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Masquerade, Developing Artworks Through Party Culture, And Disdain For The White Cube, Laura M. Mcmillian
Masquerade, Developing Artworks Through Party Culture, And Disdain For The White Cube, Laura M. Mcmillian
Theses and Dissertations
Laura McMillian traces her art practice through personal anecdotes, fashion history, art personalities, and traditions of celebration.
"Hippie Acid Freak Drag Queens:" Situating The Cockettes Within An Art Historical Context, Scott Dow
"Hippie Acid Freak Drag Queens:" Situating The Cockettes Within An Art Historical Context, Scott Dow
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis situates the Cockettes – a performance group rarely referenced in art historical discourse - within Bay Area performance art, second-wave feminist art, and the Gay Liberation Movement. Contextualizing the Cockettes within their contemporary art movements provides a new understanding of the group and emphasizes their significance to art history.
Redefining Virtue In Shakespeare's Merry Wives Of Windsor, Melissa Rose Piccinonno
Redefining Virtue In Shakespeare's Merry Wives Of Windsor, Melissa Rose Piccinonno
Theses and Dissertations
Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor is a play of social justice. It is a staging of the type of power that women can harness in spaces of extreme limitation and violation. The female characters in this play, specifically Mistress Page and Mistress Ford, are able to use tools of oppression meant to keep them subordinate to men to achieve their personal objectives.