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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade ordet engraving.

  1. 1. Taking possession of astronomy : Frontispieces and illustrated title pages in 17th-century books on astronomy

    Författare :Inga Elmqvist Söderlund; Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf; Karin Sidén; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Frontispiece; illustrated title page; astronomy; 17th century; allegory; engraving; illustrated book; Art; Konstvetenskap; konstvetenskap; Art History;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis is a survey of 291 frontispieces and illustrated title pages in European books on astronomy from the 17th century. It is a quantitative and qualitative survey of how motifs are related to consumption, identification and display. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Arvet efter surrealismen : Grafikskolan Forum 1964-1991

    Författare :Kristina Mezei; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art history; printmaking; prints; chance; automatism; surrealism; etching; engraving; Imaginism; creativity; 20th century art; Cobra; Breton; Lundberg; Hayter; Konstvetenskap; Art; Konstvetenskap; History Of Art; konstvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation examines Grafikskolan Forum, the Forum School of Printmaking in Malmö, Sweden, and its roots in the surrealist inspired view of the artistic creative process that focused upon automatism, chance events and accidents. The point of departure is the thoughts on artistic creativity of the leader of French surrealism, André Breton. LÄS MER

  4. 3. A globolo gems. Late Etrusco-Italic scarab intaglios

    Författare :Ulf Hansson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Etruscan; Etrusco-Italic; a globolo; scarab; engraved gem; glyptic; engraving technique; archaeogemmology; archaeology; find context; typology; iconography; standardisation; serial production; consumption; auto-representation;

    Sammanfattning : The study treats a class of engraved scarab gems commonly known by the name of a globolo, produced in Central Italy in the Late Classical to Early Hellenistic periods. The point of departure is a newly developed database of all known specimens, which amount to 1,470, covering a wide range of information categories, which have guided the structure of the presentation. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Gravure vs. Web-offset! : a changing world in publication printing 1986-2006

    Författare :Anders Bjurstedt; Nils Enlund; Robert Chung; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Mass communication; Masskommunikation;

    Sammanfattning : The European publication printing industry and its markets have undergone profound structural changes between 1986 and 2006. This thesis is an investigation of these changes and of how the publication industry has been affected, as well as of the balance between publication gravure and commercial heat-set web-offset. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Föreningen Original-Träsnitt. Grafik och grafiker på ett tidigt modernistiskt fält : The Swedish Society of Original Wood Engravers. Graphic Art and Graphic Artists in an Early Modernistic Field of Art

    Författare :Margareta Wallin Wictorin; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is about Föreningen Original-Träsnitt, which was founded in 1912, at a time when new photographic methods of image reproduction contributed to differentiation of graphic visual culture in Sweden and Europe. In the field of art a notion was spread that now when a picture could be reproduced mechanically, there was no need for the wood engraving, the technique which had been used for art pictures and illustrations in book, magazines and newspapers. LÄS MER