Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987 – Influence'

En 1965, Andy Warhol, déjà célèbre pour ses tableaux, décide de s’aventurer dans le domaine de la musique pop. Il devient alors gérant du Velvet Underground, un groupe rock newyorkais. Ce mémoire vise à rendre compte de l’influence de Warhol sur l’évolution musicale de cette formation entre 1965 et 1967. Dans un premier temps, une description du contexte socio-historique de l’époque et du milieu étudié est présentée, ainsi qu’un résumé des réalisations respectives de l’artiste et du groupe. Deux chansons du Velvet Underground sont ensuite analysées, soit « I’m Waiting for the Man » et « Ail Tomorrow’s Parties », toutes deux enregistrées à deux reprises soit avant et après la collaboration du groupe avec Warhol. Les éléments nouveaux ou transformés apparus dans les secondes versions sont alors répertoriés et comparés aux procédés utilisés par Warhol, ce qui permet d’évaluer l’influence de ce dernier sur l’évolution musicale du groupe.
Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2019

O trabalho tem como objeto os filmes realizados por Andy Warhol entre 1963 e 1969. No primeiro capítulo, \"A máquina\", discutimos algumas questões mais gerais e teóricas sobre a passagem de Warhol pelo cinema, em especial a constituição de um estilo impessoal e maquínico, que o artista parece trazer diretamente de sua prática anterior na pintura. No segundo capítulo, \"Corpo, superfície e erotismo\", observaremos como essa máquina atua na prática, submetendo os corpos filmados a um rígido dispositivo, trazendo à tona reflexões sobre temas como a performance e o erotismo nesses filmes.
The present work is focused on the films directed by Andy Warhol between 1963 and 1969. On the Chapter 1, \"The machine\", we\'ll deal with more wide and theoretical questions concerning Warhol\'s itinerary through cinema, in particular the setting up of an impersonal and machinic style brought to cinema by the artist from his previous practice on painting. On the Chapter 2, \"Body, surface and eroticism\", we\'ll see how this machine works in practical terms by subduing the bodies to its rigid apparatus, bringing out issues such as the performance and the eroticism in those films.

This thesis uses Hirsch's dual notion of intention, i. e. conscious, intentional meaning and symptomatic, unconscious meaning, in order to avoid a dead end in the critical assessment of Warhol's work. T.S. Eliot's term "objective correlative" refers to a phenomenon whereby "an inner emotional reality" is evoked by its "external equivalent". (Benet, 1965). Thus, given that no work of art is purely self-referential (as distinct from its being autonomous),Hirsch's notion allows that viewerreconstruction of a painting involves shared values and concerns; that a painting reconstructed by a viewer acquires the status of an icon through which the viewer participates in the artist's sacred cosmos. Sociology of art tends on the whole to extrapolate from actual works to the alleged conditions that gave rise to them. That it cannot predict what specific works will arise from given conditions makes it unscientific. However, its usefulness lies in its ability to reveal what values and concerns are shared by artist and viewer. This is vital for an interpretation of Warhol's work. Warhol's biography leads directly into the meaning of his work. The sickly child of an immigrant steelworker, he grew up in Pittsburgh - an epitome of the technocratic-industrial environment - and was exposed from an early age to a violent and ugly world where the disparity between the super-wealthy and the struggling workers was deeply disturbing. That Warhol himself became a multi-millionaire artistic tycoon is significant, for it means that his works, his icons, were participatory in the very cultural myths and neuroses they appear to display or even despise. That his work has meaning and is open to interpretation there is no doubt. For example, a man-made soup can, as a manifestation and containment of the sacred, is coercive. Here the sacred becomes familiar, affordable and disposable. An electric chair, a man-made instrument of death, gives man supremacy over mortality and the divine prerogative of purging the world of all evil. The essay, however, does not attempt to answer the broader questions raised by Fromm and Roszak about the spiritual emptiness of the twentieth century and the existential crises experienced by those who hunger for meaning and fasten greedily onto anything that seems to proffer a glimpse of something beyond. The essay, nevertheless, strives within this context to elucidate the valid in Warhol's work

