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Kueny, Claire. "Sculptures d’ombres : l’ombre projetée dans la sculpture à partir des années 1980." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA080064.
Full text“Shadow sculptures” are works of art where artists use projected shadows as a material. All works are composed with a basic projection device, and comprised of at least, a light source, a screen and an object. The shadow-pictures, still or moving, appear by the object’s interception of light. Since the 80’s, projected shadows have multiplied in sculpture. In addition, artists use them to enhance their picture quality. Inspired by the works from the beginning of the 20th century (such as László Moholy-Nagy’s Light-Space Modulator (1922-1930)), shadow sculptures stand between photography, cinema and sculpture, between sculpture and picture and between sculpture and projection. They use their technical vocabulary and their vision modality. This specificity distinguishes shadow sculptures from sculptures in the past few decades that preferred the sensorial quality of light and shadows. It also gives the opportunity to question the medium sculpture, which has been constantly (re-)defined since the late 60’s. Lastly, this specificity of shadow sculptures positions them in the context of the 80’s that they question and reflect. Artwork analyses, the definition of the medium sculpture, the study of the historical period beginning in the 80’s and the exploration of the shadows’ polysemy are the four principal elements investigated in the following PhD. They all participate to define shadow sculptures as a singular medium
Baghi, Alireza. "L'état de la création en arts plastiques en Iran depuis la révolution islamique." Strasbourg, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011STRA1097.
Full textSince the time of the Islamic Revolution, in 1979, it has been impossible to overlook the multiplicity and the strength of Iranian art, its sources, supports and materials, as well as the new areas it offers to creation and events. The keen interest for new technologies, already palpable under the Qajjar dynasty, has never ceased to expand into a variety of fields. Photography, cinema, printing, papers, and later broadcasting and television, first imported from the West, have been turned into new resources for the development of Iranian art. Thanks to the Internet, the art of Iran can now blossom without limits and enjoy worldwide recognition. Subsequently, it has been able to break free from original Western influences, enter the global playground and win full recognition in terms of both marketing approach and authenticity
Boivent, Marie. "La revue dʼartiste : enjeux et spécificités dʼune pratique artistique." Rennes 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011REN20015.
Full textBased on a significant number of examples from the 1960s to the present, this thesis explores the way artists have used the medium of the periodical to create a practice in its own right. Having determined the main characteristics of the artist’s periodical and how it overlaps with other editorial practices as well as the conditions that have influenced its development, the main thrust of this research is to uncover the issues at stake when choosing this artistic medium, which also has the particularity of being a media. A number of characteristics emerge in the course of the study, weaving links between projects that at first glance seem quite different. Thus, the analysis of these publications highlights the specific relationships between artist’ periodicals and the press – including use of parody, unflinching opposition to it or seeing it as an inexhaustible source of texts and images –, it unearths the way replication takes part in these projects, what’s more, it questions the editors’ desire for autonomy which often lies at the root of artists publications. Particular attention is paid to the manner in which artist-publishers compose using their independence and what it allows and/or what it implies on an artistic, political and economic level. Finally, this study endeavours to explore the specific terms of creation and reception connected to this practice, as well as the collective dimension of the periodical coupled with its serial nature and multiple links with concepts of time. The artistic practice and developments that accompany this research can be found in the appendix and have been spread throughout the pages of the volumes in order to establish a dialogue
Landry, Mélissa. "La réception du portrait chez Pascal Grandmaison : une expérience postmoderne de l'aura." Thesis, Université Laval, 2010. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2010/27320/27320.pdf.
Full textKueny, Claire. "Sculptures d’ombres : l’ombre projetée dans la sculpture à partir des années 1980." Thesis, Paris 8, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA080064.
Full text“Shadow sculptures” are works of art where artists use projected shadows as a material. All works are composed with a basic projection device, and comprised of at least, a light source, a screen and an object. The shadow-pictures, still or moving, appear by the object’s interception of light. Since the 80’s, projected shadows have multiplied in sculpture. In addition, artists use them to enhance their picture quality. Inspired by the works from the beginning of the 20th century (such as László Moholy-Nagy’s Light-Space Modulator (1922-1930)), shadow sculptures stand between photography, cinema and sculpture, between sculpture and picture and between sculpture and projection. They use their technical vocabulary and their vision modality. This specificity distinguishes shadow sculptures from sculptures in the past few decades that preferred the sensorial quality of light and shadows. It also gives the opportunity to question the medium sculpture, which has been constantly (re-)defined since the late 60’s. Lastly, this specificity of shadow sculptures positions them in the context of the 80’s that they question and reflect. Artwork analyses, the definition of the medium sculpture, the study of the historical period beginning in the 80’s and the exploration of the shadows’ polysemy are the four principal elements investigated in the following PhD. They all participate to define shadow sculptures as a singular medium
Viel, Louis. "La question des relations arts et sciences dans les pratiques artistiques contemporaines." Toulouse 2, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007TOU20037.
Full textThe aim of this research is to study the relationship between the arts and the sciences in contemporary art. It takes an « open » epistemological viewpoint. The study consists of two parts. The first part is focused on establishing the position, in the overall context of contemporary artistic production, of those works considered as « arts et sciences ». Artists in this field adopt a transgressive attitude and we show that the otherness of these works allows these creative artists to be included as members of the working community, in particular through the adaptations that make up the foundation materials of their works. Furthermore, it is productive to compare the techniques employed by the artist, using reality as material, with those developed by scientists who use reality to explain and predict the natural phenomena of our Universe. The aim of the second part of the study is to demonstrate that, for the spectator-actor, it is particularly rewarding, when engaging with a work of contemporary art, to go beyond initial aesthetic impressions. Using selected examples, we provide evidence to link the interpretation of a work with such broad « universal » concepts as time, space and the material nature of the world, and the various questions that arise there from. This approach shows that contemporary art contributes to an understanding of the world by displaying scientific information, in a manner other than that expressed by science
Eggers, Françoise. "Forme et histoire Sur la théorie de l'art de Max Raphael (1889-1952)." Paris 4, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA040188.
