Orientador: Haroldo Gallo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T09:44:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ciommo_IrisDi_M.pdf: 66739262 bytes, checksum: 4bb13dc79c986c252c55aee4a90802c6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Nesta pesquisa estudo e analiso alguns exemplares de livros de artista dos artistas plásticos Luise Weiss e Feres Khoury. Para tanto, a pesquisa detém-se, inicialmente, no estudo da evolução do objeto livro, arquetípico e tracional e as transformações ocorridas em sua forma e na concepção da página - seu elemento primordial - decorrentes do uso de materiais e tecnologias diversas; para depois buscar algumas definições contemporâneas sobre "livro de artista". A intenção destes estudos foi a absorção e apropriação das características fundamentais do livro: objeto portável que reune folhas presas à uma capa, característica esta que induz a um sistema de leitura próprio e as possíveis transgressões e inovações que o livro de artista pode propor ao "pensar" sobre o objeto. Essa pesquisa permitiu a análise dos exemplares escolhidos e sua relação com a manutenção ou não das características fundamentais do objeto livro / Abstract: In this research I study and analyze some examples of artist books by artists Luise Weiss and Feres Khoury. Therefore, the research holds up, initially to study the evolution of the book object, archetypal and traditional and the changes occurring in its form and design the page - its primordial element - from the use of different materials and technologies; and then seek some contemporary definitions of "artist book". The intent of these studies was the absorption and appropriation of the fundamental features of the book: portable object that gathers pages attached to the cover, a characteristic that induces a proper system of reading and possible transgressions and innovations that the artist¿s book may propose to "thinking" about the object. This study allowed the analysis of selected specimens and its relation to the maintenance or not of the fundamental characteristics of the object book / Mestrado / Artes Visuais / Mestra em Artes Visuais

This study sets out to examine the complicated relationship between artists’ books and libraries. Using interviews with both librarians and museum personnel to collect empirical data the study tries to find answers on how this relationship could be understood. It sets out to explore how these institutions can comprehend the complicated notion of the concept that constitutes artists’ books. A material that has intrinsic dualities as it is both works of visual art and publications. Ideas around digitalization, exhibiting practices, accessibility, preservation, and knowledge organization are discussed out of their relevance and influence on the library/artists’ books relationship. Further the study research if it´s possible to define what constitutes an artists’ book, alternative terminologies and the institutional ambivalence connected to these kinds of work. To analyze the empirical data the study makes use of ideas and theories on how to understand the notion of genre and Nelson Goodman’s thoughts about allography and autography and their possible usefulness and relevance connected to artists’ books. The study ends with a discussion rather than firm conclusions. This discussion evolves around the possible advantages of a polyphonic understanding of what an artists’ book is among GLAM- institutions and how these institutions’ different missions affect the understanding and handling of artists’ books. Further the study put forward the possible benefits of developing joint platforms for digitalization and how this could improve the individual institutions’ capacity in their handling and understanding of artists’ books.

Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbsoch University, 2012

Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University , 2002. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is concerned with a study of the two basic elements of communication, namely image and text. How these basic communication tools function in the genre of the visual narrative with regard to their roles in the comic strip and the artist's book, will be examined. Both genres, the comic book and the artist's book, consist of complex structures regarding their workings in the framework of the visual narrative, and this work explores these complexities by analysing how image and text function in the visual narrative. The area of semiotics is used as a basis on which the arguments in this thesis are built. The principles contained in semiotics act as useful guidelines in the reading and understanding of communication in general, but in this study these principles give focus and structure to the research of especially the comic strip and the artist's book. Concepts that are discussed in depth include the interesting interactions which occur between image and text when they are used together. Signs, icons, symbols and how they function with (or without) text, are also examined. Text can also function as image, and this visualisation of text is explored. The role of concepts like interpretation, perception, the study of images and image-association, are all very important in the visual communicator's eventual success with his/her communication. How these concepts influence the creation and forming of one's visual intelligence and visual literacy, and the eventual effect it has on the process of communication, make up a very important part of this study. These arguments lead to a discussion of the dynamics contained in the visual narrative when looked at from a semiotic perspective. Central to the discussion on the visual narrative in this thesis, is the differentiation between two similar genres: 1) Firstly, a discussion of the functioning of the comic strip medium. Important aspects of this subject are the interactions of image and text, and how the comic medium consists of a unique set of symbols, which influence the specific communication in this genre. 2) Secondly, the genre of the artist's book, and how the medium of the book functions as a unique phenomenon in communication. The systems of meaning contained in the medium of the book are looked at against the light of a semiotic analysis of text and image. This research supports the importance of a semiotic approach as a helpful aid in the interpretation of any piece of communication, but especially that of the comic strip medium and the artist's book. The theories of Charles Peirce, Ferdinand de Saussure, Roman Jakobson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Umberto Eco are used as basis of the arguments in this thesis and serve as valuable ground for a useful discourse. The implementation of above mentioned theories lead to an indication of the complexities involved in the special visual language of the comic strip and the artist's book. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie is gemoeid met 'n ondersoek na die twee basismiddele of "taal" van kommunikasie, naamlik beeld en teks. Hoe hierdie basiese kommunikasiegereedskap funksioneer in die visuele narratief, met verwysing na veral die komiekstrip en die kunstenaarsboek, word ondersoek. Beide van laasgenoemde genres beskik oor komplekse strukture in hul bestaan binne die raamwerk van die visuele narratief, en hierdie navorsing ondersoek hierdie kompleksiteite deur die funksionering van beeld en teks in die visuele narratief te ontleed. Die area van semiotiek word as basis gebruik waarop die argumente in die tesis gebaseer is. Die beginsels vervat in die rigting van semiotiek tree op as 'n handige hulpmiddel in die lees en verstaan van enige vorm van kommunikasie, maar in hierdie studie verleen dit veral fokus en struktuur aan die navorsing binne die raamwerk van die komiekstrip en kunstenaarsboek. Konsepte wat in diepte bespreek word met die oog op hul uiteindelike funksionering binne die visuele narratief, sluit die interessante interaksies wat ontstaan tussen beeld en teks wanneer hulle saam gebruik word, in. Konsepte soos tekens, ikone en simbole, asook hul werking saam met teks (en afsonderlik daarvan), word bespreek. Teks kan in werklikheid ook as visuele beeld funksioneer, en hierdie "ikonifisering" of "beeldwording" van teks word ondersoek. Die rol van konsepte soos interpretasie, persepsie, beeldherkenning en assosiasie, wat uit hierdie proses van visuele kommunikasie voortspruit, is baie belangrik in die visuele kommunikeerder se uiteindelike sukses met sy/haar poging tot kommunikasie. Hoe hierdie konsepte aanleiding gee tot die skep van 'n persoon se "visuele intelligensie" en "visuele geletterdheid", en die uiteindelike effek wat dit op die proses van kommunikasie het, maak 'n belangrike deel van hierdie navorsing uit. Hierdie konsepte lei tot 'n bespreking van die dinamika van die visuele narratief wanneer daar vanuit 'n semiotiese oogpunt daarna gekyk word. Sentraal tot die bespreking van die visuele narratief in hierdie tesis, kan daar tussen twee ooreenkomstige genres onderskei word: 1) Eerstens is daar 'n bespreking van die funksionering van die komiekstripmedium. Belangrike aspekte van hierdie onderwerp is die funksionering van en interaksies tussen beeld en teks binne die medium, en hoe die stripmedium bestaan uit 'n unieke stel simbole wat die kommunikasie van die werk beïnvloed. 2) Tweedens die genre van die kunstenaarsboek, en hoe die boek as unieke medium funksioneer, word bespreek en ontleed. Die sisteme van betekenis vervat in die visuele narratief betrokke in die boekmedium, word beskou teen die lig van 'n semiotiese ondersoek na die interaksies van die basismiddele beeld en teks. Hierdie navorsing steun die belangrikheid van semiotiek as hulpmiddel in die interpretasie van enige stuk kommunikasie, maar veral in die stripmedium en die kunstenaarsboek. Die studie maak veral gebruik van die teorieë van Charles Peirce, Ferdinand de Saussure, Roman Jakobson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty en Umberto Eco. Die toepassing van bogenoemde teorieë in hierdie studie, lei tot 'n aanduiding van die kompleksiteite vervat in die spesiale "visuele taal" van veral die komiekstrip en die kunstenaarsboek.

