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Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade orden death in venice.
1. Unlocking Poliphilo’s Dream: Towards a digital scholarly edition of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)Sammanfattning : Hypnerotomachia Poliphili is a fifteenth-century illustrated incunabulum first published in 1499 by Aldo Manuzio in Venice. It delivers the story of two lovers separated by death but united in a dream; in fact, the entire book is a complex, multi-layered dream narrative which gradually unfolds through the interaction between text and image, inviting readers to engage with its rich content in a playful manner. LÄS MER
2. No postmodernist goes to heaven : En analys av döden som tematik i tre samtida konstverk
Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikSammanfattning : Art history is riddled with existential questions hiding just beneath the surface of the subject matter, that is, the physical objects being created. This is true for the centuries-old, as well as the contemporary, and picking apart the materiality of works of art can reveal the value of using art as a medium to understand and work through the concept of death in relation to our own human existence. LÄS MER
3. Antinous – överallt Antinous : En receptionshistoria om antikens vackraste man
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikSammanfattning : This thesis explores the reception history of Antinous, favourite to the roman emperor Hadrian. Using Michel Foucault's genealogical method, the aim of the thesis is to examine and conclude that Antinous is still, albeit at times hidden, the archetype of the young beautifulman in Western visual culture by examining the expressions of the representation and reception of Antinous as a male ideal of beauty and its change over time. LÄS MER
4. Konstens fyra element : Att läsa Döden i Venedig i en antropocen tidsepok
Master-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/EstetikSammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to examine the interconnections between art and nature in the context of recent scientific findings which show that planet Earth, due to human enterprises, has transitioned into a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene. The relevance of the German philosopher and music theoretician Theodor W. LÄS MER
5. "Jedoch war es zu spät?" Die Chancen der geistigen Erlösung Aschenbachs in Thomas Manns Novelle Der Tod in Venedig
Master-uppsats, Avdelningen för tyskaSammanfattning : The aim of the following study was to illustrate that the death of the protagonist in Thomas Mann’s novel, Death in Venice, was, in the end, not just a corporeal, but rather a spiritual one, and ultimately the result of his failure to explore the potential and true depth of human feeling. The definition of the term decadence as a state "against nature: the revulsion against both physical and human nature, preference for the artificial" (Ritter 1992, 87) served as the main theoretical basis of the study and proved helpful in articulating the protagonist’s tragic flaw, namely, his preference for the shallow image of mere physical beauty. LÄS MER
