Human beings encounter cascades of a plethora of experiences, one after another, every single microsecond of our lives. There are many things happening around. The world is full of events and occurrences. As they happen, the mind reacts to every individual input. This is a very exhausting and difficult. Thus, people have developed a process of self-defense against this horrible mishmash of information. Their minds have this amazing capacity of sorting them out and making sense out of them. Humankind's survival depends on that. If one does not sort all this information out, one might not be able to make a simplest decision. As humans process the information, they learn to ignore and forget. They focus on their feelings and emotions. They forget the logic. The oversimplification process begins. Humans create rigid systems of oversimplified formulas. They assign adjectives to things, occurrences, and other people. The number of those adjectives is small. After assigning, those adjectives obscure everything else. A new world is created, stupid, limited, lazy, and in the end making humans very easy to control. What starts as a basic survival process ends up as a tool one can use to destroy the owners of the mind. In the end, the birth of consciousness leads to its death. My work fights this process. It aims to put a person back into that state of shock created by a mishmash of information and thus create the rebirth of consciousness.

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In this dissertation, I argue that Yves Bonnefoy, a major 20th-century French poet and a heir to French poetic modernity, pursued the dialogue between poetry and painting that has been central to French poetry, and in doing so praised some specific artists in the 20th century in a coherent manner, outlining what I call a counter-history of 20th century art. This counter-history, I argue, reveals his fundamental opposition to modern art. What emerges from the study of his prose writings on 20th-century art is the fact that Bonnefoy continued modernity yet critiqued it. In doing so he was influenced philosophically by Heidegger and poetically by Baudelaire, and also marked by his break with Surrealism and Breton. This leads me to conclude that Bonnefoy was a sort of "antimodern"; and that he laid out the foundations of an "antimodern" vision of 20th-century art. My research reveals a coherent family of artists emerging from Bonnefoy's writings, who saw themselves as part of this alternative art history.

Cette thèse est une étude du mouvement Cobra à travers les œuvres collectives, une de ses composantes caractéristiques. Il s’agit tout d’abord de comprendre le mouvement, ses origines et influences, ainsi que sa visée d’un art libre, ouvert, expérimental, partie prenante de la vie. Dans un contexte social d’après-guerre, souvent politisé, Cobra défend l’action collective, définie notamment dans les notions d’antispécialisme et d’interspécialisme. Il convient de mettre en exergue les origines de cette pratique, et saisir les divers aspects qu’elle arbore, notamment au travers de revues, d’expositions ou de créations partagées. Le poète Christian Dotremont, animateur et âme de Cobra, favorise le travail de collaboration et contribue à son développement en stimulant les rencontres artistiques. Il se fait le passeur et le permanent "agitateur"» de cette notion. Les peintures-mots qu’il crée avec d’autres artistes participent à sa réflexion majeure sur l’écriture et la peinture. Ce lien interpelle quelques artistes belges comme Pierre Alechinsky, mais il passionne Christian Dotremont qui ne cesse de multiplier les expériences à ce propos, pour aboutir à ce qu’il nomme les logogrammes, remarquable fusion de la peinture et de la poésie, et aboutissement de toute une vie de recherche. <p>Ce travail est structuré en trois points. Le premier établit une étude du contexte artistique et social des années précédent Cobra puis la mise en place du groupe. Le second aborde les années d’intense activité "officielle" du groupe, au service du collectif. Enfin, le troisième propose de suivre l’évolution post-Cobra des œuvres collectives et des recherches sur l’écriture et la peinture. / This thesis is a study of the Cobra movement through one of its characteristic components: the collective works. First of all it's about understanding the movement, its origins (three countries), its influences and its purpose of a free art, open, experimental, involvement with life. In a social after-war context, often politicized, Cobra defends collective action, notably defined in concepts of anti-specialism and inter-specialism. We should therefore underline the origins of this practice and undestand different aspects that it shows, in particular through publications, exhibitions or shared creations. The poet Christian Dotremont, leader and soul of Cobra, promotes cooperative work by collaboration and contributes to its development by stimulating artistic meetings. He is the purveyor and permanent "agitator" of this concept. The words-paintings that he creates with other artists, take part of his major thinking about writing and painting. This link interpellates a few Belgian artists like Pierre Alechinsky, but it fascinates Christian Dotremont who keeps experimenting on it, in order to reach what he calls the logograms, a remarkable fusion of painting and poetry, and a culmination of a life-time of research.<p>This work is structured in three parts. The first one draws a study of the artistic and social context of the years preceding Cobra and the setting up of the group. The second one talks about years of intense "official" activity of the group serving collective way of work. Finally, the third one offers to follow the post-Cobra evolution of collective works and researches about writing and painting. / Doctorat en Histoire, art et archéologie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

