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The Slide: Image And Object, Cindy D. Abel Morris

Art & Art History ETDs

Through an extensive review of the literature of the history and methodology of art history and visual resources, this thesis charts the effect of the use of slides for the discipline of art history.

The three chapters examine the conjunction between slides and art history. Chapter one gives an account of the pedagogical and practical reasons for the current predominance of the slide as the reproduction of choice in art history, concluding with a discussion of the relative importance of the text and image for art history. The second chapter briefly traces the evolution of magic lantern to 35mm format …

Rethinking Martín Chambi, Michele M. Penhall

Art & Art History ETDs

This dissertation examines the photographs of Peruvian photographer Martín Chambi. A successful photographer and celebrated artist during much of his life, Chambi and his work was largely forgotten about since the 1950s and unknown outside of South America. During the 1970s he was rediscovered and his photographs made known to audiences around the world. As a result, new interpretations of him as an artist have emerged which are different from those during his life. The photographs he is known for today are not those he considered his artistic work.

Roots Of The New Mexico Women's Movement: Missionaries And The New Mexico Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Clare Denise O'Leary-Siemer

History ETDs

This thesis is an examination of the roots of the New Mexico women's movement and the unification of Protestant women's networks in New Mexico. Chapter 1 begins with the entry of Protestant evangelists and their wives prior to the Civil War. Chapter 2 looks at the Protestant missionaries who, after the Civil War, intensified their efforts to Americanize the West. Chapter 3 examines the early crusade of the new Mexico Woman's Christian Temperance Union (NMWCTU), 1883-1906.

Missionaries and lay women established an evangelical alliance which became the basis of a growing female reform movement in New Mexico. The NMWCTU was …

The Poems And Prose Of Elizabeth Moody, Jan Wellington

English Language and Literature ETDs

My dissertation is a scholarly edition of the poems, reviews, and letters of Elizabeth Moody (1737-1814), an English writer whose work has been out of print for nearly two centuries and has never been collected. Comprised of 109 poems, 29 reviews, and six letters, the edition contains substantial new biographical information and many heretofore undiscovered texts.

The product of a privileged, upper-middle-class milieu and a locale famed for wit and art, Moody from an early age conceived of herself as a reader, writer, and critic. In the edition's biographical/critical introduction I examine how her identity and writing were shaped by …

Giving Birth To Onions, Stefanie London Feld-Galbraith

Art & Art History ETDs

I have always questioned the authority of Art History. I was taught that the historians gave a true, unbiased examination of art, while the critics and the artists created works wrought with subjectivity. But experience has taught me that nothing can be looked upon objectively. Even as we look, we are changing what we see.

There is not just one truth, one voice; there are many, and this is mine. The stories you are about to see are real, except for the ones I made up, which are also real. I think the truth must be something that wraps around …