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Heron, Elizabeth. "The Unveiling." PDXScholar, 1988. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2048.
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The method I use in creating abstract sculpture presented the question that became the subject of my Master's thesis. Only occasionally will I create from a pre-conceived concept. The sculptures evolve through a process of addition and subtraction of material to something that simply pleases me. This method, really no method at all, seemed contradictory to my original intentions. My artistic goals were purposeful; I wanted to create sculpture that would provoke a reaction first, not a judgment of features. I wanted the viewers emotional and psychological involvement to be the basis for content and meaning in the work.
In spite of the indirect approach, I felt there was some success in achieving my goal. Discovering how this occurred was important because I was at a loss to understand the content of my own work. Did the sculpture I was making hold any deeper meaning for me?
My thesis proposal advanced the question of how sculptural form expresses content. A more accurate question is, what does it mean? I had faith that I was indeed making art that was more than a pleasant arrangement of forms. Confident that there was also meaning, I proceeded to explore and analyze the relationship of creative process to sculptural form and content. While writing a draft of my thesis, I realized the question was beyond a definitive answer. This was a personal investigation of a fundamental question. My expectation was that insight and analysis would provide the answer I needed.
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Merkley, John. "Transitions : multi-media abstract sculpture." Virtual Press, 2004. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1305451.
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The first objective of this creative project was to create seven Non-figurative, abstract, multi-media (wood, metals, clay, concrete, glass) sculptures that attempted to express some of the feelings experienced during transitions in life. The second objective was to explore the continuum of abstract sculptural art: from art being simply aesthetically stimulating compositions to art that emphasizes meaning or purpose first, and being aesthetically pleasing or stimulating second.Department of Art
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Andrieu, Mélanie. "Une spécificité Cobra, les oeuvres collectives: émergence d'une pratique et exemplarité de Christian Dotremont." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209838.
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Cette thèse est une étude du mouvement Cobra à travers les œuvres collectives, une de ses composantes caractéristiques. Il s’agit tout d’abord de comprendre le mouvement, ses origines et influences, ainsi que sa visée d’un art libre, ouvert, expérimental, partie prenante de la vie. Dans un contexte social d’après-guerre, souvent politisé, Cobra défend l’action collective, définie notamment dans les notions d’antispécialisme et d’interspécialisme. Il convient de mettre en exergue les origines de cette pratique, et saisir les divers aspects qu’elle arbore, notamment au travers de revues, d’expositions ou de créations partagées. Le poète Christian Dotremont, animateur et âme de Cobra, favorise le travail de collaboration et contribue à son développement en stimulant les rencontres artistiques. Il se fait le passeur et le permanent "agitateur"» de cette notion. Les peintures-mots qu’il crée avec d’autres artistes participent à sa réflexion majeure sur l’écriture et la peinture. Ce lien interpelle quelques artistes belges comme Pierre Alechinsky, mais il passionne Christian Dotremont qui ne cesse de multiplier les expériences à ce propos, pour aboutir à ce qu’il nomme les logogrammes, remarquable fusion de la peinture et de la poésie, et aboutissement de toute une vie de recherche. Ce travail est structuré en trois points. Le premier établit une étude du contexte artistique et social des années précédent Cobra puis la mise en place du groupe. Le second aborde les années d’intense activité "officielle" du groupe, au service du collectif. Enfin, le troisième propose de suivre l’évolution post-Cobra des œuvres collectives et des recherches sur l’écriture et la peinture. / This thesis is a study of the Cobra movement through one of its characteristic components: the collective works. First of all it's about understanding the movement, its origins (three countries), its influences and its purpose of a free art, open, experimental, involvement with life. In a social after-war context, often politicized, Cobra defends collective action, notably defined in concepts of anti-specialism and inter-specialism. We should therefore underline the origins of this practice and undestand different aspects that it shows, in particular through publications, exhibitions or shared creations. The poet Christian Dotremont, leader and soul of Cobra, promotes cooperative work by collaboration and contributes to its development by stimulating artistic meetings. He is the purveyor and permanent "agitator" of this concept. The words-paintings that he creates with other artists, take part of his major thinking about writing and painting. This link interpellates a few Belgian artists like Pierre Alechinsky, but it fascinates Christian Dotremont who keeps experimenting on it, in order to reach what he calls the logograms, a remarkable fusion of painting and poetry, and a culmination of a life-time of research.
This work is structured in three parts. The first one draws a study of the artistic and social context of the years preceding Cobra and the setting up of the group. The second one talks about years of intense "official" activity of the group serving collective way of work. Finally, the third one offers to follow the post-Cobra evolution of collective works and researches about writing and painting.
Doctorat en Histoire, art et archéologie
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Bishop, Daniel. "Conceptual and practical considerations inherent in the production of figurative bronze sculpture." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1266031.
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This creative project identifies major conceptual and practical considerations inherent in the production of bronze figurative sculpture. What is considered and how, those considerations are weighted will vary among individuals. Many of these considerations affected my selection of subjects for the studio portion of the project. The paper touches upon considerations which both inhibit and advance a career in art, and have affected both aesthetic and procedural choices.A brief account of foundry procedures is presented. The studio portion of the creative project consists of four sculpted female dancers. The paper addresses a historical context with which each piece may be associated. Two figures exhibit the strong influence of Greek sculpture of the Classical period. The third figure is Impressionist in style. The forth figure has a Cubist influence.Department of Art
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Crellin, Sarah. "Bodies of evidence : making new histories of 20th century British scuplture." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2015. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/27075/.
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This thesis includes a monograph, The Sculpture of Charles Wheeler (London: Lund Humphries in association with the Henry Moore Foundation, 2012), and a catalogue essay ‘Let There Be History: Epstein’s BMA House Sculptures’, in Modern British Sculpture, ed.by Penelope Curtis and Keith Wilson (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2011). The book is the first study of Wheeler, an important but neglected sculptor who was President of the Royal Academy from 1956-66; the Epstein essay looks anew at a notorious episode in the career of one of modernism’s canonical practitioners, coming to radically different conclusions to the accepted narrative. The accompanying analytical commentary reflects on the complex research journey towards understanding and articulating hidden histories of modern British sculpture. Deploying traditional methodologies of archive exploration and making connections between divergent critical and artistic groupings has enabled the construction of new histories. Disrupting the appropriation and elision of ‘modern’ with ‘modernist’ and ‘avant-garde’ restores the work of non-canonical practitioners to the historical moment of the first half of the 20th Century, while historical analysis draws mythologised artists into the contingencies of the real world. These publications offer original insights and their impact is becoming evident in the fields of British sculptural and architectural history. Beginning in the recent past as I prepared to write this thesis, the commentary moves into the deeper history of the research journey, considering my theoretical approaches, the initial difficulties of writing against the prevailing academic fashion, the serendipities of a supportive scholarly milieu and the details of making Wheeler’s history. The value of the monograph itself is discussed. Reviewing Epstein’s modernist cause célèbre proved the transferable value of dispassionate archival research. The commentary finally comes full circle, concluding in October 2014 when I found myself, unexpectedly, implicated in the very history to which I have contributed.
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Frantz, Susanne K. "ARTISTS AND GLASS: A HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIO GLASS (SCULPTURE)." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291668.
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Lui, Shi-mun Patricia, and 呂詩敏. "Research on the art of Zhu Ming with special focus on his Taiji', andThe living world' series." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1985. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31207388.
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McGown, Katie. "Dropped threads : articulating a history of textile instability through 20th Century sculpture." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2016. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/36117/.
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Despite the ‘post-media condition’ of contemporary practice, some materials continue to be more equal than others. Cloth has a problematic history in Western art, frequently dismissed for its perceived inability to convey meaning beyond its own materiality, or a narrow idea of identity. The following thesis reconsiders this perspective and argues that it arose from the concurrence of heterogeneous post-war groups such as Post-Minimalism, and Fiber and Tapestry Movements, and the plethora of textile-based work they created. I review the accompanying critical responses to demonstrate how they sought to differentiate the use of fabric within these movements through the entrenchment of boundaries between valourised ‘art’ and denigrated ‘craft’. The thesis analyses how these categories were further complicated by mismatched lexicons of textile terminology. While fibre movements referred overtly and directly to fabric, the coinciding art theory primarily described its functions and affectations. We talk about the ‘softness’ of Oldenburg’s sculptures, not the cloth that makes them. This research argues that while there has been increasing scholarship surrounding these suppressed ‘craft’ textile practices, there is little exploration of the parallel and distinct material history of fabric within Western canonical Fine Art. The project addresses this asymmetry by focusing on the unspoken instances of cloth in mainstream twentieth century sculptural work and identifying the particular ways that artists have used this material. Artists have long employed the quotidian and shifting nature of textiles to convey ideas of instability, an impulse that can be traced back to Marcel Duchamp's 1913 work 3 Standard Stoppages. In order to critically interrogate the existing histories of textiles in twentieth century sculptural practices, the historical narratives presented in a number of exhibitions and catalogues are investigated. These accounts are considered in relation to three case studies that examine instances of structural, spatial and temporal instability in which cloth disrupts and untethers notions of fixed forms and static spaces. Investigating these narratives highlights historical cloth omissions, allowing for an understanding of how amnesiatic textile gaps affect practitioners today. My own cloth-based sculptural practice gives me a material authority and alternative perspective with which to question these received art historical narratives, and that in turn allows me to re-contextualise my decision to consistently work with this medium. My research-led practice centres on fabric objects that reference architectural forms; pieces that explore and exploit the unstable nature of cloth through their unfixed nature, and that I constantly reposition, resisting a final placement. By documenting these movements through photography and video, different temporalities are suggested, and a series of works that fluctuate between stasis and fluidity, order and chaos, are created. Accompanying these works are passages in the dissertation that reflectively a ddress the process of making and contending with the legacy of cloth. This project argues that fabric has been under-recognised but widely used in sculptural practices for over a century. Through explicitly articulating this narrative, a richer historical context for works that use fabric can be ascertained, and the insufficient complement of textile language in contemporary artistic discourse can be redressed.
