Sökning: "local aesthetics"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 25 avhandlingar innehållade orden local aesthetics.

  1. 1. In conversation with the Kolam practice: Auspiciousness and artistic experiences among Women in Tamilnadu, South India

    Författare :Anna Laine; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anthropology; kolam; visual culture; multisensoriality; aesthetics; art; artistic practice; photography; gender; efficacy; agency; hinduism;

    Sammanfattning : This anthropological study explores the kolam, a South Indian practice where women daily draw geometrical images in front of their homes to invite the deities. Through this practice, women engage in social and religious processes. They generate an auspicious atmosphere and become constructed as feminine beings. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Könsskillnadens estetik? Om konst och konstskapande i svensk hemslöjd på 1920- och 1990-talen

    Författare :Johanna Rosenqvist; Anna Lena Lindberg; Jorunn Veiteberg; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Handicraft; Art history; feminist art theory; Konsthistoria; Aesthetics; Art History; Konstvetenskap; fields of art; Folk art; ornament; Arts and Crafts; Modernism; Post modernism; textile art; Sloyd; The National Association of Swedish Handicraft Societies; Estetik; handdicraft; Art;

    Sammanfattning : The main objective of this PhD thesis, "An Aesthetics of Sexual Difference? On Art and Artistry in Swedish Handicraft of the 1920s and 1990s", is to investigate the field of handicraft in relation to a wider field of cultural production. Its aim is to contribute to a mapping of interrelated outlines of handicraft and art based on empirical studies of artistic creation in two local Swedish handicraft organizations during the modernism of the 1920s and the postmodernism of the 1990s. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Designing Everyday Computational Things

    Författare :Johan Redström; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; human-computer interaction; interaction design; design research; experimental design; ubiquitous computing; aesthetics;

    Sammanfattning : The prospect of ubiquitous computing in everyday life urges us to raise basic design issues pertaining to how we will live with, and not only use, computers. To design for everyday life involves much more than enabling people to accomplish certain tasks more effectively, and therefore, traditional approaches to human-computer interaction that focus on usability are not sufïcient. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Aesthetic Valuing and the Self

    Författare :Irene Martínez Marín; Elisabeth Schellekens; Keren Gorodeisky; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Aesthetic Judgement; Personal Autonomy; Emotions; Aesthetic Agency; Akrasia; Rational Requirements; Transformative Experiences; Estetik; Aesthetics;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis concerns the relation between aesthetically valuable objects and the agents that aesthetically value them. An investigation is undertaken into the psychology and rationality of such agents. I argue that self-related elements such as emotions and standing value commitments play an irreducible role in successful aesthetic engagement. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Konst i omlopp : mening, medier och marknad i Stockholm under 1700-talets senare hälft

    Författare :Sonya Petersson; Margaretha Rossholm-Lagerlöf; Marta Edling; Katja Tollmar Grillner; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; art; fine arts; concepts; definitions; media culture; intermediality; cultural consumption; cultural market; class; press; encyclopaedias; prints; exhibitions; auctions; aesthetics; perception; pleasure; entertainment; knowledge; luxury; body and soul; konst; sköna konster; begrepp; definitioner; mediekultur; intermedialitet; kulturkonsumtion; kulturmarknad; klass; press; encyklopedier; grafik; utställningar; auktioner; estetik; perception; behag; nöje; kunskap; lyx; kropp och själ; konstvetenskap; Art History;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this doctoral thesis is to explore how art was mediated and given meaning in the environment of an urban media culture in Stockholm during the second part of the 18th century. It comprises studies of how art was distributed on the market, how it was discussed in the press and how it was exhibited in public. LÄS MER