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Behind Immaterial and Material Divides: East German Photography, 1949-1989.
(2016)
In 1950, Walter Ulbricht declared socialist realism as the official artistic method in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Using the implementation of this method in the East German art world as a starting point, this ...
National and International Modernism in Italian Sculpture from 1935-1959.
(2015)
My dissertation crosses the divide between the inter-war and post-war periods in closely examining the sculptural production, exhibition, and critical reception from 1935 to 1959 of two Italian sculptors, Marino Marini ...
Negotiating the Discourse of the Modern in Art: Pan Yuliang (1895–1977) and the Transnational Modern.
(2013)
This dissertation offers a critical reassessment of Pan Yuliang (1895–1977) and her works. Although scholarship on Pan Yuliang has proliferated in past decades, it has focused on a review of her works, her status as a woman ...
An Insistent Subject: The Countess de Castiglione Facing the Lens.
(2014)
An Italian aristocrat renowned for her spectacular beauty, the Countess de Castiglione (1837-1899) arrived in Paris in 1855 and became a short-lived star in Napoleon III’s fête impériale. For a considerably longer period, ...
Decorative Painting and Politics in France, 1890-1914.
(2014)
“Decorative Painting and Politics in France, 1890-1914” examines the preoccupation with “decorative” painting and aesthetics in France, from the 1890s to World War I, a period in which artists and design reformers challenged ...
Disjuncture On The Left: Proudhon, Courbet And The Antwerp Congress Of 1861
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 1991-03)
Art’s Public Lives: Sculpture in China After 1949.
(2015)
This dissertation considers through sculpture how after the Communist Revolution in 1949 the official line in China for art to serve “the people,” or renmin, sought to institutionalize a new value system in the arts. ...
Pictura and Scriptura : Cosmè Tura and style as courtly performance
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 1996-06)
Apocalyptic Progress: The Politics of Catastrophe in the Art of John Martin, Francis Danby, and David Roberts.
(2011)
This dissertation investigates a series of large–scale apocalyptic-themed paintings produced in London during the 1820s by the artists John Martin, Francis Danby and David Roberts. Each of these artists created works that ...
TransStates: Conceptual Art in Eastern Europe and the Limits of Utopia.
(2011)
This dissertation explores the utopian and metaphysical aspirations found in the pockets of collective creativity that drove Conceptual art in Eastern Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. It does so by focusing on two groups of ...