Sökning: "folk art"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 41 uppsatser innehållade orden folk art.
1. THE CHOSEN CREATURES: HOW ANIMAL JUXTAPOSITIONS IN ANTISEMITIC PROPAGANDA CONTRIBUTED TO INSTITUTIONALIZED OTHERNESS
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteoriSammanfattning : This paper discusses how anthropomorphic animals have been used in depicting Jews in antisemitic art and propaganda imagery since the late High Middle Ages until the first half of the 20th century. It sheds light on why certain animal species were chosen to symbolize Jews, and categorizes the animals into three groups: creatures taken from the Hebrew Scriptures and the Jewish folklore inspired by it, animals presented in secular and pagan folklore influenced by legends from Ancient Greece and Rome, and the “anti-charismatic” fauna. LÄS MER
2. Constructing Semiotic System : A Study of Traditional Chinese Woodblock New Year Pictures
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABMSammanfattning : Traditional Chinese woodblock New Year pictures face the danger of being marginalized and disappearing in the context of industrialization and technological development. It is, therefore, imperative to conduct research on traditional New Year pictures to address this challenge. LÄS MER
3. Vardagsmagi och läkekonst: En svartkonstbok från Glava
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoriaSammanfattning : As part of the practices connected with folk medicine in Sweden, as well as in the rest of the Nordic countries, is an old literary genre grown from the combination of oral and literary traditions – svartkonstböcker, literally translated to black art books. These books were used by the professionals in the field of folk medicine, namely the wise old men and women. LÄS MER
4. Dynamisk vegetationsbyggnad i en folkparksmiljö : ett gestaltningsförslag för Folkets park i Lomma
Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)Sammanfattning : Folkets hus och parker är en del av svensk parkhistoria. Parkerna var tillägnade arbetarklassen under 1900-talet och de skapade möjligheter för sociala möten, kultur och nöjen. Det här arbetet fokuserar på Lomma Folkets park, som ursprungligen var en levande park med växtlighet och mänsklig aktivitet. LÄS MER
5. Human pose estimation in low-resolution images
Master-uppsats, KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Sammanfattning : This project explores the understudied, yet important, case of human pose estimation in low-resolution images. This is done in the use-case of images with football players of known scale in the image. Human pose estimation can mainly be done in two different ways, the bottom-up method and the top-down method. LÄS MER