Drawing from a French Postmodernist tradition that examines a breakdown in grand historical narratives, the advent of novel telecommunication technologies, and the langua [...]

Painted screens serve a dual purpose in Chinese history: blocking off the winds as a furnishing and providing aesthetic enjoyment as a painting-bearing object. Art histor [...]

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This paper is the first comprehensive account of the male mummy portrait (also known as a "Fayum" or "Fayoum" portrait) in the Oriental Institute in Chicago. I identify t [...]

Between the late 1950s and the 1980s, Chicago, like many other American cities, lived an extended period of "urban crisis" characterized, among others, by the combined ef [...]

My project explores how graffiti writers in Chicago interact with public space in order to determine the sites of their work. Through the process of my project, I came to [...]

Three blocks from Lake Michigan, two blocks from the Chicago Athletic Association, and one block from Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate in Millennium Park is Kerry James Marshall [...]

This thesis examines Kanokogi Takeshirō’s (1874-1941) painting, Triumphal Entry into Nanjing (1940), as a visual representation and witness of Pan-Asianism at its critica [...]