Browsing by Department "Art History"
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Collecting Ancestors: Hoa Hakananai'a in Exile
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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 ... -
The Complexity of Identity: The Art and Life of Nahum B. Zenil
(2021)In this thesis, I analyze various artworks by queer Mexican artist Nahum B. Zenil (1947-) in relation to concepts such as identity, sexuality, and religion. In order to do so, I first must explore the events of the late ... -
The concept of divinity in Maya art
(2006-12)This dissertation aims at advancing our understanding of Ancient Maya cosmology through the in-depth analysis of a singular, broadly-extant, and sacred entity called God L. Focus is placed upon portrayals created in the ... -
Constructing and curating the Asian American identity within Asian American art exhibitions
(2021-05-07)Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art showcases artwork from artists within the Afro-Caribbean Chinese community and Asian American diaspora. I will primarily focus on artists who have immigrated to America, joining ... -
Constructing dynastic legitimacy : imperial building programs in the Forum Romanum from Augustus to Diocletian
(2001-12)This dissertation studies five Roman emperors––Augustus, Domitian, Antoninus Pius, Septimius Severus, and Diocletian––who were responsible for major architectural additions to the Forum Romanum. Nestled between the ... -
The corporate model : sculpture, architecture, and the American city, 1946-1975
(2015-05)This dissertation is a theoretical and historical account of urban sculpture in the U.S. following World War II. The title refers to an example set by corporations during the 1940s and 1950s for commissioning modernist ... -
Cosmeticized spaces : on the altar-installations works of Patssi Valdez, 1990-1996
(2022-05-09)This thesis concentrates on the installation works of multimedia artist Patssi Valdez (born 1951 in East Los Angeles), focusing specifically on the site-specific altar-installations she created between 1990 and 1996. In ... -
Cultural refraction through transpacific material exchange : Chinese porcelain and early Colonial Spanish America
(2017-05-04)This thesis frames the cultural development of late Ming China and Colonial Spanish America within the scientific model of light refraction, arguing that the deliberate inclusion of Chinese ceramics into the visual culture ... -
A culture of dissonance : Wassily Kandinsky, atonality, and abstraction
(2014-05)A Culture of Dissonance: Wassily Kandinsky, Atonality, and Abstraction by Lynn Edward Boland, Ph.D. Supervisor: Linda D. Henderson Wassily Kandinsky's interest in music as a source for ... -
Culture of illusion : landscape gardens, fabricated ruins, and the diorama, c. 1750 - 1850
(2017-12)This project examines questions of fabrication and authenticity in landscape garden design and the Diorama, bridging England and continental Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, proposing that certain sites ... -
Cupisnique culture : the development of ideology in the ancient Andes
(2010-05)Cupisnique culture was first identified by Rafael Larco Hoyle in the 1930s through his encounter with an early ceramic style in the Cupisnique Quebrada on the north coast of Peru. Since that time, the ceramic styles, region ... -
Dancing dwarfs and courtly cohorts : an examination of the dwarf motif in Mesoamerican iconography
(2007-05)This thesis explores the dwarf motif in the art of the Classic Period Maya (300-900 A.D.) from significant polities of the Maya Lowlands. Through an iconographic and iconological analysis of Maya dwarf imagery, this thesis ... -
Dancing in the watery past : mythical history and performative architecture in the Palace of Palenque
(2012-05)This thesis analyzes a series of stucco reliefs that decorate the piers of House D of the Palace of Palenque, a Classic Maya city in modern Chiapas, Mexico. Each of the five extant piers of House D depict pairs of individuals ... -
Decentering revolutionary visions : the politics and poetics of representation in Nicolás Guillén Landrián’s Coffea Arabiga
(2017-05-09)In 1967 Afro-Cuban artist and filmmaker Nicolás Guillén Landrián returned to the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC) in Havana after suffering months of confinement; first at a farm—where he was ... -
Defining the Red Background style: the production of object and identity in an ancient Maya court
(2014-05)As one of many other distinct painting styles that appeared on ceramics throughout the Guatemalan Lowlands of the Late Classic Period (AD 600-900), the Red Background vases represented the economic reach of the owner into ... -
Defining, transforming, and providing sacred presence : a sarcophagus reliquary in the Menil Collection
(2018-05-03)This thesis attempts a complete object biography of a fifth-century sarcophagus reliquary currently held by the Menil Collection in Houston. This thesis proposes that the Menil reliquary is a container with acute agency ... -
Destabilizing myths of the American South : Allison Janae Hamilton’s haints and landscapes
(2020-08)In this thesis, I examine the notion of myth in the work of Allison Janae Hamilton (b. 1984) who in the last several years has emerged onto the American art scene with great success. I argue that selections from her ... -
Digging through time: psychogeographies of occupation
(2015-12)This dissertation is about the relationship between contemporary art and politics in the case of Israel-Palestine and Lebanon. Specifically, I look at the ways that artists have dealt with the history of this region and ...