Full textThe theorist and philosopher of art Max Raphael (1889-1952) bequeathed a work of a very great richness. However only a negligible part of his writings was published as well in Germany as in France and in the United States where he resided successively. The objective of this research is to show the coherence of his work at first sight eclectic, exploring fields as different as traditional painting but also the cubism, the Greek architecture, medieval architecture or constructivist, then the cave paintings and archaic art in the last years of his life. Overcoming cleavage between idealism and materialism, having conceived an empirical method of analysis of the works of art, Raphael works out this idiom which is peculiar to him where crystallize the fundamental concepts allowing, according to him, to realize of the emergence of the form in the matter and within the process of artistic creation. However deeply rooted in the German idealistic tradition, his work comes within the context of a resolutely innovative step, between hermeneutics and iconology, and prefigures in many ways the modern esthetics
Desiderio, Pauline. "L'art contemporain comme experiences de paradoxes : anamorphoses et autres distorsions de l'espace-temps." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019MON30095.
Full textThe anamorphosis, or the art of picture that deploys itself into space by forming and deforming itself, proposes a strange and singular experience. If it seems to be born during the Renaissance, it spread out later on the wall of cartesians’ centers in the 17th century, to drive the viewer into doubt. Later, it was found in the 20th century with surrealists’ works, where they were using it to show double pictures. It comes back today in contemporary art transcended by the possibility to go beyond the frame. Felice Varini and Georges Rousse atomize and distort pictures, throwing them into space, even if they are usually two-dimensional ones. Markus Raetz and Tjeerd Alkema create sculptures that transform themselves when the public walks around in the room and comes closer or farther. A poetical aestheticism of distortion and paradox, of a subjective and perceptive relativity, will bring us step by step from the anamorphosis experience to the space-time singularities of the universe
Wang, Hongfeng. "Être artiste à Shanghai au début du XXI' siècle, entre institutions publiques et marché." Paris 7, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA070073.
Full textThe development of the art market in China has drastically changed the Chinese art world for 30 years. This market is supervised, controlled and monitored by the govemment which also vigorously takes part in its expansion. First, this thesis disçusses the analysis of public and private mechanisms which allow artists to practice their professions. All these mechanisms are presented in a historical perspective. The main research field of this thesis is the city of Shanghai. It shows that these public and private mechanisms, far away from opposing each other, interpenetrate each other. Second, this thesis talks about artistic careers: from training programs in schools and at universities to part-time or full¬time pursuit of the artistic profession on the local, national or international stage. This survey is based on questionnaires and interviews with artists and students who are very involved in visual arts. Thus, this thesis is both a contribution to the literature on changes in the fast 30 years and to the one on artistic careers
Majoul, Madiha. "La création artistique, les théories des fractales et du chaos : (L'art et la nouvelle vision scientifique de la complexité)." Paris 1, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA010504.
Full textBellec-Nado, Gaëlle. "Le Royaume du Bhoutan, dépositaire du Bouddhisme de Dorje Thegpa : la statuaire en argile : patrimoine matériel et immatériel (du 17e au 21e siècle) : définition d’un style régional." Paris 4, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA040222.
Full textIn the twenty-first century, Bhutan is the sole depository of the masterpieces of the statuary of Tibetan origin of Dorje Thegpa (skt. Vajrayâna) Buddhism. Traditional Bhutanese craftsmanship stands as the guarantor of the transmission of this material and immaterial religious heritage. Nevertheless, the Tibetan model has moved towards a regional drukpa kagyu and nyingma interpretation due to the unification of the territory during the seventeenth century. Replaced in the universe of its creation /in situ/ or in workshops, the clay statuary offers a diverse corpus of shapes preserved by the official institutions for its protection and development. However, its diversity partially fades during the natural breaking down of the layered elements which compose the statues, and during their reconstruction. In the hands of religious practitioners, the hollow part of the clay pieces comes alive from the inside to become a basis for faith along the pilgrimage routes or in sacred places. By receiving the monopoly of Bhutanese clay statuary, the jimzop craftsmen open new perspectives in the regional interpretation of appearances
Caron, Jean-Michel. "Art - expérience." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/26336.
Full textTrapp, Franziska. "Lectures de cirque contemporain : un modèle d'analyse des représentations circassiennes axé sur des textes et contextes." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019MON30002.
Full textIn 1996, the Paris newspaper Libération predicted a third era of circus after visiting the seventh edition of the Centre National des Arts du Cirque: “After traditional and new circus, we now have to account for contemporary circus.” The prognosis became reality: nowadays, in France as elsewhere, the performance of Joseph Nadj is considered as the starting point of a new genre whose definition however remains vague: “The contemporary circus has no formal unity. It is paradoxically the diversity of its forms that unifies the genre.” On the one hand, this is explained by the fact that originality is a central motor in contemporary circus; on the other hand, the genre is still developing . A further reason for the lack of a clear definition lies in the absence of detailed analyses of contemporary circus performances in circus research, and in the desideratum regarding a coherent model for its interpretation. The current discourse dedicated to the genre is less interested in knowing how contemporary circus performances generate meaning and in outlining the characteristic techniques and processes. Instead, one wonders what should characterize the performances. The present thesis takes into account this desideratum by developing for the first time a method to analyse representations of contemporary circus. In addition, it resolutely explains and interprets the genre by means of a contextualized description of the object - namely representation - in its historical and cultural context. In the Lessingian sense of the term, the thesis therefore provides a dramaturgy of contemporary circus which, despite the diversity of representations, reveals generalizable characteristics of the genre, the fundamental techniques and structures of the performances. and the effects they produce. The development of a reading model for contemporary circus performances as well as the consequent evolution and the specification of the model are grounded in the textual analysis of poetics of culture that the literary scholar Moritz Baßler justifies in his work on the basis of the theory of New Historicism designed by Stephen Greenblatt. In addition, the present work situates itself in the field of reading theories pertaining to theatre (Fischer-Lichte ) and dance studies (Foster and Brandstetter ). The core of the argument is based on the assumption that circus performances are readable as cultural texts
Thibault-Morin, Maude. "Construire des mondes : une démarche picturale immersive." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/28346.
