This dissertation offers a new literary history of the tradition of the “sister arts” in England during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While previous scholarship has explored how canonical male poets conceived of their poetry in relation to painting, this project demonstrates that female poets also engaged in various forms of literary pictorialism. By attending to the work of these women writers alongside their male contemporaries, we gain a richer and more complex understanding of how poets evaluated the boundaries between verbal expression and visual composition. In line with my aim to offer a more nuanced historical account of the sister arts by including the contributions of women writers, I also examine the gendered conventions of this tradition. In my first chapter, I contend that poetry written by Anne Killigrew and Anne Finch calls into question common critical assumptions about the power dynamics of ekphrasis (the verbal description of visual art). The second chapter explores how Anna Barbauld, Anna Seward, and Amelia Opie respond to the influential model for verse epistles on the sister arts established by John Dryden and Alexander Pope, which assumes that poets and artists are male while the muses and objects of representation are female. In the third chapter, I argue that concepts derived from visual art animate the elegiac practices of Thomas Gray and Anna Seward, as they explore how acts of gazing can manifest same-sex desire. My final chapter shows how the concept of fancy, represented either as a mental creative process contrasted with imagination or as a personified female figure, comes to be associated with both visual power and femininity. I trace this poetics of fancy from essays by John Locke and Joseph Addison to Pope’s Eloisa to Abelard, the odes of William Collins, the sonnets of Charlotte Smith, and Visions of the Daughters of Albion by William Blake. The qualities that lead some writers to denigrate fancy—its association with femininity rather than masculinity, dreams rather than reality, and temptation or liberation rather than constraint—are precisely the same qualities that lead the major pictorial poets to seek to internalize it. / 2018-08-11T00:00:00Z

Submitted by TALITA GABRIELA ROBLES ESQUIVEL null (esquivel.talita@gmail.com) on 2017-07-24T18:11:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Texturas do estranho - tese - Talita Esquivel.pdf: 8588940 bytes, checksum: ed0471262b3dcf21eb94a2c5a6239800 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luiz Galeffi (luizgaleffi@gmail.com) on 2017-07-26T14:46:29Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 esquivel_tgr_dr_ia.pdf: 8588940 bytes, checksum: ed0471262b3dcf21eb94a2c5a6239800 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-26T14:46:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 esquivel_tgr_dr_ia.pdf: 8588940 bytes, checksum: ed0471262b3dcf21eb94a2c5a6239800 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05-25 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A presente pesquisa de doutorado propõe uma investigação plástica em pintura circundada pelo conceito de unheimlich (estranho) de Sigmund Freud. É realizada em duas partes, produção escrita e plástica, que sofrem influência uma da outra durante os seus processos. O conceito da psicanálise parte aqui das artes plásticas. A intenção foi de vivenciar e conviver com o estranho durante o processo criativo e, dessa forma, compreendê-lo a partir do ponto de vista do processo artístico. Isso não significa necessariamente que será identificado no trabalho final, em sua impressão, pois primeiramente o estranho não está na imagem, mas no próprio indivíduo, é o que causa estranheza particularmente em cada um. Assim, procurei identificar o que seria estranho para mim, uma busca quase impossível, na maioria das vezes, já que o estranho possui um elemento familiar que não pode ser identificado, o que o confunde muitas vezes com o puramente assustador. O conceito e fenômeno do estranho, em diversos momentos, também se confundiram durante o processo de pesquisa, por ter sido possível percebê-lo sem senti-lo. Buscaram-se analogias e outras formas de se distinguir o estranho do assustador, em outros caráteres e impressões que se aproximem do estranho, mas o que parece ser seu principal caráter é justamente a impossibilidade de descrição, de reconhecimento e de entendimento. São utilizados textos de Freud e de outros autores relacionados ao estranho e às artes, buscando construir ferramentas de apoio para refletir sobre o meu próprio processo artístico. / My PhD research proposes an artistic investigation in painting surrounded by Sigmund Freud's concept of unheimlich (uncanny). It is conducted in two parts, the writing and the art production, which are influencing each other during their processes. The psychoanalytic concept starts here from the visual art. The intention was to experience and live together with the uncanny throughout the creative process and, this way, understand it from the point of view of the artistic process. That not necessarily means it can be identified in the final work, in its impression, also because, at first, the uncanny is not in the image, but inside the viewer, it is what causes the uncanniness, or strangeness, particularly in each one. Thus, I tried to identify what would be uncanny to me, a search, which is almost impossible most of the time, as the uncanny has the familiar element that is not recognizable, which often confuses it with what is purely terrifying. The uncanny concept and phenomenon also got confused during the research process, as it was possible to perceive it without feeling it. It was sought analogies and other forms of distinguishing the uncanny and the terrifying, in other characters and impressions which get close to the uncanny, however, what seems to be its main character is exactly the impossibility of description, recognition, understanding. It is used texts written by Freud and other authors related to the uncanny and to the art, seeking to build tools to make a reflection about my own artistic process.

