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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 ...
The Photographic Effect: Making Pictures After Photography, 1860-1895
(2017)
This dissertation examines the effects of photography and photographic concepts of picturing on painterly practice and theory in late-nineteenth century Europe. It argues that the permeation of photography into the material ...
Material Conceptualisms: Philippine Art under Authoritarianism, 1968-1986
(2018)
Material Conceptualisms: Philippine Art under Authoritarianism, 1968–1986 explores the subversive connotations of artists who experimented with organic, mundane, and/or vulgar materials at the state-supported Cultural ...
Seeing Class: Graphic Satire and the Cultivation of Radicalism in the Weimar Republic
(2018)
The power of visual images to foster political identities and mold ways of seeing has long been a concern for scholars of print. From the outbreak of the Reformation to the development of serial illustrated publications, ...
Scaling the Region: Visuality, Infrastructure, and the Politics of Design in Cold War Turkey
(2022)
This dissertation demonstrates that American imperialism presents a persistent design problem. At the center of this problem during the Cold War was the question of how to situate nation-states within the scale of postwar ...
Creating the Composite: Combinatory Artistry and the Notion of Style in Antwerp, c. 1510-1585
(2022)
Stylistic plurality and creative mixing are hallmarks of sixteenth-century art produced in Antwerp. A rich, dynamic urban environment, Antwerp attracting attracted countless artists from the surrounding Low Countries and ...
Figures of Conformity, Gestures of Distinction: Civility and Portraits of Women in France (1815-1848)
(2023)
This dissertation examines portraits—almost exclusively of women—painted in France in the first half of the nineteenth century, when the country was undergoing dramatic changes as a result of the 1789 Revolution and ...
Marble, Memory, and Meaning in the Four Pompeian Styles of Wall Painting.
(2014)
This dissertation explores developments in the use of decorative marble and other stone and their representation in wall paintings from Roman domestic buildings in Campania from ca. 150 B.C.E. to 79 C.E. I use wall paintings ...
Experiment and Visual Transformation in Illuminated Manuscripts of the Roman de la rose, c. 1338 – c. 1405.
(2014)
The Roman de la rose, by far the most popular romance in medieval Europe, was also one of the most richly and imaginatively illuminated works in French vernacular literature. Illuminators began providing miniatures in the ...
Crafting Expertise: Art and Design Pedagogy and Professional Values at the National Institute of Design in India, 1955-1985
(2021)
“Crafting Expertise” studies the pedagogy of the National Institute of Design (NID) in India over a thirty-year period. Established in 1961 in the city of Ahmedabad, the NID was the first design school of its kind in ...