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Renaissance As Refreshment In The Mughal Empire The Floral Carpets Of Lahore And The Tarz-I Taza (Fresh Style) In Seventeenth-Century South Asia, Sylvia W. Houghteling

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Review: Textile In Architecture: From The Middle Ages To Modernism, Sylvia W. Houghteling

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Is Landscape Queer?, Kate Thomas

Literatures in English Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Towards A Performative Migratory Aesthetics In Work By Womxn-Identifying Practitioners In The United States, 1970–2018, Laurel V. Mclaughlin

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

Towards a Performative Migratory Aesthetics in Works by Womxn-Identifying Practitioners in the United States, 1970–2018 traces ritual—repeated performative actions across time—in performance, theater, and social practice works by womxn-identifying contemporary artists and collectives working in performance. Using an interdisciplinary methodological approach, including art historical formal analysis, performance studies concepts of embodiment, and decolonial theoretical analyses of socio-cultural landscapes, I theorize, in part through the work of Mieke Bal, what I term a “performative migratory aesthetics.” In such a theorization, I argue that the migratory conditions of movement, memory, heterochrony, and contact double as ritualized strategies of performance, serving to construct …

Curiosity And Collection In The Constcamer Paintings Of Frans Ii Francken (1581-1642), Jamie Richardson Sandhu

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation investigates the ontology of the Flemish “gallery painting” genre by focusing on its understudied inventor, Frans II Francken (1581-1642), within the aesthetic and intellectual context of early modern curiosity culture and its discursive manifestation in posticonoclastic Antwerp. A morally fraught desire associated with Eve and the Fall, curiosity also drives the collector’s acquisition of knowledge and objects; “curiosity” shares its Latin derivation of cura, care, with the term “curator”, whose modern incarnation is spawned from the tradition of collecting manifest in constcamers. Nearly exclusive to Antwerp until c. 1650, gallery paintings substantiate artists’ efforts to rehabilitate …

Radiant Sites: Projection And The Mobile Spectator In Contemporary Moving-Image Installations, Taylor Hobson

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation examines contemporary moving-image installations that use projected images to expand and elaborate upon the cinematic experience. It focuses on works by Douglas Gordon (b. 1966), Jim Campbell (b. 1956), and the partnered artists Janet Cardiff (b. 1957) and George Bures-Miller (b. 1960), all of whom have reconfigured the classical cinematic system of viewing since the 1990s. Through their works, I trace the term “expanded cinema” as a literal extension of projected light from the screen into the open gallery and beyond. I argue that the term “projection” – as thrown light, mental anticipation, and moving bodies – brings …

Review Of 'Painting In Stone: Architecture And The Poetics Of Marble From Antiquity To The Enlightenment', Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Review Of 'The Making Of Medieval Rome: A New Profile Of The City, 400–1420 By Hendrik Dey', Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Schemata: The Language Of The Body In Middle Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts, Nava Streiter

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

Representations of body language add a vital layer of meaning to middle Byzantine figural art, and they deserve systematic scholarly attention. My dissertation offers a method for unpicking the meanings of individual movements, and, more importantly, it explores the underlying cultural concerns that shaped the form of the body in middle Byzantine art. I argue that Byzantine images of body language are intentionally schematic and programmatic. By combining a restricted vocabulary of motion with pared-down renderings of physical forms, Byzantine artists engaged the vital force of embodied expression, while also transfiguring the body into a metaphoric representation of disembodied ideas …

The Art Of Burial In The Medieval Nile Valley: Christian And Islamic Interchange In Religious Funerary Contexts, Arielle Winnik

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

Christian communities in medieval Islamic Egypt (ca. ninth to twelfth centuries) were active participants in Islamicate visual culture. Indeed, Christians employed the same artistic objects as their Muslim neighbors in secular contexts, and close commonalities were even pervasive in art employed in religious rituals.

