This thesis, which supports an exhibition of visual art, develops from Jean Baudrillard's philosophy of seduction. I have focused on the representation of the bachelor and his pad in American men's magazines from the mid-twentieth century. During this period, magazines such as Playboy, Escapade and Rogue created features on modern living to reassure an independent and affluent man that a dwelling with style and taste would ensure a happy bachelor life and facilitate intimacy. My photographs and collages add complexity to this portrait by framing this unique space as a stage where an unmarried man encircled by his lusty decor acted to entrance a woman.

This dissertation examines the influence of film on the poetry of H.D., Marianne Moore, and Adrienne Rich. It builds on scholarship by Susan McCabe (2005), Lawrence Goldstein (1994) and others, who have traced the way twentieth-century American poets reacted formally to film culture in their writing. My project responds to the call of the editors of the volume of Close Up 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism for critics to interrogate how authors harnessed the aesthetic and political possibilities opened up by cinema. This study draws from theories of feminist film phenomenology by Vivian Sobchack and Laura U. Marks to analyze the aims and arguments of the texts. The literary works studied include: H.D.’s Sea Garden, “Projector” series, Trilogy, Helen in Egypt, and film essays; Marianne Moore’s animal poems from the 1930s and early 1940s and film essays; and Adrienne Rich’s The Will to Change. This dissertation argues that the poets drew from film to renovate their poetic vision and forms and ply at questions of power, visuality, and bodies. The poems articulate an awareness of the filmic gaze and how it constructs feminine or animal others. Through careful analysis of the poems, this dissertation locates each poet’s particular rapport with film and how it influenced her literary style and prompted her to challenge dominant patriarchal scripts. This dissertation makes several original contributions to twentieth-century Anglo-American poetry scholarship. It sets these three authors alongside one another to reveal how their engagements with film inspired their poetics and politics at various points throughout the twentieth century. The conclusions herein determine how the poets turned to film to construct their poetic projects. The dissertation offers new readings of the work of H.D., Moore and Rich as queer women poets invested in film culture. / Graduate

<p>Hannah Arendt's theory of political judgment has been an ongoing perplexity among scholars who have written on her. As a result, her theory of judgment is often treated as a suggestive but unfinished aspect of her thought. Drawing on a wider array of sources than is commonly utilized, I argue that her theory of political judgment was in fact the heart of her work. Arendt's project, in other words, centered around reestablishing the possibility of political judgment in a modern world that historically has progressively undermined it. In the dissertation, I systematically develop an account of Arendt's fundamentally political and non-sovereign notion of judgment. We discover that individual judgment is not arbitrary, and that even in the complex circumstances of the modern world there are valid structures of judgment which can be developed and dependably relied upon. The result of this work articulates a theory of practical reason which is highly compelling: it provides orientation for human agency which does not rob it of its free and spontaneous character; shows how we can improve and cultivate our political judgment; and points the way toward the profoundly intersubjective form of political philosophy Arendt ultimately hoped to develop.</p> / Dissertation