This diploma thesis mainly deals with the relationships between the poetic manifestations of socialist realism and so called total realism in the early fifties. The first part focuses on general issues; within it I try to describe characteristic features of both poetics, for total realism it is done mostly in the background of comparison with like-minded concepts (Hrabal's poems from the fifties, the works of former members of Group 42). In other chapters of the text I am thinking about a total realism from two aspects: first, as an alternative form of realism, which defines itself against the official art, as well as a program that is dependent on the official art to some extent by paraphrasing or using some of its means and resources.

The manifesto of the Quebecer art movement Automatism, the Refus global (Montreal, 1948), is today one of the best known socio-political writings of Quebec. It is considered to have been the beginning of Quebec's cultural modernity and an early sign of its political modernity. In the early 1940's the manifesto's author Paul-Émile Borduas (1905-1960) had already been praised for his art later named &amp;quot;Automatism&amp;quot;. It was seen by the automatists as the evolution of Surrealism (like Abstract Expressionism). Many art critics called this the first Canadian painting that followed the modern aesthetics of the time. According to the surrealist program the automatists aspired to create a new Quebec society. In 1948, the fact that their manifesto differed greatly from the conservative political and social ideas of Maurice Duplessis (Prime Minister of Quebec from 1936 to 1939 and from 1944 to 1959) made Borduas and the manifesto famous. It was considered to be an attack against the traditionalistic institutions because it not only required pictorial but also general liberty. Maurice Duplessis' death in 1959 was the beginning of the Quiet Revolution. During this eventful time the Quebecois began officially to identify with the modern state they were creating. The end of the old regime was also the beginning of a new Quebec nationalism which is important for the new reception of Automatism. The intellectuals discovered the Refus global and saw in Borduas their spiritual father in their claim for an original Quebec culture and a greater political autonomy. In the former condemnation of the manifesto they found the proof that the old political system in Quebec prevented modernity. This thesis traces the reception of Surrealism, Automatism and the Refus global in Quebec throughout the period from the 1940's to the turn of the century. It shows how modern (cultural and national) identity has been established, which groups have been interested in its construction and how the commemoration of the manifesto still helps today to support the nationalist project in Quebec. / Das Manifest des Automatismus, der Refus global (Montreal, 1948), zählt heute zu den bedeutendsten soziopolitischen Schriften Québecs und wird als Beginn der kulturellen und als Vorzeichen der politischen Moderne Québecs angesehen. Die Dissertation untersucht die Rezeption des Manifests und der quebecer Kunstströmung, die sich als eine Weiterentwicklung des europäischen Surrealismus sah, sowie den Wandel in der Sinnzuweisung. Der Untersuchungskorpus besteht aus Artikeln, Ausstellungskatalogen, Monografien, Dokumentarfilmen etc., die in den letzten 50 Jahren über den Automatismus bzw. den Refus global in Québec erschienen sind. Für ihre Analyse wurden literarische Rezeptionstheorien und &amp;quot;Gedächtnistheorien&amp;quot; (u.a. von Jauß, Assmann und Nora) herangezogen. Mit ihrer Hilfe wird der Weg nachgezeichnet, wie die Schrift und die Kunstbewegung in das kollektive quebecer Gedächtnis eingingen, um dem Aufbau einer modernen quebecer Identität zu dienen und den politischen Diskurs des Souveränismus in Québec zu stützen. Die Ergebnisse werfen auch ein Licht auf die Gruppen, die an diesem Prozess beteiligt waren und noch immer sind. Bereits zu Beginn der 1940er Jahre hatte der Autor des Manifests, Paul-Émile Borduas (1905-1960), die Aufmerksamkeit der Intellektuellen auf sich gezogen: Zahlreiche Kunstkritiker erkannten in seiner Malerei den Beginn einer originären kanadischen Kunst der Moderne, die nicht mehr die europäischen Vorbilder kopierte, sondern mit der zeitgenössischen Ästhetik (s. Abstrakter Expressionismus) aufschloss. Wie den Surrealisten, so ging es auch den Automatisten um die Schaffung einer neuen Gesellschaft. Ihr im Refus global dargelegtes Programm kontrastierte denn auch aufs Schärfste mit dem konservativen politischen und sozialen Diskurs von Maurice Duplessis (Premierminister von Québec von 1936 bis 1939 und von 1944 bis 1959), der zudem vom Antikommunismus in den USA beeinflusst wurde. Der Tod Duplessis' im Jahr 1959 war zugleich der Beginn der Révolution tranquille. Während dieser ereignisreichen Zeit identifizierten sich zahlreiche Quebecer mit dem modernen Staat, den sie schufen. Durch die Kontrastierung des Traditionalismus Duplessis' mit den Neuerungen der 1960er Jahre entstand der Eindruck, Québec trete erst jetzt in seine politische Moderne ein. Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Geschichtsinterpretation entstand ein neuartiger quebecer Nationalismus, der auf eine größere Autonomie Québecs abzielte und entscheidend für die Wahrnehmung des Automatismus war: Die Intellektuellen entdeckten den Refus global wieder und sahen in seinem Autor den geistigen Vater ihres Rufes nach einer originären quebecer Kultur der Moderne als Grundlage einer größeren politischen Autonomie. In den folgenden Jahren bedienten sie sich des Automatismus zur Schaffung einer neuen quebecer (Kultur-)Geschichte, in die der Ruf nach kollektiver Selbstbestimmung eingeschrieben wurde. So avancierten Borduas und die anderen Automatisten zu Vorvätern des modernen Québec. Diese Wahrnehmung der Bewegung wird begleitet von einer Abwertung der Leistungen anderer moderner quebecer Künstler und Immigranten und dient bis heute der Stärkung des nationalen Ichs