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Lang, Graham Charles. "Aspects of brutality : anxious concepts in sculpture since 1950." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012724.
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It would be wrong to suggest that this essay is in any way a comprehensive study of brutal sculpture. Certainly not. There have been many deliberate omissions for reasons which become clear in the text. Very briefly, omissions of certain sculptors and their work are largely due to my wish to avoid repetitive ideas and images. My view in this essay is to provide a cross-section of ideas and works, whereby the reader might gain some insight into the varied nature of this kind of sculpture. Thus, there seemed very little need for endless similarities of concept and expression. It was the diversity which I felt was important. The chapter which discusses concepts of beauty is also not a comprehensive study. This subject demands more than a humble essay to do it any justice. However, my reasons for touching the vague and controversial outline of these concepts were, primarily, to suggest that notions of beauty as the sole criterion in the judgement of art are too limiting, and, consequently, to introduce the concept of vitalism, which I believe is more valid. Finally, I wish to mention the personal motive behind this work. Over the years, I have witnessed the emergence of brutal elements in my own work, which I found disturbing at times. I have never been able to answer satisfactorily the criticism I've received. All I knew was that these things came from a very deep source. It is with this in mind that I embarked on this project, hoping to achieve two things. Firstly, to provide an objective survey of an important development in art, and, secondly , to answer some of my criticism. Foreword, p. 1.
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Taylor, Damian. "Busy working with materials : transposing form, re-exposing Medardo Rosso." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:29b3640a-a68e-45d1-8f42-130702bc9819.
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This thesis examines how making extends artists' thoughts beyond their conceptions. Central to this is consideration of how an artist's statements and their work relate: this thesis argues that the relationship is neither of identity nor contradiction, but of a productive tension from which emerges a richer understanding of thought. A similar approach underscores this doctorate's relationship of studio and written components, both of which desire self-sufficiency. The studio work consists of discrete yet mutually informing series, all engaged with the specificity of a moment of exposure, whether here and now or recording a past moment. The notion of 'documentation' underscores these works, which include large chemical photographs, high-definition video, cyanotypes and extensive exploration of casting to reveal latent images. The written component is a thorough study of the various instances of Medardo Rosso's sculpture Ecce Puer, offering art-historical and theoretical grounding of hands-on making as a way pressing cultural issues inhere in a work at a more fundamental level than understood by its contemporaries or maker. The first chapter locates Rosso in his historical milieu. Chapter 2 assesses the elements constituting Ecce Puer; it argues that no definitions of a 'work' adequately encompass these, and coins the term 'complex work' to designate artworks indivisibly singular and plural, concrete and abstract. Chapter 3 offers phenomenological interpretation of Rosso's confused writings, illuminating them through Maurice Merleau-Ponty's late philosophy but understanding Rosso's thought as inadequate to the complexity of his work. Chapter 4 examines Rosso's photography, specifically his photography of photographs, connecting what this achieves to his phenomenology. Chapter 5 introduces a key notion of 'friendship' to understand how the connections between instances of Ecce Puer became 'meaningful'. Having offered a fundamentally new interpretation of Rosso's project, chapter 6 extends Michael Fried's history of French painting to relocate Rosso within early twentieth-century art.
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Ferris, Natalie. "'Ludic passage' : abstraction in post-war British literature, 1945-1980." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5b3034e6-3a32-4684-b8a0-eb91cfc756c6.
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This thesis traces a line of literary experimentation in post-war British literature that was prompted by the aesthetic, philosophical and theoretical demands of abstraction. Spanning the period 1945 to 1980, it observes the ways in which certain aesthetic advancements initiated new forms of literary expression to posit a new genealogy of interdisciplinary practice in Britain. It is the first sustained chronological study to consider the ways in which a select number of British poets, authors and critics challenged the received views of their post-war moment in the discovery of the imaginative and idealizing potential of abstraction. At a time in which Britain became conscious of its evolving identity within an increasingly globalised context, this study accounts for the range of Continental and Transatlantic influences in order to more accurately locate the networks at play. Exploring the contributions made by individuals, such as Herbert Read, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Christine Brooke-Rose, as well as by groups of practitioners, such as the British concrete poetry movement, small press initiatives and Art & Language, this thesis offers a comprehensive account of the evolving status of abstraction across cultural, institutional and literary contexts. The discussions build a vision of an era that increasingly jettisons the predetermined critical lexicon of abstraction to generate works of a more pragmatic abstract inspiration: the spatial demands of concrete poetry, language as medium in the conceptual artwork, the absence of linear plot in the new novel.
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Robb, Charles. "The Self as Subject and Sculpture." Thesis, Monash University, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16903/1/16903.pdf.
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This paper analyses and contextualises the artist’s exploration of self-portraiture through the sculptural bust format.
Conventionally, the portrait bust epitomises an antiquated view of the human subject as fixed, finite and knowable. The classicistic allusion of the form seems the perfect embodiment of a pre-modern and hopelessly idealised view of subjectivity and its capacity to be represented. This paper will show how, despite these impressions, the portrait bust is in fact a highly volatile sculptural form in which presence and absence are brought into question. When used as a vehicle for self-portraiture the bust yields a spectrum of instability, both literal and metaphoric, that calls into question the clarity of notions of subject and object and challenges the ideas of authority and representation more broadly.
By providing an historical overview of the role of the portrait bust, this paper will map the field of content inherent to the portrait bust and discuss its application in contemporary self-portraiture. As the work of Mike Parr, Janine Antoni and Marc Quinn demonstrates, the classical certainty that permeates the bust format can indeed heighten the capacity of the form to represent uncertainty: an ambiguity that makes it a highly potent form for sustained studio investigation and experimentation.
This paper will provide an overview of this experimental scope and application, by discussing the author’s process of sculptural self-portraiture in relation to aspects of ‘likeness’, expression, truncation and reproduction that occur in the form.
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Lamb, Jacquelyn R. "The Patsy and Raymond Nasher Collection of Twentieth-Century Sculpture, 1967 to 1987." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501252/.
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Over a period of two decades, Raymond D. Nasher, a Dallas-based real estate developer, and his late wife Patsy amassed a collection of significant modern sculptures. For years, pieces from the private collection--numbering over 300 as of 1990--were on display in various museums and civic institutions, and they were installed on a rotating basis at Northpark Center, a Dallas shopping mall developed by Nasher. Since the 1987 Dallas Museum of Art exhibition, the collection has been shown in several major international museums. This study documents the formative period of the collection, the Nashers' collecting and exhibiting philosophies, and four early exhibitions of the sculptures. It includes a chronology of the Nashers and major acquisitions of sculpture.
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Nasifoglu, Yelda. "Walter Pichler : the modern Prometheus." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32821.
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The ritualistic aspect of Walter Pichler's work greatly problematizes the traditional view of the art object as the locus of aesthetic contemplation. Yet how are we to approach such art in our secularized world? For it to maintain its meaningfulness, does not ritual require a shared symbolic system?Indirectly guided by Pichler's work, this thesis is an exploration of the contemporary status of the work of art. An investigation into the myth of Prometheus reveals that art and ritual share the same origin. Further inquiries into early Greek sculpture, as well as the concepts of techne and mimesis, expand this origin into the relationship between the art object and the viewer, shifting the customary focus away from the resemblance between the model and the copy. In this space of looking , art no longer presents itself as an aestheticized object---presence and absence, the visible and the invisible, recognition and anamnesis come into play as possible ways of participation in the work of art.
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Rampin, Dantas Neves. "A musica de Morton Feldman sob a otica de sua compreensão da pintura do expressionismo abstrato." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284696.
