Dias, Fernando Paulo Leitão Simões RosaCaldeira, Ana Margarida da Câmara Leme Pessanha2024-07-052024-07-052024-06-04http://hdl.handle.net/10451/65246The utopia of the modernist project came to an end with the catastrophic panorama of the world wars. The ideals of progress were cast aside along with the stabilising elements of society, which fell into the disbelief of a people who believed in nothing and saw no hope for the future. The individual is faced with a chaotic present, where nothing is concrete and everything can be changed, losing their sense of themselves and their belonging to the world. Without any stabilising elements, without any element of continuity, the individual is left to a narcissistic self-government fed by a fascination with the self and the hedonistic values of a world characterised by consumption and fashion. However, this investment in the self becomes antagonistic, because it is not due to a real encounter with oneself, nor to a sense of security in oneself, but on the contrary, it consists of a constant search to satisfy the emptiness of the individual who finds himself facing a world without direction. This sense of loss results in a profound identity crisis that is widely amplified by the global nature of the postmodern world, which opens up a whole new range of possibilities and choices that can be adapted to a subject's identity. The postmodern subject becomes fragmented, multiple and malleable, completely negating the traditional concept of a single, stable and homogenous identity. This dissertation is based on this same scenario, and is constructed through a critical reflection that aims to establish a correlation between the theoretical debates developed over the last few decades of the 20th century in the context of identity studies, and an increasingly notable preference on the part of the arts for a discourse focused on the presentation and representation of heterodox identities, It proposes the existence of an "identity art" that is becoming increasingly fragmented, hybridised and malleable as technological innovations advance and the world becomes increasingly global. Examples of the reflections of this art are the case studies of artists such as Claude Cahun, Marcel Duchamp, Pierre Molinier, Luciano Castelli, Urs Lüthi, Michel Journiac, Jürgen Klauke, Andy Warhol, Yasumasa Morimura, Cindy Sherman, Nikki S. Lee and Lynn Hershman, who open doors to a whole panorama of reflections on the identity problems left by post-modern times.porCrise identitáriaFragmentaçãoCorpoAutorrepresentaçãoAlter EgoDuploFicção de siArte contemporânea - séc.20-21Arte identitáriaCasos de estudomaster thesis203652991