Dans le contexte du pop art, une etude des mots dans la peinture pourrait paraitre surprenante puisque le spectateur n'a aucune difficulte a identifier la plupart des sujets representes par johns, warhold et lichtenstein : le concours d'un mot qui ferait figure au sein de l'espace represente n'est pas sollicite. Cette premiere supposition permet de mettre l'accent sur un premier axe de reflexion autour de la confusion entre espace represente et espace de representation et ainsi sur le domaine du hors-cadre (l'etiquette et le discours sur l'art). La question de la legitimite a discourir en peinture relance le debat sur l'autorite du pop et l'inscription de la signature du peintre. On s'interrogera sur les oppositions entre signature et nom propre. Soumis au jeu de la representation, le mot assume sa fonction plastique et la perte de sens qui en decoule. En suscitant l'engagement du spectateur, le mot represente lui permet de reinjecter de la subjectivite dans des images recouvertes d'un glacis de neutralite. Le pop, a defaut de retablir la signature de l'artiste, autorise le spectateur a mettre en place un rapport de type personnel avec l'oeuvre. Johns, warhol et lichtenstein travaillent chacun a leur maniere au retablissement de la vision contre la visualisation, heritage de l'acoutumance du public a la representation photographique, a la generalisation des images "de seconde main". Ces artistes font tous trois peser la rehabilitation du regard subjectif du spectateur par une conjugaison originale de la lettre et de l'image : la carte geographique est recuperee par johns comme ready-made mettant en scene le ready-found, warhol explore le rapport entre le mot et l'image a travers le portrait qui cherche a remplir le nom du modele, et lichtenstein recupere la bande-dessinee ou le mot et l'image font bon menage et se partagent equitablement le terrain
The study of the use of words in pop art may seem unecessary as words are not needed to make the subjects of johns, warhol and lichtenstein recognizable. This study contrasts the convas which is limited by the frame with the picture plane. This distinction enables one to take the space outside the frame into account and deal with the roles of labels in pop art together with the importance of discourse. The question of the legitimacy i artistic discourse leads to an opposition between signatures and names in pop art. When words are explicitly represented, they lose all their meaning. Yet this loss enables the spectator to get involved and inject his/her subjectivity into the painting. Johns, warhol and lichtenstein eact have their own strategy : johns uses maps as ready-mades quoting ready-founds, warhol points portraits thus posing the question of nomination, while lichtenstein quotes comic-strips where words and images are on equal terms, but all three artists suggest pictorial means to counter the neutral images of the 60's-

Notre thèse étudie l’interaction entre la diplomatie publique américaine et le Pop Art d’Andy Warhol. Elle révèle que la diplomatie publique américaine peut prendre trois formes (les formes « hiérarchique », « hybride » et « horizontale ») et que chaque forme de la diplomatie publique américaine suit ses propres principes de la promotion internationale de l’œuvre d’Andy Warhol. Lorsque la diplomatie américaine prend la forme « hiérarchique », le Pop Art d’Andy Warhol est promu au niveau international par le biais de la participation nationale des États-Unis aux expositions universelles et à la Biennale de Venise ainsi que des expositions itinérantes de l’Agence d'information des États-Unis. Lorsque la diplomatie américaine prend la forme « hybride », le Pop Art d’Andy Warhol est promu au niveau international par le biais du programme international du Musée de l’art moderne de New York et du programme « Art aux Ambassades ». Lorsque la diplomatie publique américaine prend la forme « horizontale », le Pop Art d’Andy Warhol est promu au niveau international par le biais des expositions organisées par des marchands d’art et des conservateurs d’art américains et européens qui travaillent indépendamment du gouvernement des États-Unis
The current thesis studies the interplay between U.S. public diplomacy and Andy Warhol’s Pop Art. It argues that U.S. public diplomacy is embedded into three forms (the ‘hierarchical’, ‘hybrid’, and ‘horizontal’ ones) and that each form of U.S. public diplomacy follows its own, individual ‘principles’ of the international promotion of Warhol’s work. When U.S. public diplomacy takes the ‘hierarchical’ form, Andy Warhol’s Pop Art gets promoted internationally through the U.S. national participation in World’s Fairs and the Venice Biennale, and USIA’s travelling shows. When U.S. public diplomacy takes the ‘hybrid’ form, Andy Warhol’s Pop Art gets promoted internationally through MoMA’s international program of circulating exhibitions and the Art in Embassies Program. When U.S. public diplomacy takes the ‘horizontal’ form, Andy Warhol’s Pop Art gets promoted internationally through the gallery shows and museum exhibitions organized by U.S. and European art dealers and art curators who work independently from the U.S. government

