Interés y mentira del arte norteamericano : una interpretación psicoanalítica a partir de la teoría de los discursos de Lacan

Abstract

This research tries to account for the loss of interpretive competence of contemporary art consumers and the factors that have led to such a situation. Forw hich the history of North American art has been traversed, from its origins to the70s of the s. XX. The objective of this review has been, in general terms, to observe the configuration of the complete development of the modern paradigm until its dissolution. This examination sought to locate the intervening factors and their function, to finally weigh the limits and operability of art in the contemporary cultural, economic and political regime. The thesis undertakes its investigation in four parts, plotted along the lines of North American history, but that as it progresses, it tightens the fence over shorter periods, because, as the modern paradigm approaches its dissolution, it accelerates its march. The four parts of the investigation are organized on the basis of the four Lacanian discourses; university, hysterical, capitalist and analyst, who apply themselves to the interpretation of many other sets of works of art: The Statue of Liberty, the expressionist work of Jackson Pollock, the targets and flags of the first exhibition of Jasper Johns and the Andy Warhol series of 32 cans. Thesecase studies are well known, which favors making the reader notice the radical interpretative divergences with respect to those already officialized by institutions such as museums, art treatises, critics and the media...