Ao analisar um conjunto de livros infantis nos quais a materialidade do objeto atua como fundamento para o projeto das imagens, pretende-se sublinhá-los como representantes de uma tipologia, a dos livros-ativos, na qual uma ou mais imagens incorporam o próprio objeto em sua significação, sem que com isso o formato tradicional do códice seja modificado. / By analysing a group of childrens books in which the materiality of the object is crucial for the images design, the aim is to show they are able to represent a typology, the active-books one, in which one or more images include the object itself in its meaning, without any changes in the tradicional codex format.

This dissertation examines the Arthur & Mata Jaffe Center for the Book Arts (JCBA) at Florida Atlantic University, focusing on creativity. Sixteen artists whose artwork is collected by the center were chosen to provide an overview of the creative process of book artists: Susan Allix, Julie Chen, Béatrice Coron, Johanna Drucker, Timothy Ely, Karen Hanmer, Linda K. Johnson, Marie Marcano, Bea Nettles, Matthew Reinhart, Robert Sabuda, Susan Joy Share, Keith Smith, Beth Thielen, Carol Todaro, and Marshall Weber. The artists and the JCBA were selected for this study not only because these artists‘ books provide a unique opportunity to explore the creative processes of their makers, since many points of creative decision must be made, but also because artist‘s books by definition are often conceived, written, designed, printed, and bound by an individual artist. The list contains several artists who have been important to the historical development of the artist‘s book or pop-up publishing fields. Their influence ranges in scope from the historical to the international, national, and local, especially in terms of the JCBA. This dissertation should be useful to creativity researchers and students of the book arts because it is the first study to use qualitative research and creativity studies as a lens to investigate the artifacts and creative processes of artists in the book arts genre, as well as the first to use the case study approach to examine a book arts center and its educational practices with the focus of creativity research. With these goals in mind, concept maps were first created to document the artists‘ internal and external processes of creation, while master composite maps were compiled to facilitate a meta-analysis of their experienced creativity. The JCBA was then profiled, and its educational programs, practices, and policies were documented in order to describe and demonstrate how it encourages the creativity of book artists, as well as how its creativity-enhancing practices are established and traced into associated organizations. A model of how the organization does this is proposed and discussed with the intention of enhancing this effect at the JCBA and in other book arts organizations. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2016. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Uppsatsen är en kvalitativ undersökning av tre ungdomars arbeten med att göra fotoböcker i gymnasiearbetet. Syftet är att se vilka erfarenheter och upplevelser eleverna har haft av visuellt berättande, processen att göra boken och av fotoboken som arbetsform. De teoretiska perspektiven är fenomenologi, estetiska lärprocesser och teorier om berättande. Metoden som använts är halvstrukturerade intervjuer. Analysen och tolkningen är hermeneutiskt inspirerad. I kapitlet forskningsöversikt och litteratur beskrivs fotoboken som medium och en överblick av området ges genom författare, fotografer, formgivare och förlag. Resultatet visar att arbetet med att göra en fotobok har varit en rik och motiverande estetisk lärprocess för ungdomarna. De har fått nya erfarenheter av visuell kommunikation. Undersökningen visar också tecken på att den tredimensionella fotoboken har fått en starkare ställning som konstform och genre till följd av den digitala teknikutvecklingen.