My goal is to study the nature of the Marvelous in René Depestre's Hadriana dans tous mes rêves. I want to demonstrate that René Depestre, in his novel, combines a number of surrealist or neo-surrealist premises that have influenced him as a Haitian writer. This goes beyond differences that can be discerned between the "Surrealist marvelous" endorsed by André Breton and the surrealists, and Alejo Capentier's "marvelous real"later proposed by Jacques Stephen Alexis as "marvelous realism" Depestre adapts Haitian natives' perceptions deep-rooted in their historical and social, cultural and religious past and ever-existing political and economical struggle. Taking into account both the surrealist perspective and the Haitian context, I shall address the complexity of the concept of the Marvelous and discuss Depestre's use of "zombification"as a form of metamorphosis, which preserves the mystical nature of Vodou as a religion that syncretizes the Roman Catholic ritual of exorcism of the Christian West and the animist and magical practices inherited from Africa. Scholars have explored the Marvelous and marvelous realism in Depestre's works as a whole, but not in Hadriana dans tous mes rêves specifically. The exclusive nature of this study will show that Depestre draws from Haiti's complex cultural ethos as well as from surrealism'es key principles, to create a hybrid Marvelous typical of Haiti and Depestre'es aesthetic as a writer. / text

Le surréalisme africain nécessite d’interroger la part de l’influence du surréalisme français. La terminologie implique, en effet, un lien entre l’écriture africaine et le mouvement français. Ce lien est mis en place à la fois par la critique et par les dialogues entre les deux univers. Senghor incite à considérer la part indépendante de ce surréalisme en évoquant un surréalisme négro-africain. Nous dégageons alors, derrière d’apparentes similitudes, des différences notables qui révèlent un surréalisme au service d’une compréhension du monde purement africaine. Le surréalisme africain serait l’expression de la perception traditionnelle africaine dont la forme s’apparente à celle mise en place par le mouvement parisien sans qu’il y ait nécessairement eu influence. / African Surrealism requires the question from the influence of French surrealism. Terminology implies, indeed, a link between African writing and the French movement. This link is established by both critics and the dialogues between the two worlds. Senghor encouraged to consider independent part of this surrealism evoking a black negro-african surrealism. We disclaim then behind apparent similarities, differences which reveal a surrealism in the service of understanding the world purely African. African surrealism is an expression of the traditional African perception whose shape is similar to that introduced by the Parisian movement without necessarily had influence.

The time period during which the Surrealist Group in Czechoslovakia and during which Vítězslav Nezval was creating surrealistic works has several theoretical bases in psychology and philosophy. The purpose of this thesis is to list these bases and interpret them in connection with Nezval's surrealistic works. Sources used comprise of fictional and theoretical literature and also period press and publications about surrealism.