O advento das inovações artísticas do século XX vislumbrou maneiras renovadoras de articular aspectos composicionais, ganhando assim novas possibilidades instigantes e exigindo do criador de arte a procura de métodos para solucionar problemas arquiteturais novos. Ao lidar com obras de caráter complexo, o iniciante pode se ver em um \"Cul-de-sac\", remoendo-se entre a escrita criativa contemporânea e a escrita efetiva tradicional. Propondo visualizar esses problemas parcialmente, o espectro da minha pesquisa abarcará, contando com exemplos de análise da peça escolhida, \"Musique Funèbre\", ao menos os seguintes tópicos: polifonia pós-tonal; clareza das vozes (ou a dispensa da mesma) em meio a texturas complexas; \"part-writing\" (ou a dispensa da mesma) entre acordes complexos; fraseologia e microrrelações formais entre frases em meio a uma polifonia de harmonia não trivial; inovações das texturas e suas consequências; e, em adição, uma análise harmônica da linguagem do compositor selecionado, não necessariamente reconhecida e difundida por importantes publicações. Os resultados esperados se apresentarão na forma de uma dissertação analítica debruçada sob a temática proposta, em conjunto à produção composicional do autor. Em particular, foram desenvolvidos dois métodos de análise que são aplicáveis a uma grande quantidade de repertórios variados, embora não necessariamente servindo a todos os gêneros possíveis. Eles foram batizados na seção de \"Metodologia\" por \"Método dos Caminhos Especulativos\" e \"Método das Variáveis Sintéticas\", e são explicados brevemente, quando referidos. Esta pesquisa adquire forte apoio acadêmico por se tratar de uma expansão logicamente seguida do trabalho de Iniciação Científica desenvolvido na Graduação do autor em \"Análise de Obras de Béla Bartók com ênfase aos processos contrapontísticos\", sob a orientação do Prof. Dr. Silvio Ferraz no departamento de música da ECA/USP. / The coming of artistic innovations in the Twentieth-Century Music has given a glimpse of renovating manners to articulate compositional aspects, achieving thus new instigating possibilities and requiring creators to search architectural problem-solving methods. In dealing with works of complex character, the beginner might get in a \"Cul-de-sac\", mulling between contemporary creative writing and effective traditional writing. Proposing to visualize these problems partially, the spectrum of my research will include, with examples of analysis of the selected piece, \"Musique Funèbre\", at least the following topics: post-tonal polyphony; clarity of voicing (or its denial) amidst complex textures; \"part-writing\" (or its denial) among complex chords; formal phraseology and micro-relations between phrases inside a harmonically-nontrivial polyphony; textural innovations and its dismemberments; and also, in addition, the harmonic analysis of the selected composer, not necessarily well-known and diffused by important publishings. The expected results will be presented in the form of an analytical dissertation addressed under the proposed theme, in conjunction to the compositional production of the author. Particularly, two methods of analysis were developed with applicability to a great extent of varied repertoire, even though not necessarily fitting all possible genders. They were named in the \"Methodology\" section as \"Speculative-Paths Method\" and \"Synthetic-Variables Method\", and get briefly explained, when referred to. This research acquires strong academic support for being a logically-followed expansion by the work of \"Scientific Initiation\" during the author\'s Under-graduation program about \"Analysis of Works of Béla Bartók with emphasis to the contrapuntal processes\", under orientation by Prof. Dr. Silvio Ferraz, in the music department of ECA/USP.

MASTERS FACULTY OF HUMANITIES SCHOOL OF ARTS STUDENT NO: 9910933F / This study investigates the ways in which museums are understood as texts, and how artists challenge those assumptions within their work. The extent to which parody, a central tenet of post- modern art, can be used as an effective means to challenge the hegemony of the art museum, is investigated through an analyses of artworks by Illya Kabakov and Marcel Broodthaers. The first part of the study interrogates the hegemonic function of museums, through a discussion of the central tenets of museological discourse, in order to contextualise the discussion of the artworks in question. The second part of this study includes an analysis of specific artworks by Illya Kabakov and Marcel Broodthaers, detailing the ways in which these artists parody aspects of museum practice. The concluding chapter interrogates my own artistic production in relation to this research.

Nosso trabalho baseia-se na análise da obra de quatro escritoras cuja obra se constituiu na São Paulo do século XX: Patrícia Galvão (anos 30), Maria José Dupré (anos 40), Carolina Maria de Jesus (anos 50 e 60) e Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares (anos 80 e 90). O objetivo do ensaio é demonstrar como o conteúdo histórico da modernidade brasileira se articula na forma dos romances, poemas e diários de cada uma das escritoras, compondo um painel fragmentário da cidade e discutindo suas obras em relação à produção canônica de sua época, questionando inclusive a posição do escritor dito secundário e sua importância crítica não apenas para a historiografia literária como para uma compreensão mais aprofundada de nosso processo histórico de modernização, ainda em curso. Através de escritoras e gêneros diferentes, cujos temas mais ao rés do chão deslindam uma imagem crua da cidade, procuramos enfatizar a necessidade de um método crítico atento à variedade do sistema literário, além da importância da comparação entre obras grandes e obras menores, no poder que ambas possuem de iluminarem-se entre si e conseqüentemente a sociedade que as cerca, em contraposição à usual prática de estudos centrados em grandes figuras de nosso modernismo, abordadas geralmente em seus aspectos mais metafísicos, distanciados do terreno histórico e social de onde brota o fenômeno literário. / Our work is based on the analysis of four writers whose work has been composed in the city of São Paulos 20th century: Patrícia Galvão (1930s), Maria José Dupré (1940s), Carolina Maria de Jesus (1950s and 60s) and Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares (1980s and 90s). The aim of our essay is to show how the historic content of Brazilian modernity appears in the aesthetic form of the novels, poems and journals of each writer, composing a fragmentary panel of the city and discussing their works in relation to the canonic production of their time, questioning the position of the so called secondary writer and his critical importance not only for literary historiography but as to a more deep comprehension of the historical process of modernization, still in course. Through different writers and genres, whose more down-toearth themes show a raw image of the city, we try to emphasize the necessity of a critical method aware of the variety of the literary system and the importance of comparing great and minor literary works, in the power that both have of throwing light to each other and consequently to the society that surrounds them, in opposition to the usual studies of great figures of our modernism, approached generally in their more metaphysical aspects, distanced from the historical and social ground from where grows the literary phenomenon.

