Search for dissertations about: "Classical art"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 75 swedish dissertations containing the words Classical art.

  2. 1. Immortality through Art: The Evolution of a Decadent Theme in Four Novels within and beyond the Fin de Siècle

    Author : Tia Stajic Löfgren; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; decadence in literature; immortality-through-art theme; secularization; art; mortality; love;

    Abstract : Abstract Stajic Löfgren, Tia. Immortality through Art: The Evolution of a Decadent Theme in Four Novels within and beyond the Fin de Siècle. University of Gothenburg: Department of Languages and Literatures, 2012. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Great Trajanic Frieze. The Study of a Monument and of the Mechanisms of Message Transmission in Roman Art

    Author : Anne-Marie Leander Touati; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; State art; visual quotation; systematization; hierarchisation; viewer; setting; reuse; fragments; stone work; recarving; dating;

    Abstract : The Great Trajanic Frieze is a Monument firmly entranched in the tradition of Graeco-Roman art.The study of the different components of its imagery, such as composition, iconography and antiquarian details, reveals how it transmits and transforms this tradition. READ MORE

  5. 3. The crown of Arsinoë II. The creation and development of an imagery of authority

    Author : Maria Nilsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arsinoë; crowns; Ptolemaic; reliefs; Egyptian art; Egyptian religion; symbolism; female pharaohs; Hathor; God s wife; Edfu; Philae; Dendera; relative scaling; relative placement; concepts of time; post-colonial theory;

    Abstract : This study deals with a unique crown that was created for Queen Arsinoë II. The aim is to identify and understand the symbolism that is embedded in each pictorial detail that together form the crown and how this reflects the wearer’s socio-political and religious positions. READ MORE

  6. 4. Desiring Hermaphrodites: The Relationships of Hermaphroditus in Roman Group Scenes

    Author : Linnea Åshede; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Hermaphroditus; Roman art; materiality; gender; relationships; desire; queer; Sara Ahmed; Donna Haraway; Karen Barad;

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  7. 5. Spiritual transcendence and androgyny within Swedish and Finnish transnational Symbolism

    Author : Birte Bruchmüller; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; turn of the twentieth-century art; Symbolist art; transnational art movement; Swedish historiography; Finnish historiography; spiritual transcendence; androgyny; Magnus Enckell; Olof Sager-Nelson; Ellen Thesleff; Beda Stjernschantz; Tyra Kleen;

    Abstract : This Doctoral thesis is an examination of a group of Swedish and Finnish artists and their role as important and active participants in a transnational Symbolist movement. It deals with the depiction of the spiritually enhanced human body in the work of the Swedish artists Olof Sager-Nelson and Tyra Kleen, and the Finnish artists Magnus Enckell, Ellen Thesleff and Beda Stjernschantz, as one central topic within the European Symbolist art movement. READ MORE