Mémoire (M.A.)-- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1994. / Cette communication a été réalisée à l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi dans le cadre du programme de maîtrise en arts plastiques de l'Université du Québec à Montréal extensionné à l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. CaQCU Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

A presente investigação examina a atuação de duas instituições museológicas paulistas o MASP e o MAC USP enfocando os pensamentos e práticas de seus dirigentes Pietro Maria e Lina Bo Bardi e Walter Zanini especialmente entre fins da década de 1960 e início da década de 1970. Através do estudo de textos desses diretores e de exposições por eles concebidas junto a essas instituições busca-se entender como suas concepções de arte e museu foram colocadas em prática. O frutífero histórico de ações e reflexões que envolveram as atuações do casal Bardi no MASP e de Zanini no MAC USP compuseram nessas instituições ambientes condizentes com a ideia de museu entendido como espaço vivo e atento à manutenção do diálogo com as suas funções sociais e com a dinâmica do meio no qual está inserido. / This research examines the performance of two museological institutions in São Paulo MASP and MAC USP focusing on the thoughts and practices of their directors Pietro Maria and Lina Bo Bardi and Walter Zanini especially between the late 1960s and the early 1970s. Through the study of these directors texts and exhibitions designed by them in these institutions we seek to understand how their conceptions of art and museum were put into practice. The fruitful historic of actions and reflections involving the actings of the couple Bardi in MASP and Zanini in MAC USP composed in these institutions environments harmonized with the idea of the museum understood as living space and attentive to the maintenance of the dialogue with its social functions and with the dynamics of the environment in which it is inserted.

Orientador: Nelson Alfredo Aguilar / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T12:42:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lima_AnaPaulaFelicissimodeCamargo_D.pdf: 29444371 bytes, checksum: fe6d2ee891889f9463914ef722e9cf4e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Durante os anos de 1960 e 1970, os festivais Fluxus promoveram a indissociação entre arte e vida, por meio de proposições apoiadas no cotidiano, possíveis de serem realizadas por qualquer pessoa. Esta produção - valorizando o processo, a participação do público e a desmaterialização do objeto artístico questionava os sistemas discursivos e legitimadores da arte, dentre eles o museu e o mercado. Os objetos, textos, imagens e depoimentos resultantes destes atos Fluxus tornaram-se, contudo, memória e registro de r:ais proposições, que foram postos, a partir da década de 1980, no âmbito institucionalizado das coleções e museus de arte dos quais se tornaram reféns de procedimentos museológicos tradicionais, submetidos as categorias e padrões herdeiros das Belas Artes, afastando-se de seu pulsar original, da 'liberdade de estar num curso de água almejada no próprio nome desse coletivo internacional. Abordando sua música, seus eventos e sua (auto)poiesis, nossa tese focaliza as coleções e exposições Fluxus para analisar criticamente a premência de uma produção em processo, cujas ideias-matrizes potencializam a germinação contínua entre acervo, público e instituições: museus em fluxus / Abstract: During the 1960s and 1970s, the Fluxus' festivals promoted Art and Life through proposals supported in daily activities made by everyone. Their production, which valued the process through open participation of the public and art object dematerialization, criticized the cultural systems and art legitimizers, as well as the market and institutions. Therefore, objects, texts, pictures and statements resulted from these Fluxus...Note: The complete abstract is available with the full electronic digital thesis or dissertations. / Doutorado / Historia da Arte / Doutor em História

This dissertation traces the history of a diagram. The diagram shows four circles of gradually diminishing sizes, lodged one inside the other, like the layers of a circular or spherical body. For a group of artists, curators, architects, and activists centered around Moderna Museet in Stockholm between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s, the diagram represented a new type of museum: a museological Information Center modeled on the computer, operating as a site for radically democratic social experiments. The four layers stood for different functions: information capture, processing, interface, storage; or, put differently: social spaces and media resources, workshop floors, exhibition facilities, collection. Through close readings of a series of exhibitions and institutional projects in Sweden, the US, and France, this dissertation follows the development of this diagram: its prehistory and formulation, its different implementations, and its direct and indirect effects. It studies Moderna Museet’s original, unrealized project for Kulturhuset in Stockholm, according to which the museum should project its dynamic energies across the city center, serving as a “catalyst for the active forces in society”. It