Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Natal, 1992. / Title from opening menu. Electronic version lacks images. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print with images.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of Art, Stanford University. / Bibliography: leaves 291-311.

A tese apresenta a problematização de políticas da arte na licenciatura em artes visuais indagando sobre como certos modos de operar com a arte nesse curso produzem efeitos sobre os professores em formação. Efeitos como a demarcação de lugares, modos de ser ou certas concessões em relação às artes visuais são analisados, tendo em vista a docência para a educação básica. Utilizaram-se metodologias artísticas de investigação, adotando-se como procedimento as residências em duas universidades públicas brasileiras onde existem cursos de licenciatura em artes visuais e experiências artísticas com fotografia, escrita e intervenções em folhas de papel almaço, consideradas como um elemento característico de situações de educação. A metodologia também assumiu uma perspectiva teórica desenvolvida com o estímulo foucaultiano em articulações ao pensamento de Jacques Rancière, Giorgio Agamben, Georges Didi-Huberman, Carlos Skliar, Jorge Larrosa, Jan Masschelein e Maarten Simons, entre outros, permitindo conexões entre a filosofia, a arte e a educação. Na constituição discursiva da licenciatura em artes visuais, foi possível identificar vínculos entre uma estrutura política e uma prática moral implementadas por uma economia da arte. Observou-se que a formação docente assume o discurso do campo artístico, considerando-o como o princípio a ser adotado pelos professores, o que produz diferentes lugares e modos de ser dos licenciandos em relação à arte. A partir daí foi possível descrever as principais bases componentes da formação docente, a base estética e a base criadora, que atendem à estrutura teórica e poética da arte Quando tais bases são conectadas à educação, contribuem à ênfase no sujeito e aliam-se a promessas de liberdade e progresso. Em consonância à atitude adotada desde a composição da metodologia da pesquisa, propõe-se a inserção de uma base política na licenciatura em artes visuais como a possibilidade de perturbar as operações com a arte atribuídas à formação docente e à educação escolar. Como atitude, a política daria condições de realizar as indagações necessárias à arte e à educação indo além da reafirmação das experiências do artista e do espectador, da autonomia da arte e do viés biográfico que atravessa a constituição desse campo. Essas operações, no curso de licenciatura, mantêm o tom metafísico da experiência e do conhecimento artístico e fazem germinar sobre a docência o exame moral esvaziador do agir político necessário à arte e à educação. A atitude política de eliminar as distâncias e redistribuir os lugares de experiência com a arte na licenciatura em artes visuais pode produzir existências artísticas nascentes em lugar de modos de ser delineados por outros. Como contribuição, aponta-se que profanar o que tornou-se sagrado e afastado do uso comum, como certos modos de ser, posses e direitos sobre a arte, pode dispo-la ao uso livre na escola. / This thesis presents the problematization of the politics of art int the graduation on Visual Arts inquiring how certain ways of operating with the arts in this course affect the teachers under training. Effects as the mapping of the places, ways of being or certain concessions in relation to the training to the Visual Arts are analyzed, having in sight the teaching in basic education. Artistic methodologies of investigation were used: residences at two Brazilian public universities where there are undergraduate courses in Visual Arts; and artistic experiences such as photography, writing and interventions on lined sheets of paper, which are considered a typical element of learning situations. The methodology also assumed a theorical perspective developed with the Foucaultian stimuli in articulation with the thought of Jacques Rancière, Giorgio Agamben, Georges Didi-Huberman, Carlos Skliar, Jorge Larrosa, Jan Masschelein and Maarten Simons, among many, allowing connections among Philosophy, Arts and Education. In the discursive constituion of undergraduation in Visual Arts, it was possible to identify links between a political structure and a moral practice implemented by an economy of the art. It was observed that the teaching training assumes a discourse at the aisthetic field, considering it the principle to be adopted by teachers, which produces different places and ways of being on the undergraduates in relation to art. From this on it was possible to describe the main component basis of the teaching training, the esthetical basis and the creative basis which attend the thoeorical and poetic structure of the arts When those are connected to education, they contribute to the emphasis on the subject and are allied to promises of freedom and progress. In accordance to the attitude adopted since the composition of the methodology of research, it is proposed the insertion of a political basis at the undergraduation course of Visual Arts as a possibility to disturb the operation with art attributed to teacher training and to school education. As an attitude, the politics would give conditions to realize the necessary questioning to the art and to education, going beyond the reaffirmation of the artist experiences and the expectator, the authonomy of the arts and the biographical bias which goes through the constitution of this field. These operations, in the course of undergraduation, maintain the metaphysical tone of the artistic experience and knowledge and make germinate over the teaching the emptying moral scrutiny of the political acting to Arts and Education. The political attitude to eliminate distances and redistribute the places of experiences with art at the undergraduation course of Visual Arts may produce artistic rising existences instead of ways deliniated by others. As contribution, we poit out that to profanate what became holy and distant from the common use, as certain ways of being, possessions and rights over the art, may dispose it to the free use of the school.