Des le debut du xxe siecle, a travers une pratique artistique de la negation, apparait une remise en question radicale du concept d'art et de la notion de l'artiste. Quels sont les termes de cette remise en cause, quelles en sont les raisons historiques ? telle est l'interrogation qui se trouve a l'origine de ce travail. Mais nous ne traitons pas cette question comme un probleme general de philosophie de l'art. Nous l'abordons de maniere specifique, ancrant notre reflexion dans l'analyse de deux oeuvres particulieres qui semblent manifester cette remise en cause de facon identique, par l'assimilation de l'oeuvre d'art a un objet trivial non-modifie : fontaine de marcel duchamp et boite brillo de andy warhol. L'analyse de ces oeuvres pose la question de la "desesthetisation". En quoi ces objets sont-ils des oeuvres d'art ? peut-on parler a leur sujet d'une mise a distance voire d'un rejet de l'esthetique ? notre recherche met en evidence que, contre toute apparence, fontaine et boite brillo sont des oeuvres antinomiques, situees dans des traditions differentes, et qui ont des significations opposees. La "desesthetisation" de fontaine correspond a l'effacement de l'oeuvre proprement dite, a un detachement de l'art. L'objet se veut instrument de demonstration. Il y a desesthetisation dans la mesure meme ou il n'y a plus art. Avec warhol, la question de savoir s'il y a oeuvre d'art ne se pose pas. L'oeuvre boite brillo annonce une esthetisation de surface, un sens du decoratif qui, pousse a son paroxysme, aboutit a un art indifferent a toute determination et a toutes significations profondes. Il n'y a donc pas lieu de parler de desesthetisation a propos de l'oeuvre de cet artiste. La question est plutot celle du refus d'une creation signifiante

En tant que préalable à l’appréciation d’une forme, le cadre demeure une question centrale en esthétique de l’image. Où débute une forme, où s’achève-t-elle ? Si le cadre délimite l’image en y circonscrivant un espace au regard, il peut jouer de ses plasticités et renverser ce présupposé en son contraire : la tendance all-over de l’expressionnisme abstrait montre bien des exemples où le cadre se défait dans une ouverture qui rend l’espace à son indétermination, fut-elle fixée à l’avant de notre regard. Le point de départ de cette recherche vient du concept établi par Meyer Schapiro du cadre comme « véhicule matériel » où il y fait distinction entre l’image-objet (absence de limites de surface et visibilité du support) et l’image-signe (limite de surface liée à la représentation). Faisant état de cette différence fondamentale, nous proposons un travail interdisciplinaire – le cinéma expérimental et sa relation avec les autres arts – où l’œuvre d’Andy Warhol servira de fil conducteur. A partir d’une première occurrence appelée cadre-surface, il semble important de revenir sur certains malentendus concernant le Pop art tant sur le plan historique, philosophique, qu’esthétique en proposant le concept de « ready-made illusionniste ». Dans un deuxième temps, le cadre-perception sera l’occasion d’affiner notre travail en revenant sur la position du spectateur face aux images à travers le concept de « Pensée visuelle » développé par Rudolf Arnheim. On verra de quelle façon le cinéma expérimental à tendance structurelle et matérialiste (Michael Snow, Paul Sharits, Peter Gidal) se nourrit de la relation figure-fond établit par la psychologie de la forme (gestalt). Par là, comment le film ouvre aux possibles phénoménologiques d’un autre rapport à l’image ? Enfin, la dernière partie situera le cadre à sa propre destitution physique dans un chemin qui va du cadre-écran au cadre-performance. Devant cette typologie quelque peu taxinomique, nous souhaitons moins y penser un cloisonnement entre les différents types de cadre qu’y trouver force circulaire afin de répondre à l’hypothèse suivante : en quoi la matérialité des premiers films de Warhol nous engage progressivement dans une réflexion ambiguë parce qu’ambivalente autour d’une image spectrale et dématérialisée ?
As a prerequisite to the assessment of a form, the framework remains a central issue in the aesthetics of the image. Where does a form begin, where does it end? If the frame defines the image circumscribing there a space for the eye to see, it can play of its plasticity and overturn this assumption into its opposite: the all-over pattern of abstract expressionism shows examples where the frame opens up to an undetermined space, whether it might have been fixed or not before we set eyes on it. The starting point for this research comes from the concept established by Meyer Schapiro of the frame as a "material vehicle" where he makes a distinction between the image-object (no surface boundaries and visibility of support) and the image-sign (surface boundary associated with the representation). Stating this fundamental difference, we propose an interdisciplinary work - experimental cinema and its relationship to the other arts - where Andy Warhol’s work will serve as a guideline. From a first occurrence called frame-surface, it seems important to revisit some misunderstandings about Pop art, historically, philosophically, and aesthetically, by proposing the concept of "ready-made illusionist". Secondly, the frame-perception will be an opportunity to refine our work by returning to the position of the viewer facing images through the concept of "visual thinking" developed by Rudolf Arnheim. We'll see how experimental film with structural and materialistic tendency (Michael Snow, Paul Sharits, Peter Gidal) feeds on the figre-ground organization established by the psychology of form (Gestalt). Then, how does the film open to the phenomenological possibilities of another connection to the image? The last part will place the frame over its own physical removal on a path that goes from frame-screen to frame-performance. Given this typology somewhat taxonomic, we wish to think of it less as a division between different types of frame than to find circular strength in it, in order to meet the following hypothesis: how does the materiality of early Warhol films progressively engage us in an ambiguous, since ambivalent, reflection around a spectral and dematerialized image?

