Cette thèse conjugue l’étude du mythe de la métamorphose et du sentir amoureux, afin de mettre en relief les transformations produites sous l’incidence faste ou néfaste de l’éros. Apporter de nouveaux éclairages mythocritiques et proposer une approche novatrice du mythe érotomorphique à travers une analyse spectrale et fractale de ses composantes constituent nos objectifs essentiels. Les œuvres analysées appartiennent aux littératures française, anglaise, belge, argentine, roumaine et flamande, et s’inscrivent, à l’exception des contes portant sur le fiancé-animal, dans les XXe et XXIe siècles. La diversité du corpus permet d’adjoindre au fait comparatiste une ouverture du champ de la recherche à travers des traductions inédites et des œuvres qui entremêlent modernité et remotivation de la tradition mythique. Les chapitres de la thèse, Préliminaires à l’étude du mythe, Sublimations érotomorphiques, Un amour guérisseur, Entre Éros et Thanatos, Aliénations et révolutions érotomorphiques, présentent le mythe de l’érotomorphose contrôlée, involontaire ou transférentielle, comme une enveloppe verbale littéraire qui crypte la réalité amoureuse intérieure et extérieure de l’être, dans le but de révéler son véritable moi-peau. La métamorphose apparaît ainsi comme une autoreprésentation matérielle de l’ego sensorium. Accomplir cette érotogenèse revient à annuler la discontinuité corporelle qu’entraîne la transformation, en conférant au métamorphe un corps à la mesure de son idéal amoureux, à la fois moïque et physique. La transition permet de la sorte le passage de la dissociation à une parfaite consonance fractale entre l’infrastructure de l’âme et la suprastructure corporelle. / This thesis associates the study of the myth of metamorphosis and the analysis of the love faculty in order to emphasize transformations produced under the favourable or harmful incidence of eros. To cast a new light on mythocritical theories and to propose an innovative approach to the erotomorphic myth through a spectrum and a fractal analysis of its components constitute our essential objectives. The texts studied in this frame belong to French, English, Belgian, Argentinian, Romanian and Flemish literatures of the XXth and the XXIst centuries, with the exception of the fairy-tales about the animal bride. The diversity of this corpus permits to join comparative reasoning with an opening-up of the research field through original translations and literary works that intermingle modernity and remotivation of the mythic tradition. The chapters of the thesis, Preliminaries to the Study of Myth, Erotomorphic Sublimations, A Healing Love, Between Eros and Thanatos, Alienations and Erotomorphic Revolutions, present the myth of the controlled, involuntary or transferential erotomorphosis as a literary verbal envelope which encrypts the internal and external amorous reality of the human being, with the aim of revealing his true skin-ego. Metamorphosis thus appears like a material auto-representation of the ego sensorium. Accomplishing this erotogenesis means cancelling the corporal discontinuity involved in all transformations, by conferring to the metamorphe a body that matches his psychic and physical amorous ideal. The transition therefore allows passage from dissociation to a perfect fractal consonance between the corporal superstructure and the infrastructure of the heart.

This paper explores the historical significance and advancements of automatic photobooth portraiture from the late 1800s onwards, focusing specifically on the intention behind the photobooth’s creation and the significance and cultural implications of its introduction into society. As it gradually became a staple of modern society, regularly visited by citizens to have their portraits taken, numerous artists sought out the photobooth as both a studio and a stage in which to document performative self-portraiture. The space and aesthetics of the photobooth have inspired artists to re-envision the confines of the booth and use its automatic function as a point of inspiration. I will also highlight the significance of female self-portraiture and the significance of women performing within and occupying specific spaces. My work is a combination of these histories, providing me with the opportunity to continue the discussion of women’s self-representation and the unique artistic space the photobooth provides between public and private spheres.

