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Between Classicism and Orientalism: The Reception of Ancient Cypriot Sculpture, 1860-1900

Description:: This dissertation analyzes the early excavation, classification, and publication of Cypriot sculpture and its collection and display in European universal museums. The author argues that the events and intellectual climate of the nineteenth century profoundly and lastingly shaped the perception of the ancient Cypriot tradition, determining the island conventional place...
Keyword:: Cyprus, Museum, Ancient, Sculpture, Cypriot, and Nineteenth Century
Subject:: Art History
Creator:: Catherine Victoria Olien
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/21/2019
Date Modified:: 11/20/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Afterimages of Socialism: Chinese Contemporary Art, 2000-2010

Description:: This dissertation focuses on Chinese contemporary artists conceptualization of spectatorship in the 2000s, the decade when the state started to regulate art production within the parameters of cultural industry. I argue that these artistsCai Guoqiang (b. 1957), Xu Bing (b. 1955), and Yang Shaobin (b. 1962)adopted the visual language and...
Keyword:: Art history
Subject:: Art History
Creator:: Xinran Guo
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/28/2019
Date Modified:: 11/20/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Back to the Garden: The Woodstock Artists' Colony

Description:: Woodstock—the word is shorthand for the spirit of the 1960s counterculture. Yet the assumption that the 1960s dawned a “New Age” neglects contributions made by earlier generations of Woodstock artists in advancing a utopian vision of emancipated art, life, and labor. From 1902 onwards, Woodstock—a small Dutch hamlet in upstate...
Keyword:: Byrdcliffe, utopian communities, counterculture, Woodstock, The Maverick, and artists colonies
Subject:: Art History
Creator:: John Paul Murphy
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/26/2018
Date Modified:: 01/29/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Migration Forms: Contemporary Art in and out of Morocco, 1999-201

Description:: "Migration Forms” centers on the place where migration and Morocco meet to tell two stories. One argues for the centrality of migration to the projects of local, contemporary art making and postcolonial nation building, while the other examines the codification, circulation, and contestation through visual form of this North African...
Keyword:: Morocco, Maghreb, national identity, migration, contemporary art, and minorities
Subject:: Art History
Creator:: Emma Imbrie Chubb
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 03/28/2018
Date Modified:: 01/28/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Radical Aesthetics: The Art of the Black Panthers, 1966–1982

Description:: Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 to confront the crisis of anti-black police violence in the Bay Area, the Black Panthers advocated armed struggle against the violences and aggressions of racist American imperialism domestically and internationally. Against interpretations that would deem their image-making to be secondary to their professed political...
Keyword:: Art History
Subject:: Art History
Creator:: Erin E. Reitz
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 03/29/2018
Date Modified:: 01/28/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Between National Imagination and Social Critique: Female Figurations in Pang Xunqin and Fu Baoshi’s Wartime Chinese Painting (1930s-40s)

Description:: This dissertation provides the first in-depth comparative study in any language of the female figurations made, viewed, and interpreted in the realm of refashioning modern Chinese painting during the war period of Republican China (1930s-1940s) in the Nationalist government-controlled southwestern inner frontier, with projects by Pang Xunqin (1906–85) and Fu...
Keyword:: National Imagination, Chinese painting, Nationalism, Social Critique, Fu Baoshi, and Pang Xunqin
Subject:: Art History
Creator:: Xiao Yang
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/27/2018
Date Modified:: 01/28/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Woven Theaters of Nature: Flemish Tapestry and Natural History, 1550-1600

Description:: Chambers of Flemish tapestry served as prestigious, portable decoration for early modern courts across Europe. In the second half of the sixteenth century, a number of noble patrons commissioned tapestries that prominently featured highly naturalistic zoological and botanical imagery. Drawing upon zoological treatises, medical and physiognomic literature, fables, printed emblemata,...
Keyword:: early modern, courts, tapestry, Renaissance, natural history, and animal
Subject:: Art History
Creator:: Carmen Cramer Niekrasz
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/27/2018
Date Modified:: 08/27/2018
Date Created:: 2007-11-15
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The Flower Still-Life Painting of Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder in Middelburg, ca, 1600-1620

Description:: This dissertation analyzes the role of the Dutch city Middelburg around 1600 in stimulating the flower still-life production of Ambrosius Bosschaert. The shift in power from Antwerp to Amsterdam as the center of the northern European art market around 1600 has received much attention without recognition of the important role...
Keyword:: Still Life, Dutch, Flower, Painting, Bosschaert, and Middelburg
Subject:: Art History
Creator:: Meghan Siobhan Wilson Pennisi
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 07/26/2018
Date Modified:: 07/26/2018
Date Created:: 2007-05-11
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Political Vision: Aesthetics and Politics in the Salons of Les XX (1884-1893)

Description:: This study examines the intersection between art and politics in the salons of Les XX, a group of some twenty, mostly Belgian, artists organizing international exhibitions of art in Brussels, Belgium between 1884 and 1893. The fact that Les XX derived a significant base of support from some of the...
Keyword:: Art History
Subject:: Art History
Creator:: Leah Boston
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 06/27/2018
Date Modified:: 06/27/2018
Date Created:: 2007-05-14
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Identity and Physical Deformity in Italian Court Portraits 1550-1650: Dwarves, Hirsutes, and Castrati

Description:: During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, many images of dwarves, hirsutes, and castrati depict them in the guise of the monstrous, either as jokes of nature or indices of courtly wit. However, there are some Renaissance portraits of physically deformed individuals that transcend these categories. These portraits point to the...
Keyword:: hirsute, anatomy, monster, Renaissance, dwarf, castrato, and portraiture
Subject:: Art History
Creator:: Touba Ghadessi Fleming
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 06/01/2018
Date Modified:: 06/01/2018
Date Created:: 2007-05-14
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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Between Classicism and Orientalism: The Reception of Ancient Cypriot Sculpture, 1860-1900

Afterimages of Socialism: Chinese Contemporary Art, 2000-2010

Back to the Garden: The Woodstock Artists' Colony

Migration Forms: Contemporary Art in and out of Morocco, 1999-201

Radical Aesthetics: The Art of the Black Panthers, 1966–1982

Between National Imagination and Social Critique: Female Figurations in Pang Xunqin and Fu Baoshi’s Wartime Chinese Painting (1930s-40s)

Woven Theaters of Nature: Flemish Tapestry and Natural History, 1550-1600

The Flower Still-Life Painting of Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder in Middelburg, ca, 1600-1620

Political Vision: Aesthetics and Politics in the Salons of Les XX (1884-1893)

Identity and Physical Deformity in Italian Court Portraits 1550-1650: Dwarves, Hirsutes, and Castrati

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