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Image and Community: Representations of Military Saints in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean.
(2011)
Devotion to military saints flourished in Egypt and the Levant in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the era of the Crusades. During this period of conquest and expansion, icons of warrior saints were made in great ...
Encountering Mimetic Realism: Sculptures by Duane Hanson, Robert Gober, and Ron Mueck.
(2010)
This dissertation examines the mimetic realist production of three artists—Duane Hanson (1925–1996), Robert Gober (b. 1954), and Ron Mueck (b. 1958)—whose sculptures exemplify changing attitudes toward figural realism over ...
Painted Decoration in the Apartments of Roman Ostia: Standardization, Social Status, and Visual Experience
(2011)
This dissertation investigates the use of domestic decorations and architecture in the construction of social status in apartments at Ostia, the major port of Rome in the imperial period. My research builds upon recent ...
Boetti and Pascali: Revisiting Arte Povera through Two Case Studies.
(2008)
Alighiero Boetti and Pino Pascali were two particularly important Arte Povera artists, and my study of them is very much about this postwar Italian movement. However, my dissertation is also a non-Arte Povera, Arte Povera ...
Museum Gallery Layouts and Their Interactions with Exhibition Narratives and Space Use Patterns: An Investigation of the YCBA, the MoMA and the HMA Galleries.
(2009)
For exhibition installations and museum planning to be effective, it is important to have an understanding of how spatial layouts influence visitors’ explorations in gallery space. This study explores the possible effects ...
How Land Came into the Picture: Rendering History in the Fourteenth-Century Jami al-Tawarikh.
(2008)
The manuscripts from the Ilkhanate (1258-1370), the Iranian part of the Mongol Empire, contain paintings that evoke an illusion of three-dimensional space and passage of time for the first time in the Islamic world. They ...
Networked Collectivities: North American Artists' Groups, 1968-1978.
(2009)
In the late 1960s and ’70s, hundreds of artists across North America banded together into small groupings, sometimes two, sometimes ten, seeking alternatives to the single-artist model prized since the Renaissance. Many ...
Cultural Identity and the Making of Modern Taiwanese Painting During the Japanese Colonial Period (1895-1945).
(2008)
This dissertation addresses the multifaceted aspects of cultural identity as expressed in modern Taiwanese paintings during the Japanese colonial era, from 1895 to 1945. Under Japanese rule, Taiwan was united for the first ...
Theophilus' On Diverse Arts: The Persona of the Artist and the Production of Art in the Twelfth Century.
(2010)
De diversis artibus (On Diverse Arts) is one of the rare tracts on art and art-making to survive from the Middle Ages. Written by a monk using the pseudonym Theophilus, dated to the early twelfth century, and localized to ...
Revolutions in Parallel: The Rise and Fall of Drawing in Architectural Design.
(2009)
This dissertation examines how the foundational principles of architectural design are influenced and reflected the discipline’s conceptual media. The first section explores the transition to drawing as architecture’s ...