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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 476 avhandlingar innehållade orden Art Theory.
11. Historiska porträtt som kunskapskälla : Samlingar, arkiv och konsthistorieskrivning
Sammanfattning : This thesis is a study on the reception history of early modern portraiture, as expressed in Swedish as well as Nordic and German art historiography written 1880-1945. It focuses on the anthropological and anachronic aspects of the encounter between art historian and portrait, which is analysed according to theory on the agency of images. LÄS MER
12. The Art of Making Democratic Trouble : Four Art Events and Radical Democratic Theory
Sammanfattning : Heated debates and strong emotions occasionally arise in the public sphere in the wake of an art object. The interaction that follows becomes part of what we as citizens share in a democracy, with its particular conditions of political speech and democratic exchange. LÄS MER
13. Bilder av Förintelsen. Mening, minne, kompromettering
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the representation in visual culture of the Holocaust, the Nazi genocide of European Jewry. It is divided into three main parts, each one focusing on a particular aspect of Holocaust representation. LÄS MER
14. Konstnärsgillet : konstliv och föreningsväsende vid mitten av 1800-talet
Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to present a biography of Konstnärsgillet, and relate the organisation to the so-called Associations that developed after the fall of l'ancien régime, when the middle classes entered the social arena. The heyday of the Associations took place during the period leading up to the rise of the mass organisations at the end of the 19th century. LÄS MER
15. The Art of Pleasing the Eye : Portraits by Nicolas de Largillierre and Spectatorship with Taste for Colour in the Early Eighteenth Century
Sammanfattning : This study examines the interaction between portraits by the exponent of French colourist painting Nicolas de Largillierre (1656–1745) and elite spectatorship in the early eighteenth century as enactment of the idea of painting as an art of pleasing the eye. As developed in the theory of art of Roger de Piles (1635–1709), the idea of painting as an art of pleasing the eye coexisted with the classicist view, which in turn emphasised the potential of painting to communicate discursive meanings and hence to engage the mind. LÄS MER