Cette thèse, intitulée Le pohète initié : Illumination et esthétique ésotérique dans l’œuvre de Gellu Naum, analyse trois œuvres importantes de Gellu Naum, le roman Zenobia, les proses La voie du serpent et Medium, ainsi que le rapport entre la poésie picturale de Gellu Naum et la peinture narrative de Victor Brauner. Les œuvres de Gellu Naum que nous analysons possèdent des points communs synthétisés dans la figure de l’illumination, qui signale l’existence d’un régime de connaissance refondé. L’illumination se base sur des théories ésotériques et surréalistes et s’ouvre également sur une nouvelle interprétation du sacré, dénouée de tout caractère religieux. L’illumination institue et entretient un climat mystique à travers les écrits de Gellu Naum et les productions plastiques de Victor Brauner et consolide en même temps leurs doctrines esthétiques. Pour Gellu Naum, l’illumination est le but suprême de l’existence. Elle a affaire avec la capacité de voir avec les yeux du dedans. Dans ce registre ésotérique, la possibilité d’arriver de l’autre côté, c’est-à-dire dans la part invisible de la réalité, stratifiée jusqu’à son niveau archaïque, est réelle et révélatrice. Selon Gellu Naum, l’artiste doit mettre son œil à l’état sauvage pour décrire l’état transcendantal dans lequel résident ses héros; ceci en essayant de contrecarrer un grave bouleversement historique, puisque le totalitarisme roumain a éclipsé à tout jamais l’espace de l’existence. L’écriture de Naum porte les traces noires de cette incidence néfaste. Pour Victor Brauner, l’illumination a une fonction initiatrice. Elle cristallise l’art du peintre et l’éclaire tout au long de sa quête identitaire. L’illumination entretient et provoque une catharsis aux connotations inattendues dans la production artistique, s’articulant avec une consécration de l’ésotérisme. Partant d’une perspective interdisciplinaire, la thèse se divise en trois parties, Le roman Zenobia et la question de la pensée illuminée, L’état transcendantal et ses variables ou De la logique occulte de l’écriture et Les expressions de la poésie picturale et de la peinture narrative à travers les œuvres de Gellu Naum et de Victor Brauner, chacune d’entre elles analysant la figure de l’illumination et établissant aussi les invariantes esthétiques des deux Surréalistes. Dans leur quête de nouvelles formes de représentations artistiques, Gellu Naum et Victor Brauner ont recours à un surréalisme essentiellement cognitif. Les deux font appel à la rationalité, à la lucidité accrue, ce que les Surréalistes rejetaient parfois avec véhémence. / This thesis, entitled The Initiated pohet : Illumination and Esoteric Aesthetics in Gellu Naum’s work, analyzes three important literary productions by Gellu Naum, the novel Zenobia, his writings The Serpent’s Way and Medium, as well as the relationship between Gellu Naum’s pictorial poetry and Victor Bruner’s narrative painting. Gellu Naum’s works analyzed in this study have many similarities synthetized in the trope of illumination. The notion of illumination is based on esoteric and Surrealist theories, opening an interpretation of the sacred devoid of religious substance. Illumination develops a mystical climate throughout Gellu Naum’s writings and Victor Brauner’s art productions and consolidates their aesthetic doctrines. For Naum Gellu, illumination is the ultimate goal of existence. It has to do with the ability to see with the eyes within, revealing a blinding and terrifying alternative to the factual world. Within this esoteric tone, the possibility of reaching the other side – the invisible, advancing deep to the archaic level – is real and revealing. According to Gellu Naum, the artist must reach the wild state in order to describe the transcendental state infusing his heroes. This perspective counteracts a severe historical turmoil, since Romanian totalitarianism severely abbreviated life conditions. Naum’s writings bear the dark traces of this negative impact. For Victor Brauner, illumination has an initiation function. It crystallizes the painter's art throughout his quest for identity. Illumination causes and maintains catharsis, with unexpected connotations in the art production. It articulates a form of esotericism that only rarely infuses the Surrealist movement in the West. Advancing an interdisciplinary approach, my thesis is divided into three parts: The novel Zenobia and the Notion of "Illumination Thinking" The Transcendental State and Its Variables or The Occult Logic of Writing and Expressions of Pictorial Poetry and of Narrative Painting in the Works of Gellu Naum and Victor Brauner. These chapters analyze the figure of illumination and establish the aesthetic invariants grounding the works of the two Surrealists. In their quest for new forms of artistic representations, Gellu Naum and Victor Brauner employ a mainly cognitive form of Surrealism. Both appeal to rationality, to cruel lucidity, which often Surrealists strongly rejected.

