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Artists' Genres: A Brief Introduction To Post-Medieval Western Art, Robert Jensen

Art and Visual Studies Faculty Book Gallery

Artists' Genres is a brief introduction to the history of post-medieval Western art organized by the major genres. The book is designed as a basic textbook for high school- or introductory college-level courses or for individuals simply looking for an interesting guidebook into the art of this period and geographical region.

This is the revised edition of Artists' Genres: A Brief Introduction to Post-Medieval Western Art, which was released in 2018.

Behind The Circulations Of Images, Léa Saint-Raymond

Artl@s Bulletin

The history of images is nothing but a history of their mediums and a history of physical bodies. And hence, it is a history of circulation. As an introduction of this volume, this paper seeks to go "behind the circulations of images" by combining the fields of cultural, political and geopolitical studies, and by bringing together different methodologies from monographic and formal analysis to digital approaches (quantitative, cartographic, visual). These diversified case studies make it possible to answer three major questions: 1) How do images circulate? 2) Why do images circulate? 3) What does circulation do to an image and, …

Carpets As Signifiers Of Historical Change: The Azerbaijani Carpet Industry From The Mid-Nineteenth To Late Twentieth Century, Jill Boggs

Senior Theses

The Azerbaijani carpet industry, long recognized as an important piece of Azerbaijan’s cultural heritage, transformed dramatically between the mid-nineteenth and twentieth centuries in response to political, economic, and social changes that took place under the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. During this period, the carpet industry began to use modern weaving techniques and materials, favored factory production over traditional hand-woven designs, and created pieces for exportation rather than personal or community use. These developments contribute to two historical schools that view the Soviet Union as either a prison of nations, stifling non-Russian cultures, or a nursery of ethnic identities, …

Tools For Thought: Artifacts From The History Of Comparative Psychology, Dylan Kerr

Theses and Dissertations

This project explores the history of comparative psychology through close readings of apparatuses used in seminal experiments on animal behavior, drawing connections between seemingly disparate areas of human culture—including art, architecture, mythology, and economics—and the development of the science, with a particular focus on behaviorist and cognitive approaches.

Centering The Black Woman As A Subject Of Portraiture In Nineteenth-Century French Art, Llyleila Richardson

XULAneXUS

Until the 19th century, artistic depictions of black women by European artists were rare. Often they were relegated to the background as domestic attendants to European noblewomen, serving as symbols of the latter’s colonial wealth and further provide contrast with the darkness of their skin against the aristocratic fairness of their white mistresses. The transition into the 19th century was a turbulent period in European history, especially for France, as the country saw multiple revolts and governmental changes at home. Simultaneously colonization overseas continued to expand, creating previously unheard-of access to foreign cultures and ideas.

Black women became an interesting …

The Spiritual Nature Of The Italian Renaissance, Kaitlyn Kenney

Senior Honors Theses

This study seeks to investigate the influence of faith in the emergence and development of the Italian Renaissance, in both the artwork and writing of the major artists and thinkers of the day, and the impact that new expressions of faith had on the viewing public. While the Renaissance is often labeled as a secular movement by modern scholars, this interpretation is largely due to the political motives of the Medici family who dominated Florence as the center of this artistic rebirth, on and off again throughout the period. On close examination, the philosophical and creative undercurrents of the movement …

Weaving Forms Of Resistance: The Museo De La Solidaridad And The Museo Internacional De La Resistencia Salvador Allende, Carla Macchiavello Cornejo

Publications and Research

From the starting point of a 1975 artwork made by Norwegian artist Kjartan Slettemark in Sweden to stop a tennis match in resistance to the Chilean military dictatorship, this article reframes the linear image of networks of solidarity and resistance through the gaps and connectivity of a mesh. It expands the figure of the mesh taken from critical materialism into the affective realm of art, historiography, and art institutions by exploring the cases of the museums Museo de la Solidaridad (1971–1974) and Museo Internacional de la Resistencia “Salvador Allende” (1975–1990). As this article delves into various knots and lacunas of …

Illustrating Emperors: Yongzheng And Qianlong's Representation Of Individual Identity Within Mid-Qing Art, Matthew Kavorkian, Hilary Smith, Elizabeth Campbell

DU Undergraduate Research Journal Archive

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Digitizing The Aura: A Systems Update For The Contemporary Art World, Emilie Trice

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

During the digital tide of the last several decades, the material, metaphysical and economic properties of art have evolved in response to the ever-accelerating growth of cybernetics. The contemporary art ecosystem (CAE) has long been considered “the last unregulated financial market”; then cryptocurrency was invented. Now, blockchain technology has entered the cultural zeitgeist and could radically innovate numerous industries, including the art market. The CAE itself is a network, a system that operates within fundamental parameters and, in that sense, it shares much in common with the philosophies underlying computation, such as systems theory, complexity theory and emergent consensus mechanisms. …

Lesson 13: Mirrors In Renaissance And Baroque Art, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers mirrors in Renaissance and Baroque artworks by Johannes Vermeer, Diego Velázquez, Parmigianino, and Rembrandt van Rijn.

