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Picturing Home: Domestic Painting And The Ideologies Of Art, Mark E. Sprinkle
Picturing Home: Domestic Painting And The Ideologies Of Art, Mark E. Sprinkle
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation describes domestic painting in Atlanta, Georgia between 1995 and 2004 as a market defined by its intentional connection of the ideologies and spaces of art with those of bourgeois domesticity. The first half of the work seeks to contextualize the market's various objects and texts within public and academic discourses on culture that commonly posit an antithesis between the practices of bourgeois women (especially decoration) and "high" or avant-garde art, as suggested by the sentiment, "GOOD ART WON'T MATCH YOUR SOFA." Thus, Chapter 1 addresses the promises and pitfalls of sociological approaches to understanding art in general, Chapter …
African American Cultural Products And Social Uplift, The End Of The 19th Century - The Early Of The 20th Century, Juan Zheng
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Domestic Brick Architecture In Williamsburg: A Comparative Study Of Eighteenth-Century Brick Houses In Williamsburg, Annapolis, And Charleston, Andrew Craig Barry
Domestic Brick Architecture In Williamsburg: A Comparative Study Of Eighteenth-Century Brick Houses In Williamsburg, Annapolis, And Charleston, Andrew Craig Barry
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Postbellum Education Of African Americans: Race, Economy, Power, And The Pursuit Of A System Of Schooling In The Rural Virginia Counties Of Surry And Gloucester, Benjamin Andrew Swenson
Postbellum Education Of African Americans: Race, Economy, Power, And The Pursuit Of A System Of Schooling In The Rural Virginia Counties Of Surry And Gloucester, Benjamin Andrew Swenson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Re-Shaping Documentary Expectations: New Journalism And Direct Cinema, Sharon Lynne Zuber
Re-Shaping Documentary Expectations: New Journalism And Direct Cinema, Sharon Lynne Zuber
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
New Journalism and Direct Cinema reflect a unique conjoined moment in the evolution of nonfiction writing and filmmaking in the United States. I argue that these movements developed as a specific response to the shift from a modern to a postmodern aesthetic, a shift away from faith in a coherent reality at a historical moment, the 1960s. In an attempt to capture reality using new methods that would raise the status of nonfiction, writers and filmmakers in these movements call attention to process and "style." at first glance, these experiments with new styles appear radical; instead, New Journalism and Direct …
(At)America.Jp: Identity, Nationalism, And Power On The Internet, 1969-2000, Gretchen Ferris Schoel
(At)America.Jp: Identity, Nationalism, And Power On The Internet, 1969-2000, Gretchen Ferris Schoel
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
" america.jp" explores identity, nationalism, and power on the Internet between 1969 and 2000 through a cultural analysis of Internet code and the creative processes behind it. The dissertation opens with an examination of a real-time Internet Blues jam that linked Japanese and American musicians between Tokyo and Mississippi in 1999. The technological, cultural, and linguistic uncertainties that characterized the Internet jam, combined with the inventive reactions of the musicians who participated, help to introduce the fundamental conceptual question of the dissertation: is code a cultural product and if so can the Internet be considered a distinctly "American" technology?;A comparative …
Calming Minds And Instilling Character: John Minson Galt Ii And The Patients' Library At Eastern Asylum, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1843--1860, Bettina Jean Manzo
Calming Minds And Instilling Character: John Minson Galt Ii And The Patients' Library At Eastern Asylum, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1843--1860, Bettina Jean Manzo
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
In 1843, two years after assuming the superintendency at Eastern Asylum in Williamsburg, Virginia, John Minson Galt II established a patients' library. It was not unique. Other asylum superintendents across America were building libraries for their patients as well, an essential component, they felt, of the broader moral management program borrowed from Europe and Great Britain for the cure of insanity. Along with other asylum activities, the library would help insane residents remain calm, recover stability by distraction from their delusions, and acquire mental habits of self-discipline. and in many cases libraries and reading would assist in restoring virtues that …
Spousal Abuse In The Army, James Palmer
Spousal Abuse In The Army, James Palmer
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Colonial Williamsburg, National Identity, And Cold War Patriotism, Luke Edward Roberts
Colonial Williamsburg, National Identity, And Cold War Patriotism, Luke Edward Roberts
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Space And Power In Eighteenth-Century Ephrata, Pennsylvania, Courtney J. Birkett
Space And Power In Eighteenth-Century Ephrata, Pennsylvania, Courtney J. Birkett
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Montpelier: The History Of A House, 1723-1998, Matthew Gantert Hyland
Montpelier: The History Of A House, 1723-1998, Matthew Gantert Hyland
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This architectural history of Montpelier focuses on lives of the people who have lived and worked there between 1723 and 1998. It is not limited to the Madisons and the duPonts. Montpelier's history provides further insight into a range of moments in America's cultural history: plantation slavery in piedmont Virginia, the crisis of authority in the early American republic and the age of Jackson, ante-bellum sectionalism, Reconstruction, lifestyles of industrial magnates in the Gilded Age, and the development of historic preservation in twentieth-century America.;This study traces Montpelier's evolution as a cultural landscape composed of layered historical activity---lives, values, and choices …
New Deal Housing On The Virginia Peninsula: Challenging Jim Crow Paternalism At Swantown And Aberdeen Gardens, Frederick James Carroll
New Deal Housing On The Virginia Peninsula: Challenging Jim Crow Paternalism At Swantown And Aberdeen Gardens, Frederick James Carroll
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Blues And Jazz In Albert Murray's Fiction: A Study In The Tradition Of Stylization, Jacquelynne Jones Modeste
The Blues And Jazz In Albert Murray's Fiction: A Study In The Tradition Of Stylization, Jacquelynne Jones Modeste
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The use of the blues as a critical theory and as a literary model for the crafting of fiction opens new possibilities for both intellectual and artistic exploration. Reflecting the power of human agency amidst antagonism, the blues is the music of personal triumph over the brutality of circumstances despite any change in condition. The music's emphasis on improvisation reveals human agency because through instrumentation, singing, stylistic nuances, audience participation and/or venue individuals transform perceived or imagined woefulness into hopefulness. Studying the blues and its cultural legacy is significant in identifying the mechanisms by which individuals and ultimately entire communities …
"I Like Things Simple, But It Must Be Simple Through Complication": Re-Reading Gertrude Stein, Hilary Jennifer Marcus
"I Like Things Simple, But It Must Be Simple Through Complication": Re-Reading Gertrude Stein, Hilary Jennifer Marcus
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Passing Into Print: Walt Whitman And His Publishers, Charles B. Green
Passing Into Print: Walt Whitman And His Publishers, Charles B. Green
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Few scholars have attempted to conduct a close examination of Whitman's relationship to his publishers in the context of Leaves of Grass. In their "Typographic Yawp: Leaves of Grass , 1855--1992," Megan and Paul Benton present a minimal, but interesting examination of the typographic story of Leaves, but they ignore three of the editions and deal with author-publisher relations only superficially. Other articles examine individual editions of Leaves of Grass, but none really explore what Whitman's complicated relationships with the publishers of his time tell us about the conditions for his work and for authorship in mid-nineteenth-century America. Most studies …