La Dynamique de la Persistance Identitaire se veut, à travers l'autoportrait plastique, une analyse des notions du moi et du surmoi. L'autoportrait soulève pour la majorité des artistes, des plus anciens aux plus novateurs, la question de l'identité à travers l'apparence, le caractère, mais aussi des origines sociales et culturelles et son exacerbation amène à un narcissisme qui fut le moteur de l'activité de nombreux maîtres parmi les plus illustres. Se remémorer certaines périodes de la vie, des souvenirs heureux ou malheureux de situations vécues, conduit à l'introspection, où le temps est une notion majeure artistique et nécessaire à la structuration psychologique d'un individu. De nombreux artistes se sont penchés sur leur image en employant de nombreuses techniques plastiques traditionnelles et, depuis peu, expérimentales (expériences tridimensionnelles). Ces représentations, à l'aide des nouveaux outils informatiques accessibles à tous, sont désormais modifiables à volonté, apportant un choix illimité d'altérations réversibles en mode uniquement virtuel. Dans un travail initial (Evolution Identitaire) ce dessein interroge l'autoportrait de l'auteur à l'aide de dessins unicolores éclairés de rehauts de blancs ou chaque visage apparaît trait par trait pour constituer l'individu. La Dynamique de la Persistance Identitaire remet en question ces trente et un visages représentés le plus objectivement possible pour dévier de l'image réelle à l'image rêvée, par la technique du Makeover, très utilisé sur internet et donnant ainsi une possibilité de reconquête de l'identité, à la recherche d'une esthétique optimisée, adaptée au choix de l'artiste: deux cent dix-sept dessins, toutes réalisations confondues, sont ainsi conçus. Cet ensemble est diffusé à travers une exposition et une vidéo et il est adaptable à plusieurs espaces sous trois formes complémentaires :une double frise chronologique en parallèle d'autoportraits format A4 sur un papier légèrement teinté où sont confrontées représentations objectives et subjectives des formes suivant les critères des lois de la Gestalt. une vidéo projection ou les visages se dévoilent progressivement, donnant ainsi naissance à une technique dite "dessin évolutif', proche de l'animation, et donnant vie à l'individu avec le morphing en étape ultime qui dévoile avec fluidité un nouveau visage rectifié selon les désirs de l'auteur, une longue frise chronologique format A2 blanc où l'image vécue est couplée et confronté à l'image idéalisée, sur une même représentation, par deux couleurs différentes pour signifier les corrections accomplies. Cette recherche devrait être complétée, dans l'avenir, toujours avec pour moteur la recherche de réalisations d'autoportraits tridimensionnels, à l'aide de technologies pointues, telles anamorphoses et imprimante 3D. / Dynamics of identity Persistence wants, through the plastic self-portrait, an analysis of the concepts of ego and superego. Self Portrait raises for the majority of artists, from the oldest to the most innovative, the question of identity through the appearance, character, but also social and cultural origins and exacerbation leads to a narcissism that was the engine the activity of man y of Art masters. Remember certain periods of life, happy or unhappy memories of life situations, leads to introspection, where time is a necessary artistic and psychological structuring an individual major concept. Many artists have focused on their image using many traditional engineering plastics and, more recently, experimental (three-dimensional experiments). These representations using new tools accessible to all are now modified at will, bringing unlimited choice reversible alterations only virtual mode. In initial work (Identity Evolution) this design questions the portrait of the author with one colored drawings illuminated highlights of each face appears white or line by line to form the individual. Dynamics of identity Persistence puts into these thirty questions and faces presented as objectively as possible to deviate from the actual image to the perfect picture, the technique Makeover, widely used on the Internet and giving an opportunity to reconquer identity, the search for an aesthetic optimized, adapted to the choice of the artist: two hundred and seventeen drawings, ail outputs combined, are well designed. This package is distributed through an exhibition and a video that is adaptable to many spaces in three complementary ways:-A double timeline of self-portraits in parallel on A4 paper with a lightly tinted face objective and subjective representations of forms depending on the requirements of Gestalt's laws. -A video projection where faces are gradually revealed, giving rise to " evolutionary drawing " , close to the animation technique, and giving life to the individual with the morphing ultimate step reveals a new face smoothly corrected according to the wishes of the author. -A long white frieze chronological format A2 where the image is coupled lived and confronted with the idealized image, on the same representation by two different colors to signify the completed corrections. This research should be completed in the future, always with engine research achievements of three-dimensional self-portraits, with pointed and such anamorphic 30 printer technologies.

