Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul / The presented dissertation reflects upon artistc proposals wich confronted the artist with his practice, making him think about it over two different perspectives: the practice of the "street artist" and the "artist IN the street". It's about thinking the artistic practice related to the work "Portraits $1" (Retratos $1), made in the public context of the city streets, making portrait-drawings with a sfereographic pen on paper and duplicated-portrait with carbon paper on paper.The street is where the portrait-drawing takes place and is exchanged for R$1,00 (UM Real) while the duplicated-portrait created with the carbon paper is archived by the artist. This artistic project brings up "Key" questions to think about art today: where is the artists place, the production of art and the public? The research focuses on the artistic production wich takes place with the contact of the public, when acting like a street artist, the work blurs the value codes and legitimation towards what is produced, to both art context and street context. / A presente dissertação reflete sobre as propostas artísticas que confrontaram o artista com a sua prática, fazendo-o pensar como essa se dá sob os diferentes enfoques: a prática do artista DE rua e a prática do artista NA rua. Trata-se de pensar a prática artística a partir do trabalho Retratos $1 , realizada no contexto público das ruas da cidade, produzindo retratos desenhos com caneta esferográfica sobre papel e retratos-duplicata de papel carbono sobre papel. A rua é o lugar onde o retrato-desenho é trocado com o transeunte retratado por R$ 1,00 (Um Real) enquanto o retrato-duplicata gerado com o papel carbono é arquivado pelo artista. Este projeto de artista ressalta questões chaves para se pensar a arte hoje: qual o lugar do artista, da produção da arte e do público? A pesquisa foca na produção artística que se dá no contato direto com o público, quando atuando como um artista de rua, o trabalho borra os códigos de valor e legitimação para o que é produzido, tanto no contexto da arte, quanto no contexto das ruas.

This diploma thesis entitled The caricature in the Dikobraz Magazine 1945 - 1968 deals with the artistic creation of the only satirical magazine in Czechoslovakia since its founding until the crucial year 1968. The thesis explores how caricatures deal with domestic and foreign events. It covers the work of selected cartoonists for the journal, as well as their free production. The thesis also focuses on the editors of the magazine due to their importance for its artistic production. Nevertheless, this part of the thesis is limited due to the limited amount of trustworthy sources.

L’Idiot de la famille est complément de Questions de Méthode. Sartre demande dans Questions de Méthode un changement de langage. Il s’agira dans cette thèse de déchiffrer l’écriture sartrienne en ses nuances, détails et couleurs. En d’autres mots, il s’agira d’étudier les livres de Sartre pour trouver un sens qui nous parle, là où sa parole se contredit et s’affirme en même temps. Notre tâche de relecture dans L’Idiot de la famille est ainsi d’expliciter l’axe central de la psychanalyse existentielle et d’aller chercher le sens le plus caché de la philosophie de la vie. Dans la mesure où Sartre va montrer que nous devons décider du genre de vie que nous voulons avoir, cette étude vise à éclairer pourquoi Sartre est un penseur nécessaire pour l’homme d’aujourd’hui. Il s’agira ainsi de traiter L’Idiot de la famille comme une œuvre d’apprentissage. Dans ce sens, le sens et la signification de notre recherche ne sont pas fermés et continuent ouverts à des nouvelles relectures. Notre principal objectif est aussi bien d’expliciter quel a été le fil conducteur de Sartre pour écrire L’Idiot de la famille que de vérifier si l’essence de l’écrivain peut être définie par ses écritures. Autrement dit, est-ce que les écritures montrent qui est l’auteur en tant qu’homme, ou bien pouvons-nous plutôt voir son double, celui qui parle à sa place et qui devient parole écrite ? / The Fool of the family is complement to the book of philosophy Questions of Method. Sartre asks in Questions of Method a change of language. It will be in this thesis to decipher Sartre writing in its nuances, details and colors. In other words, it is designed to study books from Sartre in order to find a meaning that makes sense for us, where his words are full of statements and their contrary at the same time. Our task of re-reading in The Fool of the family is to clarify the central axis of the existential psychoanalysis and point the most hidden of the philosophy of life. Insofar as Sartre will show that we must decide on the kind of life we want to have, this study aims to illuminate why Sartre is an indispensable thinker for the man of today. Thus, it will be necessary to treatThe Fool of the family as a work for learning. In this sense, the meaning and significance of our research are not closed and still opened to new readings. Our main objective is to clarify what has been the main theme of Sartreto write The Fool of the family and to check if the essence of the writer can be defined by his writings. In other words, do the writings show us who is the author as a man, or else can we rather see his double, one who speaks at his place and then become written word?

