Abstract

ALVARENGA, Juliana. Art and knowledge: alchemy and the new paradigm of science. Estúdio [online]. 2012, vol.3, n.5, pp.358-365. ISSN 1647-6158.

Presentation of the concept of transformation of material in the work of the artists Damien Hirst and Joseph Beuys, taken as a guide for thinking about knowledge and the new paradigm of and science. Some of their works reflect healing possibilities related with alchemy. They point poiesis as a metaphorical procedure of investigation that affects man when he intervenes in its organic dimension.

Keywords : art; alchemy; knowledge; material; new paradigm of science.

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