Dans l'art contemporain, l'image photographique floue se comprend par la représentation visuelle des souvenirs vagues qui disparaissent dans l'espace du temps, c'est-à-dire la réminiscence où l'image-souvenir floue qui se présente alors comme indice mnémonique de l'amnésie collective. L'illusion mnémonique sur laquelle se basent les oeuvres photographiques comme le cas du jeu de texte-image chez Boltanski, éveille notre croyance aveugle attachée toujours à la connexion logique, scientifique et mathématique qui absorbe confusement tous les souvenirs vrais ou faux. L'interférence mnémonique est une des causes principales de l'amnésie collective au sein de la société d'information. Notre mémoire historique est intrinsèquement destinée à la disparition comme si les souvenirs d'enfance disparaissaient en laissant un sentiment de nostalgie chez chacun de nous. Les effets de flou servent aussi à representer une mémoire historique à la fois refoulée dans l'inconscience collective et falsifiée ou censurée par un pouvoir. Pourtant leurs messages artistiques ne sont ni commémoratifs ni impératifs, mais plutôt une réflexion mnémonique. Le manque de souvenirs au sens positif peut être un atout qui nous permet de reconstruire ou restaurer une nouvelle image de notre société dans l'assomption du passé à laquelle s'attache l'image photographique floue utilisée dans la représentation mnémonique chez les artistes.

One of the most consistent features of the diverse artistic movements that have flourished throughout the twentieth century has been their willingness to experiment in diverse genres and across alternative art forms. Avant-gardes such as Expressionism, Dada, Surrealism, Futurism, Fluxus and Pop were composed not only of painters but also dramatists, musicians, actors, singers, dancers, sculptors, poets and architects. Their works represent a dramatic process of crossfertilization between the arts, resulting in an array of hybrid forms that defy conventional categorisation. This thesis investigates implications of this cross-disciplinary impulse and aims by doing so to open out a site in which to reassess both the manner in which the avant-gardes have been theorised and the impact their theorisation has had on contemporary aesthetics. In the first part of this study, I revisit the work of the most influential theorists of the avant-garde in order to ask what the term “avant-garde” has come to signify. I look at how different theories of the avant-garde and of modernism relate to one another as well as asking what effect these theories have had on attempts to evaluate the legacies of the avant-gardes. The work of Theodor Adorno provides a connective tissue throughout the thesis. In Chapter One, I use it to complicate Peter Bürger’s notion of the avant-garde as “anti-art” and to argue that the most pressing challenge that the avant-gardes announce is to think through the cross-disciplinarity that marks their work. In Chapter Two, I trace how painting has come to be considered as the paradigmatic modernist art form and how, as a result, the avant-garde has been read as a secondary, “literary” phenomenon to be grasped through its relation to painting. I argue that this constitutes a systematic devaluation of literature and has resulted in an “art historical” model of the avant-gardes which represses both their real radicality and implications of their work for these kinds of disciplinary structures. In the second part of this thesis, I explore works which examine and question the aesthetic hierarchies and notions of aesthetic autonomy that the theories of modernism and the avant-garde explored in the first part set up. In Chapter Three, I approach by way of two cross-disciplinary works which employ literature and visual art: Marcel Duchamp’s Green Box (1934) and Andy Warhol’s a; a novel (1968). Works such as these, which slip through the gaps between literary and art history, have, I argue, important implications for literary and visual aesthetics but are often overlooked in disciplinary histories. In my final chapter, I return to the theory of the avant-garde as it emerges in the work of Jean-Francois Lyotard. I examine how his work reconfigures Adorno’s aesthetics by performing the cross-disciplinary movement that it argues is characteristic of avant-garde art works. Tracing his “post-aesthetic” response to Duchamp and Warhol, I explore how Lyotard articulates a mode of practice that moves beyond the dichotomy of “art” and “antiart” and opens out a site in which the importance of the twentieth century avant-gardes is made visible. I conclude by briefly considering the implications of the avant-garde, as I have presented it in this thesis, for contemporary debates on the twenty-first century “digital avant-gardes” and recent writing on aesthetics.