discusses the museum’s confrontation with digital technologies in the late 1960s, through pioneering museological organizations such as the Museum Computer Network in New York. It analyzes the exhibition formats developed in correspondence with the notion of the museum as a “vast experimental laboratory” and a “broadcasting station”: the exhibition as critical information pattern, as tele-commune. And it studies the diagram’s afterlife as one of the models informing the Centre Pompidou in Paris, during that project’s early phases. The Exhibitionary Complex reads these endeavors and visions as attempts to devise a critical understanding of the exhibitionary apparatus in relation to new information environments and media systems. It sheds light on a largely forgotten aspect of the exhibitionary, museological, and cultural history of the late twentieth century, in Sweden and internationally. But it also seeks to establish new models for grasping the exhibition’s singularity and potentials as a cultural and media technological form, in relation to the emergence of new information networks, as they exert increasing control over social, cultural, and political existence. / Space, Power, Ideology

A Research report submitted in partial fulfilment of the Degree Masters in History of Arts at the University of Witwatersrand, 2017 / This research report has followed three periods in the history of the political struggle for freedom in South Africa, from the height of the Anti-apartheid struggle in the 1980s to the present day by way of exploring three exhibitions of resistance posters as case studies. It is located in the realm of political and art history. Looking at the positioning of the resistance poster in South African art history, the intension is to highlight how these exhibitions have used display strategies to construct values reflected in the resistance poster. The three selected exhibitions are as follows: firstly, Thami Mnyele and Medu Art Ensemble Retrospective (2008), Second is the exhibition Images of Defiance: South African poster of the 1980’s (2004). And the third exhibition Interruptions: Posters from the Community Arts Project Archive (2014). / XL2018

Na tese é averiguado o estatuto do fato artístico em exposições na atualidade, mediante a investigação de sua recepção em exibições nacionais e internacionais de arte brasileira. Fundamenta-se em textos relativos às mostras, observados à luz do multiculturalismo, de vertentes da filosofia contemporânea e das demandas por reconhecimento nas sociedades atuais. Está dividida em quatro partes, onde são examinadas as tendências da arte nacional de vanguarda nas mostras dos anos 1960, a fim de entender, por intermédio do conceito de performação, como procedimentos transferem-se do objeto artístico às exposições; averigua-se então como as tendências performam nas narrativas expositivas nos anos 1980; na seguinte são identificadas mostras dirigidas à proposição discursiva, conceituadas pela pesquisa como exposições proposicionais defrontadas a outros projetos expositivos; por fim dialoga com a produção universitária concernente ao assunto abordado. / This thesis examines the status of the artistic fact in contemporary exhibitions, through the investigation of its reception in national and international Brazilian art exhibitions. It is founded on texts concerning expositions in light of multiculturalism, some aspects of contemporary philosophy and demands of recognition in contemporary societies. It is divided into four parts: where the tendencies of national avant-garde art exhibitions of the 1960s are examined, in order to understand how procedures were transferred from the artistic object to the exhibitions, through the concept of performação; it is then ascertained how tendencies perform in the expository narratives in the 1980s; then exhibitions towards the discursive proposition are identified and conceptualized by the research as propositional expositions in face of other expositive projects; finally, it dialogues with university production concerning the subject matter.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:42:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rita de Cassia Demarchi.pdf: 6041347 bytes, checksum: cee4d6e458be14e5e95ef700807dc145 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-24 / Theoretical reflections and images/photographies approach in this research the complex domain which involves the visitors and art exhibition museums in Brazil and abroad. Based on research methodologies in Arts (Róldan & Marin-Viadel, 2012), single images or compound as photoshoots are considered a mode of knowledge and foster studies and reflections. Apart from the dialogue among images, the experience lived and the thought of scholars from different areas, the lightness of poetry and metaphors is also included in this work as well as reflections from contemporary art and Art history. Some issues concerning the contemporary scenario which can impede the meeting between the individual and art are discussed, such as excess, spect cle, consumerism, speed, tourism. These issues constitute what was named as penumbra and nourish the attitudes of the fugitive subject visitors. There must be both for the visitor and the researcher an openness for the aesthetical experience, land of