Föreliggande studie har till syfte att ge en övergripande bild av grafikers roll i spelutvecklingsprojekt, inom den svenska spelbranschen. Med grafiker avses alla roller med inriktning på de visuella delarna i spelutveckling. I studien genomfördes semistrukturerade djupintervjuer med spelutvecklare från både mindre och världsledande spelföretag. De berättade om sin roll som grafiker, speldesigner eller programmerare inom spelbranschen. Spelutvecklarnas yttranden och redogörelser användes till att besvara frågeställningarna i studien. Det är genom spel som Battlefield, Candy Crush samt Minecraft som den svenska spelbranschen växt explosionsartat och via bland annat dessa spel som svenska spelutvecklare fått ett bra rykte världen över. Då spelbranschen växt kraftigt har spelföretagen haft svårt att hitta personal med rätt kompetens. Spelföretagen har önskat en uppgradering av de estetiska ämnena i grundskolan och på gymnasiet. Som grund för intervjuarbetet behövdes en generell beskrivning av roller och processer inom spelbranschen. Detta finns med som bakgrundsmaterial i denna studie. I slutsatsen framgår det att den svenska spelbranschen inte skiljer sig från omvärlden gällande rollerna, men att kommunikationen mellan rollerna samt arbetsprocessen varierar beroende på företag och produktion. Problemet med att hitta rätt kompetens verkar bero på att efterfrågan ständigt förändras. / The present study aims to provide a comprehensive view of games artists’ role in game development, in the Swedish games industry. All roles focusing on the visual elements of game development are referred to as games artists. The study was conducted through semi-structured interviews with game developers from both small and world-leading gaming companies. They told about their role as games artist, game designer or programmer in the gaming industry. The game developers’ inputs were used to respond to the issues raised in the study. It's through games like Battlefield, Candy Crush and Minecraft that the Swedish gaming industry has grown incredibly fast. Thanks to these and other games the Swedish game developers have received a good reputation all over the world. Since the gaming industry had a remarkably growth, the gaming companies have had difficulty finding staff with the right skills. Game companies have wanted an upgrade of the aesthetics in elementary school and high school. As a basis for the interview work, a general description of roles and processes in the gaming industry was needed. This is included as background material in this study. In conclusion, it appears that the Swedish gaming industry does not differ from the outside world regarding the roles, but that communication between the roles and the work process varies depending on companies and production. The problem in finding the right skills seems to be related to that the demand is constantly changing.

This masters thesis identifies and analyzes the aspects and specifics of branding of an artist in the art industry, which is relatively different from the branding which we know from the corporate world. The first section defines the theoretical background of the branding and marketing communication with focus on those aspects that are relative to an art and its market specifics. Theoretical definition in combination with the outcome of qualitative research, which was conducted with outperforming contemporary artists and representatives of leading galleries in Czech Republic, helps to outline the most important factors and subjects influencing the artists brand creation process which is described in the practical part of this masters thesis. Besides the quality of the piece of art itself, the aspect of the strong brand is unquestionably increasing the value of artists production. Therefore, this chapter investigates those factors and subjects that have remarkable impact on the value of the artists pieces of art. The last section of this paper gives local and international best examples of contemporary artists with strong brand.

The relationship of James to Hawthorne and of Hemingway to James certainly indicates the close literary relationship of the three writers. This development makes it seem only natural that three such self-conscious artists would have recourse to similar interests and would employ in their writings common themes, ideas, and methods.