A tese apresenta a problematização de políticas da arte na licenciatura em artes visuais indagando sobre como certos modos de operar com a arte nesse curso produzem efeitos sobre os professores em formação. Efeitos como a demarcação de lugares, modos de ser ou certas concessões em relação às artes visuais são analisados, tendo em vista a docência para a educação básica. Utilizaram-se metodologias artísticas de investigação, adotando-se como procedimento as residências em duas universidades públicas brasileiras onde existem cursos de licenciatura em artes visuais e experiências artísticas com fotografia, escrita e intervenções em folhas de papel almaço, consideradas como um elemento característico de situações de educação. A metodologia também assumiu uma perspectiva teórica desenvolvida com o estímulo foucaultiano em articulações ao pensamento de Jacques Rancière, Giorgio Agamben, Georges Didi-Huberman, Carlos Skliar, Jorge Larrosa, Jan Masschelein e Maarten Simons, entre outros, permitindo conexões entre a filosofia, a arte e a educação. Na constituição discursiva da licenciatura em artes visuais, foi possível identificar vínculos entre uma estrutura política e uma prática moral implementadas por uma economia da arte. Observou-se que a formação docente assume o discurso do campo artístico, considerando-o como o princípio a ser adotado pelos professores, o que produz diferentes lugares e modos de ser dos licenciandos em relação à arte. A partir daí foi possível descrever as principais bases componentes da formação docente, a base estética e a base criadora, que atendem à estrutura teórica e poética da arte Quando tais bases são conectadas à educação, contribuem à ênfase no sujeito e aliam-se a promessas de liberdade e progresso. Em consonância à atitude adotada desde a composição da metodologia da pesquisa, propõe-se a inserção de uma base política na licenciatura em artes visuais como a possibilidade de perturbar as operações com a arte atribuídas à formação docente e à educação escolar. Como atitude, a política daria condições de realizar as indagações necessárias à arte e à educação indo além da reafirmação das experiências do artista e do espectador, da autonomia da arte e do viés biográfico que atravessa a constituição desse campo. Essas operações, no curso de licenciatura, mantêm o tom metafísico da experiência e do conhecimento artístico e fazem germinar sobre a docência o exame moral esvaziador do agir político necessário à arte e à educação. A atitude política de eliminar as distâncias e redistribuir os lugares de experiência com a arte na licenciatura em artes visuais pode produzir existências artísticas nascentes em lugar de modos de ser delineados por outros. Como contribuição, aponta-se que profanar o que tornou-se sagrado e afastado do uso comum, como certos modos de ser, posses e direitos sobre a arte, pode dispo-la ao uso livre na escola. / This thesis presents the problematization of the politics of art int the graduation on Visual Arts inquiring how certain ways of operating with the arts in this course affect the teachers under training. Effects as the mapping of the places, ways of being or certain concessions in relation to the training to the Visual Arts are analyzed, having in sight the teaching in basic education. Artistic methodologies of investigation were used: residences at two Brazilian public universities where there are undergraduate courses in Visual Arts; and artistic experiences such as photography, writing and interventions on lined sheets of paper, which are considered a typical element of learning situations. The methodology also assumed a theorical perspective developed with the Foucaultian stimuli in articulation