The subject of diploma paper was anallysis of perception children and youth related to visual art. In the first chapter of theoretic part diploma paper I explain definitions related to the subject, i.e. that is fine art, aesthetics, culture, kitsch and relation of this species to the human being. In next chapters I acte problems, definition, delimitation of the odd time and I explain possibilities of transmission visual art to children and young people. The theoretic part of diploma paper is dedicated to possibilities of confrontation children and youth people with the visual art through various cultural institutions. This part of diploma paper is ended with basic dividing of spare-time activitity organizations. The practical part of diploma paper is dedicated to visual art project {\clq}qWho knows Piaristic square``, {\clq}qConversation`` and {\clq}qEntities in the nature``. Visual art expression of subjective experience evoked by visual perception of concrete image is the aim of this project. The project is intended for the children and youth in age between 8 and 24 years. I confront by means of projects both various components of visual art (painting, sculpture and architecture) and various movement epoch (gothic style, baroque and modern style). I wanted find the way how to transmit visual art to children and youth enjoyable, educational with aesthetic value. The end of the diploma paper summaries pieces of knowledge and perceptions from the visual art courses and projects.

O presente trabalho lança luz sobre a trajetória de Lygia Pape (1927-2004), artista experimental que atuou em diversas linguagens e suportes. Pautando a análise de sua produção pela relação com o contexto urbano no qual se inseria, enfocamos três momentos e conjuntos de obras: o primeiro, parte do amplo \"projeto cultural moderno\", inclui as obras concretas e neoconcretas, como as xilogravuras \"Tecelares\" (1955-1959), o roteiro para um filme sobre Brasília (1959), o \"Livro da criação\" (1959) e \"Balés neoconcretos\" (1958-1959); o segundo, de crise do anterior conceito de projeto, contempla as obras participativas como \"Ovo\" (1968), \"Divisor\" (1968) e \"Roda dos prazeres\" (1968) e o terceiro, cronologicamente mais recente, no qual Lygia, menos propositora e mais crítica, evidencia características de uma cidade já permeada por outros discursos e práticas culturais, analisa obras como o projeto \"Eat me: a gula ou a luxúria?\" (1976) e os filmes \"Wampirou\" (1974) e \"Carnival in Rio\" (1974). / This work analyses the trajectory of Lygia Pape (1927-2004), experimental artist who worked in several languages and media. By the analysis of her production in relation with the urban context she was inserted, we focus three moments and piece sets: the first, part of the wide \"modern cultural project\" includes concrete and neoconcrete pieces, like the wood cut \"Tecelares\" (1955-1959), the script for a movie about Brasília (1959), the \"Livro da criação\" (1959) e \"Balés neoconcretos\" (1958-1959); the second, on the crisis of the previous project concept, embraces the participative pieces like \"Ovo\" (1968), \"Divisor\" (1968) and \"Roda dos prazeres\" (1968) and the third, chronologically most recent, in which Lygia, in a more critical way, brings to evidence characteristics of a city relating it to other discourses and cultural practices, analyses pieces like her project \"Eat me: a gula ou a luxúria?\" (1976) and the movies \"Wampirou\" (1974) and \"Carnival in Rio\" (1974).

