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The Harlem Book Of The Dead: Pan-Africanism, Funerary Portraiture, And The African-American Way Of Death, Jessica D. Feldman
The Harlem Book Of The Dead: Pan-Africanism, Funerary Portraiture, And The African-American Way Of Death, Jessica D. Feldman
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines the text and images contained in James Van Der Zee and Camille Billops’s seminal photobook The Harlem Book of the Dead (1978). The title, frontispiece, and introduction, combined with Van Der Zee’s funerary portraits, illuminate the connection between African-American rituals of death and Pan-Africanism. While these two concepts appear to be distinct, they are both predicated upon and intrinsically linked to key values in African American culture, including liberation and the meaning of community. Each chapter focuses on a different contextual framework for situating The Harlem Book of the Dead within the historical and political moment …
The Flower Paintings Of Albert York, Scott Seaboldt
The Flower Paintings Of Albert York, Scott Seaboldt
Theses and Dissertations
Albert York (American, 1928–2009) is said to have created approximately 250 paintings. Along with a biographical study, a selective analysis of the over 90 flower paintings is conducted through historical, comparative, and analytical investigations. The floral works are definitive touchstones of York's artistic growth and remain rich with symbolic content.
Plein-Air Drawing And Embodied Vision: Hans Hofmann's Landscapes, 1928-1935, Anna H. Tome
Plein-Air Drawing And Embodied Vision: Hans Hofmann's Landscapes, 1928-1935, Anna H. Tome
Theses and Dissertations
Hans Hofmann (1888-1966) produced over one thousand black and white drawings during his early and mid-career before becoming known as a master of color and abstraction. This text examines landscape drawings made from 1928-1935 that evidence the role of nature, new perceptual theories, and embodied vision in his artistic development.
Tactics For Thriving On Multiplicity: Liliana Porter’S Photo-Drawing-Installations, 1973–Present, Jennifer Bratovich
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.
Performance, Ritual, And Procession: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art’S Our Lady Of Cocharcas, Evelin M. Chabot
Performance, Ritual, And Procession: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art’S Our Lady Of Cocharcas, Evelin M. Chabot
Theses and Dissertations
Statue paintings created in the colonial Andes are extraordinary artworks infused with elements that represent local beliefs and rituals. This study investigates this tradition through The Met’s Our Lady of Cocharcas to reveal the stunning complexity of religious visual art produced during the late colonial period.
Somewhere Between Distance And Intimacy: Vija Celmins In California 1962-1981, Jessie Lebowitz
Somewhere Between Distance And Intimacy: Vija Celmins In California 1962-1981, Jessie Lebowitz
Theses and Dissertations
During her nineteen years spent in California (1962-81), the young Vija Celmins formulated a distinct landscape informed by California’s physical topography as well as the stylistic and materialistic advances resulting from the city’s newfound cultural awakening. With an intimate technical application, Celmins engages viewers with the spatial and optical facets of desert, sea, and sky.