with the thought of Jacques Rancière, Giorgio Agamben, Georges Didi-Huberman, Carlos Skliar, Jorge Larrosa, Jan Masschelein and Maarten Simons, among many, allowing connections among Philosophy, Arts and Education. In the discursive constituion of undergraduation in Visual Arts, it was possible to identify links between a political structure and a moral practice implemented by an economy of the art. It was observed that the teaching training assumes a discourse at the aisthetic field, considering it the principle to be adopted by teachers, which produces different places and ways of being on the undergraduates in relation to art. From this on it was possible to describe the main component basis of the teaching training, the esthetical basis and the creative basis which attend the thoeorical and poetic structure of the arts When those are connected to education, they contribute to the emphasis on the subject and are allied to promises of freedom and progress. In accordance to the attitude adopted since the composition of the methodology of research, it is proposed the insertion of a political basis at the undergraduation course of Visual Arts as a possibility to disturb the operation with art attributed to teacher training and to school education. As an attitude, the politics would give conditions to realize the necessary questioning to the art and to education, going beyond the reaffirmation of the artist experiences and the expectator, the authonomy of the arts and the biographical bias which goes through the constitution of this field. These operations, in the course of undergraduation, maintain the metaphysical tone of the artistic experience and knowledge and make germinate over the teaching the emptying moral scrutiny of the political acting to Arts and Education. The political attitude to eliminate distances and redistribute the places of experiences with art at the undergraduation course of Visual Arts may produce artistic rising existences instead of ways deliniated by others. As contribution, we poit out that to profanate what became holy and distant from the common use, as certain ways of being, possessions and rights over the art, may dispose it to the free use of the school.

This Master of Fine Arts submission, consisting of a thesis titled ‘Political Grey: Areas of Ambiguity and Contradiction’ accompanied by an exhibition titled ‘Positions’, encompasses the concept of leadership while uncovering and expressing its ‘grey areas’ in a contemporary and undefined moment in South Africa. The concept of leadership has been complicated throughout the thesis in terms of how it is conceptualised in a traditional royal African art context as well as how Leader-Figures have been and are portrayed in both Western and African portrait genres. The notion that the new is built upon the old is continued throughout my thesis and is evident in the accompanying body of work. This notion is expressed on a number of levels: by the re-contextualisation of the print medium; the creative processes described as ‘postproduction’ which I use in my work; as well as that which is described as a ‘post-transitional’ moment. The recent political history of the country is considered, with reference made to the anti-apartheid movement and resistance art produced. Printmaking, viewed as an archetypal medium for resistance, is discussed, with reference made to its socio-political role during the 1980s as well as to the extent to which it continues to be used by contemporary artists in a different realm of conflict and change. This is demonstrated by the shift from the medium as a tool for protest to the medium as an instrument of political irony and pointed commentary.