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Esta dissertação objetiva analisar a representação do negro no Brasil no século XIX a partir de retratos produzidos pelos estúdios fotográficos de Alberto Henschel (1827-1882), entre 1866 e 1882. Alemão radicado no Brasil, em 1866, este empresário bem sucedido do campo da fotografia chegou a ser agraciado com o título de fotógrafo da Casa Imperial, tendo produzido um grande número de retratos de negros no formato carte-de-visite. A investigação parte da hipótese de que essas imagens materializam certos estereótipos, característicos da representação da alteridade, além de fazerem uso das convenções pictóricas contemporâneas e, até mesmo, anteriores à própria invenção da fotografia. Para essa análise foram utilizados os conceitos de identidade e diferença, bem como de representação e autorrepresentação. Por intermédio do cotejamento das fotos de brancos com as fotos de negros, produzidas por Henschel, foi possível comprovar que a produção das últimas visava a atender a uma demanda por imagens tipificadoras, adequadas ao colecionismo de caráter etno-antropológico. Tratava-se de uma prática de viés imperialista que teve lugar na Europa. Além da análise das fotografias, propriamente ditas, esta dissertação problematiza a natureza dos arquivos que guardam a produção fotográfica de Alberto Henschel, os critérios que nortearam sua formação e aquilo que, de fato, eles nos permitem conhecer a respeito do fotógrafo, sua obra e sua época. / This dissertation aims to analyse the representation of black people in Brazil during the XXth century based on portraits produced by Alberto Henschel (1827-1882)s photographic studios between 1866 and 1882. This successful German photography businessman settled in Brazil since 1866 was awarded the title of Photographer of the Royal House having produced a large number of portraits of black people in carte-de-visite format. This study starts from the assumption that these images embody certain stereotypes characteristic of the representation of otherness, as well as making use of pictorial conventions both contemporary and previous to the invention of photography itself. The concepts of identity and difference were used for this analysis, as well as those of representation and selfrepresentation. Through mutual comparison of photographs of white and black people produced by Henschel, it could be verified that the production of the latter sought to meet a demand for typifying images adequate for ethno-anthropological collecting (collectionism). This was a practice with a imperial bias which took place Europe. Besides analyses of photographs, this dissertation also raises a discussion on the nature of the files storing Alberto Henschels photographic production, the criteria which guided their formation, and what they actually allow us to know about the photographer, his work and his time.

