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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 236 avhandlingar innehållade orden Art and Society.
16. Rationell arkitektur : Företagskontor för massproduktion och masskommunikation
Sammanfattning : Modern architecture, which can be perceived as representational, metaphoric or symbolic, has often been excluded in Swedish architectural debate and writing. Ideological perspectives dominate, and the focus has been on housing and infrastructure. Frequently, architecture of the mid twentieth century has been characterized as neutral. LÄS MER
17. 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
18. Skåda all världens uselhet : visuell pedagogik och reformism i det sena 1800-talets populärkultur
Sammanfattning : This doctoral dissertation analyzes practices of looking within popular culture during the late nineteenth century. Visual attractions, illustrated press and traveling amusement shows included representations of social ills, such as poverty, criminality and prostitution. LÄS MER
19. Frihetskonst : Författarroll och modernitet genom Sven Lindqvists tidiga författarskap
Sammanfattning : This study is focused on the early writing of Swedish author Sven Lindqvist (born in 1932). The aim of the study is to investigate Lindqvist’s conception of literature, how it is presented, how it develops and how it materializes in his literary production between 1955 and 1962. LÄS MER
20. Samhälle, vetenskap och obstetrik : Elis Essen-Möller och kvinnokliniken i Lund
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with issues of power and medicine in the context of early twentieth century Swedish obstetrics and gynaecology. The study starts at rather a narrow point of investigation with a general history of Lund University Hospital and a few of its main characters. LÄS MER
