Sökning: "feminist art history"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 27 uppsatser innehållade orden feminist art history.
1. Drop Dead Gorg(on)eous : A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of the Contemporary Medusa Tattoo
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : This thesis investigates the phenomenon of the contemporary ‘Medusa tattoo’ that gained traction on the social media platform TikTok in 2019 as a symbol of sexual assault survival, and which has since come to function as an instrument for digital feminist activism. The study aspires to provide a new, previously unexplored link to the long chain of academic research on the figure of Medusa by looking at the emergence, function, and potential of the Medusa tattoo. LÄS MER
2. En upp-och-nedvänd värld : Häxor i konsten från förmodern tid till idag
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : This essay aims to examine what the figure of the witch as a motif in art has looked like and how it has changed through history. The study focuses on witches in the iconography of the renaissance, the 19th century and contemporary art. LÄS MER
3. The Game Of Nudity on Instagram: Four case studies about art and censorship
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : The aim for this essay is, along with the four included case studies, is to examine the social media platform, Instagram's strict guidelines when it comes to showing nudity. On the platform there is a certain double standard, artists as well as art institutions are censored, that is, they get pictures removed or their accounts blocked when they try to show works that have nudity depicted, but at the same time nudity exists on the platform, this essay wants to highlight the double standard by setting the example that images from accounts of celebrities, which show as much nudity as a work of art, if not more, are allowed to be available on the social platform. LÄS MER
4. Mytologins kvinnokropp som symbol och objekt : En feministisk bildanalys om kropp och skönhet av Venus Cythereia och Danaë och guldregnet
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : This paper is analyzing the renaissance painting Venus Cythereia by artist Jan Massys and the neoclassical painting Danaë and the shower of gold by artist Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller. The research aims to answer questions about beauty ideals and the objectification of the female body from a feminist theoretical basis. LÄS MER
5. Beardsleys Salome : En studie i esteticismen och den viktorianska sexualiteten
Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaperSammanfattning : The collaboration between Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley would come to define a briefbut significant part of art history, the aesthetic movement. Its adherents subscribed to thetheory of art for art’s sake and believed in beauty over meaning. LÄS MER