Esta tese busca analisar a história da geografia crítica na França e nos Estados Unidos, principalmente através da concepção de estrutura. A partir de uma compreensão preliminar dos geógrafos anarquistas do século XIX, seguimos para a análise do marxismo e do debate sobre o materialismo geográfico entre geopolíticos e intérpretes do pensamento marxiano na geografia. Após a limitação da possibilidade histórica do desenvolvimento de uma geografia de esquerda na Alemanha, nos voltamos para a análise da geografia francesa que interage com o marxismo devido à resistência ao nazismo e à necessidade de emancipar-se de algumas concepções do pensamento vidaliano. Acompanhamos, então, o rico desenvolvimento da geografia de esquerda como as análises de geografia urbana e econômica, assim como a introdução da temática do subdesenvolvimento. A geografia de esquerda desacelera-se com a crise do marxismo e a ascensão da nova geografia. Contudo, pouco tempo depois, o descrédito da geografia quantitativa, o contexto mundial de lutas revolucionárias e os eventos de maio de 68 fazem surgir a geografia crítica. No caso francês, exploramos as relações entre a geografia de esquerda e o surgimento da geografia crítica; para os Estados Unidos, tentamos demonstrar como alguns de seus desenvolvimentos originam-se da nova geografia quantitativa. Através do estruturalismo althusseriano e os intelectuais que o atacaram, surge o processo de transformação epistemológica e de instituicionalização em que geógrafos outrora marginalizados começam a integrar a academia e desfrutar de um grande capital cultural. No entanto, a institucionalização representa a normatização e a desradicalização. A ascensão do pós-modernismo conjuntamente ao esmorecimento do marxismo em âmbito internacional faz com que o projeto da geografia crítica altere-se profundamente, abrindo precedentes para a consolidação cada vez mais intensa do pós-estruturalismo no final da década de 1980. / This thesis analyzes the history of critical geography in France and the United States, primarily through the conception of the structure. Our approach will preliminary understand the nineteenth-century anarchist geographers followed by the analysis of marxisms rise and geographical materialism debate among geopoliticals and interpreters of Marxian thought in geography. After the impossibility to develop a left geography in Germany, we turn to the analysis of French geography interacts with marxism tied to the resistance to nazism and the need to emancipate itself from some conceptions of Vidal de la Blache thought. We see the rich development of left geography in his urban and economic analysis, as well in introducting the theme of underdevelopment. The left geography decelerates with the crisis of marxism and the rise of new geography. However, shortly after the discrediting of quantitative geography, the global context of revolutionary struggles and the events of May 68 give rise to critical geography. In the french case, we explore the relations between the left geography and the emergence of critical geography, and explaning about United States we tried to demonstrate how some of their new developments came from quantitative geography. Through the althusserian structuralism and his criticals is possible to see the epistemological and institutional transformations in which geographers formerly marginalized begin to integrate the university and enjoy a great cultural capital. However, institutionalization is normalization and deradicalization. The insurgency of postmodernism with the demise internationally marxism makes changes in critical geography setting precedents for increasingly consolidation of post-structuralism in the late 1980s.