L’Art a toujours consacré une grande part à l’image du féminin. Que cela soit dans l’iconographie gréco-romaine ou judéo-chrétienne, ses multiples représentations sont synonymes de confusion et d’ambivalence. La femme et l’image ont en commun de susciter méfiance et fascination. C’est au travers de l’étude approfondie de quelques figures clefs de l’histoire de l’art, que nous vous proposons une relecture post-féministe des diverses facettes du féminin, prises dans la dyade sacré/profane. Mythes et croyances donnèrent naissance à un métissage pagano-chrétien qui fit émerger un Eternel Féminin inébranlable encore très prégnant dans l’art actuel. Tantôt dans la foi de l’image, tantôt dans sa condamnation, ainsi se résume l’insoluble combat entre l’humain et le divin. La Femme restera à jamais l’élément trouble associé au paraître et à la beauté. Dans nos recherches nous avons constaté que la femme et la peinture sont en parfaite adéquation. Elles sont indissociables car iconoclasme et misogynie vont souvent de pair. Peu à peu, le corps remplacera la toile et le fard, la peinture pour les artistes transgenres. Dans d’étranges (queer) parodies entre exhibition et chamanisme, ils réinventeront leur devenir-féminin. La surface de l’œuvre devient alors le miroir où se reflète cet Autre, alter ego tant recherché. La pensée féministe se met en marche au travers des révolutions des genres et des sexes. Ainsi, c’est entre Pygmalion et Narcisse que les artistes des XXéme et XXIéme siècles, nous offrent, entre mascarade et mélancolie, la vision d’un idéal sans original. Enfin, nous revenons sur l’art des femmes. Leurs pratiques sont souvent borderline, partagées entre violence, humour et Charis dans leur quête d’un sacré hors religion. Elles offrent un devenir-pandorien de l’art pour briser à jamais le désormais trop célèbre : « Sois belle et tais toi! » / A large percentage of art has always been devoted to the images of the feminine. In Greco-Roman as well as in Judeo-Christian iconography, these multiple representations are synonymous with confusion and ambivalence. The common link between woman and her image is the ability to arouse distrust and fascination. By means of an in-depth study of some key figures from the history of art, we hereby put forward a post-feminist review of the diverse facets of the feminine, viewed under the sacred/secular dyad. Myths and faiths gave rise to a pagan-Christian hybrid, bringing forth a constant “Eternal Feminine” that is still firmly rooted in contemporary art. It is sometimes the faith of the image, sometimes its condemnation, that encapsulates the unresolvable fight between the human and the divine. Woman will remain forever the obscure element that is associated with appearance and beauty. In the course of our research, we ascertained that woman and painting are in perfect harmony; they are inseparable because iconoclasm and misogyny often go hand in hand. Step by step, the body will replaces the canvas and the make-up, the painting of transgender artists. In queer parodies between exhibition and shamanism, they reinvent their transformation into the feminine. The surface of the work becomes a mirror that reflects this Other, the alter ego, so longed for. Feminist thinking is set in motion through the revolutions of genders. Artists of the 20th and 21st centuries offer us a vision of an ideal without an original, a new Pygmalion or Narcissus, somewhere between masquerade and melancholy. Finally, we return to the art of the women. Divided between violence, humour and charis, their methods are often borderline, in their quest for the sacred that is beyond religion. They offer to evolve into “pandorien” art to shatter for ever the henceforth overly famous idea: «be beautiful and remain silent! »

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:22:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bernadete Silveira Moraes.pdf: 3212674 bytes, checksum: 81fc17a3f4a95db0d986316648139826 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-06-18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study proposes to analyze the body in the processes of sanctification and profanation. Profanation, while constant in modern philosophical and scientific discourses, is a slow process which has strategically promoted a fragmentation in looking at the body. In practice, a de-ritualization. Sanctification, the continuous art of reintegrating the body at the centre of popular cultures, promotes an incessant reinvention of the body. Thus using tradition as a source in the modern day. Using a Cartographic methodological perspective, we have developed our research