Search for dissertations about: "artists"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 86 swedish dissertations containing the word artists.

  2. 1. 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

  4. 2. Grez-sur-Loing revisited. The international artists' colony in a different light

    Author : Alexandra Herlitz; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Grez-sur-Loing; French rural artists’ colony; international artists’ community; the Grez Style; the Grez School; nineteenth century painting; juste milieu painting; historiography; factoids; cultural geography; nationalism; lieu de mémoire; Swedish art history of the nineteenth century; Opponents’ Society ‘Opponentförbundet’ ; actor-network;

    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

  5. 3. The Convaluation of Performance Art : A Study of Peer Recognition Among Performance Artists

    Author : Edvin Sandström; Patrik Aspers; Anna Lund; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Convaluation; Valuation; Evaluation; Performance Art; Art Theory; Ethnography; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Abstract : Processes and forms of valuation, evaluation and valorization are important for bringing contemporary social life in order. In this thesis, I study the values of the small and autonomous avant-garde of the art-world, performance art. READ MORE

  6. 4. (Un)bearable freedom : Exploring the becoming of the artist in education, work and family life

    Author : Sofia Lindström; Erling Bjurström; Marita Flisbäck; Stephanie Taylor; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Cultural work; visual artists; subjectivity; discourse analysis; narrative analysis; Konstnärligt arbete; bildkonstnärer; subjektivitet; diskursanalys; narrativ analys;

    Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to explore and understand three important social contexts for the becoming of an artistic subjectivity: education, work and family life. The empirical data consist of interview material with alumni from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, staff of the institute, and a survey material from the Swedish National Artists Organization (KRO/KIF). READ MORE

  7. 5. The Book of Hours of Johannete Ravenelle and the Parisian Book Illumination Around 1400

    Author : Eva Lq Sandgren; Susie Nash; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art history; Illumination of Books and Manuscripts; Miniature Painting; Painting; Gothic; Book Production; Medieval; Artists’ workshops; Illuminators; Books of Hours; Manuscript Design; Art Patronage; Jean de France; duc de Berry; Johannete Ravenelle; late 14th Century; 1390–1410; the Master of BN fr. 159; Uppsala university Library ms UUB C 517e; Petites Heures de Jean de Berry BN lat. 18014 ; Iconography; Konstvetenskap; Art; Konstvetenskap; Konstvetenskap; History of Art;

    Abstract : Within the French book of hours C 517e in the manuscript collection of the University Library in Uppsala, the name of the owner, Johannete Ravenelle, appears in a prayer. Examination of the decoration, miniatures and texts demonstrates that ms C 517e is consistent with Parisian art and books of hours around 1400. READ MORE