Practice as Research PhD projects

PhD Art and Sciences of Art (Aesthetic)

Title of the thesis:

The mise en abyme of the work and the aesthetic perception

The mise en abyme is a setting in scene of the aesthetic perception, which involves the viewer in the process of the artistic creation. Thus, a union is born between time, space, the work, the artist and the viewer, and often leads to an ambiguity as their distinction and that of realities.

The thesis consists of three volumes and a short film.

1   We examine initially the transgression of the framework by the painted image in Persian miniature, which has as a characteristic to put the viewer in front of the pictorial creation and what precedes it: the white page.

2   Then we study the improvisation in the gypsy music, since this process enables us to attend a musical composition in real time. Here we question the relationship between the space-time and art.

3   Finally, we enter the sculptures of Jaume Plensa and try out the perception of the work, by means of the realization of a short film: a propos de chaos-saliva.

In the mise en abyme culminates an introspective movement, through a physical fact: the perception of the image or the sound.

Date of award: 15-09-2003.

Supervisor: Costin MIEREANU, Professor of the Université PARIS 1, Head of Department of the Esthetic of Contemporary Arts Institute -IDEAC Institut d’Esthétique des Arts Contemporains -

Examiners:

Dominique CLEVENOT, Professor of the Université TOULOUSE Le Mirail, Head of Department of Fine Arts.

Eliane CHIRON, Professor of the Université PARIS 1, Director of Research at  the CRAV Centre de Recherche des Arts Visuels.

Costin MIEREANU, Professor of the Université PARIS 1, Head of Department of the Esthetic of Contemporary Arts Institute -IDEAC Institut d’Esthétique des Arts Contemporains -

Previous Reports:

Mohamed Zinelabidine, Director of the Institut Superieur de Musique de Tunis, Tunisia.

Jean-Yves Bosseur, Director of Research at C.N.R.S. –Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique– Professor (musicology) at University of Paris IV.