Full textGonzález, Vásquez Angélica. "Les écrits des curateurs : analyse depuis la théorie curatoriale et l'histoire des expositions." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA080091.
Full textThis thesis questions the practice field and discursive positions recently called curating. The perspective we have selected is the analysis of writings by contemporary art curators. Of varied nature, these texts allow us to discern their understanding of their practice of organizing exhibitions and diverse activities for the public display of art. With the purpose of tackling the proximity and the distance between the construction of curatorial theory on one hand, and on the other, curatorial practice as determined by a set of rules and processes decided by a disciplinary and professional community. The notion of the curatorial field is approached through various sociological and philosophical concepts that lead us to deepen our inquiry about writing to a concrete field of exhibitions. Selected historical cases allow us to address the issue of written traces left by an exhibition; equally important, we examine certain problems related to the construction of the history of art events in contemporary art. The last part of this research is devoted to the question of discursive strategies of positioning by curators, starting with publications that first appear in the 1990s. These discursive forms, among others, constitute the foundation of teaching in recent curatorial training
Blanchet, Anne-Sophie. "Lorsque le spectateur se fait acteur : la manoeuvre artistique." Thesis, Université Laval, 2012. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2012/29378/29378.pdf.
Full textLevy, Fanny. "FIGURES SANS VISAGE Disparaitre, Dessiner, S'apparaitre." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/40162.
Full textRobitaille, Vincent, and Vincent Robitaille. "Comment occuper calmement une position non-définie par l'autre." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/37874.
Full textJe suis né juste avant les vidéo VHS. Je ne sais toujours pas ce que les gens vivent. Ni ce qu’ils connaissent. Lorsqu’ils ferment une porte. Lorsqu’ils en ouvrent une. Le tourbillon. L’électricité. Le grand oui enfin. Je ne sais comment les gens cultivent leur sens. Je fais état ici de mes enquêtes sur les conditions passagères et favorables à l’état de grâce; celui qui sait me libérer juste assez longtemps de mon existence parfois trop actuelle pour me redonner l’envie d’y rejouer toujours. Projection, transfert; je m’identifie souvent aux contextes que je visite momentanément. Afin d’éviter qu’une langue vivante ne devienne langue morte, la kabbale juive, en interprétant seulement les consonnes, traduit ainsi un cantique de la première bible en hébreu: «Le double véritable de l’homme habite dans une pièce sans porte avec une seule fenêtre de laquelle il ne peut se faire entendre des hommes; celui qui parvient à maîtriser son double, et à le civiliser, celui-là sera en paix avec lui-même.» Moi qui aurai eu la chance d’être parfois entendu. Peut-être dans un même ordre d’idées, un passage de la médecine autochtone d’ici suggère que la corneille a un pied dans chaque monde: celui connu, et l’autre. Les Anciens disent que lorsque la corneille se mire dans une flaque d’eau en forêt, elle s’y penche et griffe son propre reflet. J’essaie d’entendre. Je n’ai pas su encore parler d’amour.
Paul, Frédéric. "Convergences aventureuses : l’écho des années soixante-dix californiennes sur l’art européen des années quatre-vingt-dix et autres essais sur l’art contemporain." Rennes 2, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00383238/fr/.
Full textThe art scene in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s established favourable terrain for the investigations of a new generation of artists, even if it did not enjoy any real logistical support, be it from the art trade or from institutions. The conceptual art promoted at the same time by Seth Siegelaub in New York prepared an alternative to Minimal art. This phenomenon already had its equivalent in Europe. The dematerialization of the work of art would have decisive consequences in California, where it gave rise to a Conceptual art stripped of any dogmatism and marked by the influence of powerful personalities like Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari. East coast artists such as Douglas Huebler, William Wegman, and Robert Cumming, plus Ruppersberg in the Midwest, would find more stimulating working conditions on the other side of the United States. Europeans like Bas Jan Ader and his colleague Ger van Elk would follow the same path. Their works would not find any immediate on-the-spot visibility, but after a gap of about fifteen years, a new generation of European artists (let us mention artists like Claude Closky, in France, and Jonathan Monk, in England) leaned on those older brothers and elevated them to the rank of primary references. Using selected examples of artists and a corpus of texts put together since the beginning of the 1990s, written for various exhibition catalogues, reviews and publishers, the aim of this thesis is to introduce this dialogue between generations and shed light on certain convergences despite the disparity of institutional and societal contexts
Kobryn, Olga. "Esthétique de la durée." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA055.
Full textThe main topic of this work develops from the intuition that there would be, inside the contemporary regime of art - despite the impression of extreme heterogeneity that its artistic expressions could give at first sight - a common aesthetic moment, a common moment of form and conceptual investigation, that will be defined throughout this work as the notion of Aesthetics of Duration. Such a theoretical notion refers to a certain number of installations, contemporary moving images created for museum space as well as cinematographic productions. However, it does not only involve Henri Bergson’s concept of Duration even though the theory echoes it in several ways, such as the idea of becoming as a change of quality. The approach turns out to be at the origin of a new conceptualization of the very form of works of art. Deeply influencing the development of a singular aesthetic approach, The Aesthetics of Duration defines the contemporary artistic regime as an independent regime of thought that could be qualified as conceptual
Anzellotti, Elisa. "Memoria e materia della danza : problemi conservativi di un patrimonio culturale immateriale." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA080130.
