Fotografando sombras: um olhar sobre as imagens obscuras de Gottfried Helnwein

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Moura, Lidia Zuin de
• Orientador(a): Baitello Junior, Norval
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Comunicação e Semiótica
• Departamento: Comunicação
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Gottfried Helnwein; Fotografia; Hiperrealismo; Cultura pop; Nazismo; Arquétipo da sombra
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Photography; Hyperrealism; Pop culture; Nazism; Shadow archetype
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::COMUNICACAO
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/4624

The objective of this research is to investigate and comprehend the discursive strategies employed in the construction of the images by Gottfried Helnwein, an Austrian photographer and hyperrealist painter. His works reunite the theme of Nazism and violence in a grim aesthetics that dialogues with pop culture characters. The research is divided in three parts: 1. The historic and cultural context lived by Helnwein and the relationship of the public with his images; 2. The cultural universes that influenced Helnwein: Baroque and Tenebrism, Jungian shadow, Viennese Actionism, Pop Art, Hyperrealism; 3. The analysis of the series The Murmur of the Innocents (2009-2013), The Disasters of War (2007-2011), Epiphany (1993-1998) and The American Paintings (2000-2003), focusing specially on the motives of the child, pop culture, Nazism and religiosity. The theoretical and methodological framework is constituted by the image theories of Vilém Flusser and Aby Warburg, by the concepts of archetypical image of C. G. Jung and pop culture of Daniel Boorstin and Roland Kelts