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Orientador: Denise Hortencia Lopes GarciaDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: Esta pesquisa reflete a relação entre a música do compositor norte americano Morton Feldman e o grupo de pintores do Expressionismo Abstrato The New York School of Visual Arts - partindo da ótica do próprio compositor. Abordamos a maneira como Feldman trabalhou concepções advindas da pintura na composição técnica e estética em sua música. Para discorrer sobre este tema, a dissertação apresenta uma breve contextualização histórica da década de 50, do século passado, momento do encontro de Feldman com os pintores. Em seguida, apresentamos as concepções desenvolvidas por Feldman em sua música derivadas da pintura. Para tanto, apresentaremos análises que nos permitam compreender como estas concepções se concretizam musicalmente através da história notacional do compositor. Do ponto de vista metodológico a pesquisa se vale das declarações do próprio compositor, de pesquisas que abordam o trabalho composicional de Morton Feldman e da análise de obras. Priorizamos a análise da peça Crippled Symmetry, já que ela apresenta uma das notações mais originais produzidas por Feldman, o que nos inspirou a composição de Sombras Sobre o Encoberto 11, peça que apresentamos neste trabalho como resultado composicional desta pesquisa. Nas considerações finais, além do resultado de Sombras Sobre o Encoberto 11, discutimos como as concepções utilizadas por Feldman a partir da pintura pode ser amplamente explorada como base composicional singular.
Abstract: This research is about the relation between the music of the American composer Morton Feldman and the group of painters of Abstract Expressionism The New York School of Visual Arts - from the point of view of himself. It will focus the way Feldman developed concepts drawn from painting in the technique and aesthetics of his music. Thus the dissertation presents a historical account of the 1950s, when Feldman and the painters met. Then we present concepts Feldman drew from painting and developed in his music. We provide analyses which allow us to understand how such concepts work musically throughout Feldman's notational history. The method of this research is based on Feldman's statements, researches about his compositional work and the analysis of pieces. Crippled symmetry, whose notation is among the most original devised by Feldman, undergoes extensive analysis. It has also been the inspiration for the composition of our work Sombras sobre o Encoberto II, We present this piece as the compositional outcome of this research. In addition to this piece, the conclusion shows how the concepts Feldman drew from painting can be vastly explored as a unique basis for the composition of music.
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Johnson, Jeffrey R. "Transmittance device : a study and construction of an architectural installation." Virtual Press, 1992. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/845989.
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The Transmittance Device was an architectural installation, constructed as an imposition upon a public evergreen hedge row. The premise behind this exploration was to exploit architecture as a sequence of dynamic human experiences, creating an event or incident. The intention was to initiate a human transfer or violation from one side of a presumed boundary or barrier, to the opposite side. The boundary or barrier metaphorically represented the inherent characteristics human's possess, concerning abidement and conformity, within their normalities of regulated habit.The evolution process included theoretical conception, analysis of past installations, development of objectives, and four proposed projects. The final proposed Device was constructed in September, 1992, adjacent to the Fine Arts Building, on the campus of Ball State University. The Transmittance Device stood for over three weeks, instigating human engagement. The thesis document presents my collection of information gained, questions posed, and aspirations evoked, throughout the process of this exploration.This workbook documents the evolution process of the Transmittance Device. The Transmittance Device is an installation which exploits architecture as an event or incident, occurring as a human participates. Also, it is a construction which attempts to fuse the separation between architecture and sculpture. The document is not to be read as a conclusive narrative, but rather, a working text. The information is compiled in three general sections: architecture, installations, and the Transmittance Device, respectively chronological. The majority of the information presented was collected as scribbled notes, sketches, and study models produced throughout the nine month process (February to November, 1992.) The presentation of the constructed Device IV is presented with process sketches, scaled drawings, and photographs of the built construction. My aspirations are to continue this exploration, building upon the workbook, to never reach an end.Department of Architecture
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Corcoran, Cristine C. "Dudelsacks : sculptural extensions in blown glass." PDXScholar, 1989. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3863.
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This thesis project consists of 19 sculptures. The medium is hot blown glass. The work interprets and extends the visual and metaphorical qualities of bagpipes. The utilization of the German dudelsack references the playful improvisational nature of these international and culturally diverse forms.
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Craven, Michael P. "Abstract art and controversy : a case study of Louis Bunce's airport mural and other Portland art controversies." PDXScholar, 1997. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4296.
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This thesis examines a series of controversies in Portland, Oregon during the 1950s triggered by the placement of modem art in strategic public locations. This study examines the controversy surrounding the installation of Louis Bunce's mural at the Portland International Airport and the series of modern art controversies that followed the mural incident.
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Kšanienė, Daiva. "Muzikinis Gyvenimas Mažojoje Lietuvoje ir Klaipėdos krašte iki 1940m. : Lietuviu̜ ir Vokieičiu̜ kultūru̜ sa̜veika [The musical life in Lithuania Minor and the region of Klaipėda before 1940 : the interaction of Lithuanian and German cultures], Diss., Vilnius 1998 [Zusammenfassung]." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-222480.
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Hedlin, Hayden Malin. "Out of Minimalism." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-3589.
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The dissertation involves a threefold investigation of sculpture. Firstly, the interpretations are focused on particular artworks by three British sculptors: Antony Gormley (b. 1950), Anish Kapoor (b. 1954), and Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963), respectively. The notion of applied minimalism is tentatively applied to their sculptures. A primary argument is that these works are idiomatically, thematically, and theoretically founded on the heritage of American Minimalism from the 1960s. The sculptures by these three artists are seen as readings and transformations in themselves of the Minimalist sculptural idiom. Secondly, the dissertation aims at an investigation of the notion of sculpture, which is explored as a discursive term, i.e. as a working notion. Therefore, each specific sculpture in the study is analysed in terms of the means it is manifested as such. Thirdly, interpretation per se is recognised as a performative act inscribed and restricted by specific contextual features. The constituent aspects are acknowledged and employed in terms of the white cube gallery locality, minimalist theory, sign theory, sculpture as staged, and the crucial recognition of a/the corporeal viewer's own presence and movements within the gallery space. Especially pertinent to the interpretations are Michael Fried's notion of theatricality, notions of performativity, and meaning as site-specific, respectively. The dissertation argues that the notion of sculpture, specifically in the wake of Minimal sculpture and the artworks inscribed by that category in art critical discourse, relies on the imperative of a corporeal acknowledged viewer/interpreter and that significant relations as regards the notion of sculpture are therefore external to a high degree.
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Draguet, Michel. "Genèse et naissance de l'abstraction de Kandinsky à Malevitch: essai de définition de la notion de Permière abstraction, 1911-1918." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/213179.
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Younge, James Gavin Forrest. "The mirror and the square : a study of ideology within contemporary art systems with special reference to the American avant-garde in the period 1933-1953." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16370.
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Bibliography: pages 232-240.This dissertation argues that abstract art is not ideologically neutral. In spite of many artists' anti-fascist stance early in their careers, the mantle of neutrality was assumed as a reaction to the protracted struggle between the two major ideologies confronting artists living in Europe and the United States of America in the period 1933-1953, namely capitalism and communism. These ideologies were not peripheral to artists lives, but were actively debated by both artists and intellectuals and resulted in the establishment of powerful cultural organisations. The ensuing growth in prestige and influence of left-wing artist's organisations was countered by a campaign which included direct suppression of left-wing artists as well as a form of ideological control. This control was vested in what has been called the specifics of patronage and is reflected in the establishment of the Arts Council in Britain and the private art museums in the United States. Changes in the art market have meant that, together with dealers and critics, these institutions wielded almost complete economic control over artists. The prevailing ideology of liberal humanism, which glorified individualism and defined democracy as a middle ground between the left and the right, favoured the development of a seemingly apolitical abstract art style. Analysis of the demise of the Artists International Association and the American Artist's Congress supports the conclusion that the figurative tradition lost prestige as a result of the stigma attached to Socialist Realism and the idealised realism demanded by National Socialism in Germany. Account is also taken of the attempt by well-positioned and influential commentators to identify all forms of realism with totalitarianism. It is not surprising therefore, that it was commonly believed that to paint in an abstract modern style was to strike a blow against fascism. In the same way that realism was identified with the regimentation of Soviet society, the avant-gardes' abstract experiments came to symbolize democracy. Drawing on the texts of writers, critics, artists and theorists, this dissertation shows that the force of the identification of progressive realism with totalitarianism, prepared the way for acceptance of the idea that freedom of expression epitomised freedom in general. In this way, anti-Stalinism and the post-war liberal philosophy of individual freedom, coupled with a search for 'essences' and the 'universal', directed artists inward to the medium of art as relevant subject-matter. This dissertation argues that this identification was ideologically motivated in respect to the balance of social and political power in America.
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Aramendía, Manuel. "Alternativa personal para el estudio del proceso escultórico : precedentes históricos y debate actual." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/405419.
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Esta tesis da una visión sintética de las diferentes corrientes escultóricas internacionales que confluyen en el panorama actual español. Una vez contextualizada nuestra joven escultura se pasa a estudiar las reacciones individuales concretas de nuestros escultores, dejando claro que estos análisis individuales son solo una fase de la metodología sin que constituyan una finalidad por sí mismos.
A través del análisis de las posiciones individuales se detectan una serie de planteamientos que rebasan las posturas particulares concretas y que se expresan mediante unos "ejes de discusión".
Estos ejes se organizan como estructuras bipolares que asocian determinadas posiciones opuestas o antagónicas en un esfuerzo notable por deshacerse del concepto de "negación de lo anterior" como finalidad. Con esta intención revisa el arte conceptual español y constata la permanencia de alguno de sus postulados en la segunda mitad de la década de los 80, una vez superada la fase de pura negación del concepto en los primeros años de la actual década.