Full textThis paper aims to discuss the difficulties involved in the preservation of the an intangible cultural heritage: the Dance.We shall begin from an aesthetic and philosophical premise as we investigate the problems that arise with an art form whose virtual essence lives in the ephemeral. However, this quality and the different perception of time and space that the dance create, that allows this art form to adapt to the fluidity of the 21st century - an era encumbered by dynamic dichotomies.In order to fully understand the importance of preserving this cultural heritage, an entire chapter has been devoted to “intangible cultural heritage legislation” which includes particular reference to dance works and copyright laws. An understanding of this aspect is essential - especially when confronting problems related to exploring and researching within dance archives - a prominent theme in this work. The thesis then moves onward to define the element of dance itself, with particular attention placed on the dancer’s instrument (the body) and the new technology. Only after thoroughly exploring this fundamental aspect, we will then discuss the sensitive issue of dance archive preservation.The preliminary exploration and definition in the thesis then brings us to the main question: How can we preserve and protect dance masterpieces in the digital era, especially with respect to current changes in National museums and archive conservation.Specific examples with regards to dance conservation and its evolution have been hued from selected European Institutions and in particular, those in Italy. One of the overriding concepts throughout this thesis has been to focus on the topic from the dancers point of view and therefore, collaborating with important dance figures such as the French master, Dupuy, has offered invaluable insight. It is the hope of this thesis to lay the ground work of a theoretical basis for an ideal center to study and preserve the evolution of dance in Italy
Il presente lavoro ha come obiettivo quello di affrontare un discorso conservativo di un bene culturale immateriale, qual è la danza.Partendo da una premessa estetico filosofica, si indagano le problematiche che si pongono in essere con un’arte la cui essenza risiede nell’effimero. Questa caratteristica, insieme alla diversa percezione di spazio e tempo che si ha con la danza, fanno sì che si adatti meglio di altre arti ai cambiamenti di questo secolo fluido e pieno di dicotomie.Per comprendere appieno l’importanza della salvaguardia di tale bene è stato dedicato un capitolo alla legislazione dei beni culturali intangibili, con particolare riferimento alla danza e al diritto d’autore, fondamentale anche quando si vanno ad affrontare le problematiche riguardanti gli archivi, punto su cui è incentrato molto del lavoro. Tema cardine è infatti la questione della conservazione della danza sia nelle sue componenti materiali, ma soprattutto nella sua immaterialità. Ruolo centrale è rivestito dal corpo del danzatore, elemento sfuggente come in tutte le arti performative. Particolare attenzione viene data alle nuove tecnologie (fotografia, cinema e video) senza tralasciare la documentazione e la conservazione che si ha con la scrittura e le immagini (con specifico riferimento al rapporto con le arti plastiche). Vengono presi in esame poi specifici esempi europei e italiani per indagare la situazione inerente la conservazione della danza. Un criterio che ha guidato la scelta è stato proprio quello di dare risalto al danzatore. In questo modo si sono volute gettare le basi teoriche per un ideale centro per lo studio e la conservazione della danza in Italia sul modello francese del CND
Bach, Caroline. "Quand l’art contemporain s’intéresse à l’économie : espaces de travail et formes économiques en question." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019MON30088.
Full textIn a book entitled Art and Economy, Jean-Marc Huitorel stated, in his introductio,n that 'artist provides tools to read the world.' For the artists whose practice is looking outward and consists, among other things, into provide tools to understand the read (Allan Sekula or Alfredo Jarr, for instance), an approach with economy is inevitable, without, however becoming necessarily specialists. Whether through flows cartography or exploring global trade mechanisms, on a large scale, or whether through a different scale, exploring spaces and working conditions, they fit perfectly into the current 'heterodox' (which claims the plurality of approaches) and give full legitimacy to the dialogue between art and economy
Gee, Gabriel. "La création et ses formes dans le contexte socio-politique de la Grande-Bretagne : les scènes artistiques dans le Nord de l'Angleterre des années 1980 au début du 21e siècle." Paris 10, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA100132.
Full textThis research focuses on the art scenes in the cities of the North of England from the late seventies and the election of Margaret Thatcher at the head of the British government to the beginning of the 215` century. The production, exhibition, and reception of contemporary arts in Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne are studied in relation to the socio-political context of the time. These Northem cities have witnessed the progressive demise of their traditional economies based on manufacture and various industriel activities. The politics of Thatcherism during the 1980s increased the tensions in between north and south, the capital London and the provinces. During the 1990s, economic regeneration strategies involving arts and particularly contemporary visual arts have prevailed in the reconstructions of the urban, the economic, and identities in the North of England. This study looks at the development of the arts during the period in relation to this context of major social and economic transformations, considering the consequences in tenus of infrastructures, institutional policies of art exhibition, as well as oppositions, resistance, and more generally the interaction that connects the artists, artists practices, to the cultural policies, the evolution of the environment, of regional, national, and global economies, and the evolutions of British society locally and nationaley
Darida, Veronika. "La théorie de la représentation chez Louis Marin." Paris 12, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA120017.
Full textAt his death in 1992, the eminent philosopher, critic and theorist Louis Marin left unfinished his books on Poussin (Sublime Poussin) and Philippe de Champaigne. These books interrogate the theory and practice of representation as it is carried out by both linguistic and graphic signs, and thus the complex relation between language and image. Reading images of Poussin and Champaigne offers us a cultural study of seventeenth century, a history of art and aesthetics and an analysis of reception. Marin demonstrates with consummate rigor why the pursuit of a general theory of representation is experienced by artists and critics alike as an inevitable, yet unattainable objective
Pellicciotti, Elena. "André Malraux et l’ethnologie : le dialogue des cultures entre civilisations et art." Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040067.
Full textAndré Malraux has always been attracted by the Other, by distant civilisations, by adventure and the definition of mankind. In this thesis, I have used ethnology as an original key of interpretation of his work, which forms a complex and difficult to classify corpus. The main aim of this study was to reconstruct the connections between Malraux’s thinking, style and artistic achievements and the ethnological ideas, theories and practices flourishing in his times. In the first part of this thesis, I describe the original context in which both Malraux’s work and ethnology as a discipline developed. I investigate the historical settings in which ethnology was born and developed in France, together with its cultural and societal implications. In the second part, I focus on Malraux’s work, and analyse a number of topics that I have identified as of particular relevance for my research assumption : the attraction for the exotic, colonialism and the myth of the adventurer, and the two major themes of the Sacred and Evil, in particular. In the third and final section, I look at the way art is regarded in Malraux’s works, considering three different aspects : his interest in primitive arts ; the relation between oriental and western culture ; and the idea of the museum as it is laid out in the ethnological approach and as it emerges from Malraux’s writings, with particular attention to the notion of “Musée imaginaire”
Chevallier, Jennifer Geneviève. "L’empreinte du chamane : le souffle de la pensée chamanique dans l’art contemporain des Premières Nations au Canada. Essai de sociologie de l’art entre 1990 et 2010." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030025.
Full textShamanism in contemporary native art in Canada is becoming one of the most relevant ethnic markers. It is the sacred place, the major source for cultural resistance, with strong roots and political implications underneath. It works as a powerful identity referent. As we analyse the aesthetic phenomenon from a modern perspective,different issues are emerging : how shamanism is acknowledged, both as a concept and as a practice by the First Nations artists ? Which social functions and philosophical involvements are assumed by the contemporary “shamanic art”, considering its symbolic part as the keeper of identity and spirituality, or/and performed or seen as a healing process ?In the postmodern artistic context, shamanism may be considered as an essential source of power and inspiration, a sacred land that most of the native artists are now exploring, defining therefore a new ontology. From the deep roots of the traditional knowledge, their legacy, and through their own contemporary experiment, these artists are trying to bring back the original wisdom in order to reconnect themselves with the native cosmogony and consequently, to reduce the psychic schism between traditionalism’s nostalgy and contemporary indianness (nativeness). Therefore the status of “betweenness”, that is specifically attributed to the native artists, is shifted into a power of creative transformation. This thesis analyses the process of shamanistic inspiration in contemporary native art, through the philosophical and political issues as well as with an anthropological and aesthetics point of view. The historical and sociological contexts are explored before defining th! e two main missions of the “Shamen of Art” : the rewrighting of the History and the Conquest of Identity, drawing through the recognition of their alterity, the architecture of a new “Amerindia”
Breuil, Marie-Hélène. "L'œuvre de Claude Rutault définitions/méthodes : peinture, écriture, sociabilité." Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040023.
Full textClaude Rutault's work has developed in the years since 1973 using statements which he calls "definitions/methods", later abbreviated to "d/m", then, more recently "dm". This study, entitled "The Work of Claude Rutault - definitions/methods : painting, writing, sociability" considers the basic principal of the definitions/methods, their formal, theoretical and social implications, as well as the conditions under which the work was produced, whether in the early nineteen seventies or in recent years. Using the original statement: "a canvas, stretched on a frame, painted the same colour as the wall on which it is hung", Claude Rutault has produced a large body of written work which argue for the specific nature of painting through an analysis of its materiality, its history and its different functions. Considering the specific relationship of this work to the passage of time - every time a definition/method is realised, it is reactivated - I have articulated this study around two hypotheses : the possibility of painting as writing and the eminently political nature of Rutault's practice, which redefines the artist's work and status and those of the collector and the art institution
Kapelusz, Anyssa. "Usages du dispositif au théâtre. Fabrique et expérience d'un art contemporain." Thesis, Paris 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA030170.
Full textThis Ph.D. dissertation examines the evolution of the theatrical performance – in its most immediately contemporary state – in light of the mutations engendered by a variety of inter-artistic, intermediary and interdisciplinary exchanges. The study is founded on the analysis of a corpus of recent productions that effectuate a conscious re-centering of their own dispositif: namely through establishing a multi-media and spatially-installed material layout. Often immersive, these productions provoke an individualized aesthetic experience in the spectator, materializing in different kinds of physical activation, participation, or direct involvement. By tropism, these creations are frequently designated as "dispositifs", a term that is often applied when the theatrical specificities of a production are displaced, especially after having undergone multiple hybridations. The dissertation proceeds in a double trajectory. First, it distinguishes different uses of "dispositif" in theatrical discourses, which translates on multiple levels into placing the theatrical apparatus under question – much in contrast to theater as a frame of reference. In parallel, the study examines what at the heart of these creative practices actually constructs "dispositif", thus observing the articulation between material organization and aesthetic experience that occurs during the course of the theater event. Mixing the study of discourses and aesthetic approaches, this dissertation considers the dispositif as a dynamic of variation and as the sign of a theoretical repositioning, focusing on the relational positions highlighted in the art work by these different artistic propositions
Bentabed, Leïla. "Chemins et langages de la peinture allemande de 1900 à 1945 : Klee et Kandinsky." Paris 4, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA040059.
Full textThe artistic method of Klee and Kandinsky is based on the hypothesis that world and creative product emerge simultaneously. Founded on the unity of their life, thought, teaching, and painting, in the first part of my twofold study regarding both thes artist I am focussing on a constrastive analysis of their (autobiographical, poetical, theoretical and didactic) writings. This body of fundamental texts of these two predecessors of abstract art reveals a metaphysical thought, creating an original connection between occident and orient. Thereby, the two artists succeed in resolving the greatest paradox of modern art, namely the relationship between the visible and the invisible. The second part of my thesis is concerned with the analysis of the paintings of these two artists, using my own semiological method. A parallel, dynamic reading and decoding of Klee’s and Kandinsky's signs and archetypes demonstrates that their specific aesthetic expression is the passage from visible to invisible. My semiological method, based on a combination of a variety of theotical approaches, thereby joins the current challenges posed by modern theories of art
Gourde, Étienne. "La fin de l'art." Thesis, Université Laval, 2010. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2010/27061/27061.pdf.
