Texte remanié de: Habilitationsschrift--Philosophische Fakultät--Universität Göttingen, 1994. / Notes bibliogr. Index.

Diss.--Köln--Universität, 1990. / Bibliogr. p. 192-208.

Diss. : Philosophische Fakultät : Bonn : 1983-84. - Notes bibliogr. -

International Passports: Portraits of the Nigerian Diaspora considers notions of 'alienation‘ and 'nation-hood‘ through the lens of portraiture. This dissertation addresses issues of identity and representation in a contemporary cultural context as they pertain to the concerns presented through my current visual practice. The paintings that I have produced from 'real‘ life are primarily depictions of Nigerian individuals, friends and acquaintances (professionals and students) residing in Grahamstown, South Africa as temporary or permanent migrants. I reference the mug shot pose of identity documents and passport photographs and render them in such a way that ideas of their persona are subject to the viewer‘s gaze and deliberations, thus provoking the spectator to consider questions of 'otherness‘ and 'stereotypes‘. This provocation is subtle and complex, and in many ways I am offering the viewer a 're-looking‘, an opportunity to examine one‘s moral position and subsequent implication within the act of stereotyping an 'other‘ individual. The initial idea within this body of work was to paint images of Nigerian nationals exclusively, yet the restrictive nature of such categorization pushed me to complicate certain nationalist ideologies through the inclusion of non-Nigerian individuals. I look specifically at notions of the 'other‘ and 'strangeness‘ in a contemporary South African context and how this connects to the concept of portraiture and not simply portraiture theory but also the social theory in relation to how people are 'imaged‘. Throughout this thesis I consider several theoretical concerns in portraiture practice and discourse whilst simultaneously unpacking the psychological and social contexts that influence my practice.

Orientador: Luise Weiss / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T02:48:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carvalho_SaulFerdinandodeOliveira_M.pdf: 20117485 bytes, checksum: f7bef541fa4b7c13503b84f4dc92c950 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa tem por finalidade apresentar as determinantes etapas que compõem a produção de um retrato assim como a linguagem poética contida por trás do mesmo. isso será demonstrado através do estudo de alguns dos principais retratistas, dos diferentes retratos já produzidos ao longo da história da arte, e de uma série de retratos produzidos pelo autor desta dissertação. velásquez, Goya, rembrandt, Picasso e lucian Freud são os artistas-chave desta dissertação devido à influência artística exercida sobre os trabalhos aqui apresentados. Foram produzidas pelo autor dessa dissertação uma série de pinturas que tiveram seu processo criativo descrito e comparado à obra dos artistas citados, sendo estes estudados através de bibliografia e de visitas a grandes museus na Europa, a saber, o Museu do Prado, Reina Sofia e Museu Picasso na Espanha, Rijksmuseun e Mauritshuis na Holanda, Museu do Vaticano e Uffizi na Itália, Museu do Louvre e D'Orsay na França entre outros. Verificou-se então que, quanto mais simples as etapas de criação de uma pintura, maior a possibilidade de atingir uma liberdade de expressão, assim como o afeto pelas pessoas retratadas tornou-se fator determinante na conquista de uma maior expressividade na pintura. Vale ressaltar também que um bom retrato evidencia com naturalidade a identidade do retratado em todos os aspectos - físico, emocional, temporal e psicologio - bem como a identidade do próprio retratista, e esta também foi uma preocupação do artista-autor desta dissertação. os retratos elaborados para esta dissertação e aqui apresentados, tiveram a contribuição e direcionamento da Professora Dra. Luise Weiss e também de alguns professores da universidade Complutense de Madrid / Abstract: This research aims to show the crucial steps that make up the production of a portrait as well as poetic language contained behind it. this will be demonstrated through the study of some of the major portrait painters, the various portraits ever produced throughout the history of art, and a series of portraits produced by the author of this dissertation. velazquez, Goya, Rembrandt, Picasso and Lucian Freud are the key artists of this dissertation due to the artistic influence exerted on the work presented here. Were produced by the author of this dissertation a series of paintings that had described his creative process and compared to the work of the artists mentioned above, which were studied through literature and visits to the major museums in Europe, namely, the Prado, Reina Sofia and Picasso Museum in Spain, and Rijksmuseun, Mauritshuis in the Netherlands, the Vatican Museum and the Uffizi in Italy, the Louvre and D'Orsay in France among others. It then emerged that the more simple steps of creating a painting, the greater the chance of achieving freedom of expression as well as the affection for the people portrayed became a determining factor in winning a major expression in painting. It is noteworthy also that a good portrait reveals the identity of naturally portrayed in all aspects - physical, emotional, temporal and psychological - as well as the identity of the portrait itself, and this was also a concern of the artist-author of this dissertation. the pictures generated for this dissertation and here presented, had the assistance and guidance of Profa. Dra. Luise Weiss and also some professors from the university Complutense of Madrid / Mestrado / Artes Cenicas / Mestre em Artes