Con la misma vocación positiva se cuestiona conceptos tales como proceso y proyecto, mostrándonos el primero como una línea descompositiva tendente al signo elemental, mientras que nos presenta el proyecto como afirmación, posterior al proceso, en la cual tiene cabida la expresión de lo complejo. Relaciona tal énfasis de lo complejo con el carácter ecléctico del actual panorama.
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Mol, Elias Perigolo 1980. "Amilcar de Castro : confronto com a matéria." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/279114.
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Orientador: Nelson Alfredo AguilarDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: Este estudo analisa a obra do artista mineiro Amilcar de Castro (1920-2002) e busca as relações existentes entre as suas diferentes produções: o desenho, a pintura, a gravura, sua atuação à frente da reforma gráfica no Jornal do Brasil e o restante de sua produção escultórica
Abstract: This study examines the work of artist Amilcar de Castro (1920-2002). It investigates the relationships between his various activities: drawing, painting, printmaking, his role leading the redesign of Jornal do Brasil as well as his sculpture production
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Historia da Arte
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Kšanienė, Daiva. "Muzikinis Gyvenimas Mažojoje Lietuvoje ir Klaipėdos krašte iki 1940m. : Lietuviu̜ ir Vokieičiu̜ kultūru̜ sa̜veika [The musical life in Lithuania Minor and the region of Klaipėda before 1940 : the interaction of Lithuanian and German cultures], Diss., Vilnius 1998 [Zusammenfassung]: Muzikinis Gyvenimas Mažojoje Lietuvoje ir Klaipėdos krašte iki 1940m. :Lietuviu̜ ir Vokieičiu̜ kultūru̜ sa̜veika [The musical life in Lithuania Minorand the region of Klaipėda before 1940 : the interaction of Lithuanian and German cultures], Diss., Vilnius 1998 [Zusammenfassung]." Musikgeschichte in Mittel- und Osteuropa ; 4 (1999), S. 174-179, 1999. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A15529.
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López, Páez Montserrat 1970. "Entre la vida y el arte: proyectos artísticos de los 90 que se conciben desde y para las personas." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/669886.
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La Tesis Doctoral "Entre la vida y el arte. Proyectos artísticos de los 90 que se conciben desde y para las personas" propone la inclusión en el ámbito de investigación de las artes visuales de una serie de propuestas plásticas de finales del siglo XX que centran su interés en las formas de vida de la contemporaneidad, y más en concreto, en las formas de vida de la alteridad o del 'otro'. Ese otro se entiende como el individuo o conjunto de individuos que, al pertenecer a un grupo minoritario o anónimo, resulta a menudo invisible para la sociedad que lo acoge. Pero además estos proyectos artísticos cuentan con la singularidad de aproximarse al otro desde la perspectiva, las vivencias y los sentimientos de ese mismo otro; pues, tras ella subyace la idea de que sólo mediante una perspectiva múltiple es posible repensar la complejidad de una sociedad desde su misma base, diversa. Así, repensar al otro equivale a repensar el propio yo o, en otras palabras, equivale a repensar nuestra identidad, tanto individual como colectiva.
La investigación de la actitud o el comportamiento artístico, que versa sobre la alteridad y se construye a partir del otro, se lleva a cabo a través de siete proyectos artísticos firmados por Sophie Calle, Gillian Wearing, Ángel Corral, Donigan Cumming, Adrienne Salinger, Montse López y por el colectivo Big Hope, respectivamente. En cada capítulo, siete en total, se efectúa una aproximación o estudio detenido de un proyecto dado y se enfatiza su rasgo más sobresaliente, rasgo que, a su vez, constituye un aspecto distintivo del comportamiento artístico pretendido.
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Dawson, Louisa Art College of Fine Arts UNSW. "Moving house: the renovation of the everyday." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Art, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43084.
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This paper describes my research project and body of work, which investigates social inequalities through the different language and functions of everyday objects. The research moves on from my previous Honours research project on the dou ble nature of caravan parks in NSW and looked at the changing demographics of these locations. I noted the increase of semi-permanent, residential 'homes' for low income earners and the unemployed, in these holiday locations. This paper examines broader social issues of homelessness and social inequalities within our society. I look at the complexities in the definitions of homelessness and the ways in which people find themselves in the position where they rely on welfare agencies and government support. I also investigate different representations of homelessness by artists and other social commentators, ranging from the hopeless victim to the vagrant. This section locates my social concerns with the context of theoretical debate and artistic representation. I have used everyday and mundane objects in my artworks to discuss these social concerns. Everyday objects posses a language and commonality that is familiar to all members of society. This language is developed from the different historical, cultural and functional qualities that everyday objects possess. I discus this in relation to the development of the everyday object in artistic practices from the early 20th century to today. Of specifically importance to my practice is the influence of contemporary German artists and their manipulation of objects to make works with political and social content. Throughout this paper I have discussed individual art works which illustrate my social concerns and the practicalities of the everyday. Revealing how I juxtapose certain objects to question the uneven nature of travel and home, with regards to possessions and mobility. Additionally I challenge the normal functions of objects to reveal new absurd possibilities of use.
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Valera, Albert. "La relación teoría práctica en la escultura catalana contemporánea: proceso, materia y comportamiento." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672115.
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A partir del momento en que el escultor entiende su obra como un elemento trascendente, donde la imagen que crea adquiere una vocación de transmisión de ideas, aparece un comportamiento donde la reflexión sobre los mecanismos de creación y las consecuencias expresivas, que se derivan de este hecho, fundamentan el quehacer artístico. Este trabajo se centra, precisamente, en este tema: el de la relación entre la teoría y la práctica en la escultura y concretamente en el ámbito de la escultura catalana contemporánea.
El tema de la relación entre la teoría y la práctica se ha enfocado desde la articulación de tres conceptos que fundamentan el trabajo artístico: proceso, materia y comportamiento.
Proceso, materia y comportamiento sirven para efectuar un recorrido por las propuestas de la escultura contemporánea, referenciándolas con las actitudes y las formas que se desarrollan en la escultura catalana.
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Leclercq, Catherine. "Alexander Calder: mobile, couleur et forme." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212989.
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Mello, Eduardo Bortolotti de. "O volume na escultura de Sérgio Camargo." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284916.
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Resumo: Este trabalho tem como objetivo o estudo das articulações do volume que Camargo realizou ao longo de sua obra. Com base em uma afirmação do artista sobre seu próprio trabalho, nós iremos decodificar a linguagem abstrata de Sérgio, revelando as relações volumétricas presentes na obra do artista como por exemplo: equilibrar, tensionar e repousar. Ao longo de toda a sua obra construtiva Sérgio busca uma arte extremamente sensível. Esta característica é a grande contribuição de Sérgio Camargo para a arte brasileira
Abstract: This work has as its aim the study of the volumetric articulations that Camargo developed throughout his oeuvre. Based on an artist statement, we will decode Sérgio's abstract language, revealing the volumetric relations present on the artist's work such as to balance, to tense and to rest, for example. Throughout his whole constructive oeuvre, Sérgio searched for an extremely sensitive art. This aspect is the great contribution from Camargo to brazilian art
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Manuel, Daniel. "Les correspondants français de Canova (1785-1822) : contribution à une histoire sociale et matérielle du goût au tournant du XIXe siècle." Thesis, Brest, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BRES0104.
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Le sujet inédit de la thèse repose sur un fonds d’archives. Il questionne la réception du sculpteur néoclassique italien Antonio Canova (1757-1822) dans les cercles et salons mondains à travers la correspondance de personnalités françaises aux profils multiples, du Consulat, de l’Empire et de la Restauration. Au gré des lettres, se dessine l'image d’un artiste aux prises avec des intérêts économiques, artistiques et sentimentaux. La séduction opère auprès des Napoléonides lui assurant protection et commandes ; elle gagne aussi les représentants du pouvoir à Rome et les salonnières pris au jeu de la délicatesse et du charme des compositions de l’Italien. La recommandation apparaît comme un mode de communication privilégié entre artistes et reflète la vitalité de ce type de lettre ainsi que la diversité des réseaux. La correspondance met en évidence le changement de statut de l’artiste qui adapte sa célébrité aux exigences de ses commanditaires en devenant un véritable homme d’affaires. Partagé entre désir d’émancipation et fidélité aux choix esthétiques de son mentor Quatremère de Quincy, Canova livre une production polymorphe qui le fait apprécier de la critique et du public qui cherche à voir en lui l’héritier moderne des sculpteurs grecs : mais ses rares présences et expositions à Paris limitent son impact. L’influence du premier romantisme dans la peinture néoclassique imprègne la production canovienne lui conférant son originalité. L’étude des missives fait surgir des questionnements historiques, matériels et esthétiques dont les épistoliers de Canova sont les témoinsThe novel subject of this thesis is based upon archive material. It is centered on how the work of Italian neo-classical sculptor Antonio Canova was received in the most glamorous clubs and salons, through the study of letters exchanged by French celebrities from different walks of life during upon the periods of the Consulate, the Empire and the Restauration. Letter after letter, the image of an artist confronted with économie, artistic and sentimental challenges emerges. He succeeds in winning over the Napoleonides who grant him their patronage and their protection. He also gains the support of government représentatives in Rome and of fashionable women who are enraptured by the charm and the refinement of the Italian sculptor’s compositions. Référencés appear as a privileged form of exchange between artists, and reflect the vitality of this type of letter, and the variety of networks.Correspondence demonstrates the changing status of the artist who adjusts his réputation to the demands of his patron, thus becoming a true businessman. Torn between his longing forfreedom and his commitment to the artistic leanings of his mentor Quatremère de Quincy, Canova's production has many facets, which endear him to critics and to the public who wishes to see him as the modem heir of Greek sculptors. Yet as he rarely visits Paris and his work is rarely exhibited there, his impact is limited. The influence of early romanticism on ne classical painting permeates Canova’s works, and is a tribute to his originality. Studying these letters brings to light historical, material and esthetic questions that their authors bear witness to
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García, García Ascensión. "El puente y la escultura: un diálogo entre funcionalidad y estética." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672090.
