Search for dissertations about: "avant garde"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 25 swedish dissertations containing the words avant garde.

2. 1. Everyday life in avant-garde housing estates : A phenomenology of post-Soviet Moscow

   Author : Alexander Kalyukin; Irene Molina; Tom Mels; Tim Cresswell; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; built environment; housing; everyday life; avant-garde architecture; humanistic geography; phenomenology; Henri Lefebvre; post-Soviet city; Moscow; Russia; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the social meaning and function of what is known as avant-garde, or constructivist, housing estates located in central Moscow. Five of these estates – Budenovsky, Dubrovka, Khavsko-Shabolovsky, Nizhnyaya Presnya and Usachevka – comprise the empirical foci of the study. READ MORE

4. 2. 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

5. 3. Åke Hodell. Art and Writing in the Neo-Avant-Garde

   Author : Johan Gardfors; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Åke Hodell; neo-avant-garde; concrete poetry; illegibility; archive; conceptual writing; materiality; visual poetry; text-sound-composition; intermedia; technology and writing;

   Abstract : Åke Hodell and the Art of Illegibility provides the first in-depth discussion in English of the concrete poet and neo-avant-garde artist Åke Hodell’s works from the 1960s. Throughout the study, Hodell’s artistic practice is contextualized by way of comparison with examples from the earlier avant-gardes, as well as with contemporaneous writers and artists, indicating how the avant-garde and modernist legacies are preserved and transformed in the works of Hodell. READ MORE

6. 4. Rethinking Art and Life: The Multiple Entanglements of Allan Kaprow’s Happenings

   Author : Laura Routledge; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Allan Kaprow; Happenings; avant-garde; neo-avant-garde; performance documentation; American art; 1960;

   Abstract : This dissertation examines Allan Kaprow's Happenings of the 1960s. It focuses on the ways in which these works spread out, reached into and became entangled with the social world in which they were written, organised and performed. READ MORE

7. 5. Post-Deleuzian Investigations of U.S. Avant-Garde Film, 1943–81

   Author : Atene Mendelyte; Filmvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; U.S. avant-garde film; Gilles Deleuze; film-philosophy; sobjective image; metaphysics of technique; conceptual cartography of film-worlds; transcendental empiricism; film semiotics; postmodernism;

   Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to investigate a number of U.S. avant-garde films using Deleuzian film-philosophy in order to describe their thought. I develop the taxonomy of cinematic images created by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze by introducing a new type of image. READ MORE