initially based on the observations and trajectories of the performances that seem to belong precisely to cultures which incorporate the body in their cultural manifestations. We have found in Carlinhos Brown and his musical group, a favorable example of these changes in both the local culture associated with tradition, and also in its global dimension / Este trabalho se propõe analisar o corpo nos processos de sacralização e profanação. A profanação, um processo lento, mas constante nos discursos filosóficos e científicos modernos promoveu estrategicamente uma fragmentação do olhar em relação ao corpo. Na prática, uma des-ritualização. A sacralização, a arte contínua de reintegração do corpo, no interior das culturas populares promove uma incessante reinvenção do corpo. Utiliza-se das fontes de tradição em tempo presente. Com uma perspectiva metodológica cartográfica, desenvolvemos a pesquisa inicialmente nas observações e trajetos das performances que nos convocavam a um pertencimento, próprio de culturas que agregam o corpo em suas manifestações culturais. Localizamos em Carlinhos Brown e seu grupo musical o território propício dos deslocamentos tanto da cultura local associado às tradições, quanto da sua dimensão global

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:57:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bernadete Silveira Moraes.pdf: 3212674 bytes, checksum: 81fc17a3f4a95db0d986316648139826 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-06-18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study proposes to analyze the body in the processes of sanctification and profanation. Profanation, while constant in modern philosophical and scientific discourses, is a slow process which has strategically promoted a fragmentation in looking at the body. In practice, a de-ritualization. Sanctification, the continuous art of reintegrating the body at the centre of popular cultures, promotes an incessant reinvention of the body. Thus using tradition as a source in the modern day. Using a Cartographic methodological perspective, we have developed our research initially based on the observations and trajectories of the performances that seem to belong precisely to cultures which incorporate the body in their cultural manifestations. We have found in Carlinhos Brown and his musical group, a favorable example of these changes in both the local culture associated with tradition, and also in its global dimension / Este trabalho se propõe analisar o corpo nos processos de sacralização e profanação. A profanação, um processo lento, mas constante nos discursos filosóficos e científicos modernos promoveu estrategicamente uma fragmentação do olhar em relação ao corpo. Na prática, uma des-ritualização. A sacralização, a arte contínua de reintegração do corpo, no interior das culturas populares promove uma incessante reinvenção do corpo. Utiliza-se das fontes de tradição em tempo presente. Com uma perspectiva metodológica cartográfica, desenvolvemos a pesquisa inicialmente nas observações e trajetos das performances que nos convocavam a um pertencimento, próprio de culturas que agregam o corpo em suas manifestações culturais. Localizamos em Carlinhos Brown e seu grupo musical o território propício dos deslocamentos tanto da cultura local associado às tradições, quanto da sua dimensão global

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:11:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marlson Assis de Araujo.pdf: 2507455 bytes, checksum: ba47482ca61c972cb0fc7e880b7e99a7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-06-01 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / and Theology, this paper entitled Profane images in sacred media? Sacred images in profane media? Reflections on Catholic Television in Brazil approaches the four main Catholic television channels in Brazil: Rede Vida, Canção Nova, Século 21 and Aparecida. The research goes deep into the ambivalence of sacredness within the communication process between people and gods, as well as the path formed between Eletronic Church and mediatized sacredness. We shall systematize the history of these television channels, identify the mediatic environments which they manage, organize their Ecclesiastic typology, and focus on the religious quarrels surrounding the images and the significant moments of the institution in its relations with the media. This research tackles the consequent relation between media and religion, parting from the four analyzed television stations; the central issue being: which are the semiotic interferences and contaminations between the sacred and the media, both of which are