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Este trabajo de investigación plantea una relación entre los puentes y su historia, estructura y funcionalidad, su análisis estético formal y la escultura. Como método de aproximación se utiliza una doble vía: la via histórica, mediante un recorrido por los puentes de todas las épocas, poniendo en paralelo la evolución formal de los mismos con los materiales y tecnologías utilizados. A la vez, se intercalan, de manera comparativa, propuestas escultóricas que se aproximan al lenguaje de los puentes por analogía. No se marcan límites temporales ni tampoco espaciales, entendiendo que el lenguaje de los puentes es un lenguaje universal. La vía analítica se resuelve con una propuesta que parte de tres ámbitos de conocimiento perceptivo, interpretativo y gráfico; para concluir con la conceptualización de categorías visuales que son susceptibles de ser aplicadas a una lectura estético-formal de los puentes. La mayor aportación de este estudio se desprende de la amplitud de sus objetivos, lo que deja caminos abiertos, pero también un recorrido iniciado del que destacaría las siguientes aportaciones: el planteamiento interdisciplinar, la sistematización, la propuesta de metodología y la conexión interdisciplinar.
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Lega, Lladós Ferran. "La Cimática como herramienta de expresión artística." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/146136.
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En esta tesis doctoral, se exploran las diferentes técnicas cimáticas existentes (la cimática es la ciencia que estudia las representaciones visuales generadas por las ondas de sonido y los fenómenos periódicos de vibración sobre la materia), y se realiza un riguroso estudio desde una perspectiva audio-visual. A partir de los resultados, se desarrollan herramientas para su aplicación en las diferentes disciplinas artísticas contemporáneas.
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Asensio, Fernández José Antonio. "Una revisión de la luz como nuevo factor creador en la escultura. Desde 1950 hasta nuestros días." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/145558.
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La presente tesis se basa en el estudio de las múltiples variantes plásticas que la luz ha permitido desarrollar dentro de la escultura contemporánea, siendo prioritaria una aproximación a las poéticas generadas por la utilización de ese material determinado o el que se deriva de su observación. Para ello se ha diseñado una estructura consistente en varios capítulos destinados a analizar la poética en general referida a las obras de arte que conjugan luz y el concepto de tridimensionalidad en un ámbito contemporáneo dado que analizamos el arte y a los artistas que trabajan en este ámbito después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
En la introducción podemos ver un análisis de carácter más histórico respecto al marco conceptual que estamos analizando, mencionando algún caso puntual anterior al periodo histórico en el que nos movemos, con el interés de entender mejor los procesos creativos que han generado las nuevas realidades creativa en el ámbito de la luz y la escultura. También aclaramos conceptos como la motivación personal, el interés temático, los objetivos y la metodología seguida para realizar esta tesis.
En un primer capítulo, analizamos las expresiones escultóricas que utilizan la luz como material poético inherente, haciendo un repaso de las maneras de hacer o interpretar la escultura o las intervenciones tridimensionales desde todas las perspectivas y formas de crear utilizadas por artistas de todo el mundo e inscritos (o aún no) en determinadas tendencias. Esto hace que el análisis sea amplio y contrastado con ciertos comportamientos del espectro artístico contemporáneo en un mundo cada vez más global y conectado en todo momento. En este capítulo también se hace una breve reflexión poética referida a la luz y a las intervenciones escultóricas contemporáneas.
En el segundo capítulo se refiere a las distintas formas de intervenciones artísticas que utilizan la luz como elemento fundamental, desde una tipificación que recoge unas catorce formas de interpretar el arte desde estos parámetros específicos de luz y espacio tridimensional, todo ello ejemplificado con una buena cantidad de artistas de una relevancia que justifican cada uno de los diferentes apartados por su particular manera de trabajar su producción artística.
El tercer capítulo recoge información de algunos acontecimientos significativos que han representado un impulso para nuestro objeto de estudio, haciendo un repaso desde “Luzboa” en el 2004, a la gran exposición celebrada en el museo ZKM de Karlsrühe “Light art from artificial light” entre los años 2005 y 2006, la Bienal de Venecia del año 2011, las “Festes Decennals Candela 2011” (Valls, Tarragona) con su exposición “LUMENS”, que se celebra cada diez años, y el XI Foro Internacional de Escultura celebrado en la ciudad alemana de Celle en el año 2012 y organizado por “Sculpture Network”.
El cuarto capítulo está destinado a cuatro entrevistas realizadas a artistas (con una representatividad justificada en el panorama artístico nacional e internacional) que aportan su visión personal en un documento que recoge sus motivaciones conceptuales y aspiraciones artísticas en todas sus posibilidades, artistas estos de ámbito nacional e internacional, dos de ellos locales, otro nacional y un último extranjero que aporta una nota distinta por su manera de trabajar.
También quedan recogidas en el quinto capítulo, a modo de conclusiones, algunas reflexiones personales acerca de la propia obra artística con ejemplos de desarrollo de proyectos escultóricos con luz y las evidencias pedagógicas recogidas en ejemplos de alumnos que han trabajado en estas dinámicas como consecuencia del tipo de docencia recibida.
Por último, y cerrando el trabajo, la base bibliográfica, hemerográfica y de Internet, además de los anexos pertinentes.
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Ruiz, i. Carulla Martí. "Escultura sonora Baschet. Arxiu documental i classificació d'aplicacions pel desenvolupament de formes acústiques." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/363918.
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El nostre estudi -basat en les fonts documentals originals i el treball de camp-, aporta una lectura del corpus de l’obra a la llum del sistema conceptual desenvolupat pels Baschet, per facilitar la comprensió dels principis acústics i les seves aplicacions. L’objectiu d’aquesta tesi és posar en valor aspectes estètics i tècnics -en relació als posicionaments vitals dels Baschet respecte la noció de l’Escultura Sonora com a objecte de participació pública-, per afavorir la reflexió i contribuir a establir les bases per a la conservació, recerca i desenvolupaments posteriors, tot insertant-se naturalment en la pròpia trajectòria de l’Escultura Sonora Baschet.Our study -based on original documentary sources and field work- provides a reading of the corpus of work under the light of the conceptual system developed by Baschet, to ease the understanding of acoustic principles and their applications as well. The aim of this thesis is to highlight the technical and aesthetic aspects -in relation to the vital statements of Baschet respect the notion of Sound Sculpture as an object for public participation- to encourage ponder and help laying the foundation for conservation, research and further development, while inserting naturally in the path of the Baschet Sound Sculpture.
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Sans, Massó Alexandra. "La escultura matriz de Louise Bourgeois, un espacio para la revuelta." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/382834.
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Louise Bourgeois se está convirtiendo en una de las artistas modernas más conocidas en occidente, su fama es casi una parodia del anonimato en el que vivió durante la mayor parte de su vida artística. En el último cuarto de siglo se ha escrito una cantidad abrumadora de literatura sobre su trabajo, siendo su obra mostrada en grandes exposiciones internacionales itinerantes y convirtiéndose en el centro de estudio de críticos, académicos y estudiantes.
¿Qué es lo que aún queda por decir sobre esta artista tan ampliamente estudiada? Este fue una de las grandes interrogantes que se me plantearon al iniciar mi trabajo de tesis en 2010. Por un lado es muy difícil aportar algo diferente cuando hay equipos de personas en los grandes museos que junto con especialistas externos redactan catálogos para sus exposiciones, pero por el otro, tantos profesionales han arrojado luz sobre su obra que es posible profundizar en ella desde numerosos campos de conocimiento distintos.
