Depuis toujours, les œuvres d'art ont joué un rôle fondamental dans la formation des artistes, servant de modèles iconiques pour l'apprentissage et la création de nouvelles œuvres. Au cours du XXème siècle, la diffusion considérable d'œuvres d'art en rapport au progrès dans l'imprimerie et à l'essor des médias a fortement contribué au développement des pratiques liées à la citation en peinture. Chez Picasso, la citation consiste dans l'appropriation et la réinterprétation de chefs-d'œuvre qu'il retranscrit dans son style. Ainsi, en 1957, il peint quarante-quatre variations à partir des Ménines (1656) de Velazquez. Au début des années soixante, les artistes pop ont recours à la sérigraphie pour imprimer sur toile les reproductions photographiques de chefs d'œuvres. Leurs productions relèvent d'une esthétique particulière comme résultat de l'utilisation de ce procédé qu'ils chercheront à développer par la suite. Ainsi, dans les versions de la Cathédrale de Rouen (1892-1894) de Monet peintes par Lichtenstein en 1969, l'image est reconstituée par une trame de points, équivalent graphique des points d'encrage de la photographie de presse. Dans les années soixante-dix, le collectif espagnol Equipo Crónica s'empare des grands classiques de la peinture espagnole et européenne et les retranscrit par une juxtaposition d'aplats de couleurs. Influencés par ces démarches, certains artistes latino-américains ont forgé leur propre style. L'œuvre du péruvien Herman Braun-Vega, par exemple, jette des ponts entre la peinture des grands maîtres tels que Velazquez, Goya ou Picasso, et l'imaginaire visuel péruvien. A l'instar de Picasso, Fernando Botero s'approprie des œuvres des maîtres en les soumettant à son style. Dès la fin des années soixante, les arts plastiques péruviens reprennent les caractéristiques plastiques du Pop'Art international pour mettre en scène divers aspect de la culture péruvienne. Ainsi Marcel Velaochaga met en relation l'esthétique Pop avec une réflexion critique sur l'histoire du Pérou et ses propres icônes visuelles.

The disparate concepts of Pop Art and abstract painting heavily influence the scope of my work. Finding a link between these two concepts has been the focal point of my studio practices. The apex of my process is the focus on commercial imagery as abstract form. The merging of these two concepts presents a complex composition of balance, color and information. This thesis explores the various concepts as well as influences that have propelled the evolution of my work. It chronicles the steps I have taken in my quest to articulate my conceptual ideas. By describing the works and defining their characteristics, this analysis gives further insight to my perception as well as process.

Esta dissertação tem como objetivo investigar a presença de Glauco Rodrigues no sistema da arte no Brasil, os diferentes tempos e espaços em que suas obras se articulam, seus percursos de afirmação e legitimação através das apropriações por colecionadores, curadores e instituições. Partimos de uma recuperação biográfica e histórica da produção do artista para compreender sua atuação no circuito local e repercussão internacional. Em seus deslocamentos temporais e conceituais o artista transitou entre a figuração, o realismo socialista, o abstracionismo, a pop art e o tropicalismo. Na análise desses momentos destacam-se seus conhecimentos e conexões com os artistas de sua época. Propomo-nos identificar as narrativas de sua trajetória e costurar seus acervos, articulando-as aos discursos históricos e pensar as teorias da arte que se revelam a partir da obra do artista. / This dissertation aims to investigate the presence of Glauco Rodrigues' work in the Brazilian art system, the different times and spaces in which his works were articulated, the paths of affirmation and legitimation experienced by his oeuvre after appropriations made by collectors, curators and institutions. The analysis brings a biographical and historical review of the artist's production pursuing to place his performance in a local circuit and it's international overcome. Through his temporal and conceptual displacements, the artist moved between figuration, socialist realism, abstractionism, pop art and tropicalism. From the analysis of the different stages of his work stands out the knowledge he gained and connections built with the artists of each time. The proposal of the text is to identify and bring together narratives and collections, articulating historical discourses and theories of art that are revealed from the body of work of Glauco Rodrigues.

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Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable (EPI) was a drug-fueled rock concert-cum-multimedia art event where layers of mediation mixed with immediate experience: The Velvet Underground performed their innovative music in front of films of themselves performing, Factory Superstars danced and performed poetry, various Warhol films projected on the walls, flashing lights flickered on mirrored surfaces, and a crowd of spectators – both famous and unknown – packed in to see and be seen, to dance and trip into the early hours of the morning. The experience of the EPI was a potent combination of alienation, mediation, and commercialization. The EPI was a promotional vehicle for Warhol, Warhol's Factory crew, and the Velvet Underground, but is also a complex example of spectacle that has been under-analyzed in recent scholarship. The EPI's unabashed emphasis on marketing, packaging, consumer goods, and empty celebrity are all manifestations of fears of late capitalist excess, but beneath the veneer of vapidity was an undercurrent of counterculture political activism and social awareness. Original contributions include cultural analysis, interpretation of contemporary reviews and reports, examination of the event's lack of art historical presence, and incorporation of music scholarship into the Warhol historical canon.

