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Syfte Syftet med denna uppsats är att genom en kvalitativ studie förstå hur artister och dess representanter inom den svenska musikbranschen kan stärka en artist varumärke genom synkronisering av musik, samt vilka aspekter som borde beaktas vid synkroniseringen. Metod Denna uppsats är genomförd med en kvalitativ metod med deduktiv ansats, med vissa inslag av induktiv ansats. Detta metodval blev en självklarthet då samtliga hade ett intresse och ambition att titta närmare på ämnet och gå in på djupet. Genom teorin och litteraturen har vi skapat oss en stabil grund med hjälp av marknadsföringsmässiga begrepp såsom varumärke och samarbeten. Vi har även använt oss av teorier som är hämtade direkt från musikbranschen gällande synkronisering.Uppsatsens empiri utgjordes utav åtta personer med inblick och stor erfarenhet i musikbranschen. Samtliga intervjuades genom semistrukturerade intervjuer. Slutsatser Genom vår analys och slutsats har vi kommit fram till att artister måste förhålla sig till många aspekter vid placering av deras musik i rörlig bild. Det vi kommit fram till och det vi kommer att beröra i slutsatsen är image, kongruens, estetik och att kapitalisera möjligheten. Om dessa aspekter genomförs på rätt sätt, så kan artistens varumärke bli starkare tack vare synkronisering. / The purpose of this study is through a qualitative study understand how artists and their representatives in the Swedish music industry can strengthen an artist brand by synchronizing music, and what aspects should be taken into account in the synchronization.This study is based on a qualitative research approach with a primary deductive approach, with some elements of inductive approach. These approaches of methods became obvious for us because we had an interest and desire to look more closely at the subject and going into depth. The empirical data consisted of eight people with insight and extensive experience of the swedish music industry. All the interviews were semi-structured interviews.Through our theory and literature, we have created a stability based on marketing theories, such as branding and relations. We have even used theories, which are directly collected from the music business about synchronization.Throughout our analysis and final discussion we concluded that artist must take into account many aspects of the placement of their music when synchronizing. We have referred to and discussed these aspects in the conclusions wich are; Image, congruence aesthetics and capitalize the possibility. The artists brand can become stronger, if these aspects are done right.

This thesis examines the use of irony in Joyce’s Portrait, claiming that it has the effect of deconstructing common notions of maturity that are engrained within the Bildungsroman tradition, and that this was Joyce’s intention. In Portrait, irony plays the role of psychological reality, undercutting Stephen’s unrealistic expectation to see his life follow a traditional path of teleological progression. This essay proceeds by looking at the novel’s symbolic, thematic and literary cues, as well as through an analysis of its structure, and Stephen’s psychological and behavioral tendencies throughout the novel. This interpretation of the irony as bearing deconstructive meaning comes from the essay adopting a static, as opposed to a kinetic, apprehension of Stephen in Portrait.

In this thesis I ́m trying to to find out whether we need to make our art into a product and I am using myself and my career as an example of a product. I wanted to use the word “product” in a positive way and inspire people to think about music management and personal branding as something they could use as a tool when working with something creative. I ́m writing about my own journey as a folk musician and solo artist and wish to turn something personal into something common and shared. ! I approached my research question “How much of a product would you have to be in order to be a successful artist at the Nordic folk music scene?” from three angels. Firstly, I ́ve gathered information that I have from my years as a freelance musician. Secondly, I interviewed a few professionals, and finally I read a lot of material and wrote about the basics of music business and working life of a folk musician in the Nordic countries. My theory is that we ́re all selling a product when selling our music and playing for money, that is why we need to know this product, love and respect it and have a need to share it. I believe that finding your artistic me is a spiritual journey and when you start searching for your “core” you ́ll become a better musician since you ́re getting better in recognising and handling your own emotions. I ́m trying to diminish the polarisation between music business and being a genuine artist. I believe that knowing your core gives you power to work better in the field which is continually changing and demands a lot. This spiritual journey into yourself is also an artistic journey and I see personal branding as a fun and inspirational tool for anyone who wants to get to know oneself and build a personal brand which is true, likeable and also selling. / <p>Master konsert: ILMOI; medverkande Anna Fält, Joonas Ojajärvi, Jenni Venäläinen</p>