O objetivo de análise da presente investigação prático-teórica é a série "Habitações", composta por 24 autorretratos fotográficos autorais. O processo artístico consistiu em autofotografar-me em ambientes domésticos de permanência provisória, procurando incorporar algumas de suas características visuais, mediante sobreposições e encobrimentos de têxteis sobre o corpo. Muitos dos tecidos utilizados contém estampas ou cores semelhantes ás presentes no entorno da casa, com a intenção de promover a fusão entre o corpo humano e os ambientes domésticos habitados que o circundam. As tentativas de estabelecer relações entre o corpo humano e o ambiente doméstico possibilitam pensar o autorretrato fotográfico como microterritório subjetivo, na acepção de criar por meio da fotografia ínfimos mundos imaginários, oriundos da vida íntima e da reconfiguração de movimentos cotidianos rotineiros como é o caso do ato de deitar-se, pose repetida em todos os trabalhos. A estratégia de encobrir o corpo impossibilita que a fisionomia do sujeito seja mostrada, apontando reconfigurações do conceito tradicional de autorretrato e indagações sobre a superfície e as aparências físicas dos sujeitos e das coisas. Nessa acepção, o autorretrato fotográfico é encarado como alteridade e ficção, o que possibilita pensá-lo como um microterritório subjetivo. Para refletir sobre essas relações de sentido, latente na série "Habitações", recorro aos autores Deleuze e Guattari, bem como a Rouillé (2009), Berger (2014) e Fabris (2004). Instauro diálogos entre "Habitações" e obras contemporâneas e da História da Arte, destacando-se algumas de autoria de artistas como Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593), René Magritte (1898-1967), Nino Cais e Cecília Paredes, as quais contribuem para a análise teórico-reflexiva sobre a prática, materializada na série "Habitações". / The analysis object of this practical and theoretical research is the “Habitations” series, composed of twenty-four photographic self-portraits. The artistic process consisted in self photographing me in domestic environments for temporary stay, seeking to integrate some of its visual characteristics by overlays and cover-ups of textiles on the body. Many of the fabrics used contain prints or colors similar to those presents in the surrounding of the house, with the intention of promoting the fusion between the human body and inhabited domestic environments that surround it. The attempts to establish relations between the human body and the domestic environment enables think the photographic self-portrait as subjective micro territory within the meaning created through photography tiny imaginary worlds, coming from inner life and reconfiguration of routine daily movements, such as the act of lying down, pose repeated in all works. The strategy of covering the body prevents the subject's physiognomy is shown, pointing reconfigurations of the traditional concept of self-portrait and inquiries about the surface and the physical appearance of the subjects and things. In this sense, the photographic self-portrait is seen as otherness and fiction, which enables think of it as a subjective micro territory. To reflect on these relations sense, latent in the “Habitations” series, resort to the authors Deleuze and Guattari, as well as Rouille (2009), Berger (2014) and Fabris (2004). Establish dialogues between "Habitations" and contemporary and Art History works, highlighting some authored by artists like Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593), René Magritte (1898-1967), Nino Cais and Cecilia Paredes, which contribute to the theoretical and reflective analysis of the practice, embodied in the "Habitations" series.

