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  1. 1. Konstliv i Göteborg : konstföreningen, museisamlingen och mecenaten Bengt Erland Dahlgren

    Författare :Charlotta Kerstin Hanner Nordstrand; Göteborgs universitet; Göteborgs universitet; Gothenburg University; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; art collecting; art societies; Gothenburg; 19th century art; B. E. Dahlgren;

    Sammanfattning : The subject matter of this dissertation concerns the activities promoting art life in early to mid 19th century Gothenburg.... LÄS MER

  3. 2. Johann Andreas Stein’s 1781 Claviorganum and the Construction of Art in Eighteenth-Century Augsburg

    Författare :Robin Blanton; Göteborgs universitet; Göteborgs universitet; Gothenburg University; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Patrick Alströmer; Augsburg; claviorgan; Carl Philip Emanuel Bach; Empfindsamkeit; fortepiano; Gothenburg; music aesthetics; Prellzungenmechanik; public sphere; Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart; Johann Andreas Stein; Paul von Stetten the Younger; 18 century;

    Sammanfattning : The latter half of the eighteenth century saw the piano’s rise in popularity in Europe, and alongside it many one-of-a-kind keyboard instruments that used the new technology of the hammer action in innovative ways. Recent scholarship revises the older view of these inventions as bizarre “dead ends,” suggesting that like the piano, they filled contemporary musical needs. LÄS MER

  4. 3. From Curiosa to World Culture. The History of the Latin American Collections at the Museum of World Culture in Sweden

    Författare :Adriana Muñoz; Göteborgs universitet; Göteborgs universitet; Gothenburg University; []
    Nyckelord :Archeology; Ethnography; Collections; Museums; Practices; National-States; World Culture; Latin America; Gothenburg; Sweden;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis discusses the history of the Latin American collections stored today at the Museum of World Culture in Sweden, emphasizing the relationship between the political ideological context of society and the signifi cance that the objects have been given over time. When the fi rst collections started to come to Sweden they meant a cosmopolitan touch to the upcoming bourgeoisie of the city of Gothenburg. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Climate regulation provided by urban greening - examples from a high latitude city

    Författare :Janina Konarska; Göteborgs universitet; Göteborgs universitet; Gothenburg University; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Gothenburg; Sweden; high latitude city; urban greenery; urban trees; leaf area index; tree transpiration; sky view factor; mean radiant temperature; hemispherical photography; climate-sensitive planning;

    Sammanfattning : Cities exert a strong influence on urban climate, and consequently on human health and wellbeing. This increases the importance of considering climate issues in urban planning, particularly in the context of global climate change. One of the key adaptation strategies in climate-sensitive planning is urban greenery. LÄS MER

  7. 5. A Temple of Technology : Modernity and Industral Heritage at the Gothenburg Exhibition of 1923

    Författare :Anders Houltz; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :industrial history; history of technology; cultural history; modernity; cultural heritage; use of history; exhibitions; museums; museology; industrial identity; professionalization; the Gothenburg exhibition of 1923; Sweden; Gothenburg; 20th century;

    Sammanfattning : The empirical focus of this study is the Jubilee Exhibitionin Gothenburg in 1923–with more than four millionvisitors the biggest exhibition ever held in the Nordiccountries. In its wide-ranging displays of both historical andcontemporary material, technology and technological artifactsoccupied a central position. LÄS MER