very powerful fields? And what sort of medium is emerging from this devouring of the sacred, which is being transmitted by it? The research works with the concepts of sacred, profane, second reality, secularization, electronic church, mediatization, Church models, media environments, images, iconophagy, and scale of abstraction. Critical reference is supported by authors of the fields of Religious Studies (Rudolf Otto, Mircea Eliade, Émile Durkheim, Giorgio Agamben, Olivier Bobineau, Tank-Storper, Pierre Bourdieu, Peter Berger, Hervieu-Léger, Brenda Carranza) and mostly from Culture and Media Semiotics (Ivan Bystrina, Harry Pross, Vilém Flusser, Dietmar Kamper, Hans Belting, Christoph Wulf, Günter Anders, Aby Warburg, Edgar Morin, Norval Baitello, Alberto Klein, Muniz Sodré, Fausto Neto, Pedro Gomes, Joana Puntel) and Theology (Hugo Assmann, Libanio, Antônio de Almeida, John Fuellenbach, Leonardo Boff). The novelty of this research lies on two aspects: (1) interdisciplinary studies, since the fields of communications and religion require different, multiple, and complementary epistemological viewpoints; (2) reflections on Catholic Television in the perspective of culture semiotics and media and image semiotics in its analysis of the challenges the Churches and religions are required to face due to their mediatic urges. The alliance of media and religion is not immune to consequences / Teologia, este trabalho intitulado Imagens profanas na sagrada mídia? Imagens sagradas na mídia profana? Algumas reflexões a respeito da Televisão Católica no Brasil , aborda as quatro principais tevês católicas do Brasil: Rede Vida, Canção Nova, Século 21 e Aparecida. A pesquisa aprofunda a ambivalência do sagrado na comunicação entre homens e deuses e a passagem que se processa da Igreja Eletrônica para a midiatização do sagrado, sistematizando o percurso histórico destas tevês, identificando os ambientes midiáticos que são gestados por elas, organizando sua tipologia eclesial, constatando sua força e sua fraqueza no contexto da cultura midiática. Objetiva, também, apresentar o percurso histórico da Igreja Católica na sua prática de reprodução simbólica, enfocando as querelas religiosas em torno das imagens e os momentos significativos da instituição na sua relação com a mídia. O cerne da pesquisa gira em torno da relação consequente entre mídia e religião, partindo das quatro tevês escolhidas, com a questão central: quais as interferências e contaminações semióticas entre estes dois campos poderosos, o campo do sagrado e o campo da mídia? Que religião (que Igreja Católica) está surgindo da mídia com a devoração que ela faz das imagens televisivas, e que mídia está emergindo a partir da devoração do sagrado veiculado por ela? A pesquisa trabalha com os conceitos de: sagrado, profano, segunda realidade, secularização, igreja eletrônica, midiatização, modelos de Igreja, ambientes midiáticos, imagem, iconofagia, escalada da abstração. O referencial crítico se apoia em autores das Ciências da Religião (Rudolf Otto, Mircea Eliade, Émile Durkheim, Giorgio Agamben, Olivier Bobineau, Tank- Storper, Pierre Bourdieu, Peter Berger, Hervieu-Léger, Brenda Carranza), e, sobretudo, da Semiótica da Cultura e da Mídia (Ivan Bystrina, Harry Pross, Vilém Flusser, Dietmar Kamper, Hans Belting, Christoph Wulf, Günter Anders, Aby Warburg, Edgar Morin, Norval Baitello, Alberto Klein, Muniz Sodré, Fausto Neto, Pedro Gomes, Joana Puntel), e da Teologia (Hugo Assmann, Libanio, Antônio de Almeida, John Fuellenbach, Leonardo Boff). O ineditismo desta pesquisa contempla dois aspectos: (1º) estudo interdisciplinar, pois os campos da comunicação e da religião exigem olhares epistemológicos diferentes, múltiplos e complementares, (2º) Reflexão sobre a Televisão Católica na perspectiva da semiótica da cultura e da semiótica da mídia e da imagem, com a análise dos desafios que se impõem às Igrejas e religiões com suas fomes midiáticas. A aliança entre mídia e religião não é imune de consequências

Propõe-se para o objeto de pesquisa, Pirapora do Bom Jesus, a análise da simbologia contida no sagrado e no profano, reconhecida através da leitura da cidade e de seus espaços, de suas características culturais e históricas.Tais elementos são configurados como formadores da imagem da cidade e de sua representação urbana. / It is proposed for the object search, Pirapora do Bom Jesus, the analysis of symbology contained in the sacred and profane, recognized by reading the city and their spaces, their cultural and historical characteristics. Such informations are configured as elements of composition of the image of the city and its representation.

