Essays about: "figural"

Found 5 essays containing the word figural.

  1. 1. The Dispersal of Gold : Material and Figural Traits of the Gold Foil Figures from Västra Vång

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Arkeologi

    Author : Axel Löfving; [2020]
    Keywords : Gold Foil Figures; Guldgubbar; Västra Vång; Blekinge; Scandinavian Late Iron Age; Vendel Period; Animal Style Ornamentation; Precious Metal Crafts Gold ; Metalworking sites; Figural Art; Chaîne Opératoire; Neomaterialism; Deleuze; Guattari; Worringer;

    Abstract : Gold Foil Figures or guldgubbar (henceforth GFFs) are precious metal artefacts from the Scandinavian Late Iron Age. This master's essay offers a new approach to GFFs. READ MORE

  3. 2. Digital Figurations : The Human Figure as Cinematic Concept

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Tilde Fredholm; [2016]
    Keywords : The human figure; figuration; digital technology; body; film-theory; figural; visuality; dispositif; anthropocentrism; motion-capture; materiality; Gravity; Dawn of the Planet of the Apes;

    Abstract : Mainstream cinema is to an ever-increasing degree deploying digital imaging technologies to work with the human form; expanding on it, morphing its features, or providing new ways of presenting it. This has prompted theories of simulation and virtualisation to explore the cultural and aesthetic implications, anxieties, and possibilities of a loss of the ‘real’ – in turn often defined in terms of the photographic trace. READ MORE

  4. 3. Prometheus Abandoned : Figural Eddies as an Alternative Method of Reading Out 1: Noli me tangere

    University essay from Institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation

    Author : Martin Andersson; [2014]
    Keywords : Film; Semiotic theory; Jacques Rivette; Out 1: Noli me tangere; Figural activity; Thierry Kuntzel; Roland Barthes; Prometheus;

    Abstract : The thesis combines D.N. READ MORE

  5. 4. An Application of Monroe C. Beardsley's Controverion Theory of Metaphor – On Examples of Synaesthetic Metaphor from Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap

    Author : Isak Hyltén-Cavallius; [2009]
    Keywords : Monroe C. Beardsley; Controversion Theory of Metaphor; Controversion Theory; Metaphor; Metafor; Proust; Metaphor Theory; Metaforteori; Synaesthetic Metaphor; Sinnesanalogi; Subjectivity; Subjektivitet; Connotation; Konnotation; Culture; Kultur; Explication; Explikation; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis is to go head to head with metaphor theory and to humbly try to wrestle from the enormous structure of facts and hypotheses that such theories form collectively, one theory that might favorably be used to study another interesting phenomenon. This phenomenon is the variety of metaphor that is encouraging of synaesthesia, called simply synaesthetic metaphor. READ MORE

  6. 5. Stereovision: a model of human stereopsis

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitionsvetenskap

    Author : Jens Månsson; [1997]
    Keywords : Artificial intelligens; stereopsis; correspondence problem; figural continuity; Artificiell intelligens; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : A model of the human stereopsis mechanism is presented. As foundation for the model lies a number of ideas that has arisen from redefining the correspondence problem. Instead of establishing potential matches by the detection and matching of some set of ?predefined? features, e.g. READ MORE