Browsing by Department "Art History"
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Barré's Musée secret : reconstructing nineteenth-century French attitudes towards Roman sexual representation
(2007-12)Europeans of the nineteenth century fixated on the sexual artifacts emerging from Campania's soil. This thesis places the first edition of Louis Barré's Musée Secret, published in 1840, in its historical context and ... -
Bataille's Manet : the subject at risk
(2007-08)This study investigates Georges Bataille’s monograph Manet, published in 1955 as part of Albert Skira’s accessible "Taste of Our Time" series. I discuss Bataille’s text as a concentrated expression of his socio-philosophical ... -
Bernard Van Orley’s tapestry designs for The story of Romulus and Remus, 1524
(2013-05)Bernard Van Orley’s 1524 preparatory drawings for tapestries depicting The Story of Romulus and Remus have, until now, been largely ignored by art historical scholarship. The only signed and dated drawings in the artist’s ... -
Between chance and habit : the ink on plastic drawings of Jasper Johns
(2017-08-14)The ink on plastic drawings of Jasper Johns count as one of his most prolific and enigmatic media, and yet they stubbornly remain the least investigated on their own terms. As early as 1961, Johns became attracted to the ... -
Between farm and table : Oplontis B and the dynamics of amphora packaging, design, and reuse on the Bay of Naples
(2019-09-11)The Roman transport amphora was more than just a well-designed container for packaging, storing, and transferring goods: it was also a significant trade commodity. Packaging centers acquired amphorae to accommodate bulk ... -
Beyond the easel : the dissolution of abstract expressionist painting into the realm of architecture
(2010-08)A defining feature of American abstract expressionist painting is its enormous size and scale. Heroic ambition, the vast American landscape, and the sense of "something big" happening in American painting are often cited ... -
Bodies politic, bodies in stone : imagery of the human and the divine in the sculpture of Late Preclassic Kaminaljuyú, Guatemala
(2013-05)Bulldozed, effaced, and paved over by the buildings and winding streets of Guatemala City, the vast majority of the archaeological remains of Kaminaljuyú are now lost to us. This early site, which reached its peak during ... -
Borderless : Archaic 'East Greek' art and cultural interchange in Ionia and western Anatolia
(2017-01-06)The Archaic East Greek world is regularly given cursory attention in surveys of Greek art and architectural history, despite the fact that Greek settlers arrived in Anatolia as early as the 11th century BCE, all the while ... -
Borderlines of labor : Margarita Cabrera’s sculptures and the (un)American dream
(2014-12)This thesis contextualizes the work of artist Margarita Cabrera within Chicano, postcolonial, and feminist theories, and specifically places her work within discourses surrounding the United States-Mexico border. I address ... -
Bound together : being-with gay and lesbian leather communities and visual cultures, 1966-1984
(2012-12)Bound Together elucidates how gay and lesbian leather communities, in the years between 1966 and 1984, contested and expanded fungible notions of sex, community, and history, mostly through material and visual cultural ... -
Br(others) only : Rashid Johnson, class, and the fraternal orders of Afrofuturism
(2012-08)Br(others) Only conceptualizes the wall sculptures of Rashid Johnson as free-standing “altars” that play with different and sometimes divergent brands of black masculinity and classed homosociality. Primarily, I analyze ... -
Bulimic bodies and “bearers of production” : representing bulimia in Todd Haynes’s Superstar: the Karen Carpenter story and Mika Rottenberg’s NoNoseKnows
(2018-08-03)The majority of literature on eating disorders has favored anorexia over bulimia, assuming self-starvation as the default mechanism of eating disorders, and placing bulimia in anorexia’s shadows, presuming that the the two ... -
Canonizing Zuccaro : The early life of Taddeo series and the building of an artistic legacy
(2020-08-14)The Early Life of Taddeo Zuccaro is a series of twenty-four highly finished drawings in pencil, ink, and wash executed by Federico Zuccaro (1541c-1609) in the mid-1590s depicting scenes from the life of Taddeo Zuccaro ... -
Capturing "the living light of other worlds" : Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater's Thought forms in Victorian context
(2007-12)The tumultuous Victorian period in Britain produced a society seeking answers to the unknown and unseen in the universe. Victorians were forced to display a faith in science, and sought a spirituality that would allow for ... -
The catacombs, martyrdom, and the reform of art in Post-Tridentine Rome: picturing continuity with the Christian past
(2014-05)The fortuitous discovery of early Christian images adorning the catacombs on Via Salaria in 1578 enabled scholars to address urgent, contemporary problems concerning the Catholic tradition of image veneration, which had ... -
Cézanne and American painting 1900 to 1920
(1995-05)This dissertation investigates the impact of Cézanne upon the art and theory of ten early modernist painters who stand as his major American disciples in the period from 1900 to 1920. This group includes: Maurice Prendergast, ... -
Chocholá ceramics and the polities of northwestern Yucatán
(2010-05)Maya artists working in the northern Yucatán Peninsula c. 700-800 CE began creating a new ceramic style. Deeply carved and exhibiting complex iconography and hieroglyphic inscriptions, Chocholá ceramics have long been ... -
The city walls of Pompeii : perceptions and expressions of a monumental boundary
(2013-05)Fortifications often represent the largest and most extensive remains present on archaeological sites. Their massive scale is the primary reason for their survival and reflects the considerable resources that communities ... -
The collective El Sindicato, 1976-1979 : intervening in conceptualism in Latin America
(2011-05)Conceptual practices developed in Colombia towards the end of the 1960s and into the 1970s. Even a cursory look at surveys of Colombian conceptual art shows that the collective El Sindicato, active between 1976 and 1979, ... -
Comfort and Memory: Artist Kit Keith and the Oral History Process
(2020-05-11)This paper explores the career of St. Louis-based, self-taught artist Kit Keith and the development of my personal relationship with the artist through the interview process. While telling Keith’s story and exploring her ...
