Search for dissertations about: "Opponents"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 53 swedish dissertations containing the word Opponents.
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1. Becoming Artists : Self-Portraits, Friendship Images and Studio Scenes by Nordic Women Painters in the 1880s
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
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2. Up the Stylish Staircase : Situating the Fürstenberg Gallery and Art Collection in a Late Nineteenth-Century Swedish Art World
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
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3. Grez-sur-Loing revisited. The international artists' colony in a different light
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
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4. Theoretical and Computational Studies of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems : Dynamical Mean Field Theory, X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Analytical Continuation
Abstract : This thesis encompasses theoretical and computational studies of strongly correlated elec-tron systems. Understanding how electrons in solids interact with each other is of great im-portance for future technology and other applications. READ MORE
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5. Essays on economic behavior, gender and strategic learning
Abstract : This doctoral thesis consists of four papers. Strategic behavior across gender: A comparison of female and male expert chess players analyzes gender differences in risk behavior in chess. We use a panel data set with 1.4 million games. READ MORE