Search for dissertations about: "artistic careers"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words artistic careers.

  2. 1. Selected or Rejected? : Assessing Aspiring Writers’ Attempts to Achieve Publication

    Author : Henrik Fürst; Patrik Aspers; Elin Thunman; Giselinde Kuipers; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; acquisition of cultural goods; acquisition of manuscripts; artistic careers; artistic markets; aspiring artists; aspiring writers; creative industry; cultural industry; cultural production; fiction debut; literary careers; publishing industry; publishing market; quality uncertainty; sociology of success and failure; trade publishing; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Abstract : In many markets for cultural goods, gatekeepers select the cultural goods, relatively few cultural goods are selected, and the criteria for selection are unclear to both artists and gatekeepers. Not knowing whether cultural goods are of the 'right' quality to be selected, artists and gatekeepers become preoccupied with handling quality uncertainty. READ MORE

  4. 2. The geographies of knowledge in (making) artwork : The field, the art studio and the art scene

    Author : Jenny Sjöholm; Dominic Power; Anders Malmberg; Angela McRobbie; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Contemporary visual artists; learning; skills; artistic work practices; mobilities; embodied knowledge; art studio; art scene; art industry; immaterial labour; economic and cultural geography.; Human geography; economic geography; Kulturgeografi; ekonomisk geografi; Geography; Geografi;

    Abstract : This thesis is concerned with the professional knowledge processes that contemporary visual artists develop and use in their construction of art as well as of their careers. In contributing to the geographical literature on professional learning and artistic labour, the thesis explores the question of how self-employed artists generate, apply and communicate their knowledge and skills in the context of individual work projects. READ MORE

  5. 3. 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