O objetivo de análise da presente investigação prático-teórica é a série "Habitações", composta por 24 autorretratos fotográficos autorais. O processo artístico consistiu em autofotografar-me em ambientes domésticos de permanência provisória, procurando incorporar algumas de suas características visuais, mediante sobreposições e encobrimentos de têxteis sobre o corpo. Muitos dos tecidos utilizados contém estampas ou cores semelhantes ás presentes no entorno da casa, com a intenção de promover a fusão entre o corpo humano e os ambientes domésticos habitados que o circundam. As tentativas de estabelecer relações entre o corpo humano e o ambiente doméstico possibilitam pensar o autorretrato fotográfico como microterritório subjetivo, na acepção de criar por meio da fotografia ínfimos mundos imaginários, oriundos da vida íntima e da reconfiguração de movimentos cotidianos rotineiros como é o caso do ato de deitar-se, pose repetida em todos os trabalhos. A estratégia de encobrir o corpo impossibilita que a fisionomia do sujeito seja mostrada, apontando reconfigurações do conceito tradicional de autorretrato e indagações sobre a superfície e as aparências físicas dos sujeitos e das coisas. Nessa acepção, o autorretrato fotográfico é encarado como alteridade e ficção, o que possibilita pensá-lo como um microterritório subjetivo. Para refletir sobre essas relações de sentido, latente na série "Habitações", recorro aos autores Deleuze e Guattari, bem como a Rouillé (2009), Berger (2014) e Fabris (2004). Instauro diálogos entre "Habitações" e obras contemporâneas e da História da Arte, destacando-se algumas de autoria de artistas como Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593), René Magritte (1898-1967), Nino Cais e Cecília Paredes, as quais contribuem para a análise teórico-reflexiva sobre a prática, materializada na série "Habitações". / The analysis object of this practical and theoretical research is the “Habitations” series, composed of twenty-four photographic self-portraits. The artistic process consisted in self photographing me in domestic environments for temporary stay, seeking to integrate some of its visual characteristics by overlays and cover-ups of textiles on the body. Many of the fabrics used contain prints or colors similar to those presents in the surrounding of the house, with the intention of promoting the fusion between the human body and inhabited domestic environments that surround it. The attempts to establish relations between the human body and the domestic environment enables think the photographic self-portrait as subjective micro territory within the meaning created through photography tiny imaginary worlds, coming from inner life and reconfiguration of routine daily movements, such as the act of lying down, pose repeated in all works. The strategy of covering the body prevents the subject's physiognomy is shown, pointing reconfigurations of the traditional concept of self-portrait and inquiries about the surface and the physical appearance of the subjects and things. In this sense, the photographic self-portrait is seen as otherness and fiction, which enables think of it as a subjective micro territory. To reflect on these relations sense, latent in the “Habitations” series, resort to the authors Deleuze and Guattari, as well as Rouille (2009), Berger (2014) and Fabris (2004). Establish dialogues between "Habitations" and contemporary and Art History works, highlighting some authored by artists like Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593), René Magritte (1898-1967), Nino Cais and Cecilia Paredes, which contribute to the theoretical and reflective analysis of the practice, embodied in the "Habitations" series.

Procura-se nesse estudo ler os Ensaios de Montaigne, menos em sua dimensão de descrição verdadeira dos casos que são abordados e dos arrazoados que são produzidos, e mais em sua dimensão de produção de efeitos verossímeis e persuasivos; atentos, pois, à intenção de um escritor em fazer crer (fidem facere) mais que em dizer a verdade. Assim, o propósito é o de relacionar o discurso deste autor com uma atividade plenamente ciente dos meios e instrumentos técnicos de produção da persuasão. Não se descarta a questão da veracidade do autorretrato, mas, entende-se que esta consiste em um dos elementos fundamentais por cuja construção verossímil prima o esforço do Ensaísta. Busca-se, pois mostrar que o que o livro nos dá a ler são as múltiplas operações do espírito que integram a maneira de uma persona construída nos convencer de sua coincidência espontânea, veraz e bem sucedida com seu autor. / This thesis investigates Montaignes Essays and the persuasive and verisimilar rhetorical effects that they manage to achieve, rather than consider them as true descriptions of the matters they discuss and the statements they entail. Thus, close attention is paid to Montaignes intention to create belief (fidem facere) rather than to state the truth. Accordingly, this thesis sets out to identify this authors discourse as one that is fully aware of the technical instruments of rhetorical persuasion. Likewise, the veracity of the authors self-portrayal is not ignored, but it is understood as one of the fundamental elements at which the essayists efforts to produce verisimilitude predominate. Therefore, this research intends to show that what one reads in Montaignes Essays are the multiple operations of a mind that compose the manner of a persona that was built to persuade the reader that it coincides spontaneously, truthfully and successfully with the author.