Orientador: Marcelo Siqueira Ridenti / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T11:16:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Forte_GrazielaNaclerio_D.pdf: 23860775 bytes, checksum: 1ede3a879efea8f756b0c531b2e90b2e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Esse trabalho de doutoramento tem o objetivo de analisar sob o ponto de vista histórico-social, o conjunto da obra de Carlos da Silva Prado (1908-1992), mais conhecido como Carlos Prado, atuante no modernismo como artista plástico, arquiteto e teórico da arquitetura funcional, no período 1930-1990. Com uma produção diversificada em termos de técnicas empregadas, estilos e temas, os trabalhos da fase popular ou folclórica, assim como os sociais, inclusive aqueles realizados sob o ponto de vista do urbanista, onde criou um panorama da urbe ao mesmo tempo moderna e com sérios problemas de infraestrutura, como a falta de transportes e moradias para as classes econômicas menos privilegiadas, relacionam-se entre si e evidenciam as diferenças entre progresso e atraso, ricos e pobres. Como hipótese de base, é possível dizer que Carlos Prado foi um pintor do modernismo paulista, que adotou a temática popular e social, imprimindo em seus trabalhos uma visão idealizada do passado sob o ponto de vista de um aristocrata, que absorveu a ideia de "brasilidade" defendida pelos críticos Mário de Andrade e Sérgio Milliet. O afastamento do sistema das artes plásticas na década de 1960 deve-se à atitude que assumiu de evitar a convivência com as pessoas uma vez que não se adaptou ao mundo capitalista, quando as artes plásticas também ficaram sujeitas às leis da oferta e demanda. Portanto temos como hipótese complementar que ele via no passado as bases para a construção de um futuro utópico, enquanto a modernidade parecia ignorar os valores humanos, incentivando o consumismo, o império do fetichismo da mercadoria e do dinheiro / Abstract: This PhD thesis analyzes from a social-historical point of view, the whole work by Carlos da Silva Prado (1908-1992), better known as Carlos Prado, an active painter of the modernism's scenario, architect and functional architecture theorist between 1930 to 1990. Presenting a wide variety of techniques, styles and themes, the popular or folk art, as well as the social art period, including the social art of urban point of view creating a metropolis panorama: at the same time modern and with serious infrastructure problems, such as transportation and housing for lower economic classes, showing the differences between progress and opposite situations, rich and poor. In our hypothesis, Carlos Prado was a São Paulo modernist painter, when adopted the popular and social themes, printing in his works an idealized view of the past from an aristocrat point of view, which absorbed the "brazilianness" idea by Mário de Andrade and Sérgio Milliet. He stood back the "arts system" in the 1960s due to the attitude he took to avoid interaction with people since he did not agree with the capitalism world rules, the period of time was incredibly under the rules of supply and demand. We have a complementary hypothesis. Prado was idealized the past, created an utopian way, while modernity seemed to ignore human values, encouraging consumerism, the empire of commodity fetishism and money / Doutorado / Sociologia / Doutora em Sociologia

The following article deals with a somewhat neglected aspect of Stuart Hall’s manifold activities and its relevance for his theoretical work: his interest in and commitment to the promotion of black British art.

Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2001. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South African photography in the 20th century was dominated by the documentary genre. This genre has its roots in 19th century Modernist and colonialist belief in the accuracy of the camera as a tool of representation, and faith in the camera's objectivity and ability to present empirical evidence and 'truth'. These positivist notions were carried into South African documentary practice during the apartheid era. Apartheid-era South African documentary photography was particularly focused on exposing the socio-political ills of apartheid in order to gain support for the liberation movement, both locally and abroad. It was serious and didactic in its purpose and did not allow for creative responses to the medium, as the camera was seen as a 'weapon' of the struggle. The 1990s saw the beginning of the emergence of a liberated South Africa. The documentary imperative to record and expose apartheid practices was now increasingly redundant. Photographers, particularly after the elections, were faced with a 'crisis' of sorts in documentary as the main focus of their subject had been removed. The upshot of this was that documentary photographers had to find new subjects, which they had to approach in different ways. The arrival of Postmodernism in South Africa coincided with the demise of apartheid. It had in essence been kept at bay by what seemed to be the more pressing issues of the struggle. Postmodern art and its theoretical base, post-structuralism, argued for an erosion of the previously fixed concepts of genre, and allowed for the mixing of the previously separate categories of 'documentary' and 'art'. There was a radical questioning of previously fixed constructs of race, identity, class and gender. The erosion of the documentary imperative to record allowed for more creative responses to the medium than ever before. Artists were able to experiment technically, with video, multi-media, digital photography, historical processes, colour, composite work and interactive pieces. In this thesis I explore the above-mentioned shift and situate my practical work within this contemporary paradigm. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Op die gebied van fotografie is die toneel in Suid-Afrika in die 20ste eeu deur die dokumentêre genre oorheers. Die genre het sy oorsprong in 'n Modernistiese en kolonialistiese, 19de-eeuse siening, naamlik dat die kamera 'n objektiewe en akkurate voorstellingsmiddel is waarmee empiriese bewyse ingesamel en die "waarheid" uitgebeeld kan word. Hierdie positiwistiese uitkyk is tydens die apartheidsjare op die dokumentêre praktyk in Suid-Afrika oorgedra. Tydens hierdie era was dokumentêre fotografie daarop gemik om die sosiopolitieke euwels van Suid-Afrika onder apartheid bloot te lê, ten einde sowel binnelands as buitelands vir die bevrydingsbewegings steun te werf Met hierdie gewigtige en didaktiese doel voor oë, was daar min ruimte vir 'n kreatiewe hantering van die medium, aangesien die kamera as 'n "wapen" in die stryd teen apartheid gesien is. Die 1990's het die begin van Suid-Afrika se bevryding ingelui. Die dokumentêre imperatief om apartheidsdade op rekord te stel en aan die groot klok te hang, het vervaag. Fotograwe het 'n soort "krisis" in die gesig gestaar, veral na die verkiesing, want die onderwerp van hulle fokus het verdwyn. Die resultaat was dat dokumentêre fotograwe nuwe temas moes vind, wat hulle vanuit 'n ander oogpunt moes benader. In Suid-Afrika het die koms van Postmodernisme met die ondergang van apartheid saamgeval. Voorheen is dit in wese oorskadu deur oënskynlik belangriker kwessies rondom die "struggle". Postmoderne kuns en die teoretiese grondslag daarvan, naamlik post-strukturalisme, bepleit 'n beweging weg van die vaste begrip van genre wat voorheen gegeld het. Hiervolgens raak 'n vermenging van die voorheen afsonderlike kategorieë 'dokumentêr' en 'kuns' moontlik. Dit bring ook 'n radikale bevraagtekening mee van die konstrukte ras, identiteit, klas en geslag, wat voorheen as vaste indelings beskou is. Die verflouing van die dokumentêre imperatief om dinge op rekord te stel, maak dit moontlik om op 'n meer kreatiewe wyse as ooit tevore met die medium om te gaan. Kunstenaars kan nou met die tegniese sy van fotografie eksperimenteer: video, multimedia, digitale fotografie, historiese prosesse, kleur, saamgestelde werke en interaktiewe stukke. In hierdie tesis kyk ek op verkennende wyse na die veranderings waarna hierbo verwys word, en situeer ek my praktiese werk binne hierdie kontemporêre paradigma.

A Research report submitted in partial fulfilment of the Degree Masters in History of Arts at the University of Witwatersrand, 2017 / This research report has followed three periods in the history of the political struggle for freedom in South Africa, from the height of the Anti-apartheid struggle in the 1980s to the present day by way of exploring three exhibitions of resistance posters as case studies. It is located in the realm of political and art history. Looking at the positioning of the resistance poster in South African art history, the intension is to highlight how these exhibitions have used display strategies to construct values reflected in the resistance poster. The three selected exhibitions are as follows: firstly, Thami Mnyele and Medu Art Ensemble Retrospective (2008), Second is the exhibition Images of Defiance: South African poster of the 1980’s (2004). And the third exhibition Interruptions: Posters from the Community Arts Project Archive (2014). / XL2018

The research project uses still life as a means of exploring current events of violence and oppression. These events are represented through juxtaposing plastic toys with organic objects. The toys include a range of popular generic toys such as army men, cowboys and Indians and toy soldiers. The organic objects were selected for their relationship to the specific event being represented. The toys and organic objects were positioned to create interesting and logical compositions. Themes of the series include opposing objects and ideas pitched against each other such as plastic/organic, perpetrator/victim, violence/peacefulness and destruction/sustenance. Within each work the plastic toys take on the demeanor of the tyrant(s), whereas the organic objects adopt the role of the victim(s). The research project uses these themes to convey the message that violence is both a barbaric way of dealing with conflict and a senseless form of self-expression. I have used symbols and metaphors to build a visual language. For the language to be translated accurately a great deal of research has taken place into the appropriate still life objects for each work. Each work incorporates metaphors and or symbols for both the oppressor and victim within the event being represented. The studio outcome of this research project, Silent Bang, includes a series of highly detailed finished paintings of various scales. Silent Bang as a body of work is colourful and aims to be aesthetically pleasing in addition to conveying a powerful message that incites interpretation.