the pilgrim, in order to unveil penumbra, ambivalence, maze and twilight. This openness inspires the research as a path of pilgrimage in order to search for the understanding of the complexity of phenomena and the poetic work of capturing the images shots at the exhibitions. This research of phenomenological nature adopts the theoretical framework of authors who reflect upon contemporaneity, such as Calabrese (1988), Bauman (2001); as well as authors who value sensibility and experience, such as Bachelard (1988), Dewey(2010), Merleau-Ponty(1975), Ferreira Santos (2005), Maffesoli (1998). / Reflexões teóricas e imagens/ fotografias abordam nesta pesquisa o complexo território que envolve os visitantes e os museus de exposições de arte, no Brasil e no exterior. Com base nas metodologias de pesquisa em arte (Róldan & Marin-Viadel, 2012), imagens individuais ou compostas como foto-ensaios são consideradas uma forma de conhecimento e impulsionam o estudo e a reflexão. Além do diálogo entre as imagens, a experiência vivida e o pensamento de estudiosos de diferentes áreas, inclui-se a leveza da poesia e das metáforas, além de reflexões derivadas da arte contemporânea e da história da arte. São discutidas algumas questões acerca da paisagem contemporânea que podem dificultar o encontro do sujeito com a arte, tais como o excesso, o espetáculo, o consumo, a velocidade, o turismo, que constituem o que foi nomeado de penumbra e alimentam as atitudes dos visitantes sujeitos fugidios. Tanto para o visitante, quanto para a pesquisadora, a fim de desvelar em meio à penumbra e as ambivalências, ao labirinto e ao crepúsculo, há que se ter a abertura para a experiência estética, terreno do peregrino. Abertura que inspira a pesquisa como uma trajetória de peregrinação em busca de compreensão da complexidade dos fenômenos e o trabalho poético de captura das imagens - flagrantes nas exposições. A pesquisa de cunho fenomenológico adota como referencial teórico autores que abordam reflexões sobre a contemporaneidade tais como: Calabrese (1988), Bauman (2001); e autores que valorizam a sensibilidade e a experiência, entre eles: Bachelard (1988), Dewey(2010), Merleau-Ponty(1975), Ferreira Santos (2005), Maffesoli (1998).

Cette étude a analysé la présence des sculpteurs italiens à Paris du début du XX siècle à la fin des années Trente, afin de reconstituer un chapitre important de l'histoire des échanges artistiques en France. Nous nous sommes servis d'une méthode historique et philologique, qui a bien été appliquée aux écrits critiques et à la presse de l'époque. Pour ce qui concerne le début du siècle, nous avons remarqué une participation considérable de la part des italiens aux principaux événements expositifs de la capitale comme les Salons officiels; le succès de public et commercial leur avait permis d'obtenir une place parmi les artistes à la mode les plus connus. Pendant les années Vingt, nous avons constaté un nombre moins significatif de sculpteurs; nous avons lu ce fait en nous rapportant à la situation historique italienne, qui en ce temps subissait des importants changements dus à l'ascension du régime fasciste. Les italiens qui étaient encore présents en France après la Guerre ne s'inséraient guère dans le cadre des nouvelles recherches artistiques italiennes, ils poursuivaient, au contraire, des orientations esthétiques plutôt dépassées. La dernière partie de notre étude s'est intéressée à l'essor du nouveau langage artistique de la péninsule italienne qui pendant les années Trente se répandit enfin même à l'étranger. Les sculpteurs italiens pouvaient donc participer activement à la vie expositive parisienne, tout en montrant le visage d'une plastique qui avait enfin pris conscience de ses potentialités. La France de sa part accueillait volontiers ces expérimentations, dans le but d'instituer une relation d'amitié durable avec le pays voisin. / This study has analyzed the presence of Italian sculptors in Paris from the beginning of the 20th Century to the end of the third decade, with the aim of reconstructing an important chapter of the history of artistic exchanges between Italy and France. We have favored an historical-philological method, based on critical publications and old French and Italian press.Concerning the beginning of the century, we have remarked a considerable participation of Italians in the main expositions in the French capital, such as official Salons; critical and market success allowed them to get a main role in the crew of the most popular artists.During the twenties, we have noted a less considerable participation of Italian sculptors; we have interpreted it in relation to historical context of fascist Italy, where the government was trying to develop a national cultural program. The Italian artists in France, after the First World War, didn't share the new Italian artistic orientation; they went on with outdated aesthetic choices.The last part of our research was interested in the development of the new Italian artistic language, finally known out of Italy. The Italian sculptors consequently could take part in arts activity in Paris, showing the face of a new sculpture, finally aware of its potentialities. France gave these experimentations a good welcome in the aim of constituting a longtime friendship with the Italian country.

