Resumo:
In contemporary times, the fields of art and editorial design, as image producers, have been crossed by changes in materials, constructive techniques and environments of messages fruition in globalized and constantly changing sensitivities. This dissertation discusses the boundaries between art and design as constructive manifestations of subjectivity in the contemporary social body. In parallel, it also discusses strategies of production and consumption of these messages, historizing also the approximations and distances between the fields, and comparing the thought of authors of both areas, as well as theorists related to philosophy and sociology. The research also proposes some tactics and reflections for the convergence between the conception process of design and the creative processes in contemporary art, through an artist book produced by a designer as author especifically for this study. The work explores possibilities a narrative which stands at the border between contemporary art and editorial design.
