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Articles 1 - 11 of 11
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Using Monuments To Teach About Racism, Colonialism, And Sexism, Susan Phillip
Using Monuments To Teach About Racism, Colonialism, And Sexism, Susan Phillip
Publications and Research
This chapter examines how an interdisciplinary high-impact practice approach to teaching and learning using selected contested monuments can reveal intersections of racism, colonialism, and sexism, and lay the foundation for students’ civic engagement. In place-based and virtual experiences, students observe and investigate local and national monuments, integrating knowledge from multiple disciplines, including history, psychology, art, culture, and tourism. Students make critical analyses about how monuments reveal power relationships in our society. Students from various disciplines explore the origin of contested monuments, the evolving national and local debates around them, and their effect on students’ learning to evaluate historical, contemporary, and …
An Ode To James Van Der Zee: Lorna Simpson’S 9 Props, Emilie C. Boone
An Ode To James Van Der Zee: Lorna Simpson’S 9 Props, Emilie C. Boone
Publications and Research
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The Art Of Opacity: Guy De Cointet In L.A., Media Farzin
The Art Of Opacity: Guy De Cointet In L.A., Media Farzin
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation provides the first detailed study of the work of French artist Guy de Cointet (1934–1983), specifically the books, objects, and performances he produced in Los Angeles between 1971 and 1983. Much of this work mined pop-cultural sources—genre fiction, magazine advertising, and television serials—for texts, which he reused in deliberately obfuscated ways: in pseudonymous publications written in code or invented languages, as well as in sigil-like paintings that doubled as props for performances in which actors delivered contradictory interpretations of the encoded objects. I argue that Cointet’s appropriations of the visual and narrative logics of postwar culture provide a …
The Harlem Book Of The Dead: Pan-Africanism, Funerary Portraiture, And The African-American Way Of Death, Jessica D. Feldman
The Harlem Book Of The Dead: Pan-Africanism, Funerary Portraiture, And The African-American Way Of Death, Jessica D. Feldman
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines the text and images contained in James Van Der Zee and Camille Billops’s seminal photobook The Harlem Book of the Dead (1978). The title, frontispiece, and introduction, combined with Van Der Zee’s funerary portraits, illuminate the connection between African-American rituals of death and Pan-Africanism. While these two concepts appear to be distinct, they are both predicated upon and intrinsically linked to key values in African American culture, including liberation and the meaning of community. Each chapter focuses on a different contextual framework for situating The Harlem Book of the Dead within the historical and political moment …
The Flower Paintings Of Albert York, Scott Seaboldt
The Flower Paintings Of Albert York, Scott Seaboldt
Theses and Dissertations
Albert York (American, 1928–2009) is said to have created approximately 250 paintings. Along with a biographical study, a selective analysis of the over 90 flower paintings is conducted through historical, comparative, and analytical investigations. The floral works are definitive touchstones of York's artistic growth and remain rich with symbolic content.
Plein-Air Drawing And Embodied Vision: Hans Hofmann's Landscapes, 1928-1935, Anna H. Tome
Plein-Air Drawing And Embodied Vision: Hans Hofmann's Landscapes, 1928-1935, Anna H. Tome
Theses and Dissertations
Hans Hofmann (1888-1966) produced over one thousand black and white drawings during his early and mid-career before becoming known as a master of color and abstraction. This text examines landscape drawings made from 1928-1935 that evidence the role of nature, new perceptual theories, and embodied vision in his artistic development.
Aids Normalization, Alexandra Juhasz, Theodore Kerr
Aids Normalization, Alexandra Juhasz, Theodore Kerr
Publications and Research
Review of On Our Backs: The Revolutionary Art of Queer Sex Work, curated by Alexis Heller for New York’s Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, which was on view from September 2019 to January 2020, and other contemporary AIDS culture.
Reproducing The New Negro: James Van Der Zee’S Photographic Vision In Newsprint, Emilie C. Boone
Reproducing The New Negro: James Van Der Zee’S Photographic Vision In Newsprint, Emilie C. Boone
Publications and Research
In the summer of 1924, as a departure from his concentration on portraits in his Harlem studio, James Van Der Zee served as the official photographer for the Pan-Africanist leader Marcus Garvey and his organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Many of the resulting photographs were published in the organization’s popular, internationally distributed newspaper, the Negro World. The newsprint medium in which the UNIA photographs appeared in reproduction, along with their editorial arrangement on the page, animated a different photographic vision from that of the gelatin silver print studio portraits often celebrated as Van Der Zee’s defining contribution …
Tactics For Thriving On Multiplicity: Liliana Porter’S Photo-Drawing-Installations, 1973–Present, Jennifer Bratovich
Tactics For Thriving On Multiplicity: Liliana Porter’S Photo-Drawing-Installations, 1973–Present, Jennifer Bratovich
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines Porter’s hybrid 1973 works during a period of transnational artistic mobility. It argues she employed strategies of reproduction and contingency to circulate the works among multiple contexts, and shows how her 2012 revisiting of these works led to their revitalization within current reassessments of Latin American conceptualism.
Performance, Ritual, And Procession: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art’S Our Lady Of Cocharcas, Evelin M. Chabot
Performance, Ritual, And Procession: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art’S Our Lady Of Cocharcas, Evelin M. Chabot
Theses and Dissertations
Statue paintings created in the colonial Andes are extraordinary artworks infused with elements that represent local beliefs and rituals. This study investigates this tradition through The Met’s Our Lady of Cocharcas to reveal the stunning complexity of religious visual art produced during the late colonial period.
Somewhere Between Distance And Intimacy: Vija Celmins In California 1962-1981, Jessie Lebowitz
Somewhere Between Distance And Intimacy: Vija Celmins In California 1962-1981, Jessie Lebowitz
Theses and Dissertations
During her nineteen years spent in California (1962-81), the young Vija Celmins formulated a distinct landscape informed by California’s physical topography as well as the stylistic and materialistic advances resulting from the city’s newfound cultural awakening. With an intimate technical application, Celmins engages viewers with the spatial and optical facets of desert, sea, and sky.