Tendo como referência o entendimento de que o ensino da Astronomia, de alguma forma, sempre esteve presente na história da educação básica brasileira, ora como uma disciplina independente, ora compartilhado com os conteúdos de outras disciplinas, é analisado o seu ensino no Brasil do início do século XX a partir de livros didáticos de Cosmografia desse período. Compreendendo o livro didático como uma fonte de estudos privilegiada da história das disciplinas, são analisados nove livros didáticos de Cosmografia dos anos de 1897 a 1933 de diferentes autores. A análise está estruturada em duas etapas: na primeira, são identificados e caracterizados, ao longo do tempo, os conteúdos da Astronomia presentes nos livros. Para isso, utilizou-se as categorias de análise: Observação da superfície da Terra; Fenômenos cíclicos; Sistema Solar; Terra; Atração Gravitacional; Universo; e História e Cultura. A partir da identificação e da categorização dos conteúdos, constatou-se a presença de uma vasta quantidade de temas da Astronomia em cada uma das categorias, principalmente os relativos à Fenômenos cíclicos, Sistema Solar, Atração Gravitacional e Universo. A forte presença de temas ligados à essas categorias indica uma certa continuidade no tempo, além da importância atribuída no ensino desses conteúdos na educação básica daquela época. Por outro lado, temas como métodos de observação dos astros no céu, correções de observação, periodicidade das estrelas no céu, orientação na superfície terrestre e história da Astronomia estão presentes em alguns livros e ausentes em outros, indicando uma não linearidade na evolução temporal no ensino desses conteúdos. Na segunda etapa, é aprofundada a análise dos conteúdos abordados nas categorias presentes em todos os livros didáticos e dela observou-se uma grande ênfase na caracterização de conteúdos como esfera celeste, coordenadas esféricas, instrumentos óticos, movimentos da Terra, dia e noite, estações do ano, fases da Lua, eclipses, constituição e dinâmica do Sistema Solar, forma e dimensões da Terra, estrelas, constelações, nebulosas e modelos cosmogônicos de universo. De suas caracterizações, constatou-se que os conceitos de Astronomia eram desenvolvidos numa perspectiva de se descrever detalhadamente os objetos e os fenômenos que constituíam o universo observável daquela época, o qual restringia-se aos corpos constituintes do Sistema Solar e alguns elementos situados além desse, como, por exemplo, estrelas, nebulosas e constelações. Embora a relação entre as descobertas científicas e os conteúdos didáticos guardasse atualidade, como a presença de Plutão, descoberto em 1930, e o número de satélites dos planetas no estudo do Sistema Solar, foi possível inferir que a visão de universo no período estudado limitava-se a ideia de um universo fechado, finito, esférico e composto pela Via Látea com suas estrelas e nebulosas, ainda que descobertas, como as galáxias, na década de 1920, indicassem um universo muito além da Via Lactea. Os resultados mostram que, no período em estudo, a importância atribuída ao ensino da Astronomia na educação básica era bastante diferente daquela que é atribuída atualmente, haja vista a identificação de uma disciplina específica, a quantidade significativa de livros de Cosmografia de autores brasileiros, bem como a quantidade e o aprofundamento no desenvolvimento dos conteúdos da Astronomia presentes neles. / Based on the understanding that the teaching of Astronomy, somehow has always been present in the history of Brazilian basic education, either as an independent discipline, sometimes shared with other disciplines content, is analyzed their education in Brazil the beginning the twentieth century from textbooks Cosmography that period. Understanding the textbook as a source of privileged study of the history of disciplines, they are analyzed nine textbooks Cosmography the years 1897-1933, by different authors. Our analysis is structured in two stages: first, are identified and characterized, along the time, the Astronomy content present in the books. For this, we used the analysis categories: 1. Earth\'s surface observation; 2. cyclical phenomena; 3. Solar System; 4. Earth; 5. Gravitational attraction; 6. Universe; and 7. History and Culture. From the identification and categorization of content, there was the presence of a vast amount of Astronomy topics in each of the categories, particularly those relating to cyclical phenomena, Solar System, Gravitational Attraction and Universe. The strong presence of topics related to these categories, indicates a certain continuity in time, in addition to the emphasis on education on this topic in basic education of that time. On the other hand, subjects such as methods of observation of the stars in the sky, watching corrections, stars periodicity in the sky, orientation in the Earth\'s surface and history of astronomy are present in some books and absent in others, indicating a non-linearity in the temporal evolution in education on this topic. In the second stage, it is thorough analysis of the content covered in the categories present in all textbooks and it there was a great emphasis on characterization of content such as celestial sphere, spherical coordinates, optical instruments, Earth movement, day and night, seasons of the year, phases of the Moon, eclipses, constitution and dynamics of the Solar System, shape and dimensions of the Earth, stars, constellations, nebulae and cosmogonic universe models. From their characterizations, it was verified that the concepts of astronomy were developed with a perspective of describing in detail the objects and phenomena that constituted the observable universe of that time, which was restricted to the constituent bodies of the Solar System and some elements beyond that, such as stars, nebulae, and constellations. Although the relationship between scientific discoveries and didactic content was current, such as the presence of Pluto discovered in 1930 and the number of satellites of the planets in the study of the Solar System, it was possible to infer that the universe vision in the period studied was limited, If the idea of a closed, finite, spherical universe composed of the Milky Way with its stars and nebulae, although discovered, like the galaxies in the 1920s, indicated a universe far beyond the Milky Way. The results show that, in the period under study, the importance attributed to the teaching of astronomy in basic education was quite different from that currently attributed, given the identification of a specific discipline, the significant amount of Brazilian authors\' Cosmography books, as well as As the quantity and the deepening in the development of the contents of Astronomy present in them.

