Search for dissertations about: "Pygmalion"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the word Pygmalion.

2. 1. Rousseau's Idea of Theatre : From Criticism to Practice

   Author : Maria Gullstam; Magnus Tessing Schneider; Roland Lysell; Michael O'Dea; Martin Rueff; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; theatre; the Enlightenment; pharmakon; perfectibility; aesthetics; imitation; the public festival; Pygmalion; Narcisse; ou L’Amant de lui-même; Le Devin du village; Theatre Studies; teatervetenskap;

   Abstract : As a critic of the moral consequences of Parisian theatre while writing plays and music for it, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) had a double relationship to the art form of theatre. This doctoral thesis argues that his seemingly double position towards the theatre is not necessarily contradictory. READ MORE

4. 2. Becoming Artists : Self-Portraits, Friendship Images and Studio Scenes by Nordic Women Painters in the 1880s

   Author : Carina Rech; Sabrina Norlander Eliasson; Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe; Martin Olin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nordic art; nineteenth-century art; women artists; self-portrait; portraiture; friendship; studio; collaboration; emulation; letters; epistolary; self-fashioning; feminist art history; Opponents; Salon; Julia Beck; Hanna Hirsch-Pauli; Bertha Wegmann; konstvetenskap; Art History;

   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