Cette thèse a pour objet d’étudier les interactions entre le texte et l’image dans le Livre de dialogue, crée en commun par un poète et un peintre, en France et Allemagne de 1980 à 2004. Il ne s’agit pas ici de s’intéresser au « Livre illustré » qui sous-entend que l’image sert seulement d’illustration au texte, mais au« Livre de dialogue » où deux modes d’expression sont mis en présence en un rapport d’égalité ; dialogue qui provoque des interactions complexes. La problématique réside dans l’existence de deux systèmes sémiotiques différents, tels la poésie et la peinture avec, l’un et l’autre, ses unités distinctes, son fonctionnement syntagmatique et paradigmatique propre et sa manière particulière de créer de la signification. Les procédés examinés portent sur les différentes apparitions, les conséquences et les limites de cette rencontre. Une étude détaillée aborde en premier lieu les procédés s’attachant à la représentation de l’objet - poétique ou pictural – oscillant entre figuratif et abstrait. Ensuite, sont explorées les interactions entre texte et image à partir des notions de l’espace, du fragment, du corps et du processus créatif. En conclusion, il s’agit non pas de transposer le modèle stylistique sur la peinture ou inversement, mais de dégager des points d’intersection entre sémiotique, intermédiatique, esthétique et histoire de l’art. / This thesis investigates the interactions between text and image in the artist book (Livre de dialogue), composed jointly by a poet and a painter, in France and Germany from 1980 to 2004. In contrast to the « illustrated book», where the image is subordinated to the text, I explore in this special type of book the encounter between two means of expression sharing equal importance, a dialogue that yields complex interactions between visual and verbal signs. The existence of two different semiotic systems such as poetry and painting bears interesting questions, as each possesses its specific units, its own syntagmatic and paradigmatic structure and its specific way to create significance. The analysis focuses on the different forms, the consequences and the limits of this encounter. The first part consists of an examination of the figurative processes that are linked to the representation of the poetic or pictorial object in a general way. Following this examination, a more detailed analysis investigates the interactions between text and image based on the concepts of space, fragment, body and the creative process. Thus, the aim is not to transpose the stylistic system to painting or vice versa, but to explore points of intersection between semiotic, intermedia, aesthetic and history of art.

La question de l’influence primordiale de Carlyle sur Proust n’a jamais été abordée de manière profonde. Cette thèse a pour objet de combler cette lacune. Nous analysons en particulier le dialogue continu que tient Proust avec Les Héros et Sartor Resartus. Nous identifions à quel point ses réflexions sur ces lectures carlyliennes - dont le sujet principal est la recherche d’une nouvelle foi ou mythe créateur pour ces temps modernes et incroyants - sont présentes dans le portrait de l’artiste, et du monde, qu’il nous offre dans À la recherche du temps perdu. Le parcours du Narrateur qui se termine avec la redécouverte de « la foi dans les lettres » se construit dans un tissage dialogique où, (souvent s’inspirant de Ruskin), Proust réécrit les événements historiques, biographiques, et éthiques qui préoccupent Carlyle dans sa recherche de la « vérité », en leur donnant une plus grande valeur esthétique. S’inspirant du coté expérimental de Sartor Resartus, ainsi que des essais carlyliens sur l’histoire et la biographie, Proust refait de manière imaginaire le parcours littéraire de Carlyle même dans la construction de son Narrateur, qui ressemble par plusieurs aspects à un Carlyle transplanté dans un pays qu’il considérait, comme l’épitomé de la décadence. Ainsi, Proust peut réhabiliter l’aspect « romancier manqué » de Carlyle, qui s’est refugié dans les vies des « grands hommes » et l’histoire des « grands événements », quand le Narrateur prend conscience de la réconciliation entre la vie et l’art. Toutefois, c’est la justesse et la profondeur des observations carlyliennes sur l’art et sur la nature de l’artiste ainsi que l’incitation donnée par la description du développement d’une conscience artistique dans Sartor Resartus avec son ambigüité, son ironie, son dédoublement de la voix narrative et son affirmation que « l’idéal » se trouve « dans le méprisable actuel » qui inspire Proust le plus dans sa présentation du « portrait de l’artiste » qu’est À la recherche du temps perdu. / In this thesis we attempt to treat for the first time the hitherto largely overlooked question of the primary importance of Carlyle as an influence on Proust. Basing our research on the dialogical relationship which Proust has continually with Heroes and Sartor Resartus, we trace the presence of his reflections on Carlyle’s writings, which are essentially concerned with the search for a new faith or creation myth in modern secular times, in the portrait of the artist in the world which is the subject of À la recherche du temps perdu. The Proustian Narrator becomes reunited with his faith in literature which he has lost over the years and eventually reconciles life and art. His journey to this point has been largely constructed on rewritings (inspired very often by Ruskin) of Carlylean texts dealing with History, Biography, and Ethics, where Proust redresses the importance of the aesthetic element which Carlyle increasingly renounces. Taking his inspiration from the experimental nature of Sartor Resartus, and from Carlyle’s historical and biographical writings, Proust also rewrites Carlyle’s personal trajectory in his portrait of his Narrator who bears a strong resemblance to a virtual Carlyle transplanted into a country which he considered, rather playfully, as the epitome of decadence. Proust can therefore, by purely literary methods, show that a writer’s reservoir of impressions comes not from the constant pursuit of “Truth”, or by writing the lives of others, but from having lived life, familial, intimate, and indeed social life. Even if Carlyle can be considered as a failed novelist, it’s the impact of his profound and heartfelt writings on what art is and on the nature of the artist, along with his innovative Sartor Resartus with its constant ironic undertones, its doubling of the narrative voice, its affirmation of the ideal in the everyday, which most inspires the imitative and spiritual portrait of an artist which is À la recherche du temps perdu. .

