Search for dissertations about: "pictorial representations"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words pictorial representations.

2. 1. Staging the world. Rome and the other in the triumphal procession

   Author : Ida Östenberg; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; world mastery; kings; barbarians; conquest; aerarium; wealth; triumphator; representations; captives; spoils; enargeia; spectators; display; role-playing; processional sequence; self-definition; the other; ritual; performance; Rome; triumphal procession; oikumene.; Ancient history; Antikens och forntidens historia;

   Abstract : The triumphal procession staged Roman conquest and supremacy, featuring the defeated ‘other’ as opposed to the victorious ‘self’ in a rather fixed role-playing. This thesis takes as its theoretical premise that these ritually recurrent and visually emphatic processions both conveyed and constructed Roman views of the self and the other, and that they can be studied as formative expressions of such conceptions. READ MORE

4. 2. Artifacts and Supraphysical Worlds : A Conceptual Analysis of Religion

   Author : Johan Modée; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy of special sciences; Two-dimensionality; Supraphysical worlds; Possible worlds; Global supervenience; Physicalism; Tools; Symbols; Rituals; Representations; Proper funtion; Artifacts; Definition of religion; Conceptual analysis; Särskilda vetenskapers filosofi; religion;

   Abstract : It is a contested question in contemporary theories of religion whether the concept of religion can be defined in a sound way or not. Many theorists maintain that a universal but delimiting definition is impossible. READ MORE

5. 3. Agency and Artefacts : A cognitive semiotic exploration of design

   Author : Juan Mendoza-Collazos; Kognitiv semiotik; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Agency; enhanced agency; agency hierarchy; derived agency; material agency; intentionality; prior intentions; intentions in action; pictorial representations; artefacts; tool-making; design theory; design semiotics; design research; phenomenology; cognitive semiotics; agentive semiotics; semiotic hierarchy; 4E cognition; bio-cultural evolution; philosophy of design; philosophy of technology;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the role of artefacts in relation to human agency and design within a cognitive semiotics framework. It deals with questions such as What is agency? What are artefacts and how does agency relate to them? What kind of intentions are involved in the activity of designing? What is human-specific with respect to agency and design? How can the origins and evolution of design be explained? Addressing these questions, the thesis proposes a layered model of agency for explaining the relations between different grades of agentive complexity. READ MORE

6. 4. Mimesis as the Representation of Types : The Historical and Psychological Basis of an Aesthetic Idea

   Author : Michael Ranta; Margaretha Rossholm-Lagerlöf; Staffan Carlshamre; Lars-Olof Åhlberg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art theory; aesthetics; cognitive psychology; experimental aesthetics; history of aesthetics; mental representation; aesthetic preference; pictorial representation; prototypicality; schema theory; emotion theory; categorization; behaviourism; Art; Konstvetenskap; Art science;

   Abstract : This work attempts to investigate a long-standing tradition within the history of aesthetics according to which the function of pictorial representation consists, or ought to consist, of the rendering of general or idealized types rather than particulars. Proponents of this view may be found in various versions from antiquity to the present. READ MORE