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    Att söka det absoluta. Giacometti, Sartre och konsten
    (2019-07-05) Pegelow Walhammar, Karin; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
    This paper is a study over the sculptures and paintings of the swiss artist Alberto Giacometti after 1945 and how he himself and Jean-Paul Sartre describe the influences and meanings of this art. The paper describes the political and resistent movements in Paris during the german occupation and after the war and the intellectual society and milieu of philosophers, writers, artist, gallerists and publishers who met at the cafés of Montparnasse and Saint-Germain-des-Près during the existentialistic movement that Giacometti and Sartre were a part of. It also analyses the homogenous group of intellectuals according to Pierre Bourdieus cultural sociological view. The paper also gives a study of the existential thinking according to Sartre which dominated in Paris after the war. The analyses that Sartre and Giacometti make about the art of Giacometti reflect the difference between the theoretical view of the existentialistic philosopher Sartre and the artist Giacomettis practical and pragmatical view. It also describes the discourse of the inexhaustible artwork according to Bourdieu in the view of how the interpretation of works of art can change over time. The paper concludes with a chapter where an attempt is made to examine what distinguish and reconcile Sartre and Giacometti in the comprehension of Giacomettis art in the ambition to widen and nuance the understanding of Giacomettis art.
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    Jean-Paul Sartre och konsten: Bildfilosofi, Existentialism och Biografi i Sartres konstnärstexter om Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Robert Lapoujade och Tintoretto
    (2022-06-22) Pegelow Walhammar, Karin; University of Gothenburg/Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion
    Sartre ́s writings about artists and their artistic works in the 1940s until the1960s seems to be related to his biographical writings about authors, his phenomenological philosophy of imagination based on Husserl ́s theories, his existential phi- losophy and to his personal biography. His main theory of the image explains the difference between the physical pain- ting on the wall and the imagined picture in the observer ́s consciousness. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze in what way these theories are mirrored in Sartre ́s writings about four artists, the modernist artists Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Robert Lapoujade and the renaissance painter Tintoretto. The focus of this thesis is also to investigate in what way Sartre, in his personal encounter with the artists and their works in the studios and their works shown in exhibitions, reconsiders his original theories. The reconsideration concerns the ima- gination theory, the artist ́s part in the creation of the artwork, Sartre ́s view on sculpture and how the artistic materials, like the effect of colors, contribute to Sartre ́s definition of what is beauty in art. The thesis also heighlights the phenomenological interpretation theory of Sophie Astier-Vezon and the existential and biographical interpretation theory of Michel Sicard in order to discuss a Sartrean aesthetic theory based on his writings about art.