The Iranian artist Shirin Neshat has been living in self-imposed exile since the late 1970s, as she chose not to return to her home country following the ?79 Islamic Revolution. Through her works Neshat examines Iran before and after the revolution and follows political and civil transformations through strong photographs of women in her country of birth.  My own use of the term exile deals with the analysis of the state of exile in relation to artistic work as a globalized and underlying motivation for art and artists. The new definition of exile is analyzed in relation with the artist?s photographs and the verbal and visual statements.

The aim of this paper is to perform a comparative study between the photography?s of Leila Khaled and Shirin Neshat in order to observe if the woman are able to recede from an conventional formation to become the bearer of the veil and not only reduced to that whichneeds to be concealed. From a feministic perspective I have observed how the symbolic of the veil moulds the woman and how the woman in her context moulds the veil.In the description of the news photography of Khaled and the art photography produced by Neshat the mechanisms that lies as a foundation for the modelling of the portraits becomesthe essays primary entrance. Mechanisms that evolve around the creation of the woman as aconcept, a subject shaped for being looked at and the woman?s self-image through others.The textual discourse is visually enhanced through a comparative picture material visually enhanced and explained through photographs by the contemporary artist photographers Cindy Sherman, Catherine Opie, Laurie Simmons, Robert Mapplethorpe and Elin Berge.

Berlinmurens ras var en symbolisk markering på slutet av kallakriget. Kulturella värderingar och den politiska världskartan ändrades. Massflykt och transnationalism i det globala tillståndet blir ett faktum. Diaspora och exil skapar ny kulturidentitet. Filmen som ett starkt uttrycksmedel, skapar en plattform för de människor som lever under exil och diaspora- förhållandet för att hävda sig.

The purpose with this essay is to examine the role of landscape photography as a portrayer of nature. The study contains interviews with eight landscape photographers, to find out how they look at tendencies and changes in photography. The essay focuses on the discussion of authenticity and realism in landscape photography. Due to the requirement of nature as something natural and authentic, the landscape photography stands in a special position when it comes to matters of manipulation and influence. On the basis of certain analysis themes, the landscape photographers debate questions such as where landscape photography stands today, and how the future looks for the genre..

Uppsatsen är en historiografi om konstförfalskning. Texten har fokus på målningar och teckningar.I uppsatsen visas två skilda synsätt på fenomenet förfalskad konst, dels förfalskares, dels deras kritikers. I uppsatsen får förfalskarna presentera sina motiv för varför de förfalskar, i den delen kommer fram en önskan om försörjning men även en uppenbar stolthet över att lyckas göra konstverk som uppfattas gjorda av namnkunniga konstnärer från tidigare epoker. I många fall visar de en uppenbar kärlek till fin konst, samtidigt som de är väl medvetna om skillnaden mellan det äkta och det falska. Deras avslöjare är kritiska till verksamheten.

Med utgångspunkt från fyra olika verk av den amerikanske konstnären Edward Hopper diskuteras och analyseras tecken för vardaglighet, övergivenhet och meningslöshet. Edward Hoppers verk jämförs med verk av fyra olika superrealister. Syftet med detta arbete är att undersöka hur Edward Hoppers konst kom att påverka superreaalisterna. Ett annat syfte är att försöka ge ord åt konstupplevelsen och enligt Howard Gardners metod att gå djupare in på ett område och på så sätt lära sig en metod som gör det möjligt att fördjupa sig i andra ämnen.Frågeställningar som diskuteras i min fördjupning är: Hur kan vardaglighet, övergivenhet och meningslöshet gestaltas i konst? I arbetets gestaltande del ger jag, med två- och tredimentionell konst utgående från självupplevda motiv inspirerat av Hopper och superrealister, uttryck för begreppen vardaglighet, övergivenhet och meningslöshet..

This thesis examines the relationship between the marginalization of ornamentation during functionalist modernism and the effect it had on female graphic design practice. By examining the historiography from a gender and feminist theory of history I present a different way of interpreting, not only the history of graphic design but also the concept of graphic design. This thesis does not reach a conclusive result, instead it sets the foundation for further research and illustrates the opportunities that we as graphic designers have to benefit contemporary graphic design by critically reviewing and redefining our history through a diverse historiography..

