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Visar resultat 36 - 40 av 420 avhandlingar innehållade ordet æsthetics.

1. 36. Are Beautiful traffic environments safer than Ugly traffic environments?

   Författare :Helena Drottenborg; Trafik och väg; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; driving behaviour; traffic safety; eye blink; heart rate; mood; basic emotional process; environmental psychology; gestalt theory; ugly; aesthetics; beautiful; speed.; Road transport technology; Vägtransportteknik;

   Sammanfattning : To link aesthetics to traffic safety, the field of environmental psychology was consid-ered. A new model of driving behaviour was developed, based on Lewin’s (1951) equation, B = f (P,E) and by employing Küllers’ (1991) model of the basic emotional process. LÄS MER

3. 37. Ett medialt museum : lärandets estetik i svensk television 1956-1969

   Författare :Petra Werner; Jakob Staberg; Anders Burman; Katarina Elam; Södertörns högskola; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; aesthetics; aesthetic depicting; television; learning; intangible heritage; storytelling; play; attention; education; learning processes; documentary; oral tradition; visual tradition; hermeneutic; phenomenology; Estetik; bildning; gestaltning; television; lärande; immateriellt kulturarv; berättande; lek; uppmärksamhet; lärandeprocesser; dokumentär; muntlig tradition; visuell tradition; hermeneutik; fenomenologi; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the aesthetic interpretation of learning processes in television produced and broadcast in Sweden between 1956 and 1969. The thesis explores how these programmes are linked to concepts of Bildung by their aesthetics, by which the intangible cultural heritage is entrusted in the form of oral and visual traditions, storytelling and games/play, where learning is the common denominator. LÄS MER

4. 38. The senses of modernism : Technology, perception, and modernist aesthetics

   Författare :Sara Danius; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; modernism and modernity; literature and technology; literary history; cultural studies; human body in literature; visual culture; cinema studies; Thomas Mann; Marcel Proust; James Joyce; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This study argues that there is a constitutive relationship between technological change and literary modernism. Moving within a historical trajectory that extends from 1880 to 1930, The Senses of Modernism proposes that high-modernist aesthetics is inseparable from a newly emergent and technologically mediated crisis of the senses. LÄS MER

5. 39. Artworks as diagrams : Diagrammatic reasoning and the epistemic potential of art

   Författare :Leticia Vitral; Lars Elleström; Frederik Stjernfelt; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Semiotics; Aesthetics; Epistemology; Inquiry; Diagrammatic reasoning; Comparative literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is concerned with establishing a bridge between matters of aesthetics and epistemology, by investigating the mechanisms through which artworks allow agents to derive knowledge through the former’s manipulation. It is proposed that, in order to understand the epistemic potential of artworks, we need to approach them as diagrams, in the sense developed by Charles Peirce. LÄS MER

7. 40. In conversation with the Kolam practice: Auspiciousness and artistic experiences among Women in Tamilnadu, South India

   Författare :Anna Laine; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anthropology; kolam; visual culture; multisensoriality; aesthetics; art; artistic practice; photography; gender; efficacy; agency; hinduism;

   Sammanfattning : This anthropological study explores the kolam, a South Indian practice where women daily draw geometrical images in front of their homes to invite the deities. Through this practice, women engage in social and religious processes. They generate an auspicious atmosphere and become constructed as feminine beings. LÄS MER