Presently, most aesthetic discourse focusses primarily upon questions of beauty and ugliness. Yet, this rather limited approach to aesthetics overlooks all work that does not belong to either of these two categories. More precisely, most contemporary debate fails to consider the important category of ambivalence. What might it mean to both love and hate a given work of art? The following essay examines the complex emotion of ambivalence as a category of aesthetic experience. Drawing upon the work of British filmmaker Peter Greenaway, it will be argued that ambivalence encourages a new, dynamic approach to the work of art. Ultimately, this new approach will be looked to as a possible means of challenging the hegemony of the Modernist/Postmodernist divide.

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Habilitationsschrift--Siegen--Universität, 1997. / Bibliogr. p. [265]-275. Index.

An artwork does not obliterate the traces of its making. In the contemporary technological context such "untidiness" is effectively erased through instrumental methods of production. A great divide exists between instrumental and poetic modalities of disclosure which is no more apparent than in the arts of cinema and architecture. The motion picture camera is the emblem par excellence of the voyeuristic sensibility of the disembodied 20th century spectator who inevitably is the very same "body" which inhabits the built world. The British artist-filmmaker Peter Greenaway calls into question numerous aspects of traditional and technological ways of looking and making relevant to architectural creation as similarly constitutive of both functional and poetic realms. Rather than suppress or deny the traces left upon a work, he valorizes and amplifies them to create a self-reflexivity between work and working as an intertwining of the process and work horizons. His ultimate concern is for "content" or poetic meaning as the aesthetic experience of depth which he sees as a matter of the form and style of making.

Zugl.: Weimar, Bauhausuniv., Diss.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 242-249).

Orientador: Ivan Santo Barbosa / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T09:33:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sobrinho_GilbertoAlexandre_D.pdf: 7430241 bytes, checksum: e7c84e0fb6886cd021a0f11205307805 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / Resumo: O autor multiplicado: em busca dos artificios de Peter Greenaway Neste trabalho, centrado na obra cinematográfica de Peter Greenaway, investigo questões relativas à sua expressão autoral. Ao tratar da questão da autoria, levo em consideração o curso da obra e a conseqüente detecção de três fases de realização. Assim, sob o impulso do cinema experimental dos anos 60 e já esmaecido na década seguinte, Greenaway produzi14 dirigiu e montou, primeiramente, filmes não muito expressivos, mas, posteriormente, ganharia respaldo institucional para desenvolver projetos ousados na trilha de uma vanguarda tardia; os filmes realizados durante a década de oitenta testemunham um deslocamento abrupto de sua realização assumidamente experimental para o circuito de produção, distribuição e exibição do cinema de arte comercial. Finalmente, para análise do terceiro momento, exploro as relações entre o cinema, a televisão e as novas mídias, o que ID¿ fez retomar à década de 80, momento em que se verifica a exploração do meio por parte do diretor, dando prosseguimento, tal como nos primeiros filmes, ao ideal de resistência às formas dominantes da narrativa audiovisual. Em todo o trabalho, os filmes são analisados textual e contextualmente em suas feições culturais e históricas, direcionadas para decodificar uma explícita estética do artificio ensejada pela assinatura de Peter Greenaway / Abstract: The multiplied author: in the search ofPeter Greenaway's artifices In this work, focused on Peter Greenaway's films, I investigate his authorial expression. Dealing with authorship, I took in account the films in their chronological development, to reveal, consequentIy, three realization phases. Thus, under the experimental cinema exploitation from the 60's and, then, faded in the following decade, he produced, directed and edited unexpressed films at first, but, later, he would have institutional sponsorship to develop audacious projects in a late avant-garde route. During the 80's, an abrupt displacement is testified in his films: Greenaway shifted from the experimental ghetto to the art cinema production, distribution and exhibi~ion circuit. Finally, to delimitate the last phase, I consider the relationship among film, television and new media; to accomplish this, a return to the 80's was necessary because Greenaway, since then, has been interacting to the medium, making use of a resistant approach to the dominant audiovisual forms, such as in the early films. In the whole work, the fihns are textually analyzed and a cultural and historical contextualization is envisaged, both aspects addressed to decode an explicit artificial aesthetic fonned under Peter Greenaway's signature / Doutorado / Multimeios / Doutor em Multimeios

Zugl.: Weimar, Bauhausuniv., Diss. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [200]-207)