Marisol Escobar, known in the 1960s as the "Latin Garbo," is a sculptor famous for showing with the Pop art greats. However, Marisol holds a curious position in art history, stranded between the formalism of the fifties' and sixties' male-dominated Pop movement and the conceptual experimentation and radicalism that followed. Trained as a draftsman and painter early in her career, Marisol's main body of work mostly consists of large-scale wooden and mixed-medium sculpture. Lesser known, her lithographs, drawings, collages and small figurines further prove her technical and artistic validity. Preferring to go by surname only, Marisol’s quiet yet intense observation pinpoints the overriding human elements present in the objects of her scrutiny. Most notable for turning her gaze inwards, her self-portraiture defies easy categorization. Meshing American art and non-Western art styles while bridging the gap between intellectual understanding and empathetic approachability, Marisol represents a unique perspective that remains relevant today. Marisol's approach to self-portraiture is, first and foremost, in service to the exploration of her own identity. Furthermore, her choice of subject matter, artistic methodology and style appear closely aligned with Postmodern discourse. Each period of her work from the 1950s to the present day includes different guises and methods that subtly critique societal roles and norms, all presented through the lens of the artist's acute wit. Internationalism, gender roles, and explorations of identity are inherent in each of her works, proving that Marisol deserves further examination to explore her relation to Postmodern thought.

This thesis examines changes in gender attitudes between the years 1962 and 1967 as seen through the activities of a group of female volunteers at a regional community center, specifically the Fine Arts committee of the Arts Council at the Young Men's and Women's Hebrew Association in Philadelphia. I demonstrate how the women were conditioned both within and outside their community to accept a subservient role to husbands and male hierarchy. By considering two of the committee's major projects, one that took place in 1962 and the other in 1967, and examining the Jewish community's primary newspaper during the same period, I compare and contrast the attitudes of the female "volunteer" in general and this specific group of more rebellious housewives whose interests were focused in the visual arts. Between the two major projects, examples of sociological theory are examined in order to follow the paradigm shift towards emerging feminism. Over a period of five years these women reassessed their role as housewives, and many eventually participated in professional life outside the home. The specific accomplishments of the Fine Arts Committee are compared, from the first major exhibition in 1962, ART 1963/A New Vocabulary to the last significant project in 1967, the Museum of Merchandise. / Art History

The feeling of a narcotic cannot be put to words, just as the sensation one receives from her or his favorite artwork is impossible to record. Equally, both these delicacies of modern existence must be sought out. The user/viewer only gets a tiny taste and must therefore keep coming back for more. Utopia may be an unrealistic construction of culture, but I would posit the idea the both narcotics and art strive to give us just that – however tiny a taste. This paper addresses the intersections of visual art, drugs, anti-hero worship and contemporary representations of Romanticism throughout the American body politic.

[pt] O trabalho examina a especificidade das relações culturais e das intermediações sociais instauradas pelas obras de Tony Smith, Frank Stella e Donald Judd, pelos eventos performáticos do Grupo Fluxus, pelas Aktionen de Joseph Beuys, e pela Pop Art de Andy Warhol. O texto é conduzido pela hipótese de que tais poéticas foram fundamentais para uma renovação estatutária da arte, obtida, principalmente, via sucessivas inaugurações de modos inéditos de trocas públicas. Os anos seguintes ao fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial exigiram sérias reavaliações e respondem até hoje pelos mais díspares comportamentos. A seleção pressupõe, em segundo plano, a incidência de um significativo ápice poético estimulado pelas urgências morais. As obras de arte resultantes desse aperto existencial distinguem-se, dentre outras tantas inovações estéticas, por uma extravagante apresentação e uma controvertida índole: fermentaram a contracultura do final da década de 1960, encaminharam os movimentos da seguinte e alimentaram os debates pós-modernistas dos últimos vinte anos. / [en] The present work examines the specificity of the cultural relations and social intermediations established by Tony Smith's, Frank Stella and Donald Judd works, by Fluxus's Grup performatic events, by Joseph Beuys's Aktionen, and by Andy Warhol's Pop Art. The text is driven by the hypothesis that such poetics were fundamental for a statutory renewal of the art, obtained, mainly through successive inaugurations of completely new ways of public exchanges. The following years after the end of the World War II demanded serious revaluations which answers until today to the most disparate behaviors. This present selection of works and authors presupposes, in a second plan, the incidence of a significant poetic apex stimulated by moral urgencies. The resulting works of art of this existential configuration stand out, among other so many aesthetic innovations, by an extravagant presentation and a controverted disposition: they fermented the counterculture of the end of the decade of 1960, guided the movements of the following years and fed the post-modernists debates of the last twenty years.

This thesis examines the political pop art of contemporary Chinese artist Wang Guangyi in light contemporaneous shifts within the political, economic, and artistic space of China from 1978 until the present. Through an analysis of the work of art as an historically determined antagonistic aesthetic praxis, this thesis attempts to reveal the sedimented traces of the alternative modernity which the Chinese government is actively attempting to construct. With its evocative juxtaposition of contrasting ideological forms, the artwork of Wang Guangyi seeks to deconstruct the normative and teleological narratives encountered within the dialectic interplay between state sponsored transnational capitalism and Marxist-Leninist communism. An understanding of the discursive structure upon which these dual modernising narratives has been based, and of the fragmented artistic space they have engendered, should serve to enliven the debate concerning the role of cultural production in questioning and revealing narratives of the nation, of the Self, and of modernity.