Sökning: "Contemporary painting"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade orden Contemporary painting.
1. Painting the City : Performative Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Space and Art
Sammanfattning : Understanding everyday urban practices as performative, political, and potentially transformative, this dissertation aims to explore how graffiti- and street art use, subvert, and, via media, extend urban space in Stockholm. Drawing upon a performative ethnographic approach, the study focuses on both the practice of and the various forms of social commentary and critique generated by graffiti and street art in Stockholm. LÄS MER
2. The Book of Hours of Johannete Ravenelle and the Parisian Book Illumination Around 1400
Sammanfattning : Within the French book of hours C 517e in the manuscript collection of the University Library in Uppsala, the name of the owner, Johannete Ravenelle, appears in a prayer. Examination of the decoration, miniatures and texts demonstrates that ms C 517e is consistent with Parisian art and books of hours around 1400. LÄS MER
3. Making in Context : Reconsidering Anders Zorn's Oil Painting Practice
Sammanfattning : Anders Zorn is one of the most well-known Swedish artists of the late nineteenth century. Born 1860 in the Dalecarlian town of Mora, the artist’s works were renowned and sought-after during his lifetime, both at home and abroad. LÄS MER
4. Clement Greenberg och hans kritiker
Sammanfattning : This dissertation, using a genealogical perspective, examines American art critic Clement Greenberg and why he has become the foremost representative of modernism in much of contemporary, postmodern art criticism. The minimalist break with Greenbergian modernism (esthetic/formalism) during the Sixties has played, and continues to play, an important role in art theory. LÄS MER
5. Officeren som arkitekt och konstnär i det svenska 1800-talet
Sammanfattning : In the study of 19th century, Swedish art history, military artists are repeatedly discovered, often as sketch-artists or painters, but also in their capacity as directors of the Board of Public Building or architects. Within picture art, these so-called "military painters" areconsidered to be typical representatives of the widespread amateurism of the century. LÄS MER