This dissertation investigates one such instance of the shared use of objects between Christians and Muslims in distinct sacred contexts. Christian and Muslim burials shared deep similarities, including the use of burial shrouds and grave markers with almost identical iconographic and compositional features. I draw attention to ways that Christians deployed an interreligious visual and material …

Tracing The Patterns: Fields, Villages, And Burial Places In Lebanon, Pascal Flohr, Jennie Bradbury, Letty Ten Harkel

Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Faculty Research and Scholarship

Archaeological research in Lebanon often focuses on settlement from the Bronze Age to Romanperiods, while surrounding landscapes, earlier and later periods are under-represented. Largedatasets collecting information from all periods and site types, such as the EndangeredArchaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) database, address this imbalance.EAMENA predominantly uses satellite imagery to identify archaeological sites and the threatsposed to them, leading to the recognition of many previously unpublished sites, includingabandoned buildings and agricultural terraces. Here we explore how such data can be used totrace patterns of settlement and landscape use. Transects running from coast to uplands innorthern and southern …

Review Of Leonora Neville, Byzantine Gender, Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2019, Alicia Walker

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Floating Roots: Agnes Varda's Uncle Yanco, Homay King

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

This article traces one source of Agnès Varda's artistic inspiration to Jean “Yanco” Varda, the subject of her 1967 short film Uncle Yanco (US/France). Jean Varda was a peripatetic artist who lived on a houseboat and was part of a bohemian circle that included Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Alan Watts, and other luminaries of the San Francisco counterculture. Both Vardas were gleaners and artists. The author argues that both saw the imagination as a place where matter and spirit were reconciled. The article builds on previous work about Varda's The Gleaners and I (Les glaneurs et la glaneuse, …

Introduction: Future Varda, Rebecca J. Deroo, Homay King

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Anna May Wong And The Color Image, Homay King

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

In Cinema 1, Deleuze proposes the “color‐image,” a type of film image with an “absorbent characteristic” that does not refer to a particular object but seizes all that happens within its range. Like color‐images, racial categories have an absorbent, seizing quality: they assert “color” at the expense of the object of representation. Deleuze does not address the potential applications of his concept to race, but they are especially illuminating when applied to early color‐process cinema. This essay approaches The Toll of the Sea (dir. Chester M. Franklin, 1922), starring Anna May Wong and set in China, the first Technicolor film …

Review Of St. Paul's Outside The Walls: A Roman Basilica, From Antiquity To The Modern Era, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Found Iconography, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Rewriting The Renouveau, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

The art and architecture of eleventh-century Rome are predominantly discussed within the framework of an ‘early Christian renewal’ (renouveau paléochrétien) closely tied to the Gregorian Reform. Articulated fifty years ago in accordance with the prevailing top-down model of history, the framework is incompatible with more recent historical approaches that emphasize agency from below. This essay argues for a more distributed model of agency in the making of eleventh-century art. A case study of Santa Maria in Trastevere, reformed in 1065, calls into question the model of a Reform art directed by cardinals. A comparison with cinematic auteur theory …

Imperial/Non-Imperial Encounters In The Gulf During The Late Pre-Islamic Period: The Glazed Pottery From Southeastern Arabia And Tepe Yahya, Iran, Matthew F. Jameson

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation proposes a method of combining formal, contextual, and geochemical ceramic analyses to investigate an encounter between imperial and non-imperial societies evidenced in the archaeological record. Glazed pottery from Mesopotamia appeared in southeastern Arabia and southeastern Iran during the late pre-Islamic period (c. 300 BCE – 7th century CE) and neither the mechanisms through which it arrived nor its use in local contexts is fully understood. It is found alongside a set of objects that signal an increased connectivity with the wider worlds of the Indian Ocean, MENA region, and the Mediterranean. Previous scholarship has focused on the extent …

Text And Images Of Authority: The Inscribed Seals From The Persepolis Fortification Archive, Christina Chandler

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

The Persepolis Fortification archive, a large archive of administrative tablets dating to the early years of Darius I (509-493 BCE), preserves impressions of over 4,000 distinct and legible seals. 174 of these approximately 4,000 seals carry both figural imagery and text in their designs. This dissertation presents the inscribed seals corpus from the Fortification archive for the first time, thus laying the groundwork for future studies on inscribed seals from Persepolis.