Na tese é averiguado o estatuto do fato artístico em exposições na atualidade, mediante a investigação de sua recepção em exibições nacionais e internacionais de arte brasileira. Fundamenta-se em textos relativos às mostras, observados à luz do multiculturalismo, de vertentes da filosofia contemporânea e das demandas por reconhecimento nas sociedades atuais. Está dividida em quatro partes, onde são examinadas as tendências da arte nacional de vanguarda nas mostras dos anos 1960, a fim de entender, por intermédio do conceito de performação, como procedimentos transferem-se do objeto artístico às exposições; averigua-se então como as tendências performam nas narrativas expositivas nos anos 1980; na seguinte são identificadas mostras dirigidas à proposição discursiva, conceituadas pela pesquisa como exposições proposicionais defrontadas a outros projetos expositivos; por fim dialoga com a produção universitária concernente ao assunto abordado. / This thesis examines the status of the artistic fact in contemporary exhibitions, through the investigation of its reception in national and international Brazilian art exhibitions. It is founded on texts concerning expositions in light of multiculturalism, some aspects of contemporary philosophy and demands of recognition in contemporary societies. It is divided into four parts: where the tendencies of national avant-garde art exhibitions of the 1960s are examined, in order to understand how procedures were transferred from the artistic object to the exhibitions, through the concept of performação; it is then ascertained how tendencies perform in the expository narratives in the 1980s; then exhibitions towards the discursive proposition are identified and conceptualized by the research as propositional expositions in face of other expositive projects; finally, it dialogues with university production concerning the subject matter.

M. Tech. (Department of Visual Arts and Design: Fine Arts, Faculty of Human Sciences), Vaal University of Technology. / Problem statement This study investigates black women’s diverse hairstyles through art. The main research question is: How can black women’s diverse hairstyles be understood through art to appreciate the meaning attached to these hairstyles? The research question is informed by a black feminist theory. Objectives of the study Based on the research problem, the objectives of the study were first, to find out how black women’s diverse hairstyles could be understood through art to appreciate the meanings attached to these hairstyles. Secondly, to examine similarities and/or differences between how Lebohang Motaung (hereinafter referred to as Motaung) and Lorna Simpson (hereinafter referred to as Simpson) construct and express meanings of diverse hairstyles in their artworks. This was done by means of analysing the two artists’ artworks. Thirdly, to find out what or who influences Motaung’s choice of hairstyles, which was done by conducting an in-depth individual interview with Motaung. Fourthly, to find out what or who influences Simpson’s choice of hairstyles, which was done by reviewing the literature on Simpson. Fifthly, to explore how Motaung and Simpson interpret their physical appearance based on their hairstyles. Research design and methodology The empirical investigation focused on analysing black women’s diverse hairstyles by means of analysing artworks of Motaung (black South African female artist) and Simpson (black American female artist). This study contextualises black women’s artworks as visual responses to patriarchal, social subjugation and objectification of black women’s hair, by using black feminist epistemology through artistic production. Data collected through visual material were analysed using Barnet’s (2011:37-38) critical analysis of artefacts strategy. Barnet’s steps of critical analysis include description of the artefact, interpretation of the artefact, analysis of the artefact and personal report. The analysis of the artworks enabled the researcher to compare and contrast the artworks of the two selected participants. The researcher first analysed the black South African contemporary female artist, Motaung’s (b.1992), work as a visual form of resistance to masculine control of images of black women’s hairstyle representations and self-definition. The researcher believes that Motaung creates self-defined artworks that appreciate the beauty of black women’s hair and she demystifies the ambiguous meaning attached to black hairstyles. Secondly, Simpson’s (b.1960) artworks were analysed in the study to understand what or who influences her choice of hairstyles. The researcher found it