Search for dissertations about: "Art theory"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 300 swedish dissertations containing the words Art theory.

  2. 1. The Global Art World, Inc. : On the globalization of contemporary art

    Author : Charlotte Bydler; Hedvig Brander Jonsson; Hans Hayden; Sarat Maharaj; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art history; globalization; art world-system; biennials; contemporary art; art historiography; Arthur C. Danto; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; Gerardo Mosquera; Paul Virilio; interpellation; Konstvetenskap; Art; Konstvetenskap;

    Abstract : This study examines certain segments of the art world-system in which geographical distances seemed to vanishing as a result of faster and more intense interaction levels. This particular art world-system has been conceptualized in contradictory ways. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Archive Art Phenomenon : History and Critique at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

    Author : Sara Callahan; Anna Dahlgren; Dan Karlholm; Anna Orrghen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; archival art; archival turn; archive art; contemporary art; critical paradigm; the Institutional Theory of Art; Institutional Critique; parafiction; postcritique; presentism; travelling concepts; The Atlas Group; Arthur Danto; Jacques Derrida; Michel Foucault; Joachim Koester; Zoe Leonard; Michael Maranda; Walid Raad; Raqs Media Collective; Ed Ruscha; Fred Wilson; konstvetenskap; Art History;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates the relationship between art and archive at the turn of the twenty-first century. The object of study is the phenomenon of archive art, understood as a combination of theories of the archive, artworks, and different kinds of texts (catalogues, scholarly articles, critical essays, etc. READ MORE

  5. 3. Mimesis as the Representation of Types : The Historical and Psychological Basis of an Aesthetic Idea

    Author : Michael Ranta; Margaretha Rossholm-Lagerlöf; Staffan Carlshamre; Lars-Olof Åhlberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art theory; aesthetics; cognitive psychology; experimental aesthetics; history of aesthetics; mental representation; aesthetic preference; pictorial representation; prototypicality; schema theory; emotion theory; categorization; behaviourism; Art; Konstvetenskap; Art science;

    Abstract : This work attempts to investigate a long-standing tradition within the history of aesthetics according to which the function of pictorial representation consists, or ought to consist, of the rendering of general or idealized types rather than particulars. Proponents of this view may be found in various versions from antiquity to the present. READ MORE

  6. 4. Coloured Universe and the Russian Avant-Garde : Matiushin on Colour Vision in Stalin's Russia, 1932

    Author : Margareta Tillberg; Jeff Werner; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Colour vision; Russian avant-garde; Mikhail Matiushin; Elena Guro; Ender siblings; art; science; laboratory observations; colour practices; colour theory; synaesthesia; dialectical materialism; Stalin; culture; universal language; architecture; design; Matjušin; Michail Vasilʹevič; 1861-1934; Experimentell konsthistoria Sovjetunionen 1930-talet; Färglära historia Sovjetunionen 1930-talet; Art; Konstvetenskap; konstvetenskap; Art History;

    Abstract : Colour vision was of fundamental importance in modernist art. One reason its significance has been studied so little with regard to Russian art is that Soviet archives were inaccessible until the early 1990s. This work is the first close study on a so-called laboratory in an art- and science institute in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. READ MORE

  7. 5. Portraying Unease : the Art and Politics of Uncomfortable Attachments

    Author : Ellen Suneson; The Cultural Studies Group of Neuroscience; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; emotional responses; contemporary art; performance art; affect theory; feminist theory; queer feminist theory; visual methodology; embarrassment; attachment; hope; subversion; repair; self-doubt; institutional attachment; institutional promises;

    Abstract : Portraying Unease critically discusses a tendency amongst politicized scholars to endow artworks with traits of subversion and political productivity. Artworks that address structural discrimination, such as heterosexism, racism, or ableism, are often described as possessing qualities that can challenge unjust systems or initiate political change. READ MORE