La clave está en la obra de Bourgeois, un cuerpo de obra que se extiende durante la mayor parte del siglo XX e inicios del XXI, que es capaz de reinventar los términos de su expresión artística pero que es coherente con sus temas durante todo el re- corrido. Una obra enigmática, asombrosa y muy personal que es capaz de abrazar innumerables interpretaciones. Para mí no ha sido un camino fácil ni directo. Cuando empecé la tesis quise abordar el trabajo a partir de la idea de “la habitación propia de Virginia Woolf”, leyendo el trabajo de Bourgeois como la construcción progresiva de un espacio literal y metafórico donde ser y devenir mujer y artista. Seguidamente me concentré en el concepto de celda, con la ambición de elaborar una genealogía de este concepto a partir de la vida y la obra de diferentes mujeres desde el siglo XV. Finalmente, mi investigación y mi experiencia vital durante la escritura de la tesis me llevaron a la propuesta actual, el análisis de la escultura en Bourgeois como un espacio matricial, donde es posible la revuelta interior. Mi trabajo ha consistido en relacionar la obra de Bourgeois con la teoría de los géneros de Christopher Bollas, el concepto de revuelta de Julia Kristeva y el estudio de la subjetividad de Nick Mansfeld.
En la primera parte de la tesis se propone una introducción a la vida y obra de Louise Bourgeois exponiendo los factores que propiciaron que su trabajo fuera considerado contemporáneo durante más de siete décadas. El segundo capítulo se centra en su emblemática serie Cells y se describe como una estructura generativa y matricial. El tercer capítulo recorre la propuesta de Bourgeois a partir del concepto de revuelta y del protagonismo de la subjetividad en el trabajo de la artista.
Durante la redacción de esta tesis he usado intermitentemente la primera persona. Podría parecer no procedente desde una perspectiva académica más tradicional. He creído oportuno hacerlo porque este trabajo me ha ocupado durante un largo periodo de mi vida y me he comprometido con él; este estudio ha influido en mi vida y mi vida ha dado forma a esta investigación. En segundo lugar porque uno de los temas centrales de la tesis es la subjetividad en el trabajo de Bourgeois, una subjetividad que nace a través de su experiencia vivencial y que se manifiesta a lo largo de todo su arte. Espero que la estructura del índice de esta tesis, así como las relaciones conceptuales y visuales que en ella se han establecido, permitan acercarse al trabajo de Louise Bourgeois desde un nuevo prisma, y sean de utilidad para el futuro estudio de la artista.
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Mesa, Vázquez Rufino. "Anell de pedra, L'." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/1543.
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"L'Anell de pedra" és una aliança amb la natura i una reflexió oberta sobre la comunicació que s'experimenta en contacte amb ella. Presenta un ordre en la complexitat de l'acte creatiu i manifesta la voluntat de fer un pacte estable. Vol ser una gnosi, un fil d'unió entre el pensament estètic, la sensibilitat espiritual i el paradigma emergent. Amb la informació disponible sobre l'existència paradoxal de les coses, la tesi defineix una gràfica virtual amb tres àrees de realitat: · El món exterior construït amb matèria inerta, base comuna de la realitat.
· Les coses sensibles encarnades en el cicle de la vida i la mort.
· Allò que emergeix de l'activitat mental, les hipòtesis de treball científic i les obres d'art.
Aquests universos estan traspassats per un fil invisible unit a les lleis de la física, als processos metabòlics i bioquímics que constitueixen la base de la vida. La visió del paradigma emergent, post cartesià, unifica la matèria, la vida i la ment i ens obliga a definir de bell nou la relació existent entre l'home i la resta d'éssers vius. La raó humana no és una característica diferenciadora de la resta d'animals, sinó que és una qualitat que ens unifica amb ells, ens situa en la mateixa línia d'evolució de la vida. En la roda dels canvis, en la transformació de la matèria, tant sols estem en altre nivell, en una fase de complexitat diferent.
L'art pot ser ara una manera que l'home fa servir per connectar amb l'alè invisible del món, amb el llenguatge encriptat que presenta la natura. Des de la perspectiva de la realitat estètica, l'obra d'art és el vehicle que posa en comunió la matèria i les seves produccions, és el nodol de les xarxes de relació entre la matèria, la vida i la cultura.
L'Anell de pedra vol mitigar el dolor de la vida i apaivagar els nivells d'incertesa. La seva forma presenta un ordre amb el qual es mira el misteri inefable del món, en ell queda emmirallat un patró de conducta que s'auto replica, que balla sobre un fons caòtic i genera ontologia. Aquesta percepció de la matèria sensible l'he anomenada "la realitat estètica". Tot emergeix d'aquesta premissa; la qualitat creativa de la matèria. El món que veiem, és la seva obra i en ella intentem trobar-nos i acomodar la nostra existència. La ressonància creadora, les "hierofanies" que emanen d'una muntanya, no són la veu del sagrat, són constatacions de la realitat estètica, intuïcions creatives, "revelacions", fruït d'anàlisis de la raó científica. Hem de pensar, però, que tot és físic, incloent les emocions i els pensaments, tot emergeix d'una memòria implicada en la matèria que es desplega als ulls per mitjà de reaccions físiques i químiques. L'univers es revela a la mirada com holografies, creacions instantànies de la ment que queden unides per xarxes de relació física. En el fons caòtic del món i la ment, tot és atzar i necessitat, intercanvi d'energia i informació.
El procediment de treball ha portat varies direccions:
· Constatar en l'experiència de camp que la ressonància de la matèria es comunica i traspassa els tres àmbits anunciats.
· La recerca i documentació d'aspectes sensibles en la natura, com a eina que ajuda a conèixer la condició humana.
· Elaborar la idea que l'art és també el llenguatge de la natura, ja que aquesta està sotmesa al cicle creatiu de la vida i de la mort.
· La vida també és art i aparença; pregunta obsessiva que cerca el seu significat en una contínua transformació.
CONCLUSIONS: Com a escultor he assajat escenaris per fer accions en la cara fosca de la realitat: les ocultacions. Com a resposta a les meves conviccions, allí, on les simetries fonamentals de les partícules presenten el principi d'incertesa, he presentat l'obra, allí he redactat el compromís conceptual de l'aliança. En el món exterior, en el de les coses tangibles he instal·lat la forma de l'anell de pedra.
"El anillo de piedra" es una reflexión abierta desde la escultura que trata sobre la comunicación débil y sobre la comunión que se establece con la naturaleza. Presenta un orden en la complejidad del acto creativo y expresa la voluntad de establecer una alianza dentro de la oscuridad del mundo. Quiere ser una gnosis, un hilo de unión entre el pensamiento estético, la sensibilidad espiritual y el paradigma emergente, la nueva formulación de la realidad. Con la información disponible sobre la existencia paradójica de las cosas, la tesis define una gráfica con tres áreas de realidad:
· El mundo exterior construido con materia exánime pero común a todo lo que nos rodea.
· Las cosas sensibles encarnadas en el ciclo de la vida y de la muerte.
· Las acciones que emergen de la actividad mental, las ideas, ilusiones, fascinaciones, hipótesis de trabajo científico y las obras de arte.
Presenta estos universos traspasados por un hilo invisible, unidos siempre a las leyes de la física, a los procesos metabólicos y bioquímicos que constituyen la base de la vida. La visión del paradigma emergente, post cartesiano, unifica la materia, la vida y la mente y nos obliga a definir de nuevo la relación existente entre el hombre y el resto de seres vivos. Las propuestas de la tesis nos invitan a formar parte del fluir creativo de la naturaleza. Se reflexiona sobre la razón estética y apunta que no es una característica que nos diferencie del resto de los animales, sino que es una cualidad que nos unifica con ellos; nos sitúa en la misma línea de evolución, así, podemos de pensar que tan sólo nos encontramos en una fase diferente.
Las aportaciones del procedimiento creativo son:
· Constatar en la experiencia de campo que la resonancia de la materia se comunica y traspasa los tres ámbitos anunciados.
· La búsqueda y documentación de aspectos sensibles en la naturaleza ha proporcionado una respuesta estética que mitiga los niveles de incertidumbre y nos reconcilia con el mundo.
· La vida es arte y apariencia en proceso permanente, cuestión que nos obliga a elaborar una idea firme más allá del escenario de los objetos. El arte es también el lenguaje de la naturaleza, ya que ésta está sometida al ciclo de la vida y de la muerte.
Conclusiones: como escultor he ensayado espacios para hacer acciones en la cara oculta de la realidad: las ocultaciones. Como respuesta a mis convicciones, allí, donde les simetrías fundamentales de las partículas presentan el principio de incertidumbre, he presentado la obra, allí he redactado el compromiso conceptual de la alianza. En el mundo exterior, en el de las cosas tangibles y contingentes, he instalado la forma, el Anillo de piedra.
ENGLISH SUMMARY:
"Stone ring" is an open reflection and experiment of poor communication, which introduces order into the complexity of the creative act and reveals the will to create an alliance with Nature.
It is a work of gnosis, a connection between the aesthetic thought, the spiritual sensitivity and the emergent paradigm; a new world order. By means of information on the paradoxical existence of things, the thesis defines a virtual graphic displaying three areas of reality:
· The external world built with spiritless material, common to everything.
· Sensible things involved in the cycle of life and death.
· Everything that arises from mental activity; ideas, illusions, fantasies, hypotheses of scientific and art works.
These universes are connected by an invisible thread which is united to the laws of physics, metabolic and biochemical processes that constitute the basis for life.