Introduite et parallèlement travaillée par la pratique artistique de l’auteur, cette thèse d'arts plastiques se propose d’étudier les figures de la boucle dans l'art contemporain. Progression curviligne, forme autogénérée, répétition, réciprocité et rétroaction, la boucle est examinée ici sous la question du montage, des échanges et récits critiques qu’elle engage. Questionnant les intentions qui président à l’élaboration de la boucle et des rouages qui en gouvernent la structure, cette étude se rapporte à l’art d’aujourd’hui. De la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle au début du XXIe siècle, cette période est miseen perspective avec diverses incursions opérées dans l’histoire de l’art. La philosophie des Lumières, la révolution industrielle, la modernité et la postmodernité jalonnent ce parcours. Ces allers et retours sont propices aux trois pistes d’investigation – typologies, temporalités et espaces − retenues pour l’ossature de cette thèse. Sous l’observation attentive des objets et appareils qui s’y inscrivent en repères, ceinture, cerceau, ruban, pellicule, bobine, corde, ou carrousel, cette recherche informe la boucle via les médiums de la vidéo, du cinéma, de la peinture, de l’installation et de la performance.Son corpus artistique, par le dialogue d’oeuvres contemporaines (Francis Alÿs, Shilpa Gupta, Rodney Graham, Roman Ondák, Dan Graham, Ryan Gander, Harun Farocki, Simon Starling) et d’oeuvres qui les précèdent (Giotto, Gustave Courbet, Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, Buster Keaton, Alfred Hitchcock) permet d’analyser selon quelles modalités les figures de la boucle s’apparentent à depoétiques arrangements. / This thesis in visual arts, inspired by and worked upon through the author’s own artistic practices, proposes a study of the loop in contemporary art. With its curvilinear progression, its selfgenerating form, its repetition, reciprocity and feedback, the loop is examined through the question of its montage, through the exchange and critical narrative that it initiates. This study relates to the art of today, questioning the intentions which direct the elaboration of the loop and the mechanisms which govern its structure. We put the period, from the second half of the 20th century to the start of the 21st, into perspective with several forays into art history. The philosophy of the Enlightenment, the industrial revolution, modernity and post-modernity all punctuate this exploration. This back and forth guides our investigation into three key themes: typology, temporality and space, which, in turn, act as the backbone of this thesis. Acting as markers, an attentive observation of the following objectsand equipment: belt, hoop, band, film, reel, rope or carousel, this study informs the loop via the media of video, cinema, painting, installation and performance. The artistic corpus, by way of the creation of a dialogue between contemporary works (Francis Alÿs, Shilpa Gupta, Rodney Graham, Roman Ondák, Dan Graham, Ryan Gander, Harun Farocki, Simon Starling) and those which preceded them (Giotto, Gustave Courbet, Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, Buster Keaton, AlfredHitchcock), allows us to analyse according to what methods the loop amounts to a poetic arrangement.

Geography’s engagement with art has a long and varied history which, consistent with broader disciplinary developments, has progressed beyond a focus on the representational content of art products to consideration of artistic practices and experiences. However, persistent tendencies to consider artist, artwork and artistic spatiality as distinct and essential render the ‘geography of art’ under-equipped to address the emergence through artistic practice of particular, contingent, mutable and excessive spatialities and subjectivities. With its emphases on practice, affect and experimentalism, I draw on geographical and psychological non-representational thinking – philosophically, methodologically and analytically – to generate an account of such emergent spatialities and subjectivities. I explore artistic, material and implicit means through which they emerge, from within artistic practice, on both an experimental and auto-ethnographic basis. Working alongside participating artists, I varied the spatial and material conditions of our respective practices to encourage participants to do, think about and articulate their artistic practices differently, and employed interview techniques intended to facilitate access to and articulation from implicit or pre-reflective understanding. Four substantive papers consider different aspects of artistic practice in the context of different theoretical literatures. Through these papers, I argue that artistic practice is a form a mythological thinking without explicit mythic content, and identify paired reciprocal processes of interrogation through which spatialities and subjectivities emerge. I propose that the combination of experimentalism and particular material affects within artistic practice sustains a skills-challenge imbalance, which drives further experimentation and generates increasingly individualized practices. I also argue that artistic practice provides both access to and articulation from implicit understanding, allowing the conveyance of implicit meaning both on its own artistic terms and by facilitating explication into linguistic form. I conclude that, collectively, these varied aspects of artistic practice constitute interpenetrative processes whereby the material and implicit function as one, and that by attending to these processes through the creative and analytical means introduced here, geography’s capacity for a non-representational understanding of artistic practice is greatly enhanced.

Essay concerning some of the methods used in my artistic practice. With starting point in art as a tool for communication I explain how I in the making process divide all works into their content (what is being said) and their package (how it's said). This is discussed in relationship to Nicolas Bourriad's "Postproduction" and Kenneth Goldsmith's "Uncreative writing".

