Presságios literários e herança plástica: Emerson e Thoreau; Richard Serra, Waltercio Caldas e outros

Abstract

The following study aims to examine Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) and Henry David Thoreau s (1817-1862) literary writings considering them as a form of omen of art in America, in other words, as a literary writing that seems to have been inherited from the artistic environment of the contemporary art works by Richard Serra (1939-) and Waltercio Caldas (1946-), among others. Such heritage endorses the notion of ordinary language, understood as the point of reception, or the point of an uneasiness, that was present in the contemporary circumstances. In turn, the addressing gesture which involves these scriptures express the mark of an undecidability on the continuity or discontinuity of the existence of categories such as literature, philosophy and arts. Thus, the problematization of these remissions obtains prominence in this study, by means of a comparative approach among Thoureau, Emerson, Waltercio, Serra and others. In this way, the question that is established in this panorama concerns the thought problems, which in the plastic scope seem to be extended up to a criticism tradition in the New World