Cette thèse pose la question de la place du livre dans l’expérience de la lecture dans le musée quand dans la seconde moitié des années 1960 tout l’art, tel qu’il est redéfini par les artistes conceptuels, est à lire. Dans les années 1960 et 1970, puis de nouveau au tournant des années 1990-2000, les espaces de lecture se multiplientAlors que l’emploi du livre par les artistes conceptuels s’inscrit dans une quête de démocratisation de l’art, qui serait désormais diffusé hors du musée, le livre dans le musée semble poser le problème d’une relation apparemment contradictoire entre la nature reproductible d’un médium et son ancrage in situ. Force est de se demander si cela ne produirait pas une réification du livre et une interdiction de la lecture pour reprendre les mots de Marcel Broodthaers. A moins qu’il ne s’agisse d’interroger les usages du livre et la place de la lecture dans la constitution de communautés éphémères. La première partie est consacrée principalement à la spatialisation de la lecture à l’ère de l’information aux Etats-Unis entre le milieu des années 1960 et le début des années 1980. Les espaces de lecture sont alors aussi des espaces à lire. Dans une seconde partie, nous verrons que l’institutionnalisation de l’installation est contemporaine de celle de la lecture dans le musée. Enfin nous étudierons l’émergence de modèles originaux d’exposition du livre d’artiste et du livre, créés par des artistes et commissaires qui ont participé à la rédéfinition de l’exposition comme médium et/ou en réinterprétant Le Club des Travailleurs de Rodchenko (1925). / This dissertion investigates the position of book in reading experiences which take place in the museum context when in the mid-nineteen sixties, all art, as redifined by conceptual artists, is to be read. In the 1960s and in the 1970s, then again in 1990s and 2000s, reading space have been increasing. Those could be apparatuses produced for exhibition as well as art environments and installations. In contrast with artists books which deal with democratizing art by circulating outside the control of museums, books in museums leds to questions about an apparent opposition between a reproducible medium and its in situ anchorage. It begs the essential question of whether it might end up in the reification of the book as well as in the prohibition of reading, the Marcel Broodthaers’s Interdiction de lire as stated for Pense-Bête (1964). Unless it provides the opportunity to focuse on the uses of books . The installations we are analyzing contribute to the building up of temporary communities. That is to say that we have also to consider the reader position in social sphere. There are three crucial trends, for it is in exploring them that we can begin to explore as the book as a reference for the environment which is itself to be read at the time of Information Turn which influenced theory on architecture. In the mid-1990s, artists produced what we call in situ books that are produced for reading in the museum. This dissertation dealss also with the wide range of interpretations of the same historic source, The Working Club by Alexandre Rodchenko (1925), by curators and artists from the New York art Scene as well as other American and European Artists.

Orientador: Regina Helena Pereira Johas / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T14:23:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Guideroli_IlmaCarlaZarotti_M.pdf: 37001017 bytes, checksum: c43b5a3b57dfe1e23b24169201dd8910 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: A pesquisa Entre Mapas, Entre Espaços: Itinerários Abertos consiste no mapeamento de minha produção plástica no período entre o início de 2008 e o início de 2010. É formada por quatro livros de artista intitulados Lugares Imaginários I, II, III e IV e Espaços Afluentes, composto por dezoito imagens digitais divididas entre as séries Rotas Imaginárias, São Paulo, Intersecções I, Paisagens Mapeadas, UnHorizont e Paisagem Oceânica. Ambos partilham o mesmo campo de investigações, composto de três eixos norteadores que sustentam pensamento e processo criativo. O primeiro destes eixos trata de TranSituAções, conceito que abrange as diferentes maneiras de conceber espaço e lugar, apresentado a partir da reflexão de autores que discutiram este tema. O segundo eixo estrutura a proposição Espaços Empilhados, tratados a partir da definição do virtual segundo Pierre Lévy e do conceito de remix cunhado por Lev Manovich e citado, por sua vez, por autores brasileiros que destrincharam o assunto, como André Lemos e Marcus Bastos. O terceiro e último eixo aborda a questão dos mapas, sendo que a primeira parte compreende uma breve história da cartografia com seu surgimento e características específicas; e a segunda parte consiste na investigação dos mapas deturpados, ou seja, como alguns escritores, artistas e cineastas fizeram uso dos mapas convencionais, tirando