Thesis advisor: Peter Weiler / This dissertation examines the careers and cultural productions of West Indian artists and entertainers working in London between 1945 and 1965, a period of large-scale West Indian migration to Britain. It argues that these artists espoused a collective cultural politics that was both ethnically aware and actively integrationist. Their work emphasized the historic cultural ties between the "mother country" and the Caribbean colonies, but did so in an effort to challenge prevailing media depictions of New Commonwealth migration as an unwanted foreign deluge. As a result, these migrant artists were among the first to express the potential of Commonwealth multiculturalism in Britain. Unlike many post-war histories of British race relations that emphasize the marginalization of black artists from mainstream culture, this study will show how the first wave of post-war West Indian artists, like Edric and Pearl Connor, Cy Grant, Ronald Moody, and Lloyd and Barry Reckord, sought to reach out to a wider British audience. Although their careers and artistic expressions were shaped - and at times stifled - by British cultural institutions that exercised their own assumptions and priorities, they posed alternatives to racism in a nation painfully coming to terms with its imperial legacy and multicultural future. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2010. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: History.

O objeto de estudo desta dissertação é o surgimento do campo fotográfico profissional paulistano entre 1939 e 1970, fenômeno intimamente ligado à consolidação da sociedade de consumo em São Paulo. Ela tem como objetivo investigar as diferentes forças sociais que atuaram na formação da imagem da metrópole de seus artefatos, edifícios, pessoas e espaços componentes procurando entender por que uma e não outra representação da cidade; por que determinados profissionais e não outros a produziram. O tema foi abordado em três escalas. O primeiro capítulo traz um zoom sobre a atividade de um estúdio fotográfico, o Fotolabor, propriedade dos irmãos Werner e Geraldo Haberkorn. Descreve sua produção, as relações de trabalho, de aprendizado, os clientes e outros aspectos relevantes. O segundo capítulo abre um pouco o foco e tem como tema os fotógrafos de estúdio do período, a relação entre fotografia, publicidade e o desenvolvimento dos meios de comunicação impressos no Brasil. O terceiro amplia o campo de visão, como uma lente grande angular, e traz à cena fotógrafos, comerciantes e importadores de produtos fotográficos, numa visão de conjunto do que se denominou mercado fotográfico. Espera-se, assim, contribuir para uma melhor compreensão do trabalho dos fotógrafos profissionais em São Paulo no século XX. / The subject of this thesis is the rise of the professional photographic field in São Paulo between 1939-1970, understood as a phenomenon that establishes a deep relationship with the consumer societys growth in the city at that time. It aims to investigate the different social forces that led to the conception and creation of the metropolis image its artifacts, buildings, people and spaces trying to understand why that image has been created and why a specific kind of professional produced it (foreign photographers in Brazil). The theme was approached on three levels. The first chapter gives a close up upon the activities of a photography studio, named Fotolabor, owned by the brothers Werner and Geraldo Haberkorn. This first chapter describes its production, its work relationships, the apprenticeship in the studio, its clients and other relevant aspects. The second chapter focuses on and looks at the photographers themselves (their life histories, the way they saw themselves and their colleagues) and at the relationship between photography, advertising and the press development in Brazil. The third chapter extends the field of view, much like a wide angle lens, and brings to the scene photographers, traders and importers of photographic products, an overview of what was called photographic market. It aims, therefore, to contribute to a better understanding of the work of professional photographers in São Paulo in the twentieth century.