Search for dissertations about: "Nineteenth-Century Art"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the words Nineteenth-Century Art.

  2. 1. Up the Stylish Staircase : Situating the Fürstenberg Gallery and Art Collection in a Late Nineteenth-Century Swedish Art World

    Author : Charlotta Nordström; Tomas Björk; Maria Görts; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The Fürstenberg Gallery; The Fürstenberg Art Collection; Pontus Fürstenberg; Göthilda Fürstenberg; Gothenburg art ; Swedish Art; Nineteenth-Century Art; Patronage; Art Collection; The Opponents; Collecting Practices; Exhibition Practices; Blanch’s Art Salon; konstvetenskap; Art History;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates the establishment (in 1885), the influence, the critical reception, and the legacy of the Fürstenberg Gallery and Art Collection in Gothenburg, Sweden. The aim of this research is to demonstrate how the gallery and the collection were products and producers of specific art-historical situations, within a particular nineteenth-century Swedish art world. READ MORE

  4. 2. Colonizing Fever : Race and Media Cultures in Late Nineteenth-Century Sweden

    Author : Åsa Bharathi Larsson; Pelle Snickars; Jan von Bonsdorff; Patrik Steorn; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; media cultures; race; late nineteenth century; visual representations of the colonial world; colonialism; Sweden; postcolonial theory; urban everyday life; scientific expeditions; entertainment; Konstvetenskap; History of Art;

    Abstract : The dissertation focuses on visual representations of the colonial world in late nineteenth-century Sweden. Situated at the intersection between postcolonial studies, visual culture studies and cultural histories of media, the study has a threefold aim. READ MORE

  5. 3. Becoming Artists : Self-Portraits, Friendship Images and Studio Scenes by Nordic Women Painters in the 1880s

    Author : Carina Rech; Sabrina Norlander Eliasson; Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe; Martin Olin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nordic art; nineteenth-century art; women artists; self-portrait; portraiture; friendship; studio; collaboration; emulation; letters; epistolary; self-fashioning; feminist art history; Opponents; Salon; Julia Beck; Hanna Hirsch-Pauli; Bertha Wegmann; konstvetenskap; Art History;

    Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to analyze how Nordic women artists negotiated their professional identity in painting in the 1880s, focusing on the genres of the self-portrait, the friendship image and the studio interior. It investigates how artistic identity is fashioned through self-representation, collaboration with a colleague and in interaction with the interior of the studio as a constitutive space of artistic professionalism. READ MORE

  6. 4. Making in Context : Reconsidering Anders Zorn's Oil Painting Practice

    Author : Emma Jansson; Sabrina Norlander Eliasson; Anna Bortolozzi; Jorgen Wadum; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Anders Zorn; oil painting; technical art history; technical analysis; materiality; material culture; conservation science; nineteenth century; juste milieu; modernism; modernity; Impressionism; Paris Salon; secessionism; konstvetenskap; Art History;

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

  7. 5. Grez-sur-Loing revisited. The international artists' colony in a different light

    Author : Alexandra Herlitz; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Grez-sur-Loing; French rural artists’ colony; international artists’ community; the Grez Style; the Grez School; nineteenth century painting; juste milieu painting; historiography; factoids; cultural geography; nationalism; lieu de mémoire; Swedish art history of the nineteenth century; Opponents’ Society ‘Opponentförbundet’ ; actor-network;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the rural artists’ colony in Grez-sur-Loing and its art from the heyday of the community, 1875–1885, when artists from North America, England, Scotland, Ireland, and Scandinavia were gathering in the French village. The international community has hitherto been viewed separately along national or linguistic lines. READ MORE