Search for dissertations about: "Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier.

2. 1. Lena Cronqvist: Reflections of Girls

   Author : Katarina Wadstein MacLeod; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ambiguous bodies; memory; aggression; bathing; feminism and art; representation; painting; Lena Cronqvist; girls; narrative; Art history; Konsthistoria; Målarkonst – historia – Sverige – 1990-talet – sekelskiftet 2000 Flickor i konsten; Art;

   Abstract : The starting point for this PhD, is the large number of girls that opposed the common trend in which girls are represented as innocent, romantic and sexual. The aim of this study has been to provide the first piece of research ever on this body of work by the Swedish artist Lena Cronqvist (b. READ MORE

4. 2. Mexican Mural Movement. Myths and Mythmakers

   Author : Fernando Sampaio Amaro; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History and Arts; revolution; mexicanidad; Vasconcelos; Rivera; Historia och konstvetenskap;

   Abstract : The aim of this study of the Mexican Mural Movement is to analyze the myths it expressed and the myths it produced. The two main characters of my study are the minister José Vasconcelos and the painter Diego Rivera, because I believe these two personalities are indispensable for an understanding of the myths surrounding the Mexican Mural Movement. READ MORE

5. 3. Becoming Muslim: Meanings of Conversion to Islam

   Author : Anna Månsson; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethnology; Cultural anthropology; person-centered ethnography; psychological anthropology; Muslims in the U.S.; Muslims in Sweden; Islam in the West; conversion narrative; conversion to Islam; Muslim identity; identity-making; cognitive models; Kulturantropologi; etnologi; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

   Abstract : "Becoming Muslim: Meanings of Conversion to Islam" is an ethnographic study analyzing the identity-making of female Muslim converts. It is based on eighteen in-depth interviews with six women in Sweden and three women in the U.S. READ MORE

6. 4. The Street Art World

   Author : Peter Bengtsen; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; public space; contemporary art; art market; gadekunst; gatukonst; Faile; Banksy; public art; graffiti; street art; urban art; street art world; The Street Art World;

   Abstract : In recent years, street art has become embedded in popular culture and received growing attention from the art market and art institutions. Work by street artists has entered galleries, auction houses and museums, and some artists have been given the opportunity to create large-scale sanctioned public art projects. READ MORE

7. 5. The Drowning World : The visual culture of climate change

   Author : Adam Brenthel; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
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   Abstract : A challenging question today is how to understand and act on climate change. Previous analyses of the public outreach of the climate sciences have concluded that the urgent communication of climate change is inadequate. READ MORE