Esta pesquisa propõe uma reflexão sobre a tecnologia colaborativa e a visualidade como os principais elementos para construção da identidade nas redes sociais, com ênfase na fotografia e no vídeo. A explosão, nos últimos 20 anos, dos processos de mediação tecnológica, já consolidados como parte da vida cotidiana, tem gerado uma forma distinta de construir identidades, fato que denominei como conceito de trabalho, Identidades Expandidas. Neste trabalho, descrevo como antecedentes, duas trajetórias separadas, mas interligadas, que dão conta da conformação destas identidades expendidas e configuram um campo emergente, para posteriormente elaborar uma análise de sua relação com as mídias e com a arte contemporânea utilizando diversos exemplos de produções recentes. De uma parte, está a trajetória da tecnologia em rede desde os primórdios até a Web 2.0 ou Web Social, mediação que proporcionou ferramentas importantes para arquitetar novos modelos da identidade individual, e que atualmente estão centrados na sobre-exposição do Eu na imagem interconectada. De outra, está a trajetória das tecnologias da visão usadas quase exclusivamente na arte como exercício de análise para a autoexploração, o que deu como expressão máxima o autorretrato, que recentemente se viu confrontado por o excesso de autoimagens na rede. No ponto em que confluem estas duas trajetórias se instala o recém-chamado Selfie, que é a prática paradigmática da imagem em rede. O selfie é usado como foco de estudo porque é um exemplo destacado de como a tecnologia, visualidade e identidade tem influenciado as mídias e novas práticas artísticas. O objetivo do trabalho que aqui apresento é refletir sobre a relação entre tecnologias sociais, processos de subjetivação, imagens digitais e práticas artistas, num diálogo sobre a transformação radical da visualidade contemporânea. / This research proposes a reflection about collaborative technology and the visuality as the main elements for identity construction on social networks, focusing on photography and video. The explosion, on the last 20 years, of technologically mediated processes that are becoming part of the everyday life, has shaped a new form of identity construction that I have called Expanded Identities. In this work I describe two different but interconnected trajectories that set the base for an understanding of these expanded identities. With these trajectories as a base the analysis, describes several cases in media and art works that engage with these identities and outline an emergent field. The first trajectory frames Internet history focusing on the technologies that make possible the so-called Web 2.0, a social web. These set of technologies create affordances that shape new models of identity that are centered on the over exhibition of networked images. The second trajectory accounts for the technologies of vision that had been traditionally used only by artists as a self-exploration analysis, being the self-portrait as the main genre. This relationship is challenged right now because of the excess of self-images online known as Selfies. These trajectories converge precisely in the Selfie as the paradigmatic practice of the networked image. The selfie is used asfocus ofstudy because it is a good example of how technologies, visuality and identities are influencing the media and new artistic practices. The main objective of this research is to reflect upon the relationship between technologies,subjectivity processes, digital images and artistic practices that form a dialogue on the radical transformations of contemporary visuality.

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Comment peut-on transformer un Je réel en œuvre ? À quoi peut-on reconnaître dans une œuvre l’identité de ce Je et de l’auteur ? Dans cette recherche, nous voudrions tenter d’explorer un espace autobiographique dans le domaine cinématographique, à partir de la présence d’un double filmique du cinéaste, d’un autre moi dont l’identité se construit et se prolonge de film en film.Dans le cinéma français, nous pouvons relever trois types de double filmique : l’« Orphée-poète » de Jean Cocteau, l’« Antoine Doinel » de François Truffaut, et cet « ancien militant de la génération 68 » de Romain Goupil. Au travers de ces figures de l’image de soi, les trois cinéastes, dont les univers filmiques se différencient radicalement les uns des autres, parviennent à se raconter eux-mêmes au-delà de toute référence biographique.Afin de mettre en lumière certaines caractéristiques de l’expression du Je, nous voudrions étudier les diverses facettes du regard porté sur soi : nous y verrons ce regard croisé avec un moi-autre, qui nous mènera jusqu’au regard impossible sur sa propre mort. Tous ces regards seront aussi étudiés au travers des diverses modalités de la façon dont nous entendons la voix du cinéaste. Le regard de l’auteur se dédouble sans cesse dans une inlassable dialectique entre le moi réel et un autre moi. De ce dédoublement du regard résulte d’ailleurs une forme de polyphonie. Si nous parvenons à reconnaître une œuvre comme autobiographique, c’est du fait de ce dédoublement du regard et de la voix, qui s’opère à l’intérieur de l’œuvre elle-même. / In which way does a cineaste transforme his or her reel self into works? How can we recognize this self-image in the films? This study concerns the autobiographical expression in the films of sevral french cineastes, such as Jean Cocteau, François Truffaut, and Romain Goupil, those who intended constantly to create their own cinematic double all over their works. We will see the distinctive character of self-expression films through the various aspects of cineastes’ introspective gaze : those toward his « another self », toward his own death, etc. These gazes might be also examined in relations with the various ways that we can hear the polyphonic voices of cineastes.