Le respect de l'érosion et de la fuite du temps instaure une recherche concernant l'effacement de l'œuvre et le dessaisissement. Les écrits s'inspirent d'une quarantaine de travaux artistiques personnels, des sculptures pour la plupart, reliés à ceux d'artistes connus pour s'être exprimés dans un registre apparenté. Avec l'infini présent s'ouvre pour l'effacement une double perspective : celle d'un présent permanent, identique à lui-même mais appelé lentement à disparaître comme l'a voulu Roman Opalka, ou celle d'un présent récurrent, s'éclipsant pour réapparaître qu'il s'agisse de la foule, multitude d'hier et demain ou d'une scénographie humaine, une fatalité ubiquitaire, amenée à se perpétuer. L'auto-affirmation du passé, les ruines que l'on garde en l'état, de Jean-Christophe Bailly sont une lecture du temps. « Effigies » et les autoportraits d'Hélène Schjertbeck sont, parmi d'autres, les figures de l'effacement. Le refus du néant s'affiche avec la mémoire des corps disloqués, trophées, transis et gisants, celui de Corps évanoui et des coquilles vides, Sculptures d'ombre de Claude Parmiggiani, les bois calcinés de Franz Krajcberg. Fin et suite : l'ontologie de ce qui est rejeté ou délabré se trouve définie ; et après Jean Tinguely, la volonté de s'investir dans le renouveau des matériaux s'affirme pour une re-création en aménageant ce qui subsiste, ce qui a pu antérieurement interagir avec des mains humaines, et peut être à l'origine d'un nouvel essor, et d'une autre vie. Une nouvelle sémantique des verbes est imaginée, rendant compte des différentes formes temporelles et modales énonciatives des œuvres présentées. Mes travaux se consacrent alors au futur antérieur, à l'anticipe passé, pour promouvoir l'archéologie du futur. / The respect for erosion and the flying of time initiates a research as regards to erasure of an artwork and its loss. These writings stem from about forty persona! artworks, sculptures for the most part, linked to those executed by famous artists known for their works in related fields. The infinite present allows erasure to be considered from two standpoints: on the one hand, the forever present that is identical to itself but doomed to slowly disappear as wanted by Roman Opalka or on the other band, the recurring present fading away to reappear whether it is related to crowd as a past and future multitude or else, referring to a human scenography, as a ubiquitus fate doomed to continue. The self-assertion of the past, ruins kept as such, by Jean­-Christophe Bailly are a reading of the times. "Effigie" and self-portraits by Hélène Schjertbeck are among others, some shapes of erasure. Refusing nothingness can be seen through the memory of dismantled bodies, trophies, numbed and recumbent bodies, and through “Fainted body” and empty shells, Sculptured shadows by Claude Parmiggiani, the charred woods by Franz Krajcberg. The end and later on: the ontology of what is rejected or wrecked is defined and following Jean Tinguely, willing to become involved in the renewal of materials can be considered as a recreation when adjusting what remains, what may interected with human hands before and such can also be the starting point of new development and another life. A new semantics of verbs can be conceived accounting for various tenses and modal forms stating exhibited artworks. So my work is devoted to future perfect and past anterior to promote the archaeology of the future.

This thesis investigates representations of masculinities and the father figure in the Swedish painter Carl Larsson’s (1864-1919) self-portraits from 1895. The paintings are analysed through the concepts authority, a term closely connected to the father figure, and idyll, a term often used to describe Larsson’s art. Sara Ahmed’s theory to see beyond what is taken for granted, in Queer Phenomenology, is theoretical starting point for the thesis. The analytical method is adopted from Tamar Garb’s Bodies of Modernity. Figures and Flesh in Fin-de-Siécle France. The conclusion is that the masculinities in Larssons’s father figure are coherent with the paterfamilias in the late 1900s, consisting of the provider, the authority figure, and the husband/lover. Furthermore, that the idyll is constructed by those with the authority to construct it, and that the authority thereby is defined by the idyll it constructs. / Uppsatsen undersöker maskuliniteter genom bildanalyser av två självporträtt av Carl Larsson där han framställer sig som både far och konstnär. Bilderna har analyserats med hjälp av begreppen auktoritet, som traditionellt har varit sammankopplat med fadern, och idyll, som har blivit i det närmaste synonymt med Larssons konst. Sara Ahmeds queera fenomenologi har använts som teoretisk utgångspunkt för att undersöka det som kan ses som det förgivettaga, här formulerat som idyllen. Bildanalyserna har gjorts med utgångspunkt i Tamar Garbs metod för bildanalys i Bodies of Modernity. Figures and Flesh in Fin-de-Siécle France. Undersökningen visar att det i Larssons fadersgestalt går att utläsa samtliga aspekter av 1800-talets paterfamiliaskonstruktion, såsom den formuleras av Joseph A Kestner; familjeförsörjaren, auktoritetsfiguren och maken/älskaren. Undersökningen visar också att den idyllen konstrueras av den som har auktoritet att göra det och att auktoriteten därmed definieras av den idyll den konstruerar. Carl Larssons idyllkonstruktion är därigenom resultatet av ett utövande av den auktoritet han har i egenskap av man, make, far och konstnär.

