Masteruppsatser / Institutionen för Kulturvård: Recent submissions
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Konservatorns kropp Betydelsen av sinnesförnimmelser och känslor vid arbetet med föremålen
(2015-03-26)This master thesis is written at the Department of Conservation at the University of Gothenburg, Master Programme in Conservation. Author is Caroline Owman and the tutor is Dr Bosse Lagerqvist. The topic for the thesis is ... -
Samtida konserveringsteori för hållbar utveckling av samtidskonst
(2015-03-20)Contemporary art is often made of more short-lived material than traditional works of art; also the material is usually used in a non-traditional way. Western conservation theories aim to preserve object´s authenticity, ... -
Alexander Roslin’s Self-portrait 1790 at Malmö Konstmuseum A study of Pigments and Painting Technological Construction
(2015-03-05)This Publication is an in-depth study of an oil painting by the Swedish artist Alexander Roslin (1718- 1793), the Selfportrait 1790, which belongs to the Malmö Konstmuseum in Sweden (inv. nr. MKM 891). Roslin was a very ... -
Ändring, återställning och dokumentation En studie av Stockholms slotts Västra trappas behandling och betydelse genom tre århundraden
(2014-03-20)The topic for the thesis is a study of the history of the Western Staircase from the early 18th century at the Royal Castle and the ideals that have led the stylistic alterations in its enviroment. The purpose of the study ... -
Intressentens inflytande En studie av intressenternas roll vid kalkmålningskonserveringen i Barsebäcks kyrka, utifrån tekniska, formella och värdemässiga perspektiv.
(2013-11-26)This master’s thesis aim to examine the roles of different stakeholders within a conservation process and how they are influenced by technical, formal/legal and value based concerns. This is done through a case study of ... -
Heritage from the Communist Period in Albania – An Unwanted Heritage Today?
(2012-05-09)This master thesis is based on interviews with heritage professionals carried out during two months in Tirana, Albania in the autumn of 2010. The research questions concern who works with communist heritage in Albania, ... -
Cultural Heritage Aid –Cultural heritage as a means to development
(2012-03-22)This thesis handles donor countries relation to cultural heritage aid and investigates if aid agencies have any awareness of the complexity of cultural heritage and any discussion of their part in creating heritage. The ... -
Personarkiv på Kungliga biblioteket -ordningar, kopplingar och krockar på ett nationalbibliotek
(2012-03-02)The departure point of this thesis is the context of the institution and the processes surrounding the handling of personal archives at the National Library of Sweden. These processes are examined using Actor Network Theory. ... -
Rum och rörelse - analys av alléns betydelse för människa och landskap
(2012-02-14)Within literature, politics and science, there is a claim that “tree avenues are important”. But the question and the goal for this essay are to explore the pretext to how and why. Planting tree avenues is a 4000 year old ... -
Kyrkan som immateriellt kulturarv En studie i kulturvårdens förhållningssätt till liturgiska värden
(2012-01-31)This master thesis aims to examine the methods of the conservation field and their vision about maintenance and change, in terms of liturgical values. This is to be able to determine if there is a need to develop the ... -
Skärvor av en svit – förflutenhetens plats i Hammarkullen
(2011-09-16)The present study examines the demolition of a house on Hammarkulletorget in 1996 and the discourse of Hammarkullen, Gothenburg (Sweden), drawn from the perspective of historicization [“historisering”]. I have examined ... -
Delaktighet En kritisk analys av kunskapsinsamling för kulturmiljöunderlag
(2011-03-28)This essay examines how evaluations of cultural environments can be created against the current objectives summarised as everyone's participation. The question is justified in light of previous research demonstrating ... -
The panel painting ’’The Lamentation of Christ’’ from Norum church
(2011-02-03)This thesis takes the challenge to investigate a series of attribution hypotheses concerning a panel painting of unknown master, possessed by the Norum church in Stenungsund (Västra Götaland county) in Sweden. The painting ... -
Föreställningar om stadsomvandlingens Kiruna
(2011-01-10)The city of Kiruna is about to transform, due to the expansion of the iron ore mine that is dominating the city’s labour market. The built environment is at the same time a cultural heritage of national interest. The ... -
Att utforska historisk slöjdkunskap genom klyvning och svepteknik. Ett exempel på forskning i hantverk
(2009-01-19)This essay concerns the reconstruction of historic traditional handicraft processes in wood cleaving and bending wood to bentwood boxes. It is based on two ethnology publications from the 1940’s and their source material ...