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| Author(s): |
Priscilla Ramos da Silva
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Artes |
| Defense date: | 2007-08-30 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria de Fatima Morethy Couto;
Ricardo Nascimento Fabbrini;
Regina Helena Pereira Johas;
Dária Gorete Jaremtchuk;
Hermes Renato Hildebrand
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| Advisor: | Maria de Fatima Morethy Couto |
| Abstract | |
This work ¿ an inquiry into the emergence of the theme of the body in the visual arts of the 1990s ¿ is constituted by three chapters. The first is based on the premise that the irruption of the body as a privileged theme in the art of the 1990s is related to the establishment of a crisis. By examining this crisis, through an analysis of the debates raised by some contemporary body theorists, the chapter weaves a panorama for the comprehension of the art of the body produced in the 1990s. The second chapter then investigates how the emergence of the body as a ¿problem¿ in contemporary culture was reflected in the visual arts field. Besides analyzing some artists an exhibitions which gained prominence internationally in the 1990s, the chapter discusses the theories or concepts of the ¿abject¿ and the ¿post-human¿, largely employed in the characterization of the art of the body of the period. The third and final chapter then examines the art of the body produced in Brazil taking as parameters the 25th Brazilian Art Panorama (1997) and the One and Other segment of the 24th São Paulo Biennial. Two of the most prestigious periodical shows in the country, the Panorama and the Biennial demonstrate the importance gained by the theme of the body in the Brazilian art of the 1990s (AU) | |