Sökning: "Grand Tour"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 uppsatser innehållade orden Grand Tour.

1. 1. Italy of the Grand Tour : The Representation of Italy in Two Novels

   Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Författare :Alessandra Sandoni; [2023]
   Nyckelord :italy; grand tour; henry james; e.m. forster; daisy miller; where angels fear to tread;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the representation of Italy and Italians in Henry James’ Daisy Miller and E.M. Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread. In a close reading of the two novels, with the use of the theory of the Triangle of Representation and the concept of Imperialist nostalgia, recurring themes in connection to the Grand Tour have been found. LÄS MER

3. 2. Den postmoderna blicken - Matts Leiderstams queera blick - synar konsthistorien, tar fram de dolda rutnäten, vänder fram målningars baksida och lyfter fram arkiven.

   Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

   Författare :Jan Magnusson; [2022-09-27]
   Nyckelord :postmodernism; Baxandall; period eye; landscape painting; Grand Tour; queer; phenomenology; Bourdieu; cultural field; the grid;

   Sammanfattning : In this master thesis I investigate the art of Matts Leiderstam. My primary goal is to examine the Leiderstam gaze and its relation to its time. Artists during the postmodern era often have a radically different approach to creating art than previous generations. LÄS MER

4. 3. CRITICAL APPROACHES TO THE DIFFICULTIES OF ATTRIBUTION AND DATING OF FRANCESCO GUARDI’S VEDUTE

   Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Författare :Lena Elisabeth Beckman Rietz; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Francesco Guardi; attribution; vedute; connoisseurship; iconography; style; technical art history; topography; Venice; workshop; art history;

   Sammanfattning : The Venetian veduta or view, became popular in the Settecento when Venice had turned into a regular stop on the Grand Tour. The foreign market’s interest in vedute, prompted Venetian artists to follow in Canaletto’s path. Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) is today famous for such views, and his paintings hang in museums around the world. LÄS MER

5. 4. From Text to Space and Vice Versa : The Travel Accounts of Sir William Gell and Edward Dodwell in Phocis and Boeotia

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

   Författare :Zafeirios Avgeris; [2021]
   Nyckelord :Digital Humanities; Spatial Humanities; Grand Tour; British Travel Literature; Sir William Gell; Edward Dodwell.;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis examines and compares two travel accounts in the regions of Phocis and Boeotia in Greece, as they appear in the book of Sir William Gell “The Itinerary of Greece: With a Commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an Account of the Monuments of Antiquity at Present Existing in that Country (1819) and on the two volumed book of Edward Dodwell A Classical and Topographical Tour Through Greece: During the Years 1801, 1805, and 1806, Volume 1 & 11 (1819). More specifically, the thesis explores the extent of the area that these travelers managed to cover during their routes, the places with historical and archaeological interest that they mentioned at least, their moves among the various chronotopes, and the use of their predecessors’ texts for on their routes. LÄS MER

7. 5. Olle Hjortzberg : Konstprofessor mot strömmen

   Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

   Författare :Mikael Forsström; [2021]
   Nyckelord :Olle Hjortzberg; konstvetenskap; kyrkokonst; minneskapell; Lützen; kvalitativa nätverk;

   Sammanfattning : The present paper presents results from research of the Swedish Olle Hjortzberg’s career as visual artist. The objectives have been to explore the circumstances around why Hjortzberg got established and received prestige assignments already in his early years in fierce competition with other established artists. LÄS MER