The post Cartesian vision of the emergent paradigm unifies matter, life and soul, and forces us to redefine the relationship between man and other beings; nature.
Reason does not make us different from other animals. In fact, it is a quality that unifies us, that places us in the same evolution chain, despite representing different phases of evolution.
The procedure for the project has focused on three main areas:
· Prove through field experience that resonance of matter can communicate and move through the three above-mentioned areas
· Use research as a tool to document sensitive aspects of nature and reduce levels of uncertainty
· Develop the ideas that art is the language of nature, subjected to the cycle of life and death and that life is art and appearance.
CONCLUSIONS:
As a sculptor, I have conducted research in different settings in order to perform actions on the dark side of reality: concealments. To prove my convictions, I have presented my work where the main symmetries of particles display the uncertainty principle. The display is found in the external world of tangible objects and is where I have placed the Stone ring and ultimately written the conceptual compromise of alliance.
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Debrocq, Aliénor. "Le Surréalisme-Révolutionnaire et Cobra à l'épreuve de la violence: contribution à l'histoire des représentations." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209695.
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Créé le 8 novembre 1948 à Paris par huit peintres et écrivains belges, hollandais et danois, Cobra est l’acronyme de Copenhague, Bruxelles, Amsterdam. Le mouvement se propose rapidement de devenir un lien souple entre artistes et poètes de différents pays, par le biais d’un certain nombre de publications et d’expositions. Son existence officielle sera brève, puisqu’elle prend fin en 1951 avec le dernier numéro de la revue éponyme. Si les premières tentatives d’analyse historique et de synthèse sont venues des artistes et des poètes membres du mouvement, plusieurs études abouties ont vu le jour depuis les années 1970.S’appuyant sur un certain nombre d’affirmations émanant des acteurs de Cobra comme des historiens ayant écrit sur le sujet, l’auteur s’est penché sur la question de la violence picturale et théorique au sein de ce mouvement. Picturale, par la propension des artistes à brouiller la lisibilité de la composition et des figures, par leur volonté de « faire brut » et enfantin, de « mal peindre », de maltraiter le sujet en le rendant méconnaissable, hybride, défiguré. Théorique, par un certain nombre de déclarations (pour la plupart, parues dans la revue Cobra) véhémentes, engagées, politiques, relatives au climat sociopolitique de l’après-guerre comme au contexte artistique et culturel contemporain.
Au cours des recherches, il est apparu que la violence de Cobra était plus ambiguë que ce qui avait été imaginé initialement. Elle relève en réalité d’une forme d’instrumentalisation émanant des acteurs, qui ont multiplié les effets rhétoriques, les attitudes et les déclarations allant dans ce sens, conduisant Cobra à user d’une violence « décorative » nettement instrumentée :un outil utilisé par les artistes dans la construction de leur image, de leur identité individuelle et collective. Cette piste a ainsi débouché vers d’autres résultats que ceux imaginés au préalable mais n’en a pas moins permis de réévaluer le mouvement sur le plan de l’histoire des représentations, en étudiant les stratégies développées par ses membres dans les œuvres et les discours. La mise en perspective critique de ceux-ci a permis de cerner la capacité rhétorique de certains membres de Cobra, qui ont valorisé l’image d’un mouvement artistique résolument « moderne », c’est-à-dire violent et revendicateur, tout en puisant leur inspiration dans certaines formes d’art primitives et brutes.
La thèse s’articule de façon thématique, autour de quatre pôles révélateurs des formes et du sens de la violence détectée dans les œuvres et les discours des Cobra :
Répondre à la guerre – Cobra face au siècle
Une violence générationnelle
Le primitif ou le jeu de la violence
Aspirations libertaires
Doctorat en Histoire, art et archéologie
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Pirson, Chloé. "Les cires anatomiques (1699-1998) entre art et médecine: étude contextuelle de la collection céroplastique du musée de la médecine d'Erasme." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210884.
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Based upon a servey of the Université libre de Bruxelles medecine museum anatomical waxes collection, my Phd aims to study in an historical context the anatomical waxes fron the 18th Century to the 20th Century. We demonstrated who the didactical items created by sculpture ways appeared throw their successif uses from medical teaching to the prevention of the diseases of the time in the anatomical fairground attractions.Sur base d'une étude de la collection des cires anatomiques du musée de la médecine d'Erasme, ma thèse de doctorat vise à l'étude contextuelle de la production de cires anatomiques depuis la fin du 18e siècle jusqu'au 20e siècle. Nous avons montré comment ses objets didactiques, produits par des moyens sculpturaux, ont été perçu à travers leurs usages successifs depuis l'enseignement médicale jusqu'à la prévention sociale des maladies d'époque, au sein des musées anatomiques forains.
Doctorat en philosophie et lettres, Orientation histoire de l'art et archéologie
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Brenner, Joni. "The construction of likeness in some contemporary high portrait painting." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/20922.
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A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of Arts. University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements
for the Degree of Master of Arts in Fine Arts.
Johannesburg 1996Likeness is a central issue to the tradition of portrait painting. This dissertation examines the notion of likeness in some contemporary high portrait painting. Likeness is viewed as constructed socially through the complex relations between artist, sitter and viewer. Faced with the problematic notions of realism and naturalism and their philosophical ramifications, the dissertation confronts the question of What in our world can be regarded as natural or given, and what is constructed or acquired. The discussion, framed by the debate set up between Nelson Goodman and E.H. Gombrich, leads to the conclusion that the 'natural' and the 'real' are not neutral, they are highly constructed. The dIfferences between various conventions; various ways of representing others, are extrapolated from the debate, and once acknowledged. the final position taken is a less linear conventionalist stance. The constructed nature of likeness is tested against the portraits by American artist, Andy Warhol and British artist. Lucian Freud, contemporary painters working in direct antithesis to one another. The aim is to show that both of their portrait likenesses. whether private or public, painterly Or mechanical, are embedded within socially constructed conventions. Recognition of 'the conventions can guide the viewer in deconstructing the work and locating the meaning. I discuss my own work in relation to the contents of this dissertation.
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"Inspiration of architecture on contemporary ceramic art." 1997. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5889270.
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Wong Lai Ching.Slides insert in pocket.
Thesis (M.F.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 45-46).
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION --- p.1
Chapter Chapter 1 : --- SYMBIOSIS OF INSIDE AND OUTSIDE --- p.4
-Transformation of vessel
Chapter Chapter 2 : --- THE CRISIS OF IDENTITY --- p.15
-The magic of teapot
Chapter Chapter 3 : --- SITE - SPECIFIC WORK --- p.22
-The giant in nature
Chapter Chapter 4 : --- METABOLISM --- p.35
-Regeneration and process
CONCLUSION --- p.42
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCE --- p.45
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Coats, Elizabeth. "Organic growth and form in abstract painting." Phd thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151306.
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This doctorate explores 'Organic Growth and Form in Abstract Painting', as the focus of my studio-based research, and which has resulted in two significant series of paintings, Organica and Streaming. The accompanying exegesis addresses experiences that are realized within the studio practice, and complements the two series of paintings. In the exegesis I describe the innovative and distinctive painting processes I have developed, and explain my motivation for working this way. I cite the writing of the philosopher of science, Henri Bortoft, in particular his description of 'active' seeing, which I suggest can be understood as a kind of modeling of my processes of making the Organica and Streaming paintings. Key to my research has been an investigation into the work of the early Russian avant-garde artist, musician, theorist and teacher, Mikhail Matyushin, who promoted an 'organic' vision of painting during the early years of modernist experimentation, insisting that perception cannot be separated from the body's inherent connection with nature. I discuss how the artists in the Organic studio, led by Matyushin, tested their sensitivity to perceptual and sensory experience with controlled experiments. Philosophically, they considered their findings to be congenial with the latest scientific discoveries of their time. Although my paintings are constructed very differently from those of Matyushin, my approach to perception and interpretation in painting is in sympathy with his thinking. The constructive and perceptual approach I have taken to both series of paintings has been directly influenced by immersion in natural environments. My exegesis provides a detailed account of this working process: how I work with geometric templates for the coordination of colours, and my systematic approach to their application, leading to uncontrived 'organic' extensions in the detail. I discuss my interest in the implicit knowledge garnered through perception of colours and the connective fabric underlying surface appearances in nature. I argue that these observations are generative resources for painting, and emphasise the fact that our sensory and thinking bodies are also part of nature. - provided by Candidate.
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德卡, Sagar Talekar. "“Zen and Taoism Influence on 20th Century Abstract Painting -- and Researcher's Art Creation Experience”." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84207426211489177805.