Full textMasoura, Athina. "L’expérience immersive du spectateur dans l’art de l’installation." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA080103.
Full textImmersion, a key concept in contemporary sculpture, especially in installation art, is a complex reality that can also be found in others areas like literature, cinema or interactive virtual environments.This multidisciplinary identity has, one the one hand, nourished a rich study of the topic, but has also inhibited the development of an universal definition of the term. Our ambition is to search for and identify the particular connections between contemporary art and the experience of immersion. This immersive experience, a strongly influence in current artistic expression, is part of an evolution of the work of art and a re-evaluation of the place of the spectator. Since the 1960s, we identify the emergence of several artistic movements which oppose the separative dualism between subject and work, encouraging an intense engagement of the spectator in the artistic proposal. In order to analyse the immersive experience of contemporary installations, we have combined theoretical approaches from diverse fields, the various works of contemporary artists, and my own conception and personal practice of immersion as an artist-researcher. The disconnection from our usual environment, the embodied presence of the spectator in the fictional world of the work, displayed in real space and time, as well as sensory and psychological absorption, remain our main research features of immersion as we analyze it
McInnis, Catherine. "L'odeur du sang humain me rit et autres considérations sur le métier de peintre." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/29465.
Full textFalardeau, Isabelle. "Le chantier cyclique du construit, de l’effacement et de ce qui les relie." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/69490.
Full textLatreille, Emmanuel. "Le monde comme art." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018REN20024.
Full textModern and contemporary art have abandoned the system of Representation to experiment with other functions and to offer a new “beholder” different relations with a lived reality. To do this, something fundamental had to alter the artist’s relation to the world: space is no longer developed by means of the work, or within it. For modern artist, space is a “given” in which he is immediately placed, like any being. This means that there is no space peculiar to the work of art which is not the space of the world itself. Art is the world, through the involvement of everything occupying its space.This is what, in talking about the Cubists, Jean Paulhan (1884-1968) called “raw space” and “spontaneous space”, which is here described as “real space”, to differentiate it from any spatial fiction. It is also what Marcel Duchamp developed in his experiments involving things and language, leading him to devise that new matrix of art known as the Readymade,replacing Perspective. So what we call contemporary art is an art that is developed within the world, involving beings and things, forms and signs, invariably already there. For everyone, understanding art is grasping how, without being able to sidestep, the encounter between these contradictory entities is enacted, aimed at a new unity and expressing the intuition of the world as a Whole.This thesis is such an effort at comprehension, which, in my activities as an exhibition curator and art critic, has been shared with artists, at very close quarters with works and in many different contexts, within the framework of those institutions of “regional development”, the regional contemporary art collections (FRAC)
Chutaux, Corina. "Art, littérature et Intelligence Artificielle. Sur le chemin de la dématérialisation." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2025. http://www.theses.fr/2025SORUL021.
Full textWith the emergence of generative artificial intelligences, numerous concerns have shaken the fields of art and literature, potentially dividing the world into two diametrically opposed categories: technophobes and technophiles. This thesis aims to reconcile art, literature, and artificial intelligence by providing a state-of-the-art overview on these questions and by outlining avenues for interpreting algorithmic aesthetics and poetics. It specifically seeks to shed light on the different semantics of creativity. In the face of new realities, terms must be readjusted, recycled, or even reinterpreted. The artist and the writer are called to reconsider their achievements and reinvent themselves, as art history has demonstrated repeatedly, albeit in a less ambiguous manner during the paragone with photography. What does it mean to be an artist or a writer at the dawn of dematerialization? What contribution can artificial intelligence make to the fields of art and literature? How can these three seemingly disjointed domains be connected, and how can this breaking down of barriers become a strength within the creative ecosystem? What are the current limits of artificial intelligences hic et nunc but also the limits of human artists in the face of a crisis of representation, felt by art critics for over a century ?representation observed by art critics for over a century
Anzellotti, Elisa. "Memoria e materia della danza : problemi conservativi di un patrimonio culturale immateriale." Thesis, Paris 8, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA080130.
Full textThis paper aims to discuss the difficulties involved in the preservation of the an intangible cultural heritage: the Dance.We shall begin from an aesthetic and philosophical premise as we investigate the problems that arise with an art form whose virtual essence lives in the ephemeral. However, this quality and the different perception of time and space that the dance create, that allows this art form to adapt to the fluidity of the 21st century - an era encumbered by dynamic dichotomies.In order to fully understand the importance of preserving this cultural heritage, an entire chapter has been devoted to “intangible cultural heritage legislation” which includes particular reference to dance works and copyright laws. An understanding of this aspect is essential - especially when confronting problems related to exploring and researching within dance archives - a prominent theme in this work. The thesis then moves onward to define the element of dance itself, with particular attention placed on the dancer’s instrument (the body) and the new technology. Only after thoroughly exploring this fundamental aspect, we will then discuss the sensitive issue of dance archive preservation.The preliminary exploration and definition in the thesis then brings us to the main question: How can we preserve and protect dance masterpieces in the digital era, especially with respect to current changes in National museums and archive conservation.Specific examples with regards to dance conservation and its evolution have been hued from selected European Institutions and in particular, those in Italy. One of the overriding concepts throughout this thesis has been to focus on the topic from the dancers point of view and therefore, collaborating with important dance figures such as the French master, Dupuy, has offered invaluable insight. It is the hope of this thesis to lay the ground work of a theoretical basis for an ideal center to study and preserve the evolution of dance in Italy
Il presente lavoro ha come obiettivo quello di affrontare un discorso conservativo di un bene culturale immateriale, qual è la danza.Partendo da una premessa estetico filosofica, si indagano le problematiche che si pongono in essere con un’arte la cui essenza risiede nell’effimero. Questa caratteristica, insieme alla diversa percezione di spazio e tempo che si ha con la danza, fanno sì che si adatti meglio di altre arti ai cambiamenti di questo secolo fluido e pieno di dicotomie.Per comprendere appieno l’importanza della salvaguardia di tale bene è stato dedicato un capitolo alla legislazione dei beni culturali intangibili, con particolare riferimento alla danza e al diritto d’autore, fondamentale anche quando si vanno ad affrontare le problematiche riguardanti gli archivi, punto su cui è incentrato molto del lavoro. Tema cardine è infatti la questione della conservazione della danza sia nelle sue componenti materiali, ma soprattutto nella sua immaterialità. Ruolo centrale è rivestito dal corpo del danzatore, elemento sfuggente come in tutte le arti performative. Particolare attenzione viene data alle nuove tecnologie (fotografia, cinema e video) senza tralasciare la documentazione e la conservazione che si ha con la scrittura e le immagini (con specifico riferimento al rapporto con le arti plastiche). Vengono presi in esame poi specifici esempi europei e italiani per indagare la situazione inerente la conservazione della danza. Un criterio che ha guidato la scelta è stato proprio quello di dare risalto al danzatore. In questo modo si sono volute gettare le basi teoriche per un ideale centro per lo studio e la conservazione della danza in Italia sul modello francese del CND
Velasco, lugo Julio. "L'artiste comme stratège : topographie de l'art contemporain à Paris au début du XXIe siècle." Thesis, Paris 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA01H301.