L’œuvre d'Andy Warhol a été évaluée dans le contexte culturel du Pop Art en fonction de certains thèmes : condition de l'image médiatique, héritage duchampien, paradoxes du modernisme, statut de la marchandise, unicité de l’œuvre d'art... Ce faisant, la culture propre de Warhol, déterminée par son rapport à la religion chrétienne, a été largement ignorée. Ces essais interrogent l'articulation d'une culture et d'une pensée religieuses à une pratique et à des motifs modernes à partir d'un changement de paradigme et de perspective. Il fallait vérifier comment ces sources chrétiennes se manifestent dans le détail et en évaluer les conséquences sur l'interprétation. Les questions de l'incarnation et de l'individuation, telles qu'il les traite dans ses portraits, ne sont pas envisageables sans une réflexion sur son rapport à la religion chrétienne. Plus généralement, ce point de vue fait ressortir le rapport complexe de Warhol à la modernité
The work of Andy Warhol has been evaluated in the context of Pop Art, and scholarship favored a number of themes: the condition of the mass media image, Marcel Duchamp's legacy, the paradoxes of modernism, the status of commodities, the notion of originality of the artwork... So that his specific culture, established in a stringent relationship to Christian religion, has regularly been largely ignored. This dissertation envisions the articulation of a religious culture and thinking to modern praxis and topics. Thus, a change of paradigm and perspective is required. It became necessary to substantiate how the Christian inspiration reveals itself in the work and modify its interpretation. The issues of incarnation and individuation, as Warhol handles them in his series of commissioned portraits, can't be understood without an extended examination of his relationship to Christian theology. More generally, this standpoint does stress Warhol's complex attitude towards modernism

Esta dissertação discute os protagonistas do romance Laranja Mecânica, de Anthony Burgess, e dos filmes Laranja Mecânica e Vinyl, de Stanley Kubrick e Andy Warhol, respectivamente, comparando como tais personagens representam o indivíduo em sociedade. Para tanto, se apóia nas teorias de Joseph Campbell, Antonio Candido e Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes, sobre as personagens, e de Ítalo Calvino sobre a Leveza. São analisadas as três obras, para o entendimento das peculiaridades presentes em cada uma das narrativas, bem como a trajetória do protagonista nas três narrativas, até que estas atinjam o desfecho. Os conceitos de bem e de mal, mantidos sob concepções estabelecidas na nossa sociedade, são ameaçados quando o protagonista é submetido à Técnica Ludovico, tratamento que tem o objetivo de diminuir a quantidade de presos nas prisões e que, para isso, retira o poder de escolha do indivíduo, que passa a ser capaz de praticar somente atos de bondade, já que toda a exposição ao mal o leva à dor e ao incômodo insuportável.
This M.A. thesis discusses the protagonists in Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange and the films A Clockwork Orange and Vinyl, directed by Stanley Kubrick and Andy Warhol, respectively, comparing how such characters represent the individual in society. The thesis draws on the theories by Joseph Campbell, Antonio Candido, and Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes, concerning the characters, and by Italo Calvino, concerning Lightness. The three works are analyzed aiming at the understanding of the peculiarities present in each one of the narratives, as well as the trajectory of the protagonist in the three narratives, until they reach the end. The concepts of good and evil, maintained under conceptions established in our society, are threatened when the protagonist is subjected to the Ludovico Technique, treatment that has the objective of reducing the quantity of prisoners in jails. For that, it eliminates the power of choice of the individual, who happens to be able to practice acts of kindness only, since all exposure to evil brings him to pain and to unbearable discomfort.

