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This dissertation analyzes the remarkable transformation of jianzhu wenhua (建筑文化), or “architectural culture,” in post-Mao China from the late 1970s to the mi [...]
2023-08 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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Widely recognized today as a pioneer of generative art, Vera Molnar (b. 1924) was born and educated in Hungary, migrated to Paris in 1947 to become an abstract painter, a [...]
2023-06 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
Dissertation |
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Caves, cut into a cliff rather than built on the ground, provide an alternative approach to defining space. The most provocative of them provoke fundamental questions abo [...]
2023-06 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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This dissertation examines a range of objects made in north Germany and southern Scandinavia during the second half of the twelfth century, advancing the new concept of [...]
2022-08 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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As a constant element in Chinese landscape paintings, human figures of diminutive scale lend a sense of life and activity to mountains and waterways of immense proportion [...]
2022-08 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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This dissertation tells a story about contemporary artistic responses to neoliberalism that emerged in the 1990s. My study focuses on Liam Gillick and Pierre Huyghe, two [...]
2022-08 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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To study the religious sculpted-image stelae of China between the 490s and the 550s, I begin by revisiting the previous studies of Chinese stele, covering the scholarship [...]
2022-06 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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From 1510 to 1526, all four interior walls of the Cloister of the Scalzo in Florence were frescoed with a monumental, chiaroscuro fresco cycle by renowned Florentine pain [...]
2022-06 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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Examining the images of West Lake from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century in China, this dissertation focuses on the representation of the place as a topographic, h [...]
2022-06 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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This dissertation explores the vibrant feminist art scene of 1970s and 80s Mexico City, centering upon the artistic practice of Magali Lara (b. Mexico City, 1956). I exam [...]
2022-06 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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Various kinds of garden spaces had been the most important outdoor venue for public entertainment in late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century Shanghai, as they feature [...]
2022-03 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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This dissertation investigates the aesthetic and material problems that the air of industrial modernity posed for photographers, filmmakers, and critics active in Wilhelm [...]
2021-08 |
Cinema and Media Studies; Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Indigenous Andeans meticulously decorated wooden objects using a unique plant resin known as barniz de Pasto or mopa mopa [...]
2021-08 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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This dissertation is the first systematic study of contemporary Chinese site-based art, a mode of art practice that takes place in everyday urban spaces such as city stre [...]
2021-08 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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During the Italian Renaissance, the representation of landscape developed in significant and revealing ways. Where portraits had traditionally depicted profiled sitters a [...]
2021-08 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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This dissertation is a monograph on the early work of the Hungarian-born architect Yona Friedman (1923-2019). A singular and deeply influential, but little studied, figur [...]
2021-08 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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Medicine in England came into its own in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, melding the rich tradition of scholastic medical thought developed at continental univers [...]
2021-06 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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This dissertation examines the visual culture of early modern East Slavic presence in Italy, to the extent it was possible to reconstruct it from the dispersed and divers [...]
2021-03 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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This dissertation examines how Nahuas used their Franciscan monastery—its spaces, imagery, and institutional structure—to challenge Spanish hegemony in the Atlixco Va [...]
2020-08 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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This dissertation considers the medieval Parisian project of Scholasticism as a concrete, physical phenomenon that took tangible shape in dialogue with the built, visual, [...]
2020-08 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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Between 1574 – 1581, the Dominican friar Diego Durán collaborated with multiple painters to produce an account of the Aztec past that comprised a catalogue of gods, a [...]
2020-06 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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This dissertation tells the story of the Berlin based art, literature, and applied art periodical Pan, whose twenty-one issues were published in three editions of increas [...]
2019-08 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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This dissertation explores how artists figured Christ’s absence, a seemingly paradoxical task for the visual arts. I examine objects made for use in the celebration of [...]
2019-06 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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This dissertation explores how the notion of anticipation, broadly considered, informed a host of discourses, practices and institutions related to visual production in t [...]
2016-08 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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“Unfolded Worlds: Allegory, Alchemy, and The Image As Structure of Knowledge In Early Modern Northern European Scientific Books” focuses on alchemical book illustrati [...]
2018-06 |
Art History; Art History Dissertations |
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