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Historiska porträtt som kunskapskälla
Varje dag möts vi av bilder av kända människor – deras ansikten och kroppar fyller medierna. Intresset för att betrakta och bedöma andra utifrån deras yttre har en egen tradition. I samband med den moderna tidens inträde och ett framväxande intresse för historia blev porträttmålningar av välkända personer som levt innan 1800-talet – före fotografins inträde – mycket populära. Historiska porträtt gjorde det möjligt att stå öga mot öga med någon som levt för flera hundra år sedan. Men gick det verkligen att lita på att målningen inte ljög och visade upp en falsk bild av hur personen sett ut? Vad var ett porträtt – egentligen? I Historiska porträtt som kunskapskälla diskuterar konstvetaren Charlotta Krispinsson hur konsthistoriker uppmärksammade och skrev om äldre porträtt vid sekelskiftet 1900. Hennes studie belyser också hur porträtt av svenskar dokumenterades för Svenska porträttarkivet, och om de slott och museer där nationella porträttsamlingar visades i Europa från sent 1700- till tidigt 1900-tal. Det är en utmanande bok som ger nya infallsvinklar på porträttets teori och receptionshistoria.
Survival and Revival in Sweden's Court and Monarchy, 1718–1930
This book will be the first to deeply analyze the Swedish court and monarchy through a longue duree perspective to show the crucial role of the court in maintaining a relationship between the monarchy and nobility throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Sweden offered a different type of monarchy in comparison to the more often studied French and British monarchies. Sweden's court system successfully managed several coups and upheavals and maintained strong royal power throughout many transitions. Studying the Swedish model offers insights into how courts functioned in European principalities in general by providing a resilient and flexible framework for royal authority in tandem with the nobility. Based on extensive research conducted in the Swedish National Archives, the Palace Archives, and the Royal Library, the book presents some never-before published case studies and materials that drive the impact of court studies on many different areas of research, including gender studies, political science, and art history.
The North! To the North!
Judith Moffett presents substantial selections of five important nineteenth-century Swedish poets in formal translation, with en face text, critical and biographical introductory essays, and notes. Each of the poets—Esaias Tegnér, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Viktor Rydberg, Gustaf Fröding, and Erik Axel Karlfeldt—made a significant contribution to Swedish literature and was justly famous in his own time. Even today, every Swedish student knows the names of these poets. Noting that much fine Swedish literature remains untranslated, Moffett makes the work of these five important poets available to readers of English. She points out that the dearth of material translated from Swedish to Englis...
Fate, Glory, and Love in Early Modern Gallery Decoration
Analysing the decorative programmes of the most opulent European palaces of the time, Margaretha Rossholm Lagerl?f investigates how meaning was conveyed through display and visual effects. She explores the visual meaning inherent in the scheme of spatial relations; in effects of scale, perspective, lighting, figures' positions and postures; and in relations among image types. The analysis concerns the interrelations of various kinds of images in the ensembles; the relations between images and physical site; and the address to the beholder. Lagerl?f considers the visual impact of the imagery in conjunction with 'readable' or symbolically 'coded' meanings; thus, the study does not merely subject these decorations to formalist aesthetic principles. She shows the visual meaning generally to sustain the verbal or readable messages, but often in subtle ways, extending or elaborating the meaning. Occasionally, the visual meaning comes forth as an undercurrent or complication, deviating from the proclaimed and symbolic meaning. Fate, Glory, and Love in Early Modern Gallery Decoration contributes to the body of scholarship on visual rhetoric and on how images 'act' out their messages.