Cette thèse présente une réflexion sur les multiples figures du romancier américain qui émergent des entretiens littéraires de The Paris Review entre 1953 et 1973, soit les deux premières décennies d'existence de la revue. Afin de mieux saisir les spécificités et l'impact du modèle d'entretien littéraire créé par une poignée de rédacteurs aussi inspirés que débutants, cette étude revient tout d'abord sur l'histoire des little magazines, sur le contexte de la création et le fonctionnement interne de The Paris Review, avant de retracer l'histoire complexe de l'entretien littéraire. Grâce à l'analyse des archives de la revue, elle met en évidence la collaboration de l'équipe de rédacteurs et des romanciers interviewés dans un processus novateur de réécriture des entretiens. Car l'entretien littéraire est un lieu de négociation de différentes autorités, entre l'« ethos préalable » de l'écrivain utilisé par l'interviewer et les diverses stratégies (scénographies auctoriales, postures, « prêt à être écrivain ») déployées par le romancier pour asseoir sa légitimité. Derrière le portrait à deux voix que semble être l'entretien littéraire apparaît bientôt l'autoportrait de l'écrivain. L'entretien littéraire de The Paris Review donne lieu à une forme de fiction biographique, à travers laquelle l'écrivain que The Paris Review était venu interroger sur « l'art de la fiction » laisse la parole à l'auteur pour construire et défendre son image. / This dissertation examines the various figures of the American novelist which takes form in the famous literary interviews published by The Paris Review during the first two decades of its existence (1953-1973). In order to analyze the specificities and the impact of the new model of literary interview created by the inspired, yet inexperienced editors and interviewers of the review, this dissertation first traces the history of "little magazines" as well as the context in which the Paris Review interviews were shaped and polished, and then analyzes the complex history of the literary interview as a genre. Through the study of the archives of the review, the author casts a light on the collaboration between the editorial board and the interviewed novelists during the demanding rewriting process of the literary interviews. The literary interview thus appears as a space where negotiations take place, opposing the preconceptions of the interviewer to the various strategies displayed by the novelist in order to assert his legitimacy. What was originally designed as a single portrait composed by two instances actually turns into the novelist's controlled self-portrait.Ultimately The Paris Review literary interview becomes a form of biographical fiction, in which the writer, initally questioned on "the art of fiction", leaves center stage to the author, who takes great care of his own public persona.

Dans la variété des thèmes et des formes offerte par les essais de Marguerite Yourcenar, s’ébauche et s’affine le « portrait d’une voix », incitant le lecteur à réfléchir, à la suite de l’essayiste elle-même, à l’avertissement de Jorge Luis Borges : « Un écrivain croit parler de beaucoup de choses, mais ce qu’il laisse, s’il a de la chance, c’est une image de soi ». Ces essais où s’affrontent des visions contradictoires du temps et de l’identité, retracent l’histoire de la résistance du moi à son extinction, prônée par un je qui reste souverain par-delà les métamorphoses. Des premiers essais, où la jeune « Marg Yourcenar » s’effraie et s’enchante, dans un style « tendu et orné », de la décadence de l’Occident, aux dernières notes jetées dans ses carnets, la métaphore récurrente de l’érosion traduit le travail d’épure auquel est soumis le genre, comme l’autoportrait qui s’y dessine. Ce travail est sous-tendu par une vision du temps qui oscille entre écoulement et permanence, et d’où émerge la valeur accordée à l’instant, premier pas vers la « magie sympathique » qui permet de s’établir en n’importe quel point du temps humain. Ainsi dilaté aux dimensions de la « constellation » universelle née de rencontres aléatoires ou surdéterminées, le moi inextinguible incarne pourtant les résurgences de l’individualité, enfin acceptée comme voie d’accès à l’universel. Au terme de cinquante ans de