Full textThis work concerns the question of art territories, but not, as is often the case, for their repercussions on their neighbourhood, but for their contribution to the plastic creation itself. In the first part, the terms of the research are defined: the word "strategy" in the artistic context as well as in other contexts; the "art districts". according to their use: creation, exhibition and residence; the "people of art", considered as the group that creates, conceptually the artwork. The second part presents, in addition to a historical synthesis, six territories of contemporary art: Faubourg Saint-Denis (Paris). which is the backbone of this work, Macarena (Bogota), San Telmo (Buenos Aires), Belleville (Paris), the Red Hook (New York) and the city of Berlin. The third part analyses the individual work of seven contemporary art personalities who lived in Faubourg SaintDenis since 2000: Nathalie Heinich, Nicolas Bourriaud, Jean-Philippe Antoine, Thomas Hirschhorn, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Pierre Huyghe and Olga Kisseleva. The last part links this research with the work of its author. The conclusion highlights a series of hypotheses emerging from this study: places of art as an instrument of identification of the different groups working in art; the notion of "debate" as a form of strategy, with an internal level (who participates and in what capacity) and a global level (the role of art in society); artists considered not as a socio-professional category, but as "products" of every social group; art as a form of participation in a common territory more than as a self-space
Sheedy, Catherine. "De la structure à la «sculpture installative»." Thesis, Université Laval, 2007. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2007/24985/24985.pdf.
Full textAkhras, Yveline. "Regard aveugle, regard multiple dans la peinture." Paris 1, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA010714.
Full textDubois-Joucla, Leila. "L'utopie et ses monstres : images du corps et perspectives des nouvelles technologies." Bordeaux 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009BOR30033.
Full textThis research work has been built along a visual art thought upon the image of the body in the era of digital technology. It leans on a personal plastic practice, dedicated to the diversion of the advertising ideal of beauty, that has contributed to fix the limits of the research. The dreams of perfection of the western society have always shaped the human body in the image of an ideal. This body was thus considered has beautiful, but the reverse side was sometimes monstrous. Today, the powerful wave of technological and scientific innovations is reviving these dreams, opening up the way to new utopian views and new images. On the art scene, among the hyper idealized visions that flood our everyday environment, freaks bred by the digital technology and the multimedia are arising. In the meantime, some figures created by contemporary artists can be distinguished by their ambivalence between dream body and feared body. A few examples are: Aziz and Cucher, Michaël Najjar, Nicole Tran Ba Vang, Inez Van Lamsweerde, or Keith Cottingham. How can these images be interpreted, at this moment in time where the fascination exerted by the contemporary mutations is at least as important as the fears and the doubts that they inspire? Would it be the desire to see that ideal come true or, on the contrary, to denounce its totalitarian spirit?
González, Vásquez Angélica. "Les écrits des curateurs : analyse depuis la théorie curatoriale et l'histoire des expositions." Thesis, Paris 8, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA080091.
Full textThis thesis questions the practice field and discursive positions recently called curating. The perspective we have selected is the analysis of writings by contemporary art curators. Of varied nature, these texts allow us to discern their understanding of their practice of organizing exhibitions and diverse activities for the public display of art. With the purpose of tackling the proximity and the distance between the construction of curatorial theory on one hand, and on the other, curatorial practice as determined by a set of rules and processes decided by a disciplinary and professional community. The notion of the curatorial field is approached through various sociological and philosophical concepts that lead us to deepen our inquiry about writing to a concrete field of exhibitions. Selected historical cases allow us to address the issue of written traces left by an exhibition; equally important, we examine certain problems related to the construction of the history of art events in contemporary art. The last part of this research is devoted to the question of discursive strategies of positioning by curators, starting with publications that first appear in the 1990s. These discursive forms, among others, constitute the foundation of teaching in recent curatorial training
Chartrand, Geneviève. "Dans mon silence vertical." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/29463.
Full textOliver, Stacy-Ann. "Exposer son monde : le paysage comme espace participatif." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/68739.
Full textSalucci, Marco. "Gilles Deleuze, une inéfinition esthétique." Paris 8, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA084150.
