Essays about: "Art criticism"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 16 essays containing the words Art criticism.

  1. 6. The Happy Prince : A Paradoxical Aesthetic Tale and a Dual Critique of Victorian Times

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Fakulteten för lärarutbildning

    Author : Quentin Caizergues; [2020]
    Keywords : Oscar Wilde; The Happy Prince; fairy tale; aestheticism; moral standards; social satire; Victorian society; Christian values;

    Abstract : This essay highlights The Happy Prince’s advantageous use of conventions of the fairy tale genre to stress critical issues of the Victorian period: the challenge of the established Christian socio-moral order, the rising of the bourgeois industrial society, and the advent of aestheticism as a response. Using the close reading technique supported by the Victorian socio-historical background, the analysis establishes that the criticism proceeds by double associations. READ MORE

  3. 7. Exploring the Places that Language and Nature Converge. Ethics and Aesthetics in Jody Gladding’s Poetry

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Kristina Csiki Helg; [2019]
    Keywords : Jody Gladding; ecocriticism; ecopoetry; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The need for sustainable solutions to the negative state of the Earth is urgent. Ethical choices need to be made and humanity’s endowed imagination needs to be employed to find creative ways ahead. READ MORE

  4. 8. Imagining Somewheres: Obstruction as a Productive Force in Decolonial Visuality, Solidarities, and Asian American Futures

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Clarissa Grace Chang; [2018]
    Keywords : decoloniality; obstruction; radical hope; Asian American embodiment; virtual reality; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : Through a decolonial lens, visual culture can offer a variety of methods for solidarity-, community-, and future-building among people of color and other marginalized identities through applied imagination. However, a common impulse in these community-building endeavors is to explain as much as possible or to direct the image to the white gaze––a colonial ideology––which can further marginalize and unintentionally other the depicted subjects. READ MORE

  5. 9. Data-efficient Transfer Learning with Pre-trained Networks

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Datorseende

    Author : Dennis Lundström; [2017]
    Keywords : deep learning; neural networks; convolutional networks; convolutional neural network; data-efficient machine learning; pre-trained networks;

    Abstract : Deep learning has dominated the computer vision field since 2012, but a common criticism of deep learning methods is their dependence on large amounts of data. To combat this criticism research into data-efficient deep learning is growing. READ MORE

  6. 10. "Nostalgia for the present": Digital nostalgia and mediated authenticity on Instagram

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

    Author : Phuong Thao Nguyen; [2017]
    Keywords : Instagram; digital nostalgia; mediated authenticity; human computer interaction; faux vintage filters; ephemerality; interface criticism; qualitative interview;

    Abstract : Retro art and technology have been on the rise in recent years, the phenomenon is fuelled by the nostalgia of a sense of authenticity that the offline world can no longer satisfy. The integration of technology into human’s social conduct has made it an extension of their beings. READ MORE