Essays about: "artist’s book"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 14 essays containing the words artist’s book.

  1. 6. Beyond Vision: Eyeless Writing in Virginia Woolf's The Waves

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Marie-Helen Stahl; [2019]
    Keywords : Modernism; Virginia Woolf; Maurice Merleau-Ponty; phenomenology; vision; eyeless writing; anti-ocularcentrism; nonanthropocentrism; body;

    Abstract : In the early 20thcentury, a “crisis of ocularcentrism” arose in philosophy, replacing the Cartesian epistemological notion of a disembodied mind inspecting the object-world from the outside with an ontological and phenomenological approach to vision and being, embedding humans corporeally in a world exceeding their perceptual horizon (Jay 94). In response, modernist artists abandoned realist and naturalist techniques, rejecting mimetic representation, and experimented with new artistic forms, trying to account for the new complexity of life. READ MORE

  3. 7. World of Desire

    University essay from Konstfack/Grafisk design & illustration

    Author : Benedetta Crippa; [2017]
    Keywords : materialized hope; hope; visual culture; visual democracy; visual silence; plurality; feminism; graphic design; visual communication; drawing; book; artist s book; visual belonging; decoration; ornament; un-learning; re-learning; neutrality; femininity; imagination; desire; emotion; spirituality; complexity; communication; painting; folk art; circularity; writing; visual research; animation; narrative; book making; liberation; feminist practice; feminist future; practice of liberation; typography; material culture; craft;

    Abstract : This project report offers an in-depth, detailed account of my creative process and work during my two-year Master in visual communication at Konstfack, Stockholm. My degree project is a celebration of plurality and visual democracy. READ MORE

  4. 8. (S)examensarbete

    University essay from Konstfack/Textil

    Author : Cecilia Pfaff; [2016]
    Keywords : art; textile art; knitting; crochet; sex; sexy; sexiness; Instagram; selfie; performance; sun chair; craftivism; Dolly Parton; body; feminism; #xxxjobb; #123sexy; konst; textilkonst; stickning; virkning; sex; sexig; sexighet; Instagram; selfie; performance; solstol; craftivism; Dolly Parton; kropp; feminism; #xxxjobb; #123sexy;

    Abstract : Preface: Thank you to all the women in my life who have supported me through this process; to my mother, to my other mother (Susan), to Kara, to Jordan and, of course, to Dolly. Summary: (S)examensarbete is a journey through which I have questioned if knitting can be sexy. READ MORE

  5. 9. Poetry is for everyone : A comparative analysis of the cut-up technique, Magnetic poetry and the casual word game Words of Oz

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för speldesign

    Author : Karin Ryding; [2014]
    Keywords : Cut-up technique; Dadaism; Surrealism; word games; transformative play; critical play; poetry games; Magnetic Poetry; Words of Oz;

    Abstract : Language is a system that fundamentally influences us as human beings. There are numerous schools of thought critiquing our use of language and celebrating attempts to break free of the control it has over our lives. READ MORE

  6. 10. Daped concert hall

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Mersedeh Madhoush; [2012]
    Keywords : Concert hall; Stockholm; Galärparken; Djurgården; مرسده مدهوش;

    Abstract : Through the development of draping and pleating methods of heavy fabric referring indirectly to the stage Curtain, the aim of the project is to study ambiguous coexistence of masking and exposing made by repetitive folds, simultaneously developing technique studies and site analysis and apply them to make a new concert hall for Stockholm.The thesis defines the concert hall a public space, and further develops the concert hall as a public space by exposing the commonly inaccessible backstage area in on the ground floor Visitors and concert-goers have the opportunity to look behind the scenes and reconsider the value of art by seeing how a piece of music has been shaped and rehearsed. READ MORE