pratique de l’essai, Marguerite Yourcenar a conquis la liberté propre au genre, aux confins de l’autobiographie longtemps refusée, en acceptant que ses métamorphoses épousent au plus près la fluidité de la vie individuelle. / Through the variety of themes and forms offered by Marguerite Yourcenar's essays, the "portrait of a voice" progressively takes shape, inclining the reader to ponder, after the essayist herself, Jorge Luis Borges's warning : "A writer thinks he is tackling a lot of subjects; what he leaves behind, however - if he is lucky - is an image of himself". The essays, in which two contadictory conceptions of time and identity constantly clash, testify to the way the "self" resists its extinction, strongly recommended by the "I", which remains supreme beyond the metamorphoses. From the first essays, in which the young "Marg Yourcenar", in a tense and ornate style, appears to be both alarmed and enchanted by the decline of the West, to the last remarks jotted down in her notebooks, the recurring metaphor of the erosion conveys the extent to which the form is being refined, as well as the self-portrait that emerges from it. The process involves a conception of time that wavers between the flowing and the permanent, and brings forth the value given to the moment, first step towards the "sympathetic magic" which enables the reader to settle at any point of the human time. Thus expanded to the dimensions of the universal "constellation" born of random, or highly determined, encounters, the irrepressible "self" still embodies the resurgences of the individuality, accepted at last as a path towards the universal. After writing essays for fifty years, Marguerite Yourcenar conquered the liberty that defines the form and borders on the autobiographical, when she finally allowed its metamorphoses to closely match the fluidity of the individual life.

The purpose of the present thesis is to examine the modes of enunciation (“mode d’énonciation”) and the use of text genres in relation to thematic and semantic aspects of Claude Cahun’s book, Aveux non avenus (Disavowals: or, Cancelled Confessions)(1930), which consists of text fragments. Claude Cahun, who is mostly known for her photographic self-portraits, was active on the margins of surrealism in Paris in the 1920s. The text fragments of Aveux non avenus can be compared to a collage technique that she also uses in the photomontages which open each chapter of the book. As an author, Claude Cahun clearly resisted traditional confessional literature (as the title of the book also suggests), and this study focuses on how she creates images of herself through characters borrowed from mythology, the Bible, and popular and literary texts, but also through reflections on specific themes in dialogues, essays and aphorisms. The thesis examines how Aveux non avenus differs from an actual autobiography, how the fragmented self-portrait is constructed, and how the book expresses a critique of contemporary society. The method of the thesis is based on textual analysis, with the support of the concepts of modes of enunciation (”mode d’énonciation”), text genres, and détournement (”détournement”). It also rests on the contextualisation of Claude Cahun’s practice of writing in relation to the history of literary genres, surrealist avant-garde movement, and in relation to sources within cultural history and the history of women. The thesis analyses how Claude Cahun, through the use of different genres and shifting modes of enunciation, creates a fragmented, diverse, and contradictory portrait of herself, in a way that also conveys a critical image of contemporary society. The text functions, simultaneously, as a collage of different text genres. The conclusion thereby underlines the idea that the text is not arbitrarily fragmentary, but constructed on the principles that the analysis of the work has demonstrated. In previous research on Claude Cahun, the indefinite genre of the book has been emphasised. Instead, this thesis wants to show that the diversity of text genres is deliberately explored to develop varying modes of enunciation that give Claude Cahun the opporturity to reflect and give nuance to representations of the self and to convey a radical critique of society.

