Sökning: "Visual Arts"
Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 232 avhandlingar innehållade orden Visual Arts.
21. In Search of the Pure Photograph : A Historiographic Study of the Farm Security Administration, Walker Evans, and the Survey Histories of Photography
Sammanfattning : The photographic archive of the American New Deal agency Farm Security Administration (created 1935-1943) occupies an important place in the history of photography as an exemplar of documentary photography and as symbol of the Great Depression. This dissertation is a historiographic study of this narrative of FSA photography, which investigates the archive's monumental position in the historical narration and demonstrates other possible readings. LÄS MER
22. Frida Kahlos bildspråk – ansikte, kropp & landskap: Representation av nationell identitet (första utgåvan)
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is about the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) and her works, with emphasis on her painted self-portraits. The objective is to place Frida Kahlo’s pictorial production in relation to a place and time specific context and to test the theory for Frida Kahlo’s self-portraits as a project connected to a general striving towards a new formulation of a national identity. LÄS MER
23. Jill Bilcock : Revealing the Invisible Artist. Recognising the creative contributions of film editors to filmmaking through biographical documentary film
Sammanfattning : Film editing is recognised as the conceptual innovation that, at the dawn of the twentieth century, helped transform the novelty of moving images into cinema. Despite this acknowledgment, misconceptions about the art form linger. LÄS MER
24. Governing the manifold subject : a praxiography of Swedish HIV treatment
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates a multiplicity of ways in which the subject of Swedish HIV treatment is enacted. Drawing on my own experiences of living with HIV in Sweden, the thesis articulates a concern with reflexive, performative, and normative dimensions of contemporary governing assemblages, research practices, and medical interventions. LÄS MER
25. On the Anarchic Organisation of Cinematic Spaces : Evoking Spaces beyond Cinema
Sammanfattning : This research engages with the space beyond cinema and comprises a futuristic vision about the condition of cinema.My work takes a conceptual approach that considers cinema in an architectural sense and as an instrument, where the environment, the screen, and the projection can be combined or pushed forward to create another spatiotemporal dimension that is concurrent with and beyond the context of interior or exterior space. LÄS MER
