant aux imaginaires et en occupant les territoires de l’expérience sensible. / ZERO was created on the 24th of April 1958, on the occasion of the seventh « Night Exhibition », which took place in Otto Piene’s and Heinz Mack’s studio in Düsseldorf. The theme of this exhibition, « The Red Painting » was the same as the inaugural edition of ZERO, a new artist magazine. Following this initiative, two other issues were published, one dedicated to “Vibration” (October 1958), the other to “Dynamo” (July 1961). Various collaborative projects and collective exhibitions revolved around the magazine edited by Mack and Piene, from which ZERO became a platform between several tendencies which had come into being by the early 1960s. This study aims at renewing and enriching knowledge of both a magazine and a movement that have not been the subject of any extensive examination so far. For this purpose, this research focuses on the immaterial art of ZERO as refracted through the prism of technology. ZERO’s alleged technological optimism is explored by the light of the “authorized discourses”, the poietic of the works of art, their aesthetic experience and their critical reception. Therefore, the works of art and the discourses reveal a far less clear picture of the past, which is not free of discrepancies. On the one hand, this reflects the complex issue of dealing with societal shifts characterized by mechanization and automation, information, acceleration, nuclear threat; and, on the other hand, this demonstrates the ambition for ZERO’s both dynamic (vitalist) and “idealistic” art to play an active role in defining the spirit of the era by addressing imaginaries and by occupying territories of sensitive experience.

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Cette thèse se propose de dégager les enjeux esthétiques, éthiques et politiques des poésies et pratiques expérimentales de 1960 à 1980, à partir de l’étude des œuvres de J. Blaine, W. S. Burroughs et E. Miccini. Ce travail développe une réflexion sur les expérimentations poétiques qui ont lieu durant une période de fortes mutations sociétales, économiques et médiatiques. Après la mise en place d’une généalogie des pratiques expérimentales que sont le collage et le montage, il s’agit d’inscrire ces poésies expérimentales, généralement occultées des histoires littéraires, dans un modèle néo-avant-gardiste, qui implique une réévaluation de pratiques héritées du début du XXe siècle et un fonctionnement en réseau, faisant dialoguer l’individuel et le collectif. Dès lors, la thèse démontre que le renouvellement du poétique qui s’opère à l’ère d’une société de l’image est tributaire de l’évolution technique : il s’agit de créer avec et contre le livre. Le nouveau rapport entre création poétique et livresque et problématiques de la reproductibilité, favorisée principalement par l’offset, engendre une mise en perspective de l’œuvre avec la notion d’empreinte. L’empreinte constitue ainsi un nouveau paradigme entérinant le statut ontologique instable d’une œuvre qui travaille la matérialité de son support et qui altère une traditionnelle dimension uniquement verbale. La résistance aux formes traditionnelles implique ainsi un engagement, dans la forme et dans le fond : différentes stratégies sont alors développées par les auteurs, permettant d’établir des politiques esthétiques dont l’objectif est de proposer au lecteur/spectateur une expérience esthétique formatrice et éthique. / This thesis aims to identify the aesthetic, ethical and political issues of experimental poetry from 1960 to 1980. It deals with the works of J. Blaine, W. S. Burroughs and E. Miccini. This work offers a reflection upon the poetic experiments taking place during a period of strong societal, economic and media switch. After the establishment of a genealogy of the experimental practices of collage and montage, it is now about placing this experimental poetry in a neo-avant-garde model, which involves a re-evaluation of practices inherited from the beginning of the twentieth century and a functioning in a network, making the individual and the collective dialogue. Henceforth, the thesis shows that the renewal of the poetics that takes place in the era of a society of the image relies on on technical evolution : it is about creating with and against the book. The new relationship between poetic. The new relationship between poetic and book-based creation and issues of reproducibility, mainly by offset, creates a perspective of the work with the notions of imprint and ruin. Thus, the imprint constitutes a new paradigm which endorses the unstable ontological status of a work which works on the materiality of its support and which alters a traditional, only verbal dimension. Resistance to traditional forms implies a commitment, in form and substance : different strategies are then developed by the authors, which allow to establish aesthetic policies of which the aim is to make the reader / spectator access a formative and ethical aesthetic experience.

This dissertation is devoted to a monographic processing of the work of sculptress Maria Bartuszová (1936, Prague - 1996, Košice). Methodologically, it is mainly based on the compilation and evaluation of knowledge from the in-depth research of the first list of works of M. Bartuszová "Catalogue Raisonné 2012-2018", Collection of drawings and photographs from the Archive of M. Bartuszová, biography, exhibitions and bibliography. It is divided into four chapters, in which it deals with the sculpture of M. Bartuszová, its transformations in the period of her ceramics studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture during the 1950s in Prague, continues by tracking her sculptural beginnings since 1961, and it deals with the circumstances of her relocation to Košice where she lived most of her life. It tracks her work during the normalization period of the 1970s until the end of the 1980s, when the totalitarian regime ended with the Velvet revolution. It explores the reasons why her work was little exhibited and also why it was little known and reflected by the professional circles. Based on the process of assembling parts of the organism of her oeuvre reconstructs technological experimental procedures, original terminology of the sculptor, creative intentions, dating of works and their...

This thesis examines the relationship between the three artists' workshops Røde Mor (Red Mother), Folkets Ateljé (The People's Studio) and GRAS, who worked between 1968 and 1975 in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Røde Mor was from the outset an articulated Communist graphic workshop loosely organised around collective exhibitions. It developed into a highly productive and professionalised group of artists that made posters by commission for political and social movements. Its artists developed a familiar and popular artistic language characterised by imaginative realism and socialist imagery. Folkets Ateljé, which has never been studied before, was a close knit underground group which created quick and immediate responses to concurrent political issues. This group was founded on the example of Atelier Populaire in France and is strongly related to its practices. Within this comparative study it is the group that comes closest to collective practises around 1968 outside Scandinavia, namely the democratic assembly. The silkscreen workshop GRAS stemmed from the idea of economic and artistic freedom, although socially motivated and politically involved, the group never implemented any doctrine for participation. The aim of this transnational study is to reveal common denominators to the three groups' poster art as it was produced in connection with a Scandinavian experience of 1968. By ‘1968' it is meant the period from the late 1960s till the end of the 1970s. It examines the socio-political conditions under which the groups flourished and shows how these groups operated in conjunction with the political environment of 1968. The thesis explores the relationship between political movements and the collective art making process as it appeared in Scandinavia. To present a comprehensible picture of the impact of 1968 on these groups, their artworks, manifestos, and activities outside of the collective space have been discussed. The argument has presented itself that even though these groups had very similar ideological stances, their posters and techniques differ. This has impacted the artists involved to different degrees, yet made it possible to express the same political goals. It is suggested to be linked with the Scandinavian social democracies and common experience of the radicalisation that took place mostly in the aftermath of 1968 proper. By comparing these three groups' it has been uncovered that even with the same socio-political circumstances and ideological stance divergent styles did develop to embrace these issue.