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Making Moroccan 'Heritage': Art, Identity, and Historical Memory in the Early French Protectorate of Morocco (ca. 1912 - 1931)
(2017)
This dissertation argues that transnational negotiations over the meaning and content of Morocco’s cultural heritage and identity during World War I and the interwar period (ca. 1912 - 1931) were critical to the French ...
The Domestic Chestnut: Space, Place, and the Embodiment of Nature at Oplontis Villa A
(2022)
Villa A at Oplontis is among the most carefully studied and impressive examples of a Roman coastal luxury villa. Located on a cliff overlooking the Bay of Naples, only a few miles from Pompeii, the villa was initially ...
Portraits of Artists and the Social Commerce of Friendship in Eighteenth- Century France.
(2012)
This dissertation examines the roles that portraits of artists played in the social commerce of friendship in the ancien régime of eighteenth-century France. While scholarship on portraiture of the period tends to emphasize ...
The Purpose of Public Sculpture: Artistic, Institutional, and Cultural Motivations since 1965
(2016)
Since the mid-1960s, the pace and scale of public sculpture production in America has increased exponentially. Notably, the purpose of these sculptures was not commemorative (as is the case for monuments and memorials), ...
Material Dispersions: Sculpture, Photography, and International Interventions in Italy, 1962-72.
(2012)
The twenty-five years following the end of WWII witnessed an explosion of experimental sculptural projects that embraced new materials and ephemeral installation tactics. These works were often large in scale and displayed ...
Repetitions: Memory and Making Degas's Ballet Classroom Series.
(2013)
This dissertation proposes a significant reevaluation of Edgar Degas’s ballet classroom pictures, with a particular focus on two series: the foyer paintings and the frieze compositions. Its principal objective is to examine ...
Spatializing the Knowledge Economy: The Campus as a Discursive Project, Parallel Project, and More-than-Institutional Project
(2023)
In contrast to the normative scholarly and professional expectation that the university’s spatialization be tightly coupled with its institutional purposes and prerogatives, this dissertation posits that the institution ...
Plans, Plants, and Sense of Place: Urban Greening Across the USSR, 1932-1964
(2019)
An iconic feature of Soviet cities was their abundance of greenspace, proving resilient across political and aesthetic rifts that otherwise transformed Soviet built environments. In histories of socialist urbanism, these ...
How to Look Sachlich: Fashion and Objectivity in Weimar Germany
(2017)
“How to Look Sachlich: Fashion and Objectivity in Weimar Germany” is an analysis of the representation and treatment of fashion in the late Weimar works of the architect and designer, Lilly Reich (1885-1947) and the painters, ...