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The Cottages That Almost Were Not Saved: A Preservation Perspective On Three Newport Mansions, Julia Boron
The Cottages That Almost Were Not Saved: A Preservation Perspective On Three Newport Mansions, Julia Boron
MA Theses
The Gilded Age in America was a time of swift and extreme economic expansion which caused America’s leading industrial families to become extraordinarily wealthy. Because the introduction of personal income tax had not yet been established, people pocketed every dollar they earned, and the people of the Gilded Age lived and spent lavishly. Having multiple homes was a status symbol, and the wealthy elite flocked to Newport, Rhode Island during the summers building elaborate mansions and sparing no expense. A myriad of economic factors around 1913 greatly changed the general view on wealth and spending. The majority of the summer …
We Were There, We Are Here: Queer Collections And Their Repositories And Legacies, Alexandria Deters
We Were There, We Are Here: Queer Collections And Their Repositories And Legacies, Alexandria Deters
MA Theses
Art history and history has gaps within it that are just now starting to be filled and the absences rectified. Those gaps are caused by erasure of queer art history. The way it has been rectified is through queer institutions and queer collections. This study explores how queer institutions and collections are innately political through saving queer objects and art. It is through their efforts that queer art history is finally being recognized in major institutions, collections, and exhibitions. I interview scholars and collectors to understand why they collect, which reveals the political nature and uniqueness of queer art as …