peer reviewed / The goal of this paper is to contrast the representation of models in photography (fashion and fine art photography), as well as certain kinds of inanimate beauty (Barbie dolls, mannequins), with the average faces constructed by algorithms serving to identify and reproduce beauty. What are the similarities and differences between in...
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This study examines adults’ postings of photos of children on social media and offers a unique methodological approach to studying visual data. A major innovation of this study is first, to enact the concept and method of narrative inquiry to the digital photographs. Having applied this method, the study also offers findings about the diverse value...
peer reviewed / “Copies” of visual representations are abundant in ancient Egyptian iconographic environments such as the private necropoleis. The intericonic relationship(s) that they share with their model(s) form a wide web that constitutes a large part of the so‐called repertoire. While they almost always include variation, their creators somet...
editorial reviewed / Conceiving of the image’s capacity to negate may be considered to represent a major challenge for any theory of the visual domain; nevertheless, there is no tradition of research on the capacity of the image to negate what it represents. This papers aims at proposing an enunciative point of view of this issue, stating that the ...
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This study investigates affective meanings expressed in facial expressions and bodily gestures from a semiotic perspective. Particularly, the study focuses on disentangling relations of affective meanings and exploring the meaning potential of facial expressions and bodily gestures. Based on the analysis of over three hundred screenshots from two f...
Abstract My objective with this master's thesis is to contribute development both to the education for art-teachers and to art education primary and secondary school. This master thesis discusses three students’ different art-based processes in a visual project about sustainable site-specific design. The project is based on ethnographic documen...
This thesis concerns six Swedish paintings depicting sick or convalescent individuals; Richard Bergh’s Konvalescent (unfinished, 1886), Flickan och Döden (1888), Eva Bonnier’s Magdalena (1887), Gustaf Magnusson’s Konvalescent (1933), Jenny Nyström’s Konvalescenten (1884), and Georg Pauli’s Vid sjukbädden (1885). The purpose of this study is to exam...
The Amoxtli Mictlan (Codex Laud) is part of the Mexican amoxtin of wisdom (the socalled Borgia Group). It was painted on leather, probably in the area of the Tehuacán Valley. It is one of the few remaining “codices” from the pre-Quauhtemic era and it has an order based on the tonalpohualli and a theme of death and destinies. It presents one of the ...
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