Le grand projet à l’origine de la réalisation de cette thèse est de proposer une nouvelle manière de comprendre la nature instable et décloisonnée du pop art, ce courant pictural presque sorti de l’histoire de l’art pour s’ériger en signe diffus de la culture populaire.Les enjeux plus conceptuels, qu’il dissimule derrière une imagerie devenue familière, sont pourtant d’une importance capitale pour la reconfiguration de la définition contemporaine de l’œuvre d’art. Toujours entre surface et profondeur, l’image pop se développe insidieusement.Le concept de « coïncidence des opposés », hérité d’une tradition théologico-philosophique dont Nicolas De Cues est le dépositaire le plus illustre, nous servira d’outil opératoire pour tenter de comprendre les implications sémantiques liées à la nature glissante de cet espace artistique aux contours flous. L’instabilité de ses frontières s’exprime d’abord par la proximité entre « art » et « non-art ». Elle s’illustre ensuite et surtout par le développement d’une multitude de microstructures internes reproduisant le même schéma conceptuel de « coïncidence des opposés ». Nous utiliserons alors, pour faciliter notre approche philosophique le concept d’ « ambivalences instables ».Trois grands moments jalonneront notre enquête. Ils seront synthétisés par les trois notions suivantes : « le paradoxe de la destruction créatrice », « la littéralité anti-littérale », et « la désacralisation hyper-sacralisée »
The aim of this PhD project is to propose a new way of understanding the profoundly unstable and essentially decompartmentalized nature of pop art, this pictorial stream which is almost going beyond the scope of art history to elevate itself to be a vague symbol of popular culture.However, its familiar image hides more conceptual matters of dispute which are of crucial importance when it comes to reconfiguring the contemporary definition of a work of art. Always between surface and depth, pop imagery is developing insidiously.The “coincidence of opposites” concept, inherited from a theological-philosophical tradition, with Nicolas De Cues as its most famous depositary, will be used as an operating tool in our attempt to understand the semantic implications bound to the changing nature of this artistic space, the limits of which are still clearly blurry. This fuzziness of its frontiers appears first and foremost through the proximity between “art” and “non-art”, and then, most of all, through the development of a multitude of internal microstructures mimicking the pattern of the “coincidence of opposites” concept. In order to facilitate the philosophical flexibility of our approach, we will therefore use the concept of “unstable ambivalences”. Three milestones mark our investigation. They are summarized by the three following notions: “the creative destruction paradox”,”anti-literal literalism” and ”hyper-sacralized desecration”

This thesis document serves as a support paper for my exhibition titled, Selected Work. The goal of this document is to present and discuss a set of ideas and interests as they pertain to my studio practice and thesis project in particular, and to contemporary (ie. current) art practices in general. In this document I examine selected works from Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Andy Kaufman, Maurizio Cattelan and Richard Prince. Through the exploration of these artists and their works, I begin by examining the object and the conditions that give it approval as an art object. Using these conditions, I examine the effect that experience has on the object. This support paper will serve as a glossary of terms and theoretical concerns relevant to my thesis exhibition
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Ceramics has always existed on the fringes of craft and high art. The purpose of this thesis project is to elevate clay beyond the traditions of craft by examining the historical use of clay and the everyday object. My research looks specifically at works by Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons and Jasper Johns in order to examine the origin of displaying the massproduced object and reflecting upon it’s validity as high status art object. In this project I am also interested in infrastructural systems within modern architecture-- plumbing, wiring, heat ducts vents-- with a specific focus on systems lurking inside walls and how these function to influence architectural space. With the advent of modern plumbing, concealing these elements was adopted as the new standard and still exists today. Through the presentation of defamiliarized handmade objects, my exhibition presents the appearance of manufactured material through the serial manipulation of scale, surface and quantity. The result reveals a clay piece that renders the material unrecognizable providing the viewer with a new view on the object's tradition.
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Tese de mestrado, Pintura, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas Artes, 2012
The Personification of beauty is a matter that falls within the problematics of contemporary beauty. After an investigation that had its roots in classical Greek times and extends to the present time, we intend to argue that nowadays a form of objectification of beauty is in the world of cosmetic surgery. We can consider the embodiment of beauty as continuous process that comes with the humanization of beauty, accompanied by technological evolution and industrialization that have constantly changed the way of being and judging the world. This dissertation is based on the practical project The Dorian Effect (TDE), a reference to Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, a character who chose to trade his soul to gain eternal youth and beauty – concepts that justify the growing demand of the individual for cosmetic surgery to achieve its ideal of beauty. TDE does not work with the results of surgery, considering the very diverse personal tastes. Concentrates all its attention on the will and narcissism of a personified subject of a stereotype of beauty in his own body. Assumes beauty as a carnal concept, in other words, incarnated. The personification of beauty justifies the relationship and the two senses that the word beauty represents: the beauty/beautiful interested in an end - useful and objective beauty; beauty without interest in an end - the purely aesthetic beauty. The research is supported by some reflections on the beauty developed over time, including important authors as Plato, Kant, Oscar Wilde, Georg Simmel, Tatarkiewicz, among others

