Pottery Is King: Bevel Rim Bowls And Power In Early Urban Societies Of The Ancient Near East,
2017
Binghamton University--SUNY
Pottery Is King: Bevel Rim Bowls And Power In Early Urban Societies Of The Ancient Near East, Arianna M. Stimpfl
Graduate Dissertations and Theses
This thesis is about how material objects, specifically ceramics, are used to create and perpetuate political power of the ruling class. My research will demonstrate how bevel rim bowls were a form of structural violence in the Uruk/Protoliterate period Mesopotamia by forcing the people to create the very vessels they needed to obtain their rations. These vessels were widely used throughout the region, and as of yet their exact function is unknown. The Uruk period in Mesopotamia was a time of great change. Large urban centers were being formed and people were coming together in a new way to live …
Graff' And The City: Towards A Socially Conscious Aesthetic Theory Of Graffiti,
2017
University of Texas at El Paso
Graff' And The City: Towards A Socially Conscious Aesthetic Theory Of Graffiti, Eric Chavez
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
Art is one of the most universal and oldest human activities; it is a human impulse rather than a skill. The invention of art and language occurred about 30,000 to 70,000 years ago. This cognitive revolution, going from homo sapiens to homo sapien sapiens, gave us the imaginative powers of language and art. No society as far as we know of thus far has been able to live without some form of art. Yet its exact definition is hard to jot down, much less explain. Arts constant movement, transformations, its disappearances/reappearances, and even its proclaimed death throughout history has always …
Waldensian Tour Book,
2017
Andrews University
Restoration,
2017
Virginia Commonwealth University
Restoration, Shannon M. Slaight-Brown
Theses and Dissertations
The marks I make in clay have different characteristics, and the physical mark of one’s fingertips or visual record of the hand is personal and intimate. This visible activity is the evidence of my constant presence and control within each object. Its repetitive meditation produces a private relief from my persistent anxieties. This exploration for me is not only visual, but also physical. This is the start of my infatuation with the idea of pattern. It has its own discrete visual language and modes of communication; and through my research I am developing a method of intercommunication.
Monstrous Allure: Polyphemus In Pompeii,
2017
Valdosta State University
Monstrous Allure: Polyphemus In Pompeii, Glenda Swan
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction,
2017
University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction, Jordan Amirkhani
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Art Inquiries, Xvii:2, Full Issue,
2017
Virginia Commonwealth University
Pilgrims To Tourists: Evolution Of Travel In South Sinai In The 19th And 20th Century,
2017
The American University in Cairo AUC
Pilgrims To Tourists: Evolution Of Travel In South Sinai In The 19th And 20th Century, Daniele Salvoldi Dr.
Faculty Journal Articles
Since Late Antiquity, South Sinai has been anattraction or travellers. For centuries, the fortune the region had laid in its holy character for both Christianity and Islam. It is only in the 19thcentury that other motivations arose and what wasa traditional pilgrimage turned often into leisure travel. In the words of Joseph Hobbs: “All who travelled overland to Mount Sinai emphasized the hazards along the way. From the early 19th century such obstacles became an attraction in themselves, a reason to travel.” 1 The main difference between pilgrims and travellers was the motivation: “Pilgrimage formost was necessity, penance, exile, suffering …
Drivers Of Demographic And Socioeconomic Shifts At The Bridge River Site (Eerl4), British Columbia,
2017
University of Montana, Missoula
Drivers Of Demographic And Socioeconomic Shifts At The Bridge River Site (Eerl4), British Columbia, Sarah Nowell
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
ABSTRACT
Nowell, Sarah, M.A. Spring 2017 Anthropology
Drivers of Demographic and Socioeconomic Shifts Regarding the Bridge River II – Bridge River III Transition at the Bridge River Village (EeRl4), British Columbia
Chairperson: Dr. Anna Marie Prentiss
The Bridge River site is located near the confluence of the Bridge and Fraser Rivers in the Mid-Fraser canyon near Lillooet, British Columbia. This region has long been popular for archaeologists seeking to understand the emergence of wealth-based inequality in complex hunter-gatherers. Housepit 54 is one of over 80 pithouses or s7ístken that was continuously occupied throughout most of the village history. It …
Shattered Landscapes: Revolutionary Ruins In The Virginian Watercolors Of Benjamin Henry Latrobe,
2017
Roanoke College
Shattered Landscapes: Revolutionary Ruins In The Virginian Watercolors Of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Julia A. Sienkewicz
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
The West Virginia New Deal: Blanche Lazzell’S Mural In Morgantown,
2017
Cape Fear Community College
The West Virginia New Deal: Blanche Lazzell’S Mural In Morgantown, Kendall J. Martin
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Insecurities: Tracing Displacement And Shelter,
2017
City University of New York (CUNY)
Insecurities: Tracing Displacement And Shelter, Elizabeth Berkowitz
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Architecture And Memory In Jacques-Louis David’S Sabine Women,
2017
Hope College
Architecture And Memory In Jacques-Louis David’S Sabine Women, Heidi E. Kraus
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
After Caravaggio; Caravaggio And The Creation Of Modernity,
2017
Virginia Commonwealth University
After Caravaggio; Caravaggio And The Creation Of Modernity, Donald Schrader
Art Inquiries
Book review of After Caravaggio, by Michael Fried, and of Caravaggio and the Creation of Modernity, by Troy Thomas.
Artemisia Gentileschi E Il Suo Tempo (Artemisia Gentileschi And Her Times),
2017
University of Mary Washington
Artemisia Gentileschi E Il Suo Tempo (Artemisia Gentileschi And Her Times), Marjorie Och
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Cross Country: The Power Of Place In American Art, 1915-1950,
2017
Auburn University at Montgomery
Cross Country: The Power Of Place In American Art, 1915-1950, Naomi Slipp
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Arts: A Guide For Conservators, Curators, And The Curious,
2017
National Gallery of Art
Arts: A Guide For Conservators, Curators, And The Curious, Kari Rayner
Art Inquiries
Book review of Arts: A Guide for Conservators, Curators, and the Curious, by Roy S. Berns.
Back Matter,
2017
Virginia Commonwealth University
Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty,
2017
Georgia State University
Radical Dissonance And Haunted Gestures: Rupture And Reverence In The Artwork Of Aja Mujinga Sherrard,
2017
University of Montana
Radical Dissonance And Haunted Gestures: Rupture And Reverence In The Artwork Of Aja Mujinga Sherrard, Aja M. Sherrard
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
This paper serves to establish the studio practice of Aja Mujinga Sherrard within the framework of conceptual art, touching on the flexible use of media, the subversive or political nature of the work, and its relationship to movements and disciplines such as Feminism and Poststructuralism.
The section entitled “Race and Incoherence” addresses the practice of Radical Dissonance—or the creation of ruptures within commonly accepted concepts and social constructions—through the Costuming Kinship Series, 13≠12≠12.2 (Genetics Project), and Body Double. The section entitled ”Art, Loss, and the Unspeakable” traces an emotional shift in her work and speaks directly to the pieces …