Photography has long been of importance for humans in aspects of community, sharing and documenting. It has previously only existed in analogue format and with larger cameras. We have presently reached a new generation of cameras and photography. The new smaller compact cameras that are provided with most cellular phones take digital images of varying quality and accounts for a large part of photography. With the emergence of social media, photography and social interaction combined came photo applications with different features.

Syftet med den här uppsatsen har varit att få en bild av yezidiernas religion och deras liv i exil. Hur yezidier ser på sin identitet och möjlighet att utöva sin religion i Sverige. I uppsatsen finns en kort forskningsöversikt av de centrala delarna i yezidismen. För att få svar på mina frågor har jag använt kvalitativ intervju som metod. Undersökningen är gjord i form av djupintervjuer med yezidier bosatta i Hässleholms kommun.

The purpose of this thesis is library work in exile, more specifically The Kurdish library in Stockholm (?Kurdiska biblioteket?). The Kurds have a long history of exile, forming a part of their national and cultural identity. I have therefore chosen in the analysis three concepts: nationalism, ethnicity and culture. The Kurdish library is unique and is different from a traditional library in many ways.

The Swedish photographer and artist Eva Klasson, based in Paris in the 1970s, gained attention for her series of black-and-white photography of her own naked body, which opened up for an international artistic career in the late 1970s. Despite a promising career she however abandoned photography and disappeared from the artistic sphere only a few years after her debut. There has been a renewed interest in Klasson?s work in Sweden the last decade where she has been exhibited at museums and galleries. Today she is represented at art museums and institutions including Moderna Museet, The Modern Museum of Art, in Stockholm.

Adopting a socio-cultural approach to the study of cold war historiography, this master?s degree essay is a comparative study of the two main disciplinary fields of cold war scholarship, diplomatic history and international relations theory (IR). The study applies the theory of scientific development formulated by Thomas Kuhn and the concept of paradigm on the field of cold war research.Diplomatic history and IR shows many similarities in their development, and in the importance different schools has had in scholarly debate. These different schools are analysed as paradigms, a concept that has been more willingly adopted within IR than in diplomatic history. The transition from what historian John Lewis Gaddis has termed Old Cold War History to New Cold War History is discussed in terms of paradigms and paradigm shift.

Fotografi är i dag mycket attraktivt och lockar mängder av folk från konstsamlare till beundrare i alla åldrar. Internationellt sett är i dag skandinaviskt fotografi högt eftertraktat och intresset ser inte ut att avta, tvärt om.Här, vid väg ände, precis invid Kottlasjön på Lidingö ligger ett gamalt vackert vattenverk. omgivet av speciell natur och ett stilla landskap.Huset har stått oanvänt sedan många år och väntar på nya vindar.Med sparsam renovering, och nödvändiga åtgärder kan detta utgöra grunden för en ny mötesplats och verkstad för samtida konstfotografi..

The ability of emigrants to contribute to their homelands through the sending of remittances has been intensely recognised in recent years. This is especially true for developing countries for whom this money is seen to be an important source of funds from abroad. Eritrea is often mentioned in terms of success in the way they have mobilised the capacities of their diaspora. Since the Eritrean independence in1993 adults in the diaspora have been asked to contribute two per cent of their income to the Eritrean state. They have also been asked to make other donations at times of need.

The history of Banu Umayya has since the collapse of the caliphate occupied a major part in Islamic historiography. The present thesis analyses the presentation of the Umayyads in Ibn Khaldun?s al-Muqaddima and its relation to previous historical traditions. The thesis examines the social and intellectual context in which Ibn Khaldun stood and how it is represented in his historiography, while also providing an overview of the various socio-political, intellectual and historiographical developments in Islam. The theoretical perspectives are based on the concept of agency, examining the intellectual room for manoeuvre that the historian disposed of while composing the works.