Propõe-se para o objeto de pesquisa, Pirapora do Bom Jesus, a análise da simbologia contida no sagrado e no profano, reconhecida através da leitura da cidade e de seus espaços, de suas características culturais e históricas.Tais elementos são configurados como formadores da imagem da cidade e de sua representação urbana. / It is proposed for the object search, Pirapora do Bom Jesus, the analysis of symbology contained in the sacred and profane, recognized by reading the city and their spaces, their cultural and historical characteristics. Such informations are configured as elements of composition of the image of the city and its representation.

The study, “Between honor and shame: Martyrdom in 2 Maccabees 6-7 within the socio-cultural arena”, presents a look at how the community viewed martyrdom in 2 Maccabees 6:18-7:42 from the perspective of honor and shame. The chief objective is to determine whether or not the community supported or challenged the notion of the martyrs’ death being either honorable or shameful. In order to reach a satisfactory conclusion to this objective, this study set as goals the identification of key themes which shed light upon the views of the community in regard to the martyrs, as well as the investigation of the community’s understanding of honor and shame found in 2 Maccabees 6:18-7:42. This study incorporates a contextual analytical method comprising of an analysis of sociocultural vocabulary, an analysis of the socio-cultural vocabulary within the Greek text of 2 Maccabees 6:18-7:42 and a synthesis of the analysis of both the socio-cultural and the Greek context. As criteria for the study of the socio-cultural context the aspects of sacred-profane, pure-impure, the patron-client relationship and the relationship between individual and group(s) are implemented. Core-findings of this study may be divided into two main categories: evidence in defence of an honorable conduct during death, and evidence in defence of the dishonorable manner of death. Evidence in defence of honorable conduct during death, are: • The martyrs remain completely loyal and devoted to God (their Chief-Patron), His laws and • the customs of the forefathers. • They are portrayed as being bodily whole. • They safeguard their set-apartness. • They remain pure – especially in the ritualistic sense. • As individuals belonging to the collected identity of various groups, the martyrs prove themselves loyal and honorable. Evidence in defence for the dishonorable manner in which the martyrs die, are: • Torture was deemed disgraceful by the community and would therefore degrade honor. • Mutilation went into the very fabric of the wholeness of the body by destroying the bodily unity, thereby disqualifying a person to come into the realm of the sacred. • Certain members of the community would regard the martyrs’ rejection of the lesser patrons’ favor as disrespectful and therefore as dishonorable conduct. Despite this evidence, it is still found that the community could remain undecided on how to judge the martyrs and martyrdom. Therefore, it is proposed, and successfully implemented, that an emotional argument might be the key to tipping the scale toward viewing the martyrs and martyrdom as honorable. It must therefore be concluded that the community would have indeed challenged the notion of martyrdom being honorable, for torture and mutilations in themselves, were regarded as being disgraceful. Yet the community would have been persuaded to accept the honor of the martyrs because of their honorable conduct and the emotional appeal made by the author of Maccabees. / Thesis (MA (Greek))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013.

