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Restoring Subjectivity and Brazilian Identity: Lygia Clark's Therapeutic Practice

Harper, Eleanor R.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1275622355

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2010, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Art History (Fine Arts).
This thesis examines the oeuvre of Brazilian artist Lygia Clark (1920-1988) with respect to her progressive interest in and inclusion of the viewing subject within the work of art. Responding to the legacy of Portuguese occupation in her home of Brazil, Clark sought out an art that embraced the viewing subject and contributed to their sense of subjectivity. Challenging traditional models of perception, participation, and objecthood, Clark created objects that exceeded the bounds of the autonomous transcendental picture plane. By fracturing the surfaces of her paintings, creating objects that possess an interior and exterior, and by requiring her participants to physically manipulate her work, Clark demonstrated an alternative model of the art object and experience. These experiments took her into the realm of therapy under the influence of psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott's work. Expounding upon his theory of the "Transitional Object," Clark's later bodies of work operated specifically within the context of the therapeutic, with the intention of nurturing the subjectivity of her participants.
Jaleh Mansoor, PhD (Advisor)
Jennie Klein, PhD (Committee Member)
Robert Briscoe, PhD (Committee Member)
125 p.
Art History
Lygia Clark; Brazilian Identity

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  • Harper, E. R. (2010). Restoring Subjectivity and Brazilian Identity: Lygia Clark's Therapeutic Practice [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1275622355

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Harper, Eleanor. Restoring Subjectivity and Brazilian Identity: Lygia Clark's Therapeutic Practice. 2010. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1275622355.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Harper, Eleanor. "Restoring Subjectivity and Brazilian Identity: Lygia Clark's Therapeutic Practice." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1275622355

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