I denna uppsats undersöks katalogtexter producerade eller reproducerade av Moderna Museet i Stockholm om Pablo Picasso och Marcel Duchamp. Texterna undersöks, med utgångspunkt i museets egna påstående att konstnärerna ofta utmålas som varandras motsatser, ur ett narratologiskt perspektiv. Förekomsten av argumenterande passager, performativa yttranden, textagentens positionering samt värdering av konstnärskapen undersöks och en jämförelse görs mellan katalogerna och de två konstnärskapen. Undersökningen syftar till att ge en ingång till en förståelse för hur katalogtexter genom en aktiv narration skapar en normerande bild av konstnärskap..

In this paper I'm trying to trace, analyze and emphasize Kathy Acker?s Great Expectations and Alison Knowles?s The Big Book in regard to the books in/finite im/possibilities. I analyze them through historical changes in the books format and structure, especially ones proposed by Mallarmé, Duchamp and Fluxus. To analyze the texts more closely attention is directed to how Acker and Knowles challenge the conventional narrative, in regard to the body and language/voice and sound. I give specific emphasizes to thoughts posted by écriture féminine, while also adding Mara Lee?s temporalities in regard to body resistance and time.

This paper is an inquiry that is trying to establish four young musicians' views of art and music.To define the boundaries of music and art and explore the possible similarities. The musicians were confronted with an artwork by Marcel Duchamp and a composition by John Cage, and have recieved a questionnaire where they were asked to express their views. They were also asked to point out qualities that define music and art and their boundaries. Follow up questions then try to futher clearify their definitions. The findings show that the group has a similar point of view where emotion and feeling rule over intellectualisation in relation to the creation of art..

This study examines the work of art in the underground station Kungsträdgården in Stockholm and discusses the observers interpretation of the art in the station. When the artist Ulrik Samuelson got his commission to shape the station he was influenced by Marcel Duchamp and the concept art. Two themes were integrated in the work of art, the actual culture life and the palace called Makalös, which was situated just above the currant station, three hundred years ago. The station was built in two stages.The first part was opened in 1977 and the second part in 1987. Panofsky´s iconographic working method has been used in this essay.