Gunther Gerzso: A Mexican Master,
2016
Virginia Commonwealth University
The Plains Indians: Artists Of Earth And Sky,
2016
Pratt Institute
The Plains Indians: Artists Of Earth And Sky, Mary D. Edwards
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Art Inquiries, Xvii:1, Full Issue,
2016
Virginia Commonwealth University
Back Matter,
2016
Virginia Commonwealth University
The Urbanism Of Frank Lloyd Wright,
2016
Williams College
The Urbanism Of Frank Lloyd Wright, Michael Lewis
Art Inquiries
Book review of The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright, by Neil Levine.
Picture Titles: How And Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names,
2016
John Tyler Community College
Picture Titles: How And Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names, Colleen Truax Yarger
Art Inquiries
Book review of Picture Titles: How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names, by Ruth Bernard Yeazell.
The Last Laugh: Selections From Michael Aurbach’S Secrecy Series,
2016
LaGrange College
The Last Laugh: Selections From Michael Aurbach’S Secrecy Series, Dorothy Joiner
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Mass Effect: Art And The Internet In The Twenty-First Century,
2016
University of Northern Iowa
Mass Effect: Art And The Internet In The Twenty-First Century, Elizabeth Sutton
Art Inquiries
Book review of Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Lauren Cornell and Ed Halter.
David Maisel/Black Maps: American Landscape And The Apocalyptic Sublime,
2016
University of Montevallo
David Maisel/Black Maps: American Landscape And The Apocalyptic Sublime, Kelly Wacker
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Drawing In Silver And Gold: Leonardo To Jasper Johns,
2016
University of California, Santa Barbara
Drawing In Silver And Gold: Leonardo To Jasper Johns, Sophia Quach Mccabe
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Interview With Duane Paxson,
2016
LaGrange College
Gynecologists, Bureaucrats, And Stoners: The Rise Of Women In Television Comedies And Critiquing The Postfeminist Perspective,
2016
Scripps College
Gynecologists, Bureaucrats, And Stoners: The Rise Of Women In Television Comedies And Critiquing The Postfeminist Perspective, Victoria Montecillo
Scripps Senior Theses
This thesis looks to explore the rise of women in television comedy and the accompanying implications of this phenomenon. Using a historical framework, this thesis looks at the progression of representations of women in television comedies beginning in the 1950s up to today. Considering factors such as the rise of social media, as well as online television streaming services such as Hulu and Netflix as more legitimate avenues to distribute content, this thesis traces women’s place within television comedy, and argues that shows such as Parks and Recreation, The Mindy Project, and Broad City serve as examples of the progress …
Old Masterpieces, New Mistress-Pieces: Cindy Sherman's Reinterpretations Of Renaissance Portraits Of Women,
2016
Scripps College
Old Masterpieces, New Mistress-Pieces: Cindy Sherman's Reinterpretations Of Renaissance Portraits Of Women, Caitlyn D. Marianacci
Scripps Senior Theses
This thesis examines a selection of eight photographs in the History Portraits series by American photographer, Cindy Sherman, produced from 1989 to 1990. The photographs are based on Renaissance paintings of biblical and secular women painted by old master artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, and Raphael. Sherman focused on the female types of Biblical mother and femme fatale, as well as wives and models. These types are defined in their relation to men and are depicted by men. In Sherman’s reinterpretations of their portraits, she retells the stories of these women in ways that reaffirm their independence …
Custom Framing: An Analysis Of Camille Pissarro's "Les Turpitudes Sociales" Within A Base-Superstructure Model,
2016
The College of Wooster
Custom Framing: An Analysis Of Camille Pissarro's "Les Turpitudes Sociales" Within A Base-Superstructure Model, Robin S. Klaus
Senior Independent Study Theses
No abstract provided.
Allegories Of The Modern: The Female Nude In Art Nouveau,
2016
Virginia Commonwealth
Allegories Of The Modern: The Female Nude In Art Nouveau, Emily Winthrop
Theses and Dissertations
Modernism is a plurality, not a singular concept. This project explores examples of Art Nouveau nudes to describe the particular expressions of the modern through varied and complicated allegorical bodies. The female nude as a nexus for ideals of gender, art, and beauty, is informed by and constructs the understanding of these ideals within society. Art Nouveau thus employed the nude to represent complex manifestations of modernity. Three diverse cases provide the subjects of each chapter. All explore modernism through objects and interiors, in public and private environments, and each connects the decorative arts with accounts of European modernism in …
Antithetical Commentaries On X, Y And The Disruption Of Being,
2016
Virginia Commonwealth University
Antithetical Commentaries On X, Y And The Disruption Of Being, Eva Rocha
Theses and Dissertations
Through discursive essays and poetic narrative, Antithetical Commentaries on X, Y and the Disruption of Being explores the tenuous relationship between modes of measurement and the struggle for human relevance in the post-contemporary digital age. In the introductory essay, “Not the Feather, but the Bird”, I give an overview of the inherent problems of object-oriented ontology, and how it relates to aesthetics and social issues of our times. In the Developmental Overview, I detail how I developed my installation approach and techniques, particularly with regard to the three-way dynamic of the artist:work:viewer relationship and how it can encourage …
Modernism Contested: Gego's Grids And The Aesthetics Of Temporality,
2015
CUNY Hunter College
Modernism Contested: Gego's Grids And The Aesthetics Of Temporality, Victoria L. Fedrigotti
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis traces Gego’s contestation of art historical modernism through examining her relationship to the modernist grid and to her modernist genealogy of Constructivism, Geometric Abstraction, and Kineticism. These two nonlinear developments subvert the teleological conception of progress presumed by Greenbergian modernism, and bring forth Gego’s own aesthetic conception of temporality.
Archival Enactment, Retelling 'The Big Book': Alison Knowles, Something Else Press And Fluxus,
2015
CUNY Hunter College
Archival Enactment, Retelling 'The Big Book': Alison Knowles, Something Else Press And Fluxus, Meghan A. Dellacrosse
Theses and Dissertations
"Archival Enactment, Retelling 'The Big Book': Alison Knowles, Something Else Press and Fluxus," positions Knowles’ Big Book (1966) as a case study of historical methodology and interdisciplinary artistic practice in the post-war period. This comprehensive analysis of Big Book, a work of art no longer extant, contextualizes its publisher, Something Else Press through Dick Higgins’ concept of “intermedia,” and important lesser-known junctures relevant to Fluxus and the group’s leader George Maciunas are illuminated. Knowles' early and lesser-known silkscreen paintings are also examined.
Iconoclastic Fervor : Sally Hazelet Drummond, Abstract Expressionism And Curatorial Practice.,
2015
University of Louisville
Iconoclastic Fervor : Sally Hazelet Drummond, Abstract Expressionism And Curatorial Practice., Hillary Sullivan
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Sally Hazelet Drummond is an iconoclastic artist situated within the revolutionary movement of Abstract Expressionism. Drummond is the first female to graduate from the Hite Art Institute, earning a master’s in painting in 1952. During her study at the University of Louisville she explored Abstract Expressionism. In 1953 Drummond joined the Tanager Gallery, one of the Tenth Street artists’ co-ops. In the midst of Willem De Kooning, Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko, Drummond refined her work into a simplified, contemplative style that she continued to develop over the course of her life. Drummond described Abstract Expressionism as a kind of …
Genre, Justice & Quentin Tarantino,
2015
University of South Florida
Genre, Justice & Quentin Tarantino, Eric Michael Blake
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The films of Quentin Tarantino have held a significant influence on modern cinema, and therefore on cinema studies. As such, studies on the social and philosophical implications of his work have appeared over the years, mostly in regards to content. However, with the exception of references to his use of cinematic violence, studies of his technique—i.e., his cinematic style—have been rare, and rarer still have been studies of the social implications that arise from the patterns of his style as well as those his subject matter.
The following thesis seeks to use the concept of Auteur Theory—specifically, that Tarantino …
