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According to the Mirriam-Webster online dictionary, “grotesque” is defined as “a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature.” Originating from the Old Italian grottesca, cave painting, feminine of grottesco of a cave, from the time of its conception, the grotesque has been inexorably linked to art and the female. The work of other female artists that explore themes of the feminine grotesque are discussed, including Katheryn Wakeman, Jenny Saville, and Maria Lassnig. In my current work, I have been creating oil paintings of macro images of my own body to construct a fragmented and magnified, borderless, grotesque view of the body. The images focus on the mouth, due to its complicated nature as both internal and external, hidden and in plain sight, as well as due to connotations with speech, ingestion, and sexuality. The work walks a fine line between aesthetically pleasing while also commanding an uncomfortably visceral, fleshy quality. While the works are somewhat ambiguous and allow for various readings, they also allude to larger issues of sexism. The use of magnification and fragmentation references the insufficient representation of the female body both art historically —with the beautiful female nude painted by the male artist—as well as contemporarily in an overly-Photoshopped society. The visceral feeling of disgust should allow viewers to commune with their own bodies’ psychophysiological reactions and question the politics of how beauty standards are established as well as whether beauty is a valuable concept when judging the female form.

O presente trabalho pretende realizar o estudo sobre o modelo de corporalidade que foi difundido pela cinematografia recente inspirada pelo movimento cyberpunk. Marcados pela expressão de uma nova forma de dualismo que se funde com os pressupostos antes associados à chamada estética grotesca de um corpo pouco individualizado e aberto ao intercâmbio com o mundo externo e ao mesmo tempo bastante marcado por um novo tipo de conflito agora entre memória e organicidade. O texto discutirá também a contextualização social do movimento cyberpunk que pretendeu unificar a contracultura dos anos 60 com as discussões derivadas das novas tecnologias contemporâneas e seus efeitos nas novas concepções sobre corporeidade e conflito mente/corpo. / This thesis aims to analyze corporeality in cyberpunk cinema. This cinema is defined by a new form of dualism associated to the presuppositions of the grotesque aesthetics. It is a little individualized body and open to the interchange with the external world and defined by a new form of conflict between memory and organicity. The thesis shall also discuss the social context of cyberpunk, which aimed to combine countercultural discussions of the 1960s with discussions coming from the contemporary technologies and their effects on the new conceptions of corporeality and the body/mind dualism.

Submitted by LEANDRO LAGO SANTOS null (leandrolago@ymail.com) on 2016-07-10T02:03:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação_versão final_Leandro Lago.pdf: 8334646 bytes, checksum: 3614118466eb2d24ed58d50af6991384 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Paula Grisoto (grisotoana@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-07-12T18:02:55Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 santos_ll_me_ai.pdf: 8334646 bytes, checksum: 3614118466eb2d24ed58d50af6991384 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-12T18:02:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 santos_ll_me_ai.pdf: 8334646 bytes, checksum: 3614118466eb2d24ed58d50af6991384 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-05-12 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O presente trabalho propõe reflexões sobre o fenômeno do grotesco, que se define a partir de alguns aspectos como: estranho, bizarro, disforme, ridículo, híbrido, monstruoso, extravagante, cômico, trágico e tragicômico, trazendo como foco para esta discussão sua capacidade de dialogar elementos aparentemente contraditórios. Estas oposições que identificam tal fenômeno manifestam-se a partir de seu aspecto tragicômico. Soma-se a esta reflexão, aspectos característicos da linguagem do palhaço, em que o grotesco tragicômico é apontado como um dos importantes elementos constituintes dessa figura cômica, conforme exemplificados na dupla de palhaços, Branco e o Augusto. Toda esta discussão nos leva ao principal objetivo deste trabalho que é estabelecer uma analogia entre o grotesco tragicômico no palhaço e as personagens Doutor, Capitão e Woyzeck da obra Woyzeck de Georg Büchner. Nesse sentido, a pesquisa mostra-se importante na medida em que, propõe a discussão sobre o fenômeno estético do grotesco tragicômico, de forte influência em inúmeras produções artísticas e dramatúrgicas, ampliando nossa compreensão sobre o homem moderno, fortemente caracterizado por suas contradições. Além disso, aliar essa reflexão ao palhaço, nos ajuda a compreender os aspectos cômicos dessa figura, expandindo nossa forma de conceber o riso naturalmente atrelado à figura do palhaço, na sua capacidade de buscar no trágico da vida inspiração para suscitar o cômico. É a partir dessa reflexão, que buscamos uma aproximação entre esses aspectos do palhaço com algumas personagens da obra Woyzeck mantendo vivos um autor e uma obra de grandes contribuições para a história da dramaturgia moderna e contemporânea. / This work proposes reflections on the grotesque phenomenon, which is defined from some aspects such as: strange, bizarre, shapless, ridiculous, hybrid, horrendous, extravagant , funny and tragicomic, bringing as focus to this discussion it’s ability to dialogue seemingly contradictory elements. These oppositions that identify this phenomenon manifested from it’s tragicomic aspect. Added to this reflection, characteristic features of the clown language, in which the tragicomic grotesque is pointed out as one of the important constituents of this comic figure, as exemplified in the pair of clowns, Branco and Augusto. All of this discussion leads us to the main goal of this work, which is to establish an analogy between the tragicomic grotesque on the clown and the characters Doctor, Captain and Woyzeck of the artwork ‘Woyzeck’ by Georg Büchner. In this way, the research shows itself important as far as proposes a debate of the aesthetic phenomenon of tragicomic grotesque, strong influence in many artistic and dramaturgical productions, expanding our understanding of modern man, strongly characterized by its contradictions. Also, combine this reflection to the clown, helps us to understand the comedic aspects of this character, expanding our way of conceiving the laughter naturally, linked to the clown character, in their ability to seek the tragic aspect of life, inspiration to raise the comic. It is from this reflection, we seek an approach between these aspects of the clown with some characters of Woyzeck work keeping alive an author and an artwork of great contributions to the history of modern and contemporary dramatic art.