Lesson 16: What Shocks In 1863, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lessons discusses Modern art with a focus on Édouard Manet.

Lesson 01: Introduction To Art Appreciation, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers the elements and principles of art. Elements of art are the physical parts of the work, including line, shape, form, space, texture, value, color, and time. Principles of art are the ways in which those parts are arranged, including unity/variety, balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, rhythm, and pattern.

Lesson 03: Prehistory - Our Connection To The History Of Humankind Before Text, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers prehistoric art from the Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages. It focuses on cave art (Pech-Merle, Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc, Lascaux) and carved figures (Woman of Willendorf) from the Paleolithic period and megalithic architecture (Stonehenge) from the Neolithic period.

Lesson 04: Death And Mourning In The Prehistoric And Ancient World, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers death and mourning in the prehistoric and ancient world by discussing related art and architecture including, but not limited to, Varna Necropolis, The Flood Tablet / The Gilgamesh Tablet, Ziggurat in Uruk, Royal Tombs of Ur, Great Pyramids of Giza, Tomb of King Tutankhamun, and Book of the Dead of Hunefer.

Lesson 10: The Northern Renaissance And Arnolfini Double Portrait, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers artworks created during the Northern Renaissance with a focus on Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Double Portrait.

Lesson 02: Elements And Principles, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers the elements and principles of art. Elements of art are the physical parts of the work, including line, shape, form, space, texture, value, color, and time. Principles of art are the ways in which those parts are arranged, including unity/variety, balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, rhythm, and pattern.

Lesson 08: The Renaissance, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers artworks created during the Renaissance in Europe. It begins with a preface on artworks created prior to the Renaissance that focused on Christian ideology and iconography. Artists discussed include Botticelli, Donatello, Michelangelo, Bernini, and Leonardo da Vinci.

Lesson 06: Divine Architecture, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers divine architecture including the Ancient Greek Parthenon, Ancient Roman Pantheon, Byzantine Hagia Sophia, and Gothic Chartres Cathedral.

Lesson 05: Ideal Beauty In The Ancient World, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers ideal beauty in the ancient world by discussing related art and architecture from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome.

Lesson 07: The History Of Blue, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers the history of Lapis Lazuli and Tyrian Purple in art and architecture.

Lesson 11: Bosch And Other Scenes Of The Apocalypse, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers artworks of scenes from the apocalypse with a focus on Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights.

Lesson 09: Michelangelo- From High Renaissance To Mannerism, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers artworks created between the High Renaissance and Mannerism with a focus on Michelangelo.

Lesson 17 Part 1: Reactions To The Modern World-Introduction And Impressionism, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lessons covers the difference between impressionism and expressionism. Impressionism is represented through artworks by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mary Cassatt, and Edgar Degas.

Lesson 15: Fragonard Through The French Revolution, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lessons covers Rococo artworks by Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun and Neoclassical artworks by Jacques Louis David.

Lesson 18: On The Dada Of Art Versus The Dada Of War, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers Dada with a focus on artists Hugo Ball, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Höch and surrealism with a focus on artists Meret Oppenheim, Man Ray, Salvador Dali.

Lesson 14: Judith And The Heroines Of Baroque Art, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers Baroque artworks by Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Gianlorenzo Bernini.

Lesson 12: Hans Holbein And Kerry James Marshall, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson connects Han Holbein’s The Ambassadors to Kerry James Marshall’s School of Beauty.

Lesson 19: The Unraveling - Abstraction In The Modern Era, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers cubism, abstract expressionism, and minimalism. Cubism is discussed with artworks by Pablo Picasso, abstract expressionism by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko, and minimalism by Donald Judd.

Lesson 23: The Postmodern Body In Art, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers postmodern art that incorporates the body by artists Marina Abramović, Gonzalez-Torres, Nick Cave, and Wangechi Mutu.

Lesson 20: Soup Cans! Consumerism! Balloon Dogs! - From Andy Warhol To Jeff Koons, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers pop art by Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, and Jeff Koons.