Essays about: "Twentieth-century Art"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Twentieth-century Art.

1. 1. Tatreez Online : The Transformation of a Palestinian Tradition

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien-, Mellanöstern- och Turkietstudier

   Author : Silvia Ulloa; [2020]
   Keywords : embroidery; Palestine; tatreez; Internet; social media; diaspora;

   Abstract : Traditional Palestinian embroidery (tatreez) played an important role as a form of indigenous language in Palestinian culture before the Nakba, the 1948 mass displacement of Palestinians from their homeland. After the exile of the Palestinian population and through the subsequent conflicts and occupation in the decades since the Nakba, tatreez has become a symbol of Palestinian resistance, represented in art and dress as a way to demonstrate the history of the Palestinian people, their attachment to the land of Palestine, and their continued struggle for justice. READ MORE

3. 2. Tasmansk djävul: en art i kris : orsaker och eventuella lösningar

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health

   Author : Mattias Johansson; [2018]
   Keywords : Tasmansk djävul; Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease; DFTD; vaccin;

   Abstract : Tasmansk djävul, Sarcophilus harrisii, är ett pungdjur som lever på ön Tasmanien utanför Australien. Det är det största rovlevande pungdjuret i världen sedan pungvargen, Thylacinus cynocephalus, dog ut i början av 1900-talet och är en ikon för Tasmanien. READ MORE

4. 3. Treading the Timeline : A Study of the Newly Renovated Permanent Art and Design Exhibition at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Author : Linn Högström-Schnee; [2018]
   Keywords : art history; art museums; history of art exhibitions; museology; Nationalmuseum; permanent exhibitions; public museums; ritual structure;

   Abstract : The present study is, to my knowledge, the first investigating the newly renovated and rearranged permanent art and design exhibition at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm: The Timeline. The exhibition presents Western art from 1500 to 1914 and design and portraiture from 1500 until today in a chronological arrangement. READ MORE

5. 4. Kaliningrad Transit: Why to facilitate?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Ekaterina Kiseleva; [2011]
   Keywords : Public International Law; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Kaliningrad transit: Why to facilitate? As well as the title, this study is divided into two parts: the first one is about Kaliningrad transit assessed against the wide historic and socio-economic background, and the second one presents reasoning of general international law, as well as of international human rights law in favour of Kaliningrad transit facilitation. Here the Kaliningrad transit stands for the regulation of private passenger movement by rail between the Kaliningrad region and the rest of Russia via Lithuania and Belarus. READ MORE

6. 5. Chans: The Automatic Variations Time and presence in Automatic bai Chans

   University essay from IT-universitetet i Göteborg/Tillämpad informationsteknologi

   Author : Juan Hernandéz; [2009-06-29T10:24:11Z]
   Keywords : Media Art; Performance Art; Installation Art; Musical composition; Latin American Literature; Film; Twentieth-century Art; Geometry;

   Abstract : This text is an examination of specific questions coming mainly from performance studies, related to the development of an installation and performance piece titled Automatic bai Chans. The first chapter deals with the concept of time. READ MORE