This work project presents Retratos Sonoros – Memória Sonográfica de um Ser Humano and its research. The project is developed through questions that emerged from the obstacles to the practical implementation of the artistic piece. During this process, the obstacles found are related to the preconceptions associated to "visual images" that, in the western world, dominate the perception of everything around us, thus limiting the action of our senses in the apprehension of reality, creative thinking and, consequently, artistic production. Pursuing a kind of portrait able to represent what we retain in our memory about the existence of someone we know, I started trying out and researching diverse artistic media, attending to the questions: how to combine the different existing perspectives of the same person, in a single representation?; which portrait form is able to include the constant movement and transformation of a certain human being? The representation of someone, existing in our memory, it is also in constant mutation; therefore, the photographic portraits being static supports, are always far from corresponding to our perception of the person represented. Étienne Marey's study on the analysis of movement (human and animal) and the method of capturing it, as well as Muybridge's photographic experiments to record the phases of that movement, were a starting point in this investigation, and in and in the reflection on the following questions: how to create a portrait corresponding to the concept we have of a Human Being, making visible all the existing perspectives on the same being and the mutations that constantly occur over time? How to represent such a complex object? Considering the human body as the space of identification of a person, I have chosen the "sound" as the medium capable of representing it in a portrait, thus creating the concept of sound portrait. Considering the body as a complex place to explore, analyze and define, a landscape where the human life belongs, I borrowed the concepts sound object from Pierre Schaeffer, and Soundscape Composition from Murray Schafer and Barry Truax. Then, regarding the organization and classification of the sounds that characterize the acoustic environment of this human space-body, for the creation of the three pieces – Interior, Biofonia Emergente and Antropofonia Social – I relied mainly on the experiences and theories of Bernie Krause. These three sound pieces composse Retratos Sonoros – Memória Sonográfica de um Ser Humano.

The present work “Self-portrait and self-representation: variations on a theme” addresses the issue of self-representation in art through the creation of a series of drawn self-portraits. The project has an investigative character, and the drawings were developed in series from the exploration of varied techniques and materials, sometimes traditional, sometimes less conventional. The creative process focused on making selfportraits using a mirror, an indispensable item that allows us to observe our face directly. The drawings created from the reflection’s observation were transformed throughout the development process of the series, enabling the discovery of new representational forms that deviate from the mimetic reproduction of the mirror image. The way the face was represented went through major changes throughout the development of the self-portraits. The use of chance in the creation of accidental stains contributed to a more freely and subjective graphic registration, avoiding the more objective figurative representation of the face. From experiences with various tools and techniques, it was possible to find new answers that increased the exploration of structural elements of the drawing’s graphic language with stains, strokes, textures or color. The project presents a theoretical research related to the theme in question, and a practical part that reports the experiments performed during the development of the work, as well as the results obtained from the artistic research. The first two parts focus on the study of the emergence of self-portrait in art history; the concept of self-representation, especially in modern and contemporary art; in the theoretical study concerning the creation of serial drawings; and in approaching the issue of variation of the same theme in artistic practice. The third and last part focuses on the practical work, ie the process of creating the self-portraits.