Full textThe concepts of similarity, unconscious Oedipal tendencies, and grammatical order are, respectively, three basic ways of framing sensibility, desire, and writing. Deleuze’s philosophy, however, dismisses this understanding; he renders similarities dysfunctional, while enflaming desire and energizing grammar. In this thesis, we propose an operative approach to Deleuze’s thought, in order to show how it has reclaimed the power of shocking philosophical insight. When desire and its object, or the declaration and its accomplishment, as well as the body and its capacities of sensation, are left in an indefinite area, philosophy is no longer confined to realm of thought; it creates a sensation. This thesis deconstructs and makes explicit those areas where Deleuzian concepts take on this matter of the removal of the certain object. The quick thinking that runs through his philosophy will be placed in counterpoint to those works of art that activate a sharp feeling beyond all defined objects and subject matter. We will see how such undefined paths give rise to a surface where the notion of creation is, according to Deleuze, life itself
Hoffman, Sheila K. "L'histoire de la documentation des oeuvres d' art du 17e au 21e siècle : les impacts des technologies optiques et numériques sur les pratiques documentaires des galeries nationales à Londres, Ottawa et Washington D.C." Thesis, Paris 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA01H014/document.
Full textThis research examines the divergences and convergences across the histories of three national galleries, in England, Canada and the United States, providing evidence of a common model that emanates particularly from two types of institutions that appeared in England during the 17th century: public museums founded on scientific and populist principles, and private art galleries anchored in elitist traditions. The national galleries compared in this study constitute hybrids in conflict with the original antagonistic models. But their most striking similarities reside in the evolution of their respective documentation practices. The continued struggle to truly integrate technologies in the documentation of art betrays the difficult heritage between these two opposing models. Throughout the unique historical trajectories of these institutions, there was little proof that optical or digital technologies had had important repercussions on the methodologies or the philosophies of the documentation of works of art. On the contrary, it was observed that documentation, even in digital form, continued to rely on minimal standards of data gathering, restricted groups of persons trained to collect data, and limited access to any data captured. This research reinforces the need to redefine museum documentation in order to rethink its strategies and guiding philosophies, to enable new research into museum collections, and to enlarge the integration of digital technologies into the process
Wharton-Ayer, Noelle-Dominique. "Looking at Landscape." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/28343.
Full textThis dissertation examines the exploration of landscape and vision in my artistic practice. My work is primarily concerned with representations of the natural world, how these images are incorporated into the everyday, and the ways in which our perception of these images shape our relationship to landscape. This investigation of landscape and vision is executed through explorations in drawing, printmaking, and digital collage; my practice is also centred on an investigation of landscape in popular culture, notably film and television. Finally, this dissertation outlines how my artistic process is structured by a logic of the decorative, which provides visual coherency and organization to the images I create while simultaneously displacing objects of the banal landscape into the realm of the spectacular and the extraordinary.
Fabre, Julie. "L'oeuvre précaire : expériences de l'art au tournant du XXIe siècle." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015AIXM3084.
Full textThe definition of the artwork is complex and plural. Repeatedly called into question, the terms of "production", "work", "piece", "situation", are frequently preferred nowadays. Nonetheless, and in spite of the current transformations of art, could we do without this notion? Our thesis analyses the work of art from the angle of an intrinsic and temporary precariousness. It is precarious, on one hand, because the work is an object devoted to criticism and reflexiveness ever since its appearance during the Renaissance and its aesthetic reception in the eighteenth century, and on the other hand, because it is exposed to the risks and disruptions of modernity and postmodernity's developments. Another form of precariousness, specific to the capitalist and technological age, is examined through the production of three contemporary artists - Pierre Huyghe, Ryan Trecartin and Camille Henrot. Their works consist more in a field of relations with multiples variations than in objects. What sort of experience should we expect from those exhibitions and discursive spaces of the "precarious work"?
Théberge, Julie. "Nous sommes Plusieurs." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/28345.
Full textRomagny, Vincent. "Jouer l’aire de jeux : les arts de l’exposition de Playgrounds : Reinventing the Square (Musée de la Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2014), PLAY TIME (biennale de Rennes 2014) et The Playground Project (Kunsthalle Zurich, 2016)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022PA080051.
Full textOur research focuses on three contemporary art exhibitions that each present a specific approach to the same urban object: the playground. The Playground Project at the Kunsthalle Zurich (2016) considers the evolution of the forms that are given to play, based on extensive photographic documentation, and life-sized reproductions of playgrounds; Playgrounds: Reinventing the Square (2014) at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, considers the playground as a metaphor for social conflict and consists of modern and contemporary artworks that do not address the issue of the playground directly; the exhibition L'Aire de jeu, part of the PLAY TIME biennial in Rennes (2014), presents contemporary works that are intended to provoke a reflection on play, quite far from the idea of making the viewer play. These exhibitions are the result of discursive practices which establish a different understanding of the playground, considered here as a myth, in new ways. At first, it is a question of grasping the curators’ intentions, and the choice of the works that manifest them. We then try to show how these practices are axiologically determined and to highlight this by showing the distinct approaches of similar works to which they give rise. Finally, we question the spectral presence of childhood within these exhibitions: each exhibition is based on a figure of the child that enables one to understand and compare the different approaches to a qualitative game with artistic value that explains the way in which the playground is understood and, as a consequence, transmitted
De, Siqueira Daniella Géo. "Représenter la mort : le remploi d'images photographiques post mortem en art contemporain." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030013.
Full textThis thesis focuses on the examination of the operation mode of the photographic re-employment incontemporary art, and in special of post mortem photographic images. With the support of various theories that focus on photography and the observation of several photographic re-employment artworks, this study examines, on the one hand, genetic and theoretical problematic that are specific to this contemporary practice. On the other, this work crosses historical and also anthropological perspectives on humans facing the dead body, taking into account different aspects of the transformations in Western society’s relationship to death, in order to observe the effects on contemporary photography production. In this context, this study identifies two major types of postmortem photographic images re-employed – both associated with violence –, and then analyses the newsymbolic relations proposed by a number of artworks. This study seeks to observe to what these artworks that re-employ post mortem photographic images respond to, and at the same time, seeks toobserve that the photographic re-employment, as an artistic practice that aims to review and criticize representations, contributes however, for the construction of a representation of death within the very contemporary perspectives, which they respond to