• Willem Kalf, Still Life with Chinese Box and Nautilus Cup, 1662. Oil on Canvas, 79.4 x 67.3 cm. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain.

    Willem Kalf, Still Life with Chinese Box and Nautilus Cup, 1662. Oil on Canvas, 79.4 x 67.3 cm. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain.

    Thesis, 2018:
    From nautilus cup to smartphone: The still life in digital times.

  • Arvida Bystroem, Still Life, personal project, 2016

    Arvida Byström, Still Life, personal project, 2016.

"From nautilus cup to smartphone: The still life in digital times." (2018) [German version only]

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Thesis Original title:

Vom Nautiluspokal zum Smartphone: Das Stillleben im Wandel mit der Digitalisierung. 

A comparative thesis on the changing symbolism in the traditional still life ensued by today's era of the smartphone. 

Keywords: still life, digitalisation, Instagram, Social Media, Arvida Byström, John Berger, male gaze, Dutch Golden Age, Willem Kalf, Victor Stoichita, vanitas, Virtual Normality, Women Net Artists 2.0, postfeminism, smartphone, female gaze, symbolism, Pieter Aertsen, net art

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