appropriate, for her study, to focus on Simpson, because she is a prominent contemporary black American feminist artist, who explores the concept of black hairstyles, focusing on themes such as race, gender and identity formation. Furthermore, one in-depth, individual interview was conducted with Motaung. The analysis was based on black feminism that enabled the researcher to listen to Motaung’s views and be part of her portrayal of black women’s diverse hairstyles. The qualitative data collection and methodology were guided by ethical considerations of the Vaal University of Technology for undertaking research. Ethical procedures were followed regarding selected participants for both artwork analysis and the interview. Five themes emerged from this analysis, namely Motaung’s personal background, black hair politics, conceptual work, choice of medium and working process, art influencers and artwork clarification. Black women’s diverse hairstyles In contemporary times, black women’s hairstyle representations are highly politicised as black people strive to reclaim their identities. The changing meaning of what is good hair for black women is highly controversial; some black women consider natural hairstyles as good and authentic hair for black women, because they embrace the Afrocentric beauty standard that was degraded by whites since the colonial era. On the other hand, other black women are comfortable with altered hair that is viewed as a European beauty standard, because altered hair has become part of black women’s culture and identity. The literature review suggests that historically, narrow European-centric beauty standards have deemed black women’s natural features as unattractive and unprofessional, especially their textured, curly to kinky hair. These restrictive ideals have left black women in a compromised position, having to adhere to certain societal norms for the sake of upward mobility, whether that is getting ahead professionally or fitting into a myriad of social environments in which they can be accepted. Main findings From the literature review, the study found that there are controversial viewpoints regarding what is or is not suitable for black women in terms of their hairstyles. The controversy led to black women’s hairstyles being discussed constantly in binary opposition of good/ bad hair, natural/ unnatural, Afro-centric/ Eurocentric, authentic/ inauthentic, African/ Western, low/ high self-esteem, amongst others. The literature further indicates that there is a need to conduct a study that embraces diverse (both natural and unnatural) hairstyles to get rid of the politics, oppressions and binary oppositions placed on black women’s hairstyles. From the analysis of the two artists, Simpson’s works were found suitable for this study because her body of work links with that of Motaung’s, in terms of concept, style, theory, content and technique, despite the fact that these artists are located in different geographical contexts and settings. From the individual interview, the study found that Motaung was prompted by black hair politics, such as the politics of exclusion of black hairstyles, such as afros and braids in educational institutions and work places. Such politics inspired her to create artworks on black women’s diverse hairstyles. Motaung focused on natural hairstyles because she wanted black women to see what they can do with their natural hair. By using natural hairstyles, Motaung wanted to challenge the misconception that natural hair is not beautiful. The study also found that Motaung focused on unnatural hairstyles because there is bias against black women who wear synthetic hair. Motaung created artworks using synthetic hair to make a bold statement that synthetic hair is not fake hair but rather extra hair, which black women can use to self-express and self-define. Recommendations ● The study recommends that self-definition is a black feminist strategy that black women can use to self-insert and self-represent using diverse hairstyles. The act of insisting on black women’s self-definition validates black women’s power as human subjects, against structural patriarchal forces and beauty standards that are continuously set for black women. ● The study recommends that it is significant for black women to embrace diverse hairstyles, to get rid of the politics, oppressions and binary oppositions placed on black women’s hairstyles. ● From the artworks of Motaung and Simpson, the study recommends that it is significant for black female artists to produce artworks on diverse hairstyles to diminish oppressive structures that are placed on black women’s hairstyle representations.