‘Metsän väki - Forest Dwellers’ was my Professional Integration Project (PIP). The project consisted of creating a performance titled ‘Metsän väki’, which was performed on May 9th 2016 in Helsinki, Finland and of writing this thesis. The performance was a collaboration between different artists and it involved music, visual art, dance and performance art. The starting point for creating the performance was my collaboration with sculptor and environmental artist Jenni Tieaho. In addition to traditional instruments, sounding objects were used in creating the music. There were both written and improvised music as well as improvised dance in the performance. The performance took place in a former psychiatric hospital. In the outcomes and conclusion I present my expectations for the performance and describe how those where met. I also examine the role of cross-artistic collaboration in the project. I give examples of my own artistic development as well as my development as a project leader. I also reflect on the relevance of the project to the community. The outcomes are presented through my own reflections and through discussion where I point to literature concerning the differences and similarities between different art forms. The outcomes of the project include audience feedback from the performance. This is presented in the appendices. My conclusion shows that I was also able to create a rich and diverse performance by using simple (low-tech) methods. The performance was inspired by my experiences, interests and background. In my thesis I also show how creating and structuring the ‘Metsän väki’ performance can help me to develop as an artist doing cross-artistic collaboration. / Professional Integration Project

No abstract available / Dissertation (MA(Fine Arts))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Visual Arts / unrestricted

Initiée par la pratique artistique de l’auteur, cette thèse a pour premier objectif de saisir les qualités plastiques et esthétiques de l’aquarium, tant sous sa forme domestique et individuelle qu’à l’échelle des scénographies d’établissements publics. Le second est de déterminer ses rapports avec le monde subaquatique naturel, et son influence potentielle sur notre manière de percevoir ce milieu si particulier. Directement hérité du XIXe siècle, et pour ainsi dire ignoré de la recherche en dehors de l’aquariophilie, ce dispositif d’exposition se distingue par son ambiguïté. Il oscille constamment entre science, décoration et spectacle tout en prenant une infinité de formes, chacune engageant le spectateur de manière différente. Puisant des exemples dans les champs de l’art contemporain, de l’histoire de l’art, de la littérature comme des sciences naturelles, et impliquant constamment le travail plastique de l’auteur, la thèse s’organise en trois parties. À l’issue d’une approche historique, l’aquarium est d’abord défini comme dispositif écranique tenant à la fois du tableau et de la scène de théâtre avant d’apparaître dans un deuxième temps, au vu des éléments qui le composent, comme un jardin miniature. Loin de reproduire avec fidélité un site naturel donné, l’aquarium relève du domaine de l’art et de la création, héritant du maniérisme de la Renaissance, du courant pittoresque du XVIIIe siècle comme des jardins d’Extrême-Orient. Sans évolution marquante depuis son invention, le paysage dans l’aquarium apparaît enfin dans sa dimension nostalgique, grottes, ruines et autres fabriques renvoyant autant aux apocalypses légendaires qu’aux risques écologiques actuels. / Initiated with the author’s own artistic work, the first purpose of this thesis is to point out the plastic and aesthetic properties of the aquarium, in its household and unique form as much as in the scale of the scenographies used by the public aquariums. The second objective is to determine its connections with the natural state of the subaquatic world, and its influence over our way of perceiving this unique environment. Directly inherited from the XIXth century, and essentially ignored by the academic world, this exhibition device is characterized by its ambiguity. It constantly fluctuates between science, decoration and entertainment, while taking an infinite variety of forms, each one involving the spectator in a different way. Using examples in the fields of art, art history, literature, and natural sciences, but constantly linked to the author’s artistic work, this thesis is organized in three parts. After a brief historical approach of the aquarium, it is first defined as a display, a screen generating pictures, based on the model of the painting and the theater stage, and it appears then, considering its components, to be a miniature garden. Far from an accurate reproduction of a natural site, the aquarium falls under the field of art and creation, perpetuating the Mannerism of the Cinquecento, the theory of the picturesque developed in the XVIIIth century, or Chinese and Japanese traditional gardens. Without any major change since its invention, the land- or aquascape inside the aquarium finally projects a nostalgic piece of scenery - the ruins, grottoes and other follies referring to both legendary apocalypses and the current ecological peril.