The body is the artwork: Antonio Manuel under the Merleau-Ponty view

• Grant number: 11/11118-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2011
• End date: August 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Plastic Arts
• Principal Investigator: Cauê Alves
• Grantee: Renan Marcondes Cevales
• Host Institution: Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo (UNIBASP). Fundação Escola de Belas Artes de São Paulo (FEBASP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Bibliographic research with analytical and comparative style about Antonio Manuel's production (1947-). This work aims to contribute to an enlargement of the possibilities of comprehension about the artist's production through a philosophical point of view. In order to achieve it, relations will be established between the artist and Merleau-Ponty's body conception, philosopher relevant to the development of many artists of the same period that Manuel, but that doesn't appear directly at his artworks. The research also touches performance and action theories to sustain the analysis, which is divided in three moments: it begins with the examination of one artwork chosen as propeller (O corpo é a obra, 1970); unfolds to an analysis of the general production having as focus the notes obtained at the first moment to, at last, outline the points of relation between Antonio Manuel and Merleau-Ponty.