Gothenburg Studies in Art and Architecture - Böcker

Göteborg brukar kallas donatorernas stad. Det stämmer i stor utsträckning när det gäller uppbyggnaden av konstlivet i Göteborg. Den här boken beskriver konstlivet under den dynamiska tiden 1840 till 1870.

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Konstnären Arvid Carlsson (1895-1962) var en av medlemmarna i Hallandsringen, en konstnärssammanslutning som under 1930- och 1940-talen existerade parallelt med den välkända Halmstadgruppen. Boken försöker besvare frågor som: Hur kan det komma sig...

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För ungefär hundra år sedan började särlingars bilder och skulpturer att uppmärksammas som konst. Detta var då en del av en utvidgning av konstbegreppet som inte bara gällde särlingskonst. I avhandlingen analyserar författaren några tidiga klassis...

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Boken SJÄLVPORTRÄTT är en bildanalytisk studie i svensk 1900-tals konst. Utifrån ett receptionsestetiskt perspektiv och med viss fenomenologisk inriktning söker författaren beskriva bildkonstruktionen i självporträttet. Det innebär att biografiska...

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Photography has made its mark at all levels of society and in many different guises. But, until now, there has been a lack of studies that are able to cope with photography's mobility and its unique anti-exclusivity. Women have played a much broad...

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This dissertation deals with the Italian design group, Memphis, and the Italian Anti-Design Movement. Both of these have problematized, though in different ways, norms of good design as well as the concept of design as such.

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The aim of this thesis is to conduct a multifaceted discussion that takes as its starting point analyses of individual artworks in which digital and photographic technology play a prominent part. The thesis also has a methodological aim, to find a...

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This thesis is about Föreningen Original-Träsnitt (The Swedish society of Original Wood Engravers), which was founded in 1919, at a time when new photographic methods of image reproduction contributed to a differentiation of the graphic visual cul...

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The aim of this thesis is to study the Amazon as a motif in relation to a sex/gender hierarchy during the period 1789-1918. The myth of the Amazons was an inheritance from Greek antiquity and told of a female warrior-people who were ruled by a que...

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The aim of this thesis is to study the establishment and development of two of Swedish art education programmes that focus on digital technology. The first, The computer as Artistic Tool, was started in 1989 at the University of Skövde, and the se...

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This study aims to examine the field of various forms of illustrated literature published during the 19th Century, which deal with Swedish history. Illustrated literature is put into different but concurrent contexts, such as the world of educatio...

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Avhandlingen behandlar Sveriges första kvinliga arkitekter och byggpionjärer med fokus på utbildningen, yrkesverksamhet, social acceptans, och biografi. Undersökningen avgränsas till i första hand byggnadsarkitekter och i andra hand till Sveriges ...

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Akvarellstudier innehåller sex studier och undersökningar som analyserar medets historia och teknik och diskuterar olika myter och idéer som vuxit fram kring akvarellen samt studerar verk från tre olika konstnärer som är representerade i museets s...

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Zheng Qiao (1104-1162) was a Chinese historian who lived during the Song dynasty (960-1279), and the author of the comprehensive history of China Tong zhi (General history), which includes a special treatise on images called Tu pu lüe (Treatise on...

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The Swedish Prince Eugen (1865-1947) was not only a royal prince and a culturally involved artist and patron of the arts but also an art collector. His art collecting has mostly been considered a matter of course and has not yet been discussed tho...

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Through a study of the reception that art critique gave the exhibition project Ibid. ( Stockholm 1982 1983 ) and the oeuvres of the artists Ola Billgren, Dick Bengtsson and Max Book, this thesis examines the way art critics dealt with the romantic...

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The aim of this conference was to discuss and to elucidate the effects of the llast thirtyfive years of feminist studies within art history and visual studies. Since Linda Nochlin published the essay "Why have there been no great women artists?" c...

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This study evolves around advertising and image communication, especially concerning the image of scent, as in perfume. The image of scent is discussed from the perspective of how fragrance is depicted in advertising. Since the product itself, the...

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This dissertation deals with representations in European art from the Old Testament Apocrypha. The OT Apocrypha are books of the Bible which are not part of the Hebrew Canon. Four Books from the Apocrypha have been chosen for an in-depth study - T...

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Guldbrakteaterna producerades framför allt i södra Skandinavien med senantika romerska medaljoner och mynt som utgångspunkt. Till skillnad från förebilderna är de präglade bara på en sida. Guldet som användes vid tillverkningen kom från romarriket...

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A pioneer in his field, Knut Ström (1887-1971) was a Swedish scenographer and director, who became the first professional scenographer in Sweden. He had an early international career in Düsseldorf during the 1910s but later worked in Göteborg for ...

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This study emerges from the question: what is contemporary art, and mainly what criteria constitute contemporary art in a globalized art world in general? Thus, the focus of this dissertation is on the postcolonial context of Australia and the fac...

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The main purpose of this study, The Tomboy in Manga for Teens - kaleidoscopic Bodily Styles (Tecknad tomboy - kalejdoskopiskt kön i manga för tonåringar), has been to discuss gender as made manifest through visible identities in manga for teens. T...

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In contemporary society temporalities in different scales coexist, cooperate and collide. Clock time serves as a main reference for time, although a lot of processes have nothing to do with clock time and can't be measured by its scales. One of th...

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This dissertation is a historiographical study of the research project Svensk stad (Swedish Town). The project, lead by the professor in Art History Gregor Paulsson (1889-1977), included about 20 members and was conducted between 1940 and 1953. Th...

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