Andy Warhol and repetitions

• Grant number: 15/04300-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: April 25, 2015
• End date: August 03, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Plastic Arts
• Principal Investigator: Carlos Alberto Fajardo
• Grantee: Rodrigo Arruda Proto Gonzalez
• Supervisor: Lisa Florman
• Host Institution: Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Ohio State University, Columbus, United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/17620-1 - Relations between the readymades and the oeuvre of Waltercio Caldas, of Jac Leirner and of Andy Warhol, BP.IC

Abstract

The term "repetition" appears often in the analysis done on Andy Warhol's works. Although it does seem possible to make use of the generic idea of repetition in order to describe the procedure of some of these works, the common sense ignores that the term can have multiple meanings in relation to them. In order to investigate how some of Warhol's pieces are related to these different meanings, this research will study the different definitions of repetition, and each work will be analyzed individually, in comparison to one another and to those definitions. (AU)