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博士國立臺灣師範大學
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First chapter focused on the introduction of Zen and Taoism philosophy by Eastern and Western viewpoints. Second part of this chapter investigates the literature review by number of books, novels, research papers, articles of Zen and Taoism philosophy, art influence on east and west. However, several painters from East and West have deeply influenced by this philosophy but there is very less information available about painting and philosophy connection. Some of literature are very important for this research and had details examination in this chapter. Second chapter Research background is constructed on Twentieth century artists, who can be safely said to be influenced by Zen and Taoism philosophy, were not interested in a photographic representation of an object but in interpreting its spirits. It has been Cosmo centric. Therefore this chapter examines western artists and their involvement and viewpoints and for Eastern mainly concern on Taiwanese and Indian artists works. Third chapter of significance and expected outcomes mainly focused on varied colors and abstract forms of Zen and Tao such as Enso, Yin-Yang, circle, square, triangular, spiral or (Kundalini). Therefore this Chapter is constructed on philosophical influence of Zen and Taoism by basic of line, calligraphy, color, techniques and styles by various artists. Fourth chapter is based on my own art experience and an influence of Zen and Taoism philosophy as well as the influence of abstract painters of 20th century. The guidance of my fine art professor Su Hsian-Fa and Hsiao Chong Ray, about collective unconscious, that all humans have common inherited archetypal and symbolic patterns of emotional and mental behavior which took me to the higher levels and in depth in abstract paintings creation inspired by Zen and Taoism Philosophy. Fifth chapter is main analysis of this research. It’s analyzed by number of artist of Europe and America. 20th century’s American artists explored the calligraphic brushstroke, which was an approach to abstract painting that focused on popular writings on Taoism and Zen and its ethics of direct action. American artists were searching beyond the limitations of their culture for motivation. Shodo, in general, served as inspiration to numerous Abstract Expressionist painters of the period. Japanese art and Zen Buddhism dominated in part because America’s political and economic ties with Japan were historically stronger than those with China or India. Especially European artists inspired by this philosophy and their composition were depending upon chance, random accident or highly improvisational execution, typically hoping to attain freedom from the past, from academic formulas and the limitations placed on imagination by the conscious mind. 20th century most of abstract art was spiritual in its origin and one of them was theosophy movement, it can compare with many of spiritual techniques in Eastern systems of spirituality, to compare the different meditation techniques of Zen and Taoism in this chapter. Conclusion is arrived on Zen Philosophy is constructed on Nothingness whereas Taoist philosophy is constructed on Empty mind therefore this research focused on the aspects of comparative philosophical and painting study and view but not religious view.
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Cohen, Joshua Irwin. "Masks and the Modern: African/European Encounters in 20th-Century Art." Thesis, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8BG2M4Z.
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Taking Paris as its geographical nexus, this dissertation tracks European and African modernist appropriations of African sculpture across a three-tiered historical trajectory spanning from 1905 to 1980. Part I charts engagements with West and Central African masks and statues by the Fauves and Pablo Picasso; Part II assesses the work of pioneering black South African artists Ernest Mancoba and Gerard Sekoto; and Part III chronicles the nationalization of modern art in Senegal under President Léopold Sédar Senghor. Through examinations of the cross-cultural, formal, and politicized dynamics of African sculpture--or so-called art nègre--in modern art discourse and practice on two continents, the dissertation argues that European and African artists shared certain form-based approaches to African objects, coupled with tactical understandings of those objects' cultural origins. The artists diverged--both individually and by movement--insofar as they appropriated African art to different ends reflective of historical period, social context, and personal approach. More broadly, the dissertation argues that the early-20th-century European avant-garde "discovery" of African sculpture became globally significant through its eventual catalytic role for modern art movements in Africa. It argues that some of the most important modernist appropriators of African sculptural forms were African painters who both studied and subverted their European precursors in that practice.
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Da, Cruz Carla. "The use of clay as a medium in contemporary sculpture (1980- 2003)." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10321/2187.
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Dissertation submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for the Master's Degree in Technology: Fine Art, Durban Institute of Technology, Durban, 2004.This dissertation investigates the use of clay as a medium in contemporary sculpture made between 1980 and 2003. This research focuses specifically on discussing the artists' (both sculptors and ceramists) different approaches and attitudes to working with clay, from construction, manipulation, firing and glazing techniques through to their personal aesthetics and ideas. This dissertation examines how and why the contemporary sculptor trained in Fine Art is increasingly using clay as a medium in which to work. In addition, the candidate discusses the work of ceramic artists that have moved away from the constraints of earlier, more traditional, functional ceramics and have sought to push the boundaries of clay usage in terms of size, scale, mass and concept. Chapter One presents a broad historical overview of the use of clay in sculpture. This overview illustrates the depth and breadth of the use of clay in the making of sculpture, spanning the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth Century, in order to highlight the significant shift in the use of clay in contemporary sculpture. Chapter Two introduces and discusses a number of contemporary sculptors who work in clay in different ways. Section One examines artists using clay and other materials in the creation of installations. These include Antony Gormley and Andy Goldsworthy. Section Two discusses those artists working with clay in large-scale, including Jun Kaneko and Wilma Cruise. The architectural and environmental use of clay materials is discussed in Section Three; this includes artists John Roloff, who works with the kiln as sculpture and Joyce Kohl, who works with adobe assemblages and steel.
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Messina, Philip. "Establishing 21st Century Expressionisim." 2014. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/148.
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Within my thesis I propose to establish the existence of what I call 21st century expressionism. This genre of art is an extension of the movement that began in 20th century post-war America. 21st century expressionists create works that are intended to promote emotional responses within the viewer. “The term ``expressionism'' can be used to describe various art forms but, in its broadest sense, it is used to describe any art that raises subjective feelings above objective observations. Its aim is to reflect the artists’ state of mind rather than the reality of the external world”. Lee Krasner and Tony Smith, represent prime examples of 20th century expressionists and, Etsuko Ishikawa and Beth Cavener Stichter represent artists of 21st century expressionism.
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Price, Justine Dana. "Abstraction, expression, kitsch: American painting in a critical context, 1936-1951." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3391.
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This following is a study on abstract painting: the critical reception and analysis of painterly practice--performative, experimental, dissenting--in New York from 1936 to 1951. By metonymy, this study also looks at the figure in the political realm via the critiques offered by socially-oriented critics at this time (some of whom were also art critics). As the boundless secondary literature on this period has noted, the painting of the New York School would "triumph" with "stunning success" by the late 1950s. In other regards, the subject of this dissertation is that of failure. The revolution (or, "the idea of Revolution") that had been hoped for by so many left-wing radicals in the 1930s never quite came to pass or, later, went horribly wrong: first in Spain and then elsewhere. "Modern art, like modern literature and modern life," Clement Greenberg concluded in a 1948 essay on the Old Masters "has lost much." Greenberg's essay on the Old Masters appeared in the same number of Partisan Review as Hannah Arendt's essay, "The Concentration Camps." This is the generation of critics, intellectuals and artists who bore the brunt of articulating the unspeakable horrors of the Camps and the Bomb--manmade places and events that were "beyond human comprehension." This study is also about belief, of kinds: a Modernist belief in the agency of the artist, in the discernment of the critic, and of a "superstitious regard for print," to which Greenberg referred with irony in a 1957 essay (artists didn't always believe what they read, he would conclude). Irving Howe, the founder of Dissent in 1954, supposedly once quipped that, "when intellectuals can do nothing else, they start a magazine." The dissertation at hand contains a number of kinds of critical statements: ones of ambiguity and of skepticism, and others of crisis and disinterest, directed towards art objects and elsewhere, and expressed by writers at mid-century, some especially subtle and acute. Modernist belief, even if betrayed too often, allowed these critics often to escape velleities, or other empty gestures, in their writing.
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Couldridge, Fiona Sharon Kemsley. "Christian thematics in the work of Jane Alexander." Thesis, 2014.
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Simpson, Sally Robyn. "Practice-led research into ways the museum is explored as a house of wonder in contemporary sculpture." Master's thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/156002.
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The contemporary ecological debate embodies diverse opinions reflecting the complexity of information available. The museum has recorded the history of human-nature relations, and has influenced ways in which meaning has been assigned to nature. Its influence over the interpretation of objects has been critiqued by 20th century artists and postmodern theorists. However, the museum also continues to engage and inspire some artists, and this research uncovers reasons for this. This research investigates the ways in which contemporary sculpture can employ museum aesthetics to draw attention to flexible and uncertain meaning regarding ecological issues. It is undertaken in two parts. The first, the studio work with an exegesis of 8,000 words, investigates two particular sites and applies museum methodology to sculptures inspired by those environments. The work is supported by a dissertation of 18,000 words researching the work of Mark Dion and Fiona Hall. Both of these artists appropriate museum aesthetics in order to demonstrate that meaning is flexible and engage the viewer in the interpretive process. The studio research culminates in two bodies of work related to the two sites chosen, using the aesthetics of cultural artefacts, natural specimens, and skeleton galleries found in museums of natural history and ethnography. The form and materiality of these objects intends to defy didactic interpretation. The dissertation reveals that, as a result of its history, the museum is a house of wonder and mystery. The examination of Dion's and Hall's works demonstrates their use of postmodern strategies to both challenge the museum and exploit its potential as a house of wonder, and ultimately to engage the viewer's curiosity and active interpretation.Vol.1: Dissertation -- vol.2: Exegesis.
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Chen, Ching-Hui, and 陳靜惠. "The Study of the Musicality in the Abstract Paintings of the Early 20th Century－－from Kandinsky’s "Concerning the Spiritual in Art"." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/18060996403019264801.
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