With this dissertation I propose an investigation of how the photographic portrait attempts to construct and confirm identity through the representation of types. Drawing from theoretical texts by Roland Barthes and Robert Sobieszek and engaging with my own process of self-portraiture, as a means of troubling the usual power relations involved between the photographer and the sitter, I will demonstrate the dialectical nature of these roles involved in photographic portraiture. Looking at Pieter Hugo's portraits of judges in Botswana permits me to deal with issues of masquerade and how fashions and uniforms mask an individual allowing him/her to perform roles and stereotypes in society. Referring to another set of Hugo's images from his ongoing series Looking Aside, I will explore the paradoxical nature of the portrait through the dialectic of the 'self 'and 'other' subject and object split through an exploration of notions of skin and prosthetic skin and the relationship to the liminal space 'opened' between subject and object, or viewer and image.

This master's thesis seeks to dispel the myth that nineteenth century painter Paul Delaroche's art was either apolitical or politically conservative. Through an examination of Delaroche's portraits of the late Napoleon I in conjunction with contemporary napoleonic prints, one finds that Delaroche was, indeed, deeply involved with contemporary politics. A close examination of his portraits shows that this involvement manifested itself in support for both the Cult of Napoleon and for the Bonapartist party.

Thesis advisor: Maia McAleavey / A time of rapid industrialization and burgeoning consumerism, the nineteenth century was full of things, a physical reality that is mirrored in the heavily material story worlds of Victorian literature. My dissertation investigates how objects do things in texts, exhibiting a mattered, agentic existence that decenters the human and proposes a materially-centered textual reality. In the writings of Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, and others, a particular set of objects-portraits, dresses, dolls, and letters-is characterized by their shared representation of the human body and the ways in which they act with, against, and independently of the characters they represent. These texts and objects emphasize the essential material components of textual realities and the ways in which objects have agency within the narrative to redefine the mattered framework of the text. The objects in this study operate on a spectrum of agency that emphasizes their role as active matter in their parent text. Going beyond the historical and cultural models that usually inform readings of things in Victorian literature, I investigate how these objects are active in upending the primacy of the human and constructing new assemblages of possibility and potentiality that cannot be accessed by the human alone. Each chapter traces the development of the agentic object in one or more texts as they reshape the structure of their fictional reality to allow objects to exist alongside with, rather than subservient to, their human creators and audiences. Acknowledging the ways in which things in texts have functioned historically and culturally in the nineteenth century, this dissertation examines how they operate textually, offering a differently centered narrative world that reimagines the role of objects as primary actors in constructing fictional realities. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2018. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: English.

For most of the period since his death in 1844, at the hands of a maniacal mob in Carthage, Illinois, there has been doubt about which portrait of Joseph Smith, first president and founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, best represented his physical features. This work has attempted to accumulate as much information about his features as was available for the purpose of establishing the true image of the man. The discoveries made by this study are listed in the following discussion.

This study investigates my art works, their context, content, and the process by which they were produced. The first part of the study addresses my background ideas and philosophies, their impact on my works, and the environmental and psychological context which made those ideas relevant to my paintings. I am not concerned with answering the usual questions, What is art? and Who is an artist? My intention is to find out who I choose to be and what I choose to do. The second part investigates the form and design of the art works– from the materials used to make them to the various formal elements utilized in creating them. The connection of form and content in these art works is emphasized. The last part of the study investigates the influences of a few significant artists and the impacts of their works on my art. The future of my art work is, of course, not predictable, and it does not depend on this study. This study is only as factual, reliable, and truthful as my art work is