Inscribed seals offer myriad avenues of investigation. In the present study, we focus on three main features of inscribed seals: 1) the languages and formulae of the inscriptions; 2) …

Germany/ England: Inside/Outside, David Cast

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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The Neolithic Settlement On Tsoungiza At Ancient Nemea, Mary K. Dabney, Susan E. Allen, Anne Kugler, Anastasia Papathanasiou, James C. Wright

Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Dyeing The Springtime: The Art And Poetry Of Fleeting Textile Colors In Medieval And Early Modern South Asia, Sylvia W. Houghteling

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

This paper explores the metaphorical and material significance of short-lived fabric dyes in medieval and early modern South Asian art, literature, and religious practice. It explores dyers’ manuals, paintings, textiles, and mercantile and devotional poetry to demonstrate how the existence of ephemeral dyes opened up possibilities for mutability that cannot be found within more stable, mineral pigments, set down on paper in painting. While the relationship between the image and the word in South Asian art is most often mutually enhancing, the relationship between words and color, and particularly between poetry and dye color, operates on a much more slippery …

The Church Basilica, Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

The debate over whether the early church basilica was “imperial” is bound up with many other questions, including the origins of the building type, and whether building types have fixed or only contingent associations. Krautheimer, for example, maintained that the imperial quality of the early Christian basilica was generally transmitted, as the church basilica was a descendant of the public basilica which it formally resembles, and which itself was in the imperial domain. Deichmann, by contrast, held that no architectural form has inherent meaning, rather buildings are constituted as Christian or imperial through use or posterior interpretation. Recent advances in …

The Terracotta Altars Of Morgantina: A Study Of The Form, Production, Use, And Development Of Arulae From Hellenistic Sicily, Andrew Tharler

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation establishes the first systematic and comprehensive study of cylindrical terracotta altars, often referred to as arulae. Arulae are considered characteristic of the material culture of Hellenistic Sicily and thought to represent a significant body of evidence for domestic cult practice. However, no comprehensive treatment has been published, and critical information about their use has not been securely established. As a result, arulae have not been fully incorporated into research on Hellenistic religion, and assertions about their ritual function remain conjectural. This study focuses on the complete corpus of arulae from Morgantina, comprising more than 300 fragments, but examples …

The Collector Of Lives: Giorgio Vasari And The Invention Of Art (Review), David Cast

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Tools Of The Master Dyer: Dye Materials In 17th And 18th Century South Asian Painted Cotton Textiles At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Sylvia W. Houghteling

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

This article reports on an analysis of the dyes used in painted cotton textiles from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century India in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The purpose of our study was to identify which red dyes were used to produce the textiles, and to determine whether dyers used cheaper substitutes for indigo as dyestuffs. Our findings preliminarily suggest that chay root (Oldenlandia umbellata L.) was not only a dye material used along the Coromandel Coast, but also traveled through overland trade networks for textile dyeing in central India. The results of this analysis contribute to understandings …

Liturgy, Space, And Community In The Basilica Julii (Santa Maria In Trastevere), Dale Kinney

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

The Basilica Julii (also known as titulus Callisti and later as Santa Maria in Trastevere) provides a case study of the physical and social conditions in which early Christian liturgies 'rewired' their participants. This paper demonstrates that liturgical transformation was a two-way process, in which liturgy was the object as well as the agent of change. Three essential factors - the liturgy of the Eucharist, the space of the early Christian basilica, and the local Christian community - are described as they existed in Rome from the fourth through the ninth centuries. The essay then takes up the specific case …

Agriculture In The Fertile Crescent, From The Deep Past To The Modern Conflict, Jennie Bradbury, Philip Proudfoot

Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Faculty Research and Scholarship

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The Medieval Pottery, Camilla Mackay

Library Staff Research and Scholarship

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