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Tactics For Thriving On Multiplicity: Liliana Porter’S Photo-Drawing-Installations, 1973–Present, Jennifer Bratovich May 2020

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.


Beyond Movements: Senga Nengudi’S Art Within And Without Feminism, Postminimalism, And The Black Arts Movement, Tess Thackara May 2020

Beyond Movements: Senga Nengudi’S Art Within And Without Feminism, Postminimalism, And The Black Arts Movement, Tess Thackara

Theses and Dissertations

An examination of Senga Nengudi's relationship to Feminism, Postminimalism, and the Black Arts Movement. This thesis argues that, while her work overlapped with those three movements and tendencies, she ultimately expanded each of them to absorb greater sets of cultural references and formal criteria into their makeup.


Mobilizing Museums Against Aids: Visual Aids And Day Without Art, 1988–1989, Kyle Croft May 2020

Mobilizing Museums Against Aids: Visual Aids And Day Without Art, 1988–1989, Kyle Croft

Theses and Dissertations

This paper provides a historical account and analysis of Visual AIDS’ first Day Without Art in 1989, a day of action and mourning observed at hundreds of art museums in response to the AIDS crisis. Day Without Art marshaled arts professionals to engage in the struggle against AIDS, shifting social roles and responsibilities within art institutions.


Something Else Press As Publisher, Rachel High Jan 2020

Something Else Press As Publisher, Rachel High

Theses and Dissertations

This paper considers Something Else Press—founded by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins in 1964—beyond the Fluxus movement and examines the avant-garde publisher in the context of the commercial book industry to elucidate the Press’s key role in recording and historicizing postwar artistic activity during its decade of production.