Art History

The Fabric of the Bel Composto: Bernini's Draperies and the Redefinition of the Arts

Katherine Jane Wolf — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:10:34 PDT

The Manipulation of Sacred Places: The Role of Jerusalem's Temple Mount in the Construction of Identity

Natasha Thomas Camhi — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:57:51 PDT

In a Borrowed Garden: A Rhizomatic Theory of Transnational Tibetan Art

Yongneng Conan Cheong — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:56:25 PDT

According to standard interpretations of the Tibetan diaspora, with the incorporation of Tibet into the Peoples Republic of China in the 1950s, all art in Tibet itself is degenerate, and the Tibetans in exile are framed as the sole custodians of their imperiled traditions. However, is it accurate to portray the 5.4 million Tibetans who still live in Chinese-occupied Tibet as having utterly repudiated their culture? This study seeks to answer this question through a comparative study of the parallel developments in diaspora of Tibetan Buddhist sculpture, based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in workshops in exilic Dharamsala, India and in Chengdu, the major Chinese city closest to geographic Tibet.

Frederick Law Olmsted: Reimagining the U.S Capitol Grounds

Erika Aya Siegel — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:39:13 PDT

Norman Foster and Water Conservation: A Comprehensive Analysis of Sustainable Design

Anne Elizabeth deBoer — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:36:50 PDT

A critical analysis of the literature on sustainable architecture through Sir Norman Foster's use of water technologies.

Invisible Women : The Re-presentation of African-American Women in the Photography of Lorna Simpson and Carrie Mae Weems

Obidimma O. Okobi — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:16:24 PDT

MATERIAL IMMEDIATE: Lawrence Weiner, Anticonceptualist

Sayre Catherine Sears Sundberg — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:25:42 PDT

Private Passage: Service Planning in the Ladies' Home Journal, 1895-1919

Carlo Prescott Urmy — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:20:45 PDT

Framing the Dilettante: The Art of Martin Kippenberger

William Lawrence Krieger — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:10:09 PDT

Corporeal Identities: The Poured Works of Lynda Benglis

Anna Zaida Szapiro — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:09:25 PDT

Of Screens and Stones: Technological Innovations in Lithography and Screenprinting developed in the New York City Graphic Arts Workshop Under the Works Progress Administration

Margaret Anne Aldredge — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:05:54 PDT

Women in the Omnibus and Modes of Printmaking: The Iconography and Marketing of Cassatt's 1891 Series

Margaret Waldo Bowers — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:59:43 PDT

Sacrality & Modernity At Villa Giustiniani-Cambiaso

Whitten Robert Overby — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:35:36 PDT

Perception, Expectation, and Meaning in Barnett Newman's "Stations of the Cross" Series

Jeffrey James Katzin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:35:03 PDT

Barnett Newman's "Stations of the Cross" series consists of fourteen abstract paintings created between 1958 and 1966, and is one of the artist's most unique works. This essay advances a new understanding of the "Stations" as concerned with destabilization of visual perception and the nature of human suffering, incorporating the elements of seriality and content which have been overlooked by pervious scholars. This is accomplished through direct dialogue with previous arguments, discussion of the Christian devotion after which the series was named, in-depth consideration of Newman's writings and statements, and a rigorous analysis of the fourteen paintings themselves. It is found that the "Stations of the Cross," while abstract and stark in appearance, are complex and full of meaning.

Transposing the Goddess: A Study of the Modi Bhagavata Purana and the Garhwal Gita Govinda

Meera Priya Bhardwaj — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:34:45 PDT

Notions of Method: Text and Photograph in Methods of Connoisseurship

Alexandra Alisa Provo — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:34:43 PDT

A Complex Modernity; The San Francisco Federal Building

Emily Sherman Tyrer — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:31:56 PDT

The Bower of the Pre-Raphaelites: Plant Life and the Search for Meaning in the Art of Millais, Rossetti, and Morris

Sarah Marie Mead Leonard — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:34:44 PDT

Strategic Ambiguity in Avant-Garde Painting

John Mitchell Beeson — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:28:01 PDT

Wearing Your Dreams: Image and Imagination in the American Tattoo

Marina Claire Kastan — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:56:14 PDT