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| Author(s): |
Ianick Takaes
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2017-09-25 |
| Examining board members: |
Luiz Cesar Marques Filho;
Patricia Dalcanale Meneses;
Cássio da Silva Fernandes
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| Advisor: | Luiz Cesar Marques Filho |
| Abstract | |
This thesis has as its main object the book Art and Anarchy, published in 1963 by Edgar Wind (1900-1971), a German intellectual expatriated to the United States and later to the United Kingdom, whose intellectual career navigated through the fields of epistemology, aesthetics, history of art and culture. The book ¿ the result of a cycle of six thirty minutes¿ conferences held for BBC radio in 1960 at the annual Reith Lectures ¿ deals with the relationship between art and the anarchic forces of the human imagination in the mid-20th century. To this end, a critique of modern Western artistic thought is advanced based on an analysis of the various historical forces that have shaped it. Wind, renowned for his studies on the art of the Italian Renaissance, English portraiture of the 17th century and philosophy of science, presents in Art and Anarchy a multifaceted view of the art of his lifetime, whose critical vigour stems from his heterodox point of view: according to him, the modern artistic experience results from a process of marginalization in relation to the centre of human life, a process whose origins he traces back to the beginning of the 18th century. Such an approach, unusual or non-existent among the scholars of his generation who dealt with matters pertaining to Classical Tradition, is expressive of Edgar Wind's broad field of interests and his essentially adisciplinary heuristic practice. This dissertation consists of two main axes: (1) the translation of Art and Anarchy into Portuguese and its notation, thus aiming to make the work accessible to the Portuguese-speaking world and to explain to the reader the numerous implicit references of the text; (2) a study of Edgar Wind's intellectual biography, the historical context of his Reith Lectures production, and the conceptual armour of Art and Anarchy. It is, therefore, necessary to situate the book in the framework of Wind's previous writings and in his intellectual horizon in order to evaluate to what extent these conferences dialogue with the main lines of his thought or offer, on the contrary, a late foray of his critical discourse, relatively isolated (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/21783-6 - Art and transgression in Edgar Wind: a study on the conceptual armature and reception of Art and Anarchy (1963) |
| Grantee: | Ianick Takaes de Oliveira |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |