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Lethaby, Brockhampton, And The Early Development In England Of Concrete As A Vernacular-Modern Building Material, Robert M. Craig 2021 Georgia Institute of Technology

Lethaby, Brockhampton, And The Early Development In England Of Concrete As A Vernacular-Modern Building Material, Robert M. Craig

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Art Inquiries, Xviii:2-3, Full Issue, 2021 Virginia Commonwealth University

Art Inquiries, Xviii:2-3, Full Issue

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Iconoclasm And The Museum, Catherine Chastain-Elliott 2021 University of North Georgia

Iconoclasm And The Museum, Catherine Chastain-Elliott

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Book review of Iconoclasm and the Museum, by Stacy Boldrick.


Dyani White Hawk: Speaking To Relatives, Sara Stepp 2021 University of Kansas

Dyani White Hawk: Speaking To Relatives, Sara Stepp

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Fallen Women, Rising Career: William Welles Bosworth’S Early Work For The New York Magdalen Benevolent Society, Andrea M. Ortuño 2021 Bronx Community College, CUNY

Fallen Women, Rising Career: William Welles Bosworth’S Early Work For The New York Magdalen Benevolent Society, Andrea M. Ortuño

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Identifying The Sacrifice On The Sistine Chapel Ceiling And Its Implications For The Genesis Sequence, Eston Adams 2021 University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Identifying The Sacrifice On The Sistine Chapel Ceiling And Its Implications For The Genesis Sequence, Eston Adams

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An Interview With Tony M. Bingham, Mysoon Rizk 2021 Virginia Commonwealth University

An Interview With Tony M. Bingham, Mysoon Rizk

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Julie Mehretu, Jessica Stephenson 2021 Kennesaw State University

Julie Mehretu, Jessica Stephenson

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Consuming Stories: Kara Walker And The Imagining Of American Race, Nancy Wellington Bookhart 2021 Paine College

Consuming Stories: Kara Walker And The Imagining Of American Race, Nancy Wellington Bookhart

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Book review of Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race, by Rebecca Peabody.


Commonwealth, Clare van Loenen 2021 Virginia Commonwealth University

Commonwealth, Clare Van Loenen

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Photographic Returns: Racial Justice And The Time Of Photography, Laura Elizabeth Shea 2021 Saint Anselm College

Photographic Returns: Racial Justice And The Time Of Photography, Laura Elizabeth Shea

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Book review of Photographic Returns: Racial Justice and the Time of Photography, by Shawn Michelle Smith.


Back Matter, 2021 Virginia Commonwealth University

Back Matter

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Junto Diaz’S The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao: A Narrative Of Identity And Diaspora, Samirah Almutairi 2020 Old Dominion University

Junto Diaz’S The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao: A Narrative Of Identity And Diaspora, Samirah Almutairi

English Faculty Publications

Junto Diaz’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao raises the question of the identity formation for the Caribbean in diaspora. Diasporic Caribbean people struggle with understanding their difference and recognizing the important of assimilating to other people’s lives and cultures when they leave their home country. The struggle of the main character, Oscar Wao, in the novel is established perfectly well through apparent identity crisis that is manifested in his cultural displacements, childhood memories, real-life situations, and unsuccessful relationship with the other sex. It is a problem that Oscar creates his passage towards constructing a national identity, which …


Marching Through The Floating World: Processions In Ukiyo-E Prints (2020), Theory & History of Art & Design Department, Elena Varshavskaya (H791 Instructor) 2020 Rhode Island School of Design

Marching Through The Floating World: Processions In Ukiyo-E Prints (2020), Theory & History Of Art & Design Department, Elena Varshavskaya (H791 Instructor)

Ukiyo-e Prints Course | Exhibition Catalogs

"Marching through the Floating World is a book that accompanies a student curated virtual exhibition of the same title. This exhibition is dedicated to images of processions in ukiyo-e woodblock prints.

Ukiyo-e or “pictures of the floating world” was a vibrant style of urban art that flourished in Japan in the 17th- 19th century, predominantly in the form of mass-produced woodcuts. Steeped in everyday pleasurable pastimes of townspeople, ukiyo-e prints reflected contemporary culture to its fullest, whether fact or fiction, often the two amalgamated in a witty way.

Processions constituted a noticeable theme in ukiyo-e prints as they were an …


Accomplices In Art: The Expansion Of Authorship In The 1970s And '80s, Sydney Stutterheim 2020 CUNY Graduate Center

Accomplices In Art: The Expansion Of Authorship In The 1970s And '80s, Sydney Stutterheim

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation introduces the “accomplice,” a new figure in histories of performance and appropriation art in the United States and Western Europe during the 1970s and '80s that allows us to completely revise the relations of property, agency, and authorship that have been assumed in these fields. The accomplice is defined here as a type of agent who shares in the responsibility of artworks that are often centered on tactics of legal or ethical disobedience while the recognition of her or his authorial position in the artistic production is deliberately obscured, diminished, or overlooked. Focusing on the work …


Northwest Coast Native Art Beyond Revival, 1962–1992, Christopher T. Green 2020 CUNY Graduate Center

Northwest Coast Native Art Beyond Revival, 1962–1992, Christopher T. Green

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Histories of “primitivism” in the avant-garde show that Euro-American modernism was always engaged in the appropriation of nonwestern and Indigenous art, with particular interest in Northwest Coast Native art forms by the Surrealists, Abstract Expressionists, and Indian Space Painters. However, there has been little consideration for how Northwest Coast Native artists chose to engage with the styles and tenets of Western modern art. To date, the history of post-war Northwest Coast Native art has been dominated by what is known as the Renaissance, a narrative in which artists pursued a neo-traditional style in modern times through the recovered and revival …


Norman Lewis: Linearity, Politics, And Pedagogy In His Abstract Expressionism, 1946–1964, Andrianna T. Campbell-LaFleur 2020 CUNY Graduate Center

Norman Lewis: Linearity, Politics, And Pedagogy In His Abstract Expressionism, 1946–1964, Andrianna T. Campbell-Lafleur

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation focuses on Norman Lewis’s studio practice between the years 1946-1964 in particular his associations with the painters Romare Bearden, Robert Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt, and David Smith. Lewis’s influence extended far into the twenty-first century. As told by numerous contemporary art practitioners—Firelei Baez, Mark Bradford, David Kennedy Cutler, Charles Gaines, Rashid Johnson, Julie Mehretu, RJ Messineo, and Jack Whitten—Lewis was the mentor, friend, father and grandfather figure of an innovative black artist working with abstraction. In Chapter 1: An Integrative Line of Becoming, I trace Lewis’s change from Social Realism in the 1930s to semi-abstract portraits and genre paintings …


The Zimmerman Library Mural In The National Register Of Historic Places: A Working Paper And Timeline, Samuel E. Sisneros 2020 University of New Mexico

The Zimmerman Library Mural In The National Register Of Historic Places: A Working Paper And Timeline, Samuel E. Sisneros

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

Working paper and timeline about the nomination and listing process of the UNM Zimmerman Library “Three Peoples” paintings to the National Register of Historic Places.


America’S Finest Housing Crisis: Racialized Housing & Suburban Development, Vicenta Martinez Govea 2020 University of San Diego

America’S Finest Housing Crisis: Racialized Housing & Suburban Development, Vicenta Martinez Govea

McNair Summer Research Program

U.S. Government operations between 1940-1950 brought unprecedented direct and indirect employment opportunities to San Diego, exacerbating an already growing housing shortage. To accommodate the thousands of new defense workers, the government produced the largest defense housing project to date in the small neighborhood of Linda Vista. However, this opportunity and largesse was extended primarily to a select group of white working-class families who had access to defense jobs and, consequently, subsidized housing. Military presence in San Diego during World War II shaped the design of homes and exclusively allocated housing, as both shelter and financial instrument, to white working-class families …


Painting Politics: The Anarchist Art And Lives Of Camille Pissarro And Barnett Newman, Johan Marby 2020 CUNY Hunter College

Painting Politics: The Anarchist Art And Lives Of Camille Pissarro And Barnett Newman, Johan Marby

Theses and Dissertations

The times in and around the Paris Commune and the Depression followed by Second World War in the United States were instances in history that greatly influenced artists’ output. This thesis investigates how anarchist thought and activities during these periods, respectively, affected the œuvres of Camille Pissarro and Barnett Newman.


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