Cette Thèse est une étude des dynamiques qui entrainèrent la construction du marché de l'art aux États-Unis entre les années 1800 et 1930. Elle se veut être une analyse des transformations qui permirent la construction d'un réseau national à partir de réseaux régionaux. Plus précisément, elle traite de la manière dont les Beaux-Arts se développèrent à Boston, Philadelphie et New York à partir d'idéologies et d'idéaux religieux et pastoraux, ainsi qu'à partir des concepts et des stéréotypes socio-culturels attachés à l'art et à l'artiste au sein de la société. Cette thèse montre la manière dont les origines sociaux des mécènes et la restructuration social du dix-neuvième siècle jouèrent un rôle central dans cette construction. L'arrivée de nouveaux groupes sociaux provenant de l'industrialisation du pays influencèrent le rôle de l'artiste au sein de la société, ainsi que sa mission culturelle et sa relation avec le public. Cette étude montre aussi comment de nouvelles catégories socio-professionnelles, comme les critiques et les illustrateurs, émergèrent de ce nouveau contexte économique et alternèrent la position social de l'artiste lors de la montée de la diffusion de la presse écrite. Le pouvoir économique des mécènes les poussèrent à utiliser leurs investissement dans les Beaux-Arts pour justifier et affirmer leur nouvelle position sociale. Cette thèse analyse aussi la manière dont le mécénat industriel intègre au marché de l'art des stratégies et des logiques issues de leurs affaires, influençant le fonctionnement de tout le système. / This dissertation is a study of the dynamics behind the growth of the US art market from the 1800's to the 1930's. Its main goal is to analyze the transformations which allowed the passage from local and regional networks into a national one. More specifically, it deals with how the development of the fine arts in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were based on religious and pastoral ideas and ideologies, as well as on social and cultural stereotypes and conceptions which defined art and the artist. This dissertation shows how the social origins of patrons and the restructuring of society in the nineteenth century played a pivotal in this construction. The arrival of new social groups originating from the industrialization of the country affected the role of artists inside society, as well as their cultural mission and their relationship with the public. This study also shows how new socio-professional categories, such as critics and illustrators, emerged from this new economic context and altered the position of the artist in society with the rise of the printed press. The economic power of these industrial patrons also enabled them to use their investments inside the fine arts to justify and affirm of their new social positions, while also injecting inside the art market strategies and logics from their businesses, thus affecting the functioning of the system.

The aim of this research project was to determine and describe the challenges and advantages presented to artists taking part in student theatre festivals as well as the challenges and advantages presented to the organisers of such festivals. A further aim of the study was to determine, address and describe the functions of a student theatre festival within the community in which it takes place and then to describe how such a festival could be most effectively organised and planned. The study is original, since very little research has been done on this topic in the past. When collecting data for the project, no documents were found describing such study projects. The findings of this study are also important, since guidelines are given aiding festival organisers and future festival organisers in the effective planning and organising of such an event. The research was conducted using three research methodologies. These were a survey of scholarship, structured and semi-structured interviews and action research. The information gathered by the first two methodologies is described in chapter 2. Information gathered by the action research methodology is described in chapter 3, which is a case study of the 2001 and 2002 Krêkvars arts festivals. After the first festival had ended, it was evaluated in terms of which methods of planning were successful and which were not. The second festival was then planned, adapting the unsuccessful methods and emphasising the successful ones. Thereafter the festival was evaluated again, formulating suggestions for the effective planning and organisation of a student theatre festival. From this research project, it can be concluded that student theatre festivals present many advantages and challenges for those involved. It is therefore necessary for the organisers to be well prepared for the task at hand and to do sufficient planning in order to most effectively organise such an event. / Dissertation (MA (Drama))--University of Pretoria, 2005. / Drama / unrestricted

In ihrer Monographie widmet sich Sandra Frimmel hauptsächlich zweien der zehn Jahre nach der Perestroika wieder vermehrt vorkommenden Strafprozesse gegen Künstler. Erschienen ist die Studie als zweiter Band in der Reihe: Das östliche Europa: Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte. Frimmel, die selbst auch Kuratorin und Mitbegründerin des Projektraums Art Laboratory Berlin ist, ist in Zürich am Slawischen Seminar wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im EU-Projekt „Performance Art in Eastern Europe“ und Koordinatorin des Zentrums Künste und Kulturtheorie. Es handelt sich bei der hier zu besprechenden Arbeit um ihre am Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte der Humboldt-Universität Berlin verteidigte Dissertation, die von der Kunsthistorikerin Susanne von Falkenhausen betreut wurde.

This thesis argues that Ella Ferris Pell's 1890 painting, Salome, provides a unique interpretation of the ideals of the New Woman, specifically in terms of reclaiming female power through Salome's confidence in her sexuality. By examining the cultural context in which Pell exhibited her painting, as well as her background as an artist, I hope bring to the light the significant ways in which Pell's Salome participates in the construction of the New Woman in late nineteenth-century culture. Since Pell was an American woman who trained and exhibited in both the United States and France, this paper explores the significance of the New Woman in both countries. Through the examination of these ideas, we can better appreciate the way in which Pell approached her painting and why it was not well received in Paris—despite its popular subject matter, technical execution, and relevance to the popular topic of the women's movement. Drawing upon the rich visual culture of this era, I offer a comparative study of how both images of women and actual women embraced sexuality and femininity as a means of exerting influence over men, and by so doing, carved out a sphere of influence in a male-dominated society.