Search for dissertations about: "Avant-Garde art"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 swedish dissertations containing the words Avant-Garde art.
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1. Coloured Universe and the Russian Avant-Garde : Matiushin on Colour Vision in Stalin's Russia, 1932
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
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2. The Global Art World, Inc. : On the globalization of contemporary art
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
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3. Rethinking Art and Life: The Multiple Entanglements of Allan Kaprow’s Happenings
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
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4. Nihilism, Art, and Technology
Abstract : The thesis investigates the role of technology in the formation of the artistic avant-garde, along with various forms of philosophical reflection on this development, with a particular emphasis on Heidegger. Setting out from an analysis of three paradigmatic cases in the interplay between art and technology—the invention of photography, the shift from Futurism to Constructivism, and the interpretation of technology in debates on architectural theory in the 1920s and ’30s—it proceeds to a discussion of three philosophical responses to this development, those found in Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, and Ernst Jünger, all of which share a certain avant-garde sensibility and a notion of art as a response to nihilism. READ MORE
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5. Åke Hodell. Art and Writing in the Neo-Avant-Garde
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