Search for dissertations about: "modern art history"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 26 swedish dissertations containing the words modern art history.
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1. 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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2. A Matter of Amusement : The Material Culture of Philipp Hainhofer’s Games in Early Modern Princely Collections
Abstract : Games were important to the Augsburg art agent Philipp Hainhofer (1578-1647), and this ludic category was included in most of his art cabinets, procured over period of thirty years during the first half of the seventeenth century. It offered amusement (Kurzweil) as part of an overall ambition for the cabinets to be of service and use (“nutzen vnd dienst”). READ MORE
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3. The Medal in Early Modern Sweden : Significances and Practices
Abstract : This thesis analyses medals issued between 1560 and 1792 in Sweden and studies the practices and roles related to these objects. It aims to contribute to the understanding of the varying uses and functions of early modern medals by applying a long-term perspective that connects Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassical medals. READ MORE
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4. Rethinking Art and Life: The Multiple Entanglements of Allan Kaprow’s Happenings
Abstract : This dissertation examines Allan Kaprow's Happenings of the 1960s. It focuses on the ways in which these works spread out, reached into and became entangled with the social world in which they were written, organised and performed. READ MORE
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5. Taming the Prophets : Astrology, Orthodoxy and the Word of God in Early Modern Sweden
Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to analyse a displacement of the limits between allowable and illicit knowledge in the orthodox, Lutheran discourse of early modern Sweden. Focusing on the debate over astrology, exemplified in the works of Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (1565-1646) and Sigfridus Aronus Forsius (d. READ MORE