La présente thèse est un travail herméneutique sur Sports et Divertissements, édition de luxe qui combine musique et textes par Erik Satie et illustrations en pochoir par Charles Martin. Étant donné son caractère fortement intertextuel, Sports et Divertissements est abordé sous la problématique de l’art total et de ses prolongements dans les livres de peintres et d’artistes, ainsi que dans le contexte artistique de sa création (notamment la mode et son illustration et les livres art déco) pendant et un peu après la Première Guerre Mondiale.Conçu initialement par son éditeur Lucien Vogel, et paru dans une première version en 1914, Sports et Divertissements n’a pris sa forme finale qu’en 1923, dans une révision totale effectuée par Charles Martin. La thèse souhaite démontrer l’efficacité narrative maximale de cette deuxième version, en termes de correspondance entre les éléments littéraires, musicaux et visuels dans la temporalité de l’œuvre ainsi que dans son aspect plastique global à travers un processus ludique et dramaturgique de l’imagination. / The present thesis is an interpretative study of Sports et Divertissements, edition de luxe which combines music and texts by Erik Satie and pochoir illustrations by Charles Martin. Given the highly intertextual character of the work, Sports et Divertissements is seen under the notion of total art, extended to livres de peintres and livres d’artistes as well as in the artistic context of its creation (notably fashion and its illustration and art deco books) that occurred during and after the 1st World War.Initially conceived by its editor Lucien Vogel, and appearing on a first version in 1914, Sports et Divertissements didn’t take its final form until 1923, in a total revision of the illustrations by Charles Martin. The thesis attempts to show the maximal narrative efficacity of this final version, in terms of correspondence among literary, musical and visual elements in the temporality of the work, as well as in its global visual aspect, through a creative and dramaturgical process of the imagination.

Painting As Becoming: Reflections Between Content and FormThis thesis is the culmination of my two years at graduate school. It lays out some of my ideas about painting as a particular approach to art making. The development of my work has not always followed a linear path – some ideas take longer to emerge, some vices longer to recognize. The text is separated into four main sections: Form, Development, Color, and Landscape. The main issue that I explore is the relationship between abstraction and representation. Tending to be over-logical, I have avoided explicit ‘content' in my work, because I am afraid that it will pin it down. Painting abstractly initially allowed me to exercise the other side of my brain, to avoid ‘meaning'. But abstraction is also a language that can be assimilated and therefore does not really offer an enduring solution to the problem of content.My paintings are usually structured in a logical way: composition, color harmony and dissonance, perspective, light, and space - but my process also leaves room to explore the illogical and the absurd. I began to appropriate representational imagery into the work to weave in additional information – a textual layer to frame and foil the objectivity of oil paint. This juxtaposition puts paint in the role of becoming at the same time that it puts the image in the role of disintegrating. Importantly these roles are interchangeable. The imagery itself is derived from places that have been significant to me by effecting the formation of my scattered sense of identity: my birthplace in Virginia, my upbringing in Lake Tahoe, my studies in New Hampshire and Rhode Island, and my subsequent move out of the country to Mexico, where I lived until returning to Virginia to pursue an MFA. The transitions between abstraction and representation resonate with the intersection of the personal and the collective.Ultimately, the comings and goings of interpretation that characterize my work occur through the lens of beauty. I cannot define beauty, but I maintain the belief that it can be found in painting, and that its primary function is to remind us to see.

Relatively little is known of European artists who worked for short periods of time in the American Colonies during the eighteenth century. Perhaps Cosmo Alexander was typical of other artists who came to America seeking greater opportunity than in their homeland, only to leave several years later, perhaps disillusioned and no wealthier. Artists who are better known stayed in America long enough to build up clientele in a broad area and produced enough works to have many survive long enough to be documented by later sources. As the subjects in many of Alexander's portraits show, there was a large prosperous middle-class patronage of the art of portraiture. Considering the social conventions of the time, personal references and letters of recommendation would have facilitated travel and introduction to prospective clients. The emphasis of this research is the patronage which Cosmo Alexander found in the American Colonies as evidenced by portraits executed between 1765 and 1771. Family connections, Scottish ancestry and communities having large Scottish populations have played a part in determining probable routes. In 1961 Gavin L. M. Goodfellow submitted a thesis to Oberlin College on Cosmo Alexander. This was the first and (to date) the only extensive monograph on the artist. The thesis was general in nature, covering Alexander's life and listing all paintings known at that time, only sixteen of which were believed to have been painted in America. Because he dealt in detail with Alexander's total biography and stylistic characteristics, only one chapter was devoted to American works. Since Goodfellow's research the number of American paintings signed by or attributed to Alexander has increased from sixteen to twenty-six. With greater documentary evidence available, patterns can be established and generalizations made which possibly are typical of other artists in similar circumstances.