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Intimate Nevada: Artists Respond, Lauren Paljusaj, Anne Savage

Calvert Undergraduate Research Awards

Creative Works Winner

Most of us know Nevada beyond the Strip. It’s a place of houses, of shopping plazas, of movie theaters, and grocery stores. A place of hotels that are also places of work. A place of basins, ranges, vistas, and nature. A place of personal history. For Intimate Nevada: Artists Respond, curators Lauren Paljusaj (ENG BA ‘20) and Anne Savage (CFA BA ‘22), draw on photographs found in UNLV Special Collections to uncover the intimate visuality of a Nevada of past centuries. The exhibition focuses on how the imaged built landscape of early 20th century Southern Nevada …

Art And Terror: Vergangenheitsbewältigung In Relation To The Red Army Faction, Joanie Lange

Calvert Undergraduate Research Awards

Advanced Undergraduate Winner

The Red Army Faction, active from 1970-1998, was an infamous West German far-left terrorist group. Its ideology and numerous terrorist acts not only left a lasting impact upon the politics and culture of Germany, but noteworthy is also the fact that the group inspired the creation of countless works of art. This research paper seeks to understand and explain this phenomenon. It argues that the artworks inspired by the RAF are a form of Vergangenheitsbewältigung, a peculiarly German concept “coming to terms with the past,” most often used in relation to fiction and art exploring the …

Ten Thousand Years Of Inequality: The Archaeology Of Wealth Differences., Arlen F. Chase

Anthropology Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

Julia Margaret Cameron's Photographs As Paintings, Winnie Wu

Calvert Undergraduate Research Awards

This paper argues that in order to better understand the photographic techniques, and compositional choices employed by Julia Margaret Cameron, one must analyze them in terms of the language of paintings. By using photography to stage painterly tableaus, Cameron blurred reality and fiction, the result of which is the equalization of all those she photographed, be they famed Victorian poets or female maids.

Caracol, Belize, And Changing Perceptions Of Ancient Maya Society, Diane Z. Chase, Arlen F. Chase

Anthropology Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

Ancient Maya Regional Settlement And Inter-Site Analysis: The 2013 West-Central Belize Lidar Survey, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, Jaime J. Awe, John F. Weishampel, Gyles Iannone, Holley Moyes, Jason Yaeger, Kathryn Brown, Ramesh Shrestha, William Carter, Juan C. Fernandez-Diaz

Anthropology Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

Low Density Urbanism, Sustainability, And Ihope- Maya: Can The Past Provide More Than History?, Vernon L. Scarborough, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase

Anthropology Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

Use Of Airborne Lidar To Delineate Canopy Degradation And Encroachment Along The Guatemala-Belize Border, John F. Weishampel, Jessica N. Hightower, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase

Anthropology Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

Russian Art In The Second Half Of The Twentieth Century, Ekaterina Dyogot

Russian Culture

This essay concerns Russian art in the second half of the twentieth century, yet any such description requires constant reference to the Russian avant-garde and the Soviet art system. The country's isolation made Soviet art such a specific, aesthetic, and particularly institutional phenomenon that it becomes critical to any understanding of art in the post-Stalinist period.

Walking Box Ranch Custodianship Quarterly Progress Report: Period Ending October 10, 2011, Margaret N. Rees

Walking Box Ranch

• UNLV provides stewardship of Walking Box Ranch (WBR) by providing a caretaker who oversees the property, facilitating use of the property by researchers and educators, developing a use and research policy for the property, and coordinating these activities with BLM and in accordance with TNC restrictions.
• UNLV currently addresses security issues for the property through the presence of the caretaker and two Metro Officers who reside on the property in two recreational vehicles.
• Visits to the ranch this quarter included: Dr. Diedra Clemente, history professor for UNLV, visited the ranch to determine research possibilities for students in the history department …

Man Ray: Prophet Of The Avant-Garde, Thomas A. Ipri

Library Faculty Publications

Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde originally aired as an episode of PBS’ American Masters in 1997 and provides a succinct overview of the life of the talented Man Ray, a painter, photographer, sculptor, and film maker, who is perhaps best known for his photographic portraits of famous artists, such as Igor Stravinsky, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Pablo Picasso. The film, engagingly narrated by Stockard Channing, surveys Ray’s life while being attuned to the need to frame his life and work in a cultural and historical context. The often underappreciated Ray is given flattering treatment as director Mel Stuart …

¿Qué Nos Cuentan Los Jeroglíficos? Arqueología E Historia En Caracol, Belice, Diane Z. Chase, Arlen F. Chase

Anthropology Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

Jeroglíficos Y Arqueología Maya ¿Colusión O Colisión?, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, Rafael Cobos

Anthropology Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

More Than Kin And King: Centralized Political Organization Among The Ancient Maya, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase

Anthropology Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

Questions Of Political And Economic Integration: Segmentary Versus Centralized States Among The Ancient Maya, John W. Fox, Garrett W. Cook, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase

Anthropology Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

A Mighty Maya Nation: How Caracol Built An Empire By Cultivating Its Middle Class, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase

Anthropology Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

Review Of "'Pictures Of Record' Archaeological Slide Sets: Mesoamerican Survey I And Mexican Series (The Olmecs, El Tajin, The Aztecs, Teotihuacan, Monte Alban, Xochicalco, Tula)", Diane Z. Chase, Arlen F. Chase

Anthropology Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

Archaeology In The Maya Heartland: The Tayasal - Paxcaman Zone, Lake Peten, Guatemala, Arlen F. Chase

Anthropology Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

The Maya Postclassic At Santa Rita Corozal, Diane Z. Chase

Anthropology Faculty Research

No abstract provided.