Cette thèse, intitulée Le pohète initié : Illumination et esthétique ésotérique dans l’œuvre de Gellu Naum, analyse trois œuvres importantes de Gellu Naum, le roman Zenobia, les proses La voie du serpent et Medium, ainsi que le rapport entre la poésie picturale de Gellu Naum et la peinture narrative de Victor Brauner. Les œuvres de Gellu Naum que nous analysons possèdent des points communs synthétisés dans la figure de l’illumination, qui signale l’existence d’un régime de connaissance refondé. L’illumination se base sur des théories ésotériques et surréalistes et s’ouvre également sur une nouvelle interprétation du sacré, dénouée de tout caractère religieux. L’illumination institue et entretient un climat mystique à travers les écrits de Gellu Naum et les productions plastiques de Victor Brauner et consolide en même temps leurs doctrines esthétiques. Pour Gellu Naum, l’illumination est le but suprême de l’existence. Elle a affaire avec la capacité de voir avec les yeux du dedans. Dans ce registre ésotérique, la possibilité d’arriver de l’autre côté, c’est-à-dire dans la part invisible de la réalité, stratifiée jusqu’à son niveau archaïque, est réelle et révélatrice. Selon Gellu Naum, l’artiste doit mettre son œil à l’état sauvage pour décrire l’état transcendantal dans lequel résident ses héros; ceci en essayant de contrecarrer un grave bouleversement historique, puisque le totalitarisme roumain a éclipsé à tout jamais l’espace de l’existence. L’écriture de Naum porte les traces noires de cette incidence néfaste. Pour Victor Brauner, l’illumination a une fonction initiatrice. Elle cristallise l’art du peintre et l’éclaire tout au long de sa quête identitaire. L’illumination entretient et provoque une catharsis aux connotations inattendues dans la production artistique, s’articulant avec une consécration de l’ésotérisme. Partant d’une perspective interdisciplinaire, la thèse se divise en trois parties, Le roman Zenobia et la question de la pensée illuminée, L’état transcendantal et ses variables ou De la logique occulte de l’écriture et Les expressions de la poésie picturale et de la peinture narrative à travers les œuvres de Gellu Naum et de Victor Brauner, chacune d’entre elles analysant la figure de l’illumination et établissant aussi les invariantes esthétiques des deux Surréalistes. Dans leur quête de nouvelles formes de représentations artistiques, Gellu Naum et Victor Brauner ont recours à un surréalisme essentiellement cognitif. Les deux font appel à la rationalité, à la lucidité accrue, ce que les Surréalistes rejetaient parfois avec véhémence. / This thesis, entitled The Initiated pohet : Illumination and Esoteric Aesthetics in Gellu Naum’s work, analyzes three important literary productions by Gellu Naum, the novel Zenobia, his writings The Serpent’s Way and Medium, as well as the relationship between Gellu Naum’s pictorial poetry and Victor Bruner’s narrative painting. Gellu Naum’s works analyzed in this study have many similarities synthetized in the trope of illumination. The notion of illumination is based on esoteric and Surrealist theories, opening an interpretation of the sacred devoid of religious substance. Illumination develops a mystical climate throughout Gellu Naum’s writings and Victor Brauner’s art productions and consolidates their aesthetic doctrines. For Naum Gellu, illumination is the ultimate goal of existence. It has to do with the ability to see with the eyes within, revealing a blinding and terrifying alternative to the factual world. Within this esoteric tone, the possibility of reaching the other side – the invisible, advancing deep to the archaic level – is real and revealing. According to Gellu Naum, the artist must reach the wild state in order to describe the transcendental state infusing his heroes. This perspective counteracts a severe historical turmoil, since Romanian totalitarianism severely abbreviated life conditions. Naum’s writings bear the dark traces of this negative impact. For Victor Brauner, illumination has an initiation function. It crystallizes the painter's art throughout his quest for identity. Illumination causes and maintains catharsis, with unexpected connotations in the art production. It articulates a form of esotericism that only rarely infuses the Surrealist movement in the West. Advancing an interdisciplinary approach, my thesis is divided into three parts: The novel Zenobia and the Notion of "Illumination Thinking" The Transcendental State and Its Variables or The Occult Logic of Writing and Expressions of Pictorial Poetry and of Narrative Painting in the Works of Gellu Naum and Victor Brauner. These chapters analyze the figure of illumination and establish the aesthetic invariants grounding the works of the two Surrealists. In their quest for new forms of artistic representations, Gellu Naum and Victor Brauner employ a mainly cognitive form of Surrealism. Both appeal to rationality, to cruel lucidity, which often Surrealists strongly rejected.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Hamburg, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-247).