The classificatory struggle from periphery to centre: Lygia Clark and Jesús Rafael Soto in the transition from modern to contemporary art

• Grant number: 17/03601-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: November 01, 2017
• End date: February 28, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology
• Principal Investigator: Mariana Miggiolaro Chaguri
• Grantee: Amanda Villar Inocencio Christol
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research purposes to analyze the trajectories and the artistic productions by Lygia Clark and by Jesús Rafael Soto, seeking investigate especially the patch that they've followed in artistic field of plastic Arts, mapping its origins, influences and the social and artistic contexts in which they've produced their works. It seeks to understand, therefore, their transformation proposals in the artistic form, asking if these formal transformations would be implicated and constituted by the interchange and by the circulation of these artists through different times and spaces. Its concern, then, is to examine the formal transformations carried out by Clark and Soto in the light of their social and artistic conditionings, relating them with its respective questions and artistic form exploration. It seeks, nevertheless, investigate if these transformations in artistic form would constitute, in details, a classificatory struggle in its formulations context and, at the same time, in the conformation of an alternative artistic circuit to the modern one. In order to do it, it tries to reconstruct the artistic context in which these artists took place, simultaneously in Paris and London, between the 1960's and 1980's, more specifically the institutions in which they've circulated and the critic production concerned to their works, as well the social and cultural group that they were part. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

CHRISTOL, Amanda Villar Inocencio. The classificatory struggle from periphery to centre: Lygia Clark and Jesús Rafael Soto in the transition from modern to contemporary art. 2019. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.