Orientador: Regina Helena Pereira Johas / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T02:46:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Guggisberg_Sonia_M.pdf: 11666335 bytes, checksum: 6bfc87a8530c1655436b849a08858897 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: A presente dissertação de mestrado reúne a pesquisa, a reflexão e o registro do Projeto Bolhas Urbanas realizado entre 2006 e 2007.A série Bolhas Urbanas nasceu da necessidade de sair dos espaços internos destinados à arte. Passei a considerar a cidade como um campo possível para realizações e a mapeá-la, identificando as ruínas do início do século como locais para intervenções. Buscando gerar uma relação com as marcas do tempo e do descaso físico e social, os objetos infláveis, passageiros e frágeis, foram instalados portanto em locais históricos e deteriorados. Amorfas e prontas a assumir novas formas, as Bolhas se apresentaram às geografias dos diferentes espaços como elementos vivos. Propondo um olhar sobre o fim do objeto sólido, estável e durável, elas tendiam a se potencializar justamente pela impermanência. / Abstract: This master's thesis brings together the research, reflection and record of Urban Bubbles Project conducted between 2006 and 2007.The series "Bolhas Urbanas" (Urban Bubbles) emerged from my necessity to move outside the indoor spaces conventionally destined for art. I began to look at the city as a possible field upon which I could act, and to chart turn-of-the-century ruins as potential places for my interventions. In an attempt to establish a relationship with marks of time and of physical and social neglect, I installed ephemeral and fragile inflatable objects in decayed historical sites. Therefore, ready as they were to take on new shapes, the amorphous Bubbles presented themselves to the geography of different sites as live organisms. While proposing an inquiry on the end of the solid, stable and durable object, these Bubbles tended to become potent precisely on account of their impermanence. / Mestrado / Artes Plásticas / Mestre em Artes

This research examines the significance of water as it has been used as a subject in the visual arts, with particular concentration on the use of geometry as a means of accessing pictorial possibilities. The study focuses specifically on selected paintings by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), Oscar Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Pat Steir (1940-) including some of Steir's etchings, to further demonstrate her thought processes and techniques. It is argued that the paintings of all three artists, although widely divergent yet include threads of commonality and convergence. All explore the fundamental structure of nature (in this case water) through geometry. In addition, spatial concepts through the use of light and colour are closely intertwined and give rise to metaphysical implications. Turner and Monet broke the bonds of the existing academic composition and style of painting. Their paintings pointed the way for artists of the twentieth century, like Steir to further explore the close relationship between the motif and abstract painting. References to paintings, other than the selected paintings, by these artists will be made in order to illustrate their different approaches yet similar objectives. Finally the relevance of the study to the candidate's own work will be correlated. The dissertation intends to offer a new interpretation of water as a subject in painting, by illuminating and illustrating aspects of the selected paintings by Turner, Monet and Steir. In conclusion, it is anticipated that this discourse will enrich and complement previous interpretations of water, when used as a subject in visual art. It is also envisaged that the study will suggest further research on the subject. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Kwazulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2004.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales de Paris, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-194).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales de Paris, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-194).

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This study investigates how water is depicted in contemporary public art in Sweden, a country surrounded and built by water, and how it reflects in the art. The essay is based on Rosalind Krauss’ sculpture theory and examines how a mythical and vital substance like water is depicted and what its underlaying meaning is in three contemporary public sculptures; Till minnet av en älv (2020) by Anja Örn, Passage (2011) by Katarina Löfström and Hiljainen vesi /Tyst vatten (2019) by Laura Könönen. The study investigates if any mutual patterns can be seen and if so which, and how the relationship between the sculptures and their spatial context can be described based on Rosalyn Deutsches notion assimilative and divisive. Through analyses and comparison of the three sculptures it has emerged that water in all three public artworks stands as a metaphor for something else, here in form of the consequences of hydropower, the impermanence of time and minorities’ feeling of exclusion and community. Over these serious topics lies too a sense of melancholia. A common interest for the nature also appears and mainly because the artists have chosen to depict water even when it symbolizes something else. But the interest in nature also appears when two of the sculptures is made from natural rock and its characteristics. Furthermore, the study indicates that, despite the complexity in defining a public artwork as place-specific or placeless, all three of the sculptures have a connection with the place. The sculptures can therefore perceive as assimilative although to varying degrees and with element of divisive tendencies.