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Making Modernity in Fabric Architecture: Imperial Tents in the Late Ottoman Period
(2019)
Monumental and magnificently decorated tents played a key role in Ottoman courtly life and ceremonies over the course of the dynasty’s six-century reign (circa 1299-1922), building on similar practices in other Islamic ...
Seeing Speech, Reading Bodies: Manifestations of Language in Japanese Buddhist Visual Cultures of the Thirteenth Century
(2021)
This dissertation examines the refinement of and increased experimentation with representations of “language-bodies,” or simultaneous representations of both the embodied presence of a Buddhist deity and spoken or written ...
Scenes From the Cutting Room Floor: Black Womanhood and the Visual Politics of Mixed Race Family Albums 1918-2020
(2021)
This dissertation asks two interrelated questions. First, how do visually iconic representations of Black-white families shift in relation to Black cultural politics and aesthetics throughout the twentieth and twenty-first ...
"Monstrous Creatures and Diverse Strange Things": The Curious Art of Jan van Kessel the Elder (1626-1679).
(2012)
The Antwerp artist Jan van Kessel the Elder (1626-1679) was esteemed throughout Europe for producing finely-wrought, miniature paintings on copper that depict a broad range of flora and fauna, exotic places, and objects ...
Re-envisioning Everyday Spaces: Photorealism in the San Francisco Bay Area.
(2013)
Photorealism, a style that transfers photographic imagery and conventions to the medium of painting, is one of the few artforms of the 1960s and 1970s that has yet to receive substantive reevaluation. Contrary to critics’ ...
Art, Decoration, and the Texture of Modern Experience: The Interior Before 1900
(2018)
This dissertation explores the critical fascination among artists, architects, and their publics with the interior and its image at the end of the nineteenth century. Focusing primarily on Belgium and France, it argues ...
Gruppe SPUR and Gruppe GEFLECHT: Art and Dissent in West Germany, 1957-1968.
(2012)
This dissertation investigates the diverse interventionist art practices of Gruppe SPUR and Gruppe GEFLECHT. The artists pushed the boundaries of freedom of expression and explored the role of critical and oppositional ...
"Seeing" the "Ordinary" at Lingyan Temple in Eleventh-Century China.
(2013)
This dissertation explores the little studied grouping of twenty-seven eleventh-century luohan (Skt: arhats) figures in Thousand Buddha Hall 千佛殿 at Lingyan temple 靈巖寺 in Shandong province to recover their place within the ...
Bachelors Bridging the Baltic: The Artistic Ambitions of the Tallinn Brotherhood of the Black Heads, c. 1400-1524.
(2016)
The Brotherhood of the Black Heads was a religious, military, and commercial corporation unique to the territory of Livonia (modern-day Estonia and northern Latvia). This dissertation examines the artistic patronage of ...
An Investigation of the Architectural, Urban, and Exhibit Designs of the Tate Museums.
(2014)
This dissertation argues that art museums underwent an adjustment of purpose from the close of the nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century with the height of ‘postmodernism’ in the late 1980s marking a critical ...