Uma investigação entre a estética da existência foucaultiana e a vida e obra de Frans Krajcberg

Abstract

We know that the political space is composed of tensions, conflicts and constant challenges at any time and at any place, since different ways of exercising power can give different meanings to the lives of people of a certain nation, of a certain city. We also know that it is almost impossible to conceive of a society without art, or of art without social meaning. The goal of this research is to carry out a study of arts and politics, without, however, pretending to exhaust such a wide-ranging and lively contemporary topic. The issue that this study raises is a reflection on how the interaction among the individual, art and power occurs, and if the artist and his work can constitute themselves as points of resistance within the political space. For that reason, this dissertation first addresses the relationship between the individual and power as seen through the theoretical lens of Foucault's analysis of the aesthetics of existence. It then examines the life and work of an artist in such a way as to make understandable the relationship among art, the individual and power. The intent is to answer the formulated issue. The artist in question is Frans Krajcberg