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Den barmhärtige samariten och det sublima - En undersökning om varför en altartavla, skapad av Staffan Hallström till Bodums kyrka, refuserades.

Gustafsson, Margareta LU (2019) KOVK03 20182
Division of Art History and Visual Studies
Abstract
The Good Samaritan and the sublime – an investigation of why an altarpiece, painted by Staffan Hallström to the church of Bodum, was rejected
The following thesis investigates why an altarpiece ordered by the local church border in Bodum, was rejected. The artist, Staffan Hallström was a modernist (expressionist) who worked with abstractions in form and colour. The artist created the altarpiece, in periods, between 1960-1962. The altarpiece was rejected 1962. The painting and prepartory sketches belongs to The Museum of Sketches in Lund. The theoretical framework is based on a combination of archive theory and theorists of the sublime including Jean-François Lyotard, Pseudo-Longinos, Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, Wilhelm Worringer and... (More)
The Good Samaritan and the sublime – an investigation of why an altarpiece, painted by Staffan Hallström to the church of Bodum, was rejected
The following thesis investigates why an altarpiece ordered by the local church border in Bodum, was rejected. The artist, Staffan Hallström was a modernist (expressionist) who worked with abstractions in form and colour. The artist created the altarpiece, in periods, between 1960-1962. The altarpiece was rejected 1962. The painting and prepartory sketches belongs to The Museum of Sketches in Lund. The theoretical framework is based on a combination of archive theory and theorists of the sublime including Jean-François Lyotard, Pseudo-Longinos, Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, Wilhelm Worringer and Barnett Newman. The methodological framework consist of a combination of archive research, withholding letters, newspaper articles and official documentary, formal analysis of the painting and a dialog in a hermeneutic circle between the expression of the altarpiece and theories of the sublime.
The archive material was classified in five groups, according to the arguments against the altarpiece. In search of a deeper understanding of arguments and resistance against the altarpierce, the aestethic expression and its connection to the sublime are discussed. There are connections with the sublime. The sublime expression of The Good Samaritan was one considerable explanation why the altarpiece was rejected. (Less)
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author
Gustafsson, Margareta LU
supervisor
organization
course
KOVK03 20182
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
History of Art, the church of Bodum, altarpiece, The Good Samaritan, Staffan Hallström, modernism, sublime, the Museum of Sketches, rejection
language
Swedish
id
8969491
date added to LUP
2019-03-26 08:50:32
date last changed
2019-03-26 08:50:32
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  abstract     = {{The Good Samaritan and the sublime – an investigation of why an altarpiece, painted by Staffan Hallström to the church of Bodum, was rejected
The following thesis investigates why an altarpiece ordered by the local church border in Bodum, was rejected. The artist, Staffan Hallström was a modernist (expressionist) who worked with abstractions in form and colour. The artist created the altarpiece, in periods, between 1960-1962. The altarpiece was rejected 1962. The painting and prepartory sketches belongs to The Museum of Sketches in Lund. The theoretical framework is based on a combination of archive theory and theorists of the sublime including Jean-François Lyotard, Pseudo-Longinos, Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, Wilhelm Worringer and Barnett Newman. The methodological framework consist of a combination of archive research, withholding letters, newspaper articles and official documentary, formal analysis of the painting and a dialog in a hermeneutic circle between the expression of the altarpiece and theories of the sublime.
The archive material was classified in five groups, according to the arguments against the altarpiece. In search of a deeper understanding of arguments and resistance against the altarpierce, the aestethic expression and its connection to the sublime are discussed. There are connections with the sublime. The sublime expression of The Good Samaritan was one considerable explanation why the altarpiece was rejected.}},
  author       = {{Gustafsson, Margareta}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Den barmhärtige samariten och det sublima - En undersökning om varför en altartavla, skapad av Staffan Hallström till Bodums kyrka, refuserades.}},
  year         = {{2019}},
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