Nattliga eskapader: Om Eugène Janssons skymningsmåleri och cruising
(2022) KOVK03 20212Division of Art History and Visual Studies
- Abstract
- At the turn of the twentieth century, Swedish painter Eugène Jansson created a series of paintings inspired by the city nights of Stockholm. This bachelor thesis examines the paintings in relation to urban gay spaces and sexual meetings in the early nineteen hundreds. The paintings by Jansson, himself a homosexual male, have at a few times vaguely been described as portraying the moments before an intimate encounter. Therefor the question proposed is: "In what ways are cruising expressed through Jansson’s nocturnal paintings?" Previous descriptions of Jansson’s work have shown to connect publicly known places for cruising to the nocturnal paintings, for instance "Kanonjärkasernen" next to the naval bathhouse. In the essay there are four... (More)
- At the turn of the twentieth century, Swedish painter Eugène Jansson created a series of paintings inspired by the city nights of Stockholm. This bachelor thesis examines the paintings in relation to urban gay spaces and sexual meetings in the early nineteen hundreds. The paintings by Jansson, himself a homosexual male, have at a few times vaguely been described as portraying the moments before an intimate encounter. Therefor the question proposed is: "In what ways are cruising expressed through Jansson’s nocturnal paintings?" Previous descriptions of Jansson’s work have shown to connect publicly known places for cruising to the nocturnal paintings, for instance "Kanonjärkasernen" next to the naval bathhouse. In the essay there are four main aspects being examined: 1) the sociohistorical context and the circumstances of gay men’s sexual encounters on the streets of Stockholm in the early twentieth century 2) the paintings’ formal qualities analyzed with semiotic tools, focusing on indexicality 3) the paintings’ depiction of space, architecture and the city and its relation to the body 4) the queer potential of cruising as a movement between spaces or insights. Throughout the thesis all these aspects are connected and intertwined, creating a multi-layered context. The understanding of cruising presented at the end of the analysis is one that’s striving beyond sexual encounters and towards a choreographed movement of multiple bodies in the urban space. (Less)
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- author
- Wååg, Elton LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- "Nightly escapades": About Eugène Jansson’s nocturnal paintings and cruising
- course
- KOVK03 20212
- year
- 2022
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Cruising, Eugène Jansson, Semiotics, Space and architecture, Queer theory
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9079148
- date added to LUP
- 2022-05-11 09:23:05
- date last changed
- 2022-05-11 09:23:05
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abstract = {{At the turn of the twentieth century, Swedish painter Eugène Jansson created a series of paintings inspired by the city nights of Stockholm. This bachelor thesis examines the paintings in relation to urban gay spaces and sexual meetings in the early nineteen hundreds. The paintings by Jansson, himself a homosexual male, have at a few times vaguely been described as portraying the moments before an intimate encounter. Therefor the question proposed is: "In what ways are cruising expressed through Jansson’s nocturnal paintings?" Previous descriptions of Jansson’s work have shown to connect publicly known places for cruising to the nocturnal paintings, for instance "Kanonjärkasernen" next to the naval bathhouse. In the essay there are four main aspects being examined: 1) the sociohistorical context and the circumstances of gay men’s sexual encounters on the streets of Stockholm in the early twentieth century 2) the paintings’ formal qualities analyzed with semiotic tools, focusing on indexicality 3) the paintings’ depiction of space, architecture and the city and its relation to the body 4) the queer potential of cruising as a movement between spaces or insights. Throughout the thesis all these aspects are connected and intertwined, creating a multi-layered context. The understanding of cruising presented at the end of the analysis is one that’s striving beyond sexual encounters and towards a choreographed movement of multiple bodies in the urban space.}},
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note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Nattliga eskapader: Om Eugène Janssons skymningsmåleri och cruising}},
year = {{2022}},
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