Search for dissertations about: "Sculpture"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 swedish dissertations containing the word Sculpture.

  2. 1. Essays on Art Markets : insight from the international sculpture auction market

    Author : Rustam Vosilov; Jörgen Hellström; Rickard Olsson; Christophe Spaenjers; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Art markets; asset pricing; art finance; art economics; art auctions; sculpture market; art as alternative investment; art pricing; företagsekonomi; Business Studies;

    Abstract : The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate the viability of sculpture as a potential alternative investment. This goal is achieved through partly assessing the market quality of the auction market for sculptures and partly by studying their long-run diversification potential. READ MORE

  4. 2. Breathtaking Greenhouse Parastructures : a supplement to the Arcades Project from a Caribbean Perspective [and a call for a careful practice of epistemológica]

    Author : Luis Berríos-Negrón; Leif Dahlberg; Håkan Nilsson; Florian Dombois; Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; greenhouse; colonial memory; phenomenotechnologies; global warming; sculpture; installation art; Art; Technology and Design; Konst; teknik och design;

    Abstract : Breathtaking Greenhouse Parastructures is a doctoral work that supplements the unfinished modern opus The Arcades Project [in German Das Passagen-Werk (Mit Bindestrich und Werk mit Capital W) ]. The supplement takes the form of a sculptural, historical, and technological deposition of ‘greenhouse’ that presently oscillates between a past-background and future-foreground to Walter Benjamin's ‘theatrical’ handling of the Parisian arcades. READ MORE

  5. 3. Out of Minimalism

    Author : Malin Hedlin Hayden; Peter Gillgren; Margareta Rossholm Lagerlöf; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art history; 1. Title. 2. Sculpture - twentieth century; notion of sculpture; aesthetics; figurative; abstract; applied minimalism. 3. Corporeal viewer. 4. Interpretation.; Konstvetenskap; Art; Konstvetenskap;

    Abstract : The dissertation involves a threefold investigation of sculpture. Firstly, the interpretations are focused on particular artworks by three British sculptors: Antony Gormley (b. 1950), Anish Kapoor (b. 1954), and Rachel Whiteread (b. READ MORE

  6. 4. Temple-boys : a study of Cypriote votive sculpture. P. 2, Functional analysis

    Author : Cecilia Beer; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Grekiska fornlämningar-- Cypern; Grekisk skulptur-- Cypern;

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  7. 5. The Egyptianizing, male, limestone statuary from Cyprus : a study of a cross-cultural, Eastern Mediterranean votive type

    Author : Fanni Faegersten; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ivory; cultural contacts; Egypt; Phoenicia; archaeological contexts; votive gifts; sanctuaries; the Archaic period; transformations of Egyptian dress and jewelry; Egyptianizing iconography; limestone; Cyprus; Cypriote sculpture; wood; “color as pattern”; royal iconography; Ancient history; Antikens och forntidens historia; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

    Abstract : This thesis is a study of a particular limestone votive statuary type which was dedicated in the sanctuaries on Cyprus during the entire 6th century B.C. Common to the group of figures is that they are wearing a Cypriote version of an Egyptian-type outfit, including characteristic Egyptian royal headgear and jewelry. READ MORE