I denna undersökning tittar jag närmre på arbetet med självporträtt i skolan, en återkommandeuppgift i alla åldrar, som upprepas efter givna mönster. Det kan uppstå känsliga situationer i arbetetmed självporträtt och i uppvisandet av dem under redovisningar. Kanske för att utövandet avsjälvporträtt innehåller ett specifikt moment då man måste förhålla sig till sig själv som objekt ochsubjekt/konstnär och modell - på en och samma gång. Självporträtts-uppgifter i skolan är ofta starktkopplade till identitet då porträttet förväntas berätta något om en själv. Jag förhåller mig i dettaarbete till subjektet och till lärandet som någonting rörligt och utgår från Gert Biestas teorier omsubjektifiering. På så vis förskjuter jag diskursen kring identitet till diskursen kring subjektetstillblivelse. Min frågeställning har varit: Vilka dolda kunskaper kan uppstå i tecknandet avsjälvporträtt och varför uppstår de?, samt; Vad händer i tecknande-processen då den somtecknar är både subjekt och objekt? Hur påverkar det subjektets tillblivelse?För att söka svar på min frågeställning gör jag fältstudier hos en sjundeklass på en skola iStockholm under deras arbete med en självporträttsuppgift som heter Insida-utsida. Min empiribestår i transkriberat material från en intervju med elevernas lärare, fältanteckningar från deltagandeobservation i klassrummet och material från en workshop som jag själv höll med några av eleverna.Som avstamp till min undersökning har jag utgått från en auto-etnografisk studie, i vilken jag underfyra veckors tid tecknade ett självporträtt om dagen och simultant antecknade tankar som for genommitt huvud. Detta för att få förståelse för vad eleven kan uppleva i sin process.På Konstfacks utställning, som detta år är digital på grund av Covid- 19, gör jag en slutliggestaltning i form av ett filmat performance inspirerat av citat från eleverna som uppkom underderas arbete med självporträtt. Även delar av min auto-etnografiska undersökning och elevexempelfrån workshopen visas. Jag använder mig av ett a/r/togrfiskt förhållningssätt och skiftar självsubjektposition mellan konstnär, forskare och lärare för att se vad som uppkommer i mellanrummenmellan dessa positioner. Genom att undersöka självporträtt i skolan ur ovan nämnda teorier ochperspektiv ämnar jag bidra med nya sätt att se på uppgiften.

In dem Selbstporträt von 1746 (Paris, Musée du Louvre) präsentiert sich der spanische Künstler Luis Meléndez (1715-1780) mit einem ausgewählten Werk in der Hand. Ernst und voller Stolz schaut der Künstler dem Gegenüber in die Augen, mit denen jener die Resultate seines Könnens (das Porträt wie die präsentierte Aktstudie) mustert. Den rechten Arm hat Meléndez in die Hüfte gestemmt, einen Kreidehalter mit schwarzer und weißer Kreide in der Hand, die mit zwei Fingern auf die gezeichnete Aktstudie verweist. Unter seiner rechten Hand bauscht sich ein dunkelblaues Tuch. Die Kleidung – eine dunkelgrüne Samtjacke, eine weiße Weste, darunter ein feines weißes Hemd mit jabot, einem Volant, der zwischen den Vorderkanten der Weste hervorschauen soll, – kennzeichnet den Künstler als Intellektuellen. Seine Haare hat Meléndez mit einem traditionel-len Tuch zusammengebunden. Den in Kleidung und Habitus formulierten Anspruch bestätigt die Aktstudie in der erhobenen Linken. Das Blatt zeigt ein stehendes männliches Modell in verlorenem Profil. Es hat seinen linken Unterschenkel auf ein niedriges Podest aufgelegt, den rechten Arm vor dem Körper angewinkelt und den linken seitlich abgesenkt; der Körper verdeckt, ob das Modell einen Gegenstand hält.

The self portrait is a consistent aspect of art history, with many artists returning to it again and again across their lives. This project intends to explore the function of the self portrait. Through research and execution of artwork, the artist has found that the self portrait has multiple functions, including: a practice of anatomy; a display of status, skill, and likeness; an outlet for emotion; and a place for psychological confrontation. Across the life of this project, the artist completed twenty-two self portraits in a variety of styles and materials.