Uma parada - Antonio Manuel - Entre os artistas contemporâneos no Brasil nos anos 60 e 70, acreditamos que Antonio Manuel foi o que guardou um profundo mistério na sua produção. Mesmo ao ser censurado, trilhou sua trajetória e, aos poucos, ocupou um espaço suficiente para causar uma inversão da representação e encontrar um caminho errático que o fizesse, dinamicamente, atuar. Pela tomada do corpo, como gesto de liberdade, expandiu sua arte. Sua atitude de pensamento se transformou em fotografia. Quando falamos em \"uma parada\", queremos enfatizar a importância da pose pausada no auto-retrato do artista, para justificar a tese de que Antonio Manuel também expandiu a arte contemporânea pela fotografia. Essa ampliação doa to criativo se deu graças à presença constante das imagens fotográficas do corpo nos seus trabalhos, que, inquietos, iniciaram esse percurso, de modo a podermos afirmar que, hoje, a fotografia tem importante significado no conjunto de suas séries. Para corrigir a realidade imposta tão violentamente pela ditadura militar, timidamente, Antonio Manuel abandonou o desenho sobre jornais para se apropriar das fotografias da imprensa, como também transgredir, corajosamente, a gramática dos veículos de comunicação de massa. Interessa-nos apontar para a importância dessa atitude e, para isso, desenvolvemos algumas possibilidades de compreensão. Consideramos as estratégias propostas pelos críticos Mário Pedrosa e Frederico de Morais e, ainda, os diversos teóricos que estudamos para tornar o debate da época, sobre as estratégias da arte contemporânea no Brasil dos anos 60 e 70, plausível. A arte fotográfica de Antonio Manuel, particularmente as imagens fotográficas do corpo, tiveram uma incrível ressonância na crítica de arte nacional e internacional. Porém, não vem sendo exibida como uma das poucas manifestações visuais que soube estar em sintonia com as diferentes tendências da arte fotográfica das últimas duas décadas. Para confirmar sua importância conceitual, delimitamos sua produção entre os anos de 1967 e 1977. A estrutura dos capítulos não segue à risca uma ordem cronológica, mas principalmente, a relação do ato criativo com o conjunto das séries. Destacamos as análises dos auto-retratos e dos retratos, bem como dos filmes do artista, em que a arte da desaparição de Jean Baudrillard sustenta a noção de \"parada\" fotográfica. Uma Parada tem ênfase no retrato, nos objetos inquietantes e nas imagens perturbadoras, que gestaram a relação do artista com o mundo durante um período de crise da arte. Porém, a crise do sujeito em Antonio Manuel é desafiadora, porque subverteu os modelos e desarticulou as referências, por enfrentar o processo de trabalho com luta e criatividade. Da sua liberdade, o espectador-participador se torna cúmplice. / A paused pose - Antonio Manuel - Among the Brazilian contemporary artists of the 60s and 70s we believe that Antonio Manuel has been the one who has kept a profound mystery in his production. Even when he was banned, he managed to make his way and, little by little, take enough place to cause an inversion of representation, finding an erratic path that made him act dynamically. By taking the body as a gesture of freedom, he has expanded art. His way of thinking has turned into photography. When we say a pause, we want to emphasize the importance of the paused pose in the artists self portrait so as to justify the thesis that Antonio Manuel has also expanded contemporary art through photography. This enlargement of the creative act was due to the constant presence of photographic body images in his works, which, in a restless way, started this journey, enabling our statement that, today, photography has a meaning in the complex oh his series. In order to correct the reality so violently imposed by the military dictatorship, Antonio Manuel abandoned drawing over newspapers timidly to appropriated in pointing out the importance of this attitude and, for that purpose, we have developed some possibilities of comprehension. We have considered the strategies suggested by critics Mario Pedrosa and Frederico de Morais, as well as many other theorists we have studied, so as to make plausible the debate on the strategies of Brazilian contemporary art in the 60s and 70s at that time. The photography art of Antonio Manuel, particularly his photographic body images, has had an incredible resonance among the national and international art critic. However, it has not been exhibited as one of the few visual manifestations which knew how to be tuned with the different tendencies of photographic art in the last couple of decades. In order to confirm his conceptual importance, we have delimited his production between the years of 1967 and 1977. The structure of the chapters does not necessarily follow a chronological order, but rather the relationship between the creative act and the complex of series. We have highlighted the analysis oh his self portraits and portraits, as well as the film, where the art of disappearance by Jean Baudrillard supports the concept of photographic pause. A Paused Pose emphasizes the portrait, the disturbing objects and the alarming images which conceived the relationship between the artist and the world during a period of art crisis. However, the crisis of the subject in Antonio Manuel is challenging, for it has subverted the models and disarticulated the references by facing the work process with struggle and creativity. The spectator participant becomes an accomplice of this freedom.