deles a função utilitária de localização em relação ao lugar físico. O corpo prático reflexivo aqui apresentado pretende situar meus trabalhos dentro de questionamentos pertinentes ao nosso tempo, e inserir tal pesquisa como resultado de uma investigação que não se encerra, mas continua infinitamente / Abstract: The research Among Maps, Among Spaces: Open Itineraries consists in mapping my artistic practice from the beginning of 2008 until the beginning of 2010. It is composed of four artist's books entitled Imaginary Places I, II, III, and IV, and Affluent Spaces, composed of eighteen digital images divided in the series Imaginary Routes, São Paulo, Intersections I, Mapped Landscapes, UnHorizont, and Oceanic Landscape. Both works share the same investigations, composed of three guiding axes that support thoughts and the creative process. The first axis approaches TranSituActions, a concept that comprises different ways of conceiving space and place, presented from the reflection of authors that investigate this theme. The second axis structures the proposition Heaped Spaces, treated from the definition of virtual according to Pierre Lévy and the concept of remix, coined by Lev Manovich and cited by Brazilian authors that explained the subject, like André Lemos e Marcus Bastos. The last axis approaches the question of maps: the first part comprehends a brief history of cartography with its appearance and specific characteristics and the second one consists of investigating the corrupted maps, that is, how some writers, artists and filmmakers used conventional maps, extracting from them the utilitarian function of localization in relation to a geographic place. The practical-reflexive body presented here intends to place my works inside relevant questions to our time, and introduce such research as a result of an investigation that does not close but continues infinitely / Mestrado / Artes / Mestre em Artes

Orientador: Lúcia Helena Reily / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T08:22:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Araujo_HannaT.G.P._M.pdf: 64424296 bytes, checksum: 0ea59cb6a76faf9ee2caf4fe0ade1f97 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa visou investigar o processo criativo de artistas plásticos que produzem livros de imagem no sentido de compreender os modos de sua produção poética e criativa da narração visual. Os livros de imagem são produções nas quais a narrativa é desenvolvida a partir da sequência de imagens, visando, geralmente, ao público infantil. Para o desenvolvimento desta pesquisa, escolhemos três renomados e premiados artistas na categoria livro de imagem, cujos processos criativos de construção narrativa serão o objeto do estudo. A abordagem da psicologia que fundamenta a pesquisa é a sociocultural (tendo Lev S. Vygotsky, como principal expoente), com apoio das contribuições de Fayga Ostrower e Ernst Gombrich no campo das artes visuais. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevistas semi-estruturadas, filmadas em vídeo e transcritas. Neste estudo, pudemos vislumbrar as especificidades que permeiam os processos criativos de narrativas visuais, nos quais, pautados na experiência, o artista estrutura suas obras sem que esteja, necessariamente, consciente dos modos que o faz. Por outro lado, observamos que suas intenções baseiam-se na tentativa de ampliação de repertório imagético de seus leitores, corroborando na formação estética das crianças / Abstract: The aim of this study was to investigate the creative processes of three visual artists that produce picture books, in order to understand how poetic production and visual narratives are engendered. Picture books, geared, usually, towards children, are works in which the narrative is developed through a sequence of images. In this study, three renowned artists who have won several prizes in the picture book category (namely André Neves, Angela Lago e Graça Lima) participated in the study, discussing their creative processes in narrative construction. The study is founded on the sociocultural approach (Lev S. Vygotsky being the main exponent of this theoretical construct). Othercontributions came from the writings of Fayga Ostrower and Ernst Gombrich in the field of visual arts. The data was collected using semi-structured interviews that were filmed and transcribed. In this study, we were able to uncover characteristics that permeate these artists' creative processes for making visual narratives. The artists draw on the own artistic experiences, childhood memories, and visual references, in order to structure their compositions, though this process may not always be a conscious one. As they Interact and negotiate with publishing houses, the artists reported that their aim is to broaden the visual repertoire of their readers, contributing to children's aesthetic development / Mestrado / Artes Visuais / Mestre em Artes