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| Author(s): |
Richard de Oliveira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2016-10-05 |
| Examining board members: |
Joao Augusto Frayze Pereira;
Yara Borges Caznok;
Vera Lucia Goncalves Felicio
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| Advisor: | João Augusto Frayze Pereira |
| Abstract | |
Considering the main theoretical apprehensions regarding the relation between art and madness, the purpose of this work is defined broadly to verify the relations between music and madness in the field of aesthetic reception, as a subarea of the Social Psychology of Art. Starting primarily from the critical perspective of Michel Foucault, among other authors, we consider madness a complex social historical phenomenon that crosses the western culture, and not the madness as a mental illness and the mad person as a fact. And given the fundamental role of the spectators activity in the production and circulation of the senses of the works of art, we conduct a study on the aesthetic perception of Robert Schumanns work, a romantic musician from the 19th century, whose existence was crossed by the tragic experience of madness. We selected some significant work from this composer and presented them to the subjects of the research, i.e., erudite musicians, specifically pianists, that we interviewed individually with the purpose of investigating the perception of madness bound to the perception of Schumanns musical work. The phenomenological reflection carried out from the perceptions expressed by the pianists constituted three perspectives: biographical, psychopathological and poetic. The consideration of this set had as an implication a theoretical critical study of the multifaceted field of the Romanticism, study that focused mainly on the concepts of subject, universe and music (as well as its relations) that emerge in the romantic storm. This essayistic study allowed us to discuss more broadly, based on Barthes and Merleau-Ponty (among other philosophers, critics and art historians), the art-madness matter, regarding the music, articulated to the artists life-work matter, life and work that hold tragic aspects in its genesis and its form (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/08518-1 - Musica and madness: a study on the field of Social Psychology of art |
| Grantee: | Richard de Oliveira |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |