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Art Inquiries, Xix:1, Front Matter, Mysoon Rizk Dec 2024

Art Inquiries, Xix:1, Front Matter, Mysoon Rizk

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Spirit And Invention: Drawings By Giambattista And Domenico Tiepolo, Roberto G. Peredo Dec 2024

Spirit And Invention: Drawings By Giambattista And Domenico Tiepolo, Roberto G. Peredo

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No abstract provided.


Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, And Self-Determination Since 1969, Shannon Bewley Dec 2024

Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, And Self-Determination Since 1969, Shannon Bewley

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No abstract provided.


An Interview With Sharon Lee Hart, Mysoon Rizk, Sharon Lee Hart Dec 2024

An Interview With Sharon Lee Hart, Mysoon Rizk, Sharon Lee Hart

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No abstract provided.


Napoleon’S Corpse And The Subversion Of Historical And Political Authority, Alissa Rachel Adams Dec 2024

Napoleon’S Corpse And The Subversion Of Historical And Political Authority, Alissa Rachel Adams

Art Inquiries

This article examines printed depictions of Napoleon Bonaparte’s exhumed corpse in conjunction with Romantic historical practice in nineteenth-century France. Current studies on history in the Romantic age emphasize Romantic historicism’s link to a widespread and frustrated yearning for direct access to the past that will settle the upheavals of the revolutionary period. This study considers how the corpse and its representations fulfill the desire for direct access to the past but, in doing so, also contributes to a proliferation of individual understandings of the past—and future. Through an analysis of representations of the corpse, their sources, and their connection to …


A Home For Literature, Elizabeth Kapsch Oct 2024

A Home For Literature, Elizabeth Kapsch

SPARK Symposium Presentations

1813 was a big year for Chatsworth, although no one living there knew it. In theory, it was a year like any other. William George Spencer Cavendish, the 6th Duke of Devonshire, had inherited the estate from his father two years prior, and just a year ago had made an impressive purchase of the entirety of the Bishop of Ely’s library–his book-adoring mother, of course, would be proud. William had no marital prospects, nor would he ever. In thirteen years, he would begin work with famous architect Joseph Paxton. Unbeknownst to twenty-three-year-old William, this partnership would result in some of …


Origin Stories., Danielle Deeley May 2024

Origin Stories., Danielle Deeley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is an investigation into the Peruvian pre-Columbian collection at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. The Speed Art Museum acquired this collection in 1934 and it has largely remained unresearched for nearly a century after acquisition into the museum’s collection. This investigation is not an attempt to make broad characterizations of pre-Columbian ceramics. Nor is its goal to fill in all the gaps of the collection’s history. Instead, this thesis follows the evidence the collection presents: the physical attributes of the ceramics, the donor’s history, U.S. history, and information from the collection file provided by the Speed …


Woven Symphony: Exploring The Parallels Between Weaving And Music, Qianwen Yu Jan 2024

Woven Symphony: Exploring The Parallels Between Weaving And Music, Qianwen Yu

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Weaving and music are art forms often perceived as unrelated but actually share deep connections and fascinating similarities. In this presentation, I will first briefly introduce the impact of the 19th-century Jacquard loom on the invention of the Player Piano, a musical technology that evolved into the modern "MIDI" computer audio notation system. Second, I will explore the similarities found in both weaving and musical composition by presenting some of my own media installation art works. These works translate musical scores into woven textures, and vice versa, creating symphonies and revealing new sensory ways to appreciate textiles and music. I …


Laurie Anderson: The Weather, Annie Dell'aria Dec 2023

Laurie Anderson: The Weather, Annie Dell'aria

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No abstract provided.


Jamie Robertson: Make For Higher Ground, Elizabeth S. Hawley Dec 2023

Jamie Robertson: Make For Higher Ground, Elizabeth S. Hawley

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No abstract provided.


Troy Thomas, Poussin’S Women: Sex And Gender In The Artist’S Works, James R. Jewitt Dec 2023

Troy Thomas, Poussin’S Women: Sex And Gender In The Artist’S Works, James R. Jewitt

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Art Inquries Vol Xviii No 4 2023 Front Matter, Mysoon Rizk Dec 2023

Art Inquries Vol Xviii No 4 2023 Front Matter, Mysoon Rizk

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No abstract provided.


The Date Of The Allegory Of Mercy At The Misericordia In Florence...Again: Some Clarifications Regarding The Historical Setting, William R. Levin Dec 2023

The Date Of The Allegory Of Mercy At The Misericordia In Florence...Again: Some Clarifications Regarding The Historical Setting, William R. Levin

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No abstract provided.


Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel; And Modigliani Up Close, K. A. Mcfadden Dec 2023

Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel; And Modigliani Up Close, K. A. Mcfadden

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No abstract provided.


Art Inquiries Vol Xviii No 4 2023 Full Issue, Mysoon Rizk Dec 2023

Art Inquiries Vol Xviii No 4 2023 Full Issue, Mysoon Rizk

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No abstract provided.


Jacqueline Jung, Eloquent Bodies: Movement, Expression, And The Human Figure In Gothic Sculpture, Kerr Houston Dec 2023

Jacqueline Jung, Eloquent Bodies: Movement, Expression, And The Human Figure In Gothic Sculpture, Kerr Houston

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No abstract provided.


Diana S. Greenwald, Painting By Numbers: Data-Driven Histories Of Nineteenth-Century Art, Sara Woodbury Dec 2023

Diana S. Greenwald, Painting By Numbers: Data-Driven Histories Of Nineteenth-Century Art, Sara Woodbury

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No abstract provided.


The Body Articulated: Gender Violence And The Performative Turn In Mexico, Kylee Aragon Aug 2022

The Body Articulated: Gender Violence And The Performative Turn In Mexico, Kylee Aragon

Museum Studies Theses

The Body Articulated: Gender Violence and the Performative Turn in Mexico explores the role of performance art in raising awareness for gender-based crimes. My thesis investigates the performative response to gender-based violence in contemporary art in Mexico during the 1970’s and then again in the post-NAFTA era, with the aim of examining the use of the artists body, the voices of women as substitution for the body, and the bodies of others as means of creating a greater awareness to the feminicidal epidemic. Artists like Mónica Mayer and Lorena Wolffer use their body and the voices of woman, as opposed …


Compromised Values: Charlotte Posenenske, 1966–Present, Ian Wallace Jun 2021

Compromised Values: Charlotte Posenenske, 1966–Present, Ian Wallace

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Fabricated in unlimited series and sold at cost, the sculptures produced by Charlotte Posenenske between 1966 and 1967—modular wall reliefs, interactive cubic structures, and tubular geometric units whose installation requires collective decision making—were meant to confront both the artwork’s commodity status and the limitation of its consumption to a privileged elite. Nevertheless, Posenenske’s work has been effectively recuperated by the art system: first, in the 1980s, through a series of exhibitions and publications organized by her estate; and second, with her inclusion in Documenta 12 in 2007, which reintroduced her work to the market. Since the artist’s death in 1985, …


The Museum As A Mirror: Reinterpreting And Delinking American Landscape Art From Colonial Narratives, Blythe C. Romano Jan 2021

The Museum As A Mirror: Reinterpreting And Delinking American Landscape Art From Colonial Narratives, Blythe C. Romano

Honors Theses

Art museums have recently been looking at their existing collections with heightened scrutiny, revisiting their decision to display colonial works uncritically in their gallery spaces, and reconsidering the idea that there is such a thing as a unified art historical canon. These conversations regarding reinterpretation are necessary for all museums that choose to display art with problematic histories, as this information is owed to visitors -- especially within the settler colonial context. The Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine is one site where such collection and gallery “reinterpretation” has begun to be implemented and discussed. For example, in …


Reclaiming Orvieto, Italy: Livio Orazio Valentini’S Pursuit Of A Spatial, Cultural, And Artistic Heritage, Jeremy Culler Jan 2021

Reclaiming Orvieto, Italy: Livio Orazio Valentini’S Pursuit Of A Spatial, Cultural, And Artistic Heritage, Jeremy Culler

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Jordan Nassar: The Field Is Infinite, Megan Bickel Jan 2021

Jordan Nassar: The Field Is Infinite, Megan Bickel

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists And The Politics Of Scale, Elizabeth S. Hawley Jan 2021

Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists And The Politics Of Scale, Elizabeth S. Hawley

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Beyond The Social: Artist Project Spaces, 2003 To 2016., Clare L. Van Loenen Jan 2021

Beyond The Social: Artist Project Spaces, 2003 To 2016., Clare L. Van Loenen

Theses and Dissertations

This research examines storefront project spaces in the early 2000s that offered alternative approaches to the programming, organizing, and archiving found in conventional museums. I propose that such sites impacted participatory visual culture by offering a reformulatory role for arts’ practices, one that organized itself across disciplinary boundaries, chose a collaborative rather than competitive approach, and processed the ideological implications of their group work. Focused on three specific sites—Machine Project in Los Angeles, Elsewhere in Greensboro, and Mess Hall in Chicago—this study details the museological, pedagogical, and archival challenges of these artist-convened organizations. My interdisciplinary investigation offers a reference point …


Frank Duveneck: American Master, D. Bryan Schaeffer Jan 2021

Frank Duveneck: American Master, D. Bryan Schaeffer

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


The Spatial And Visual Dimension Of Protests: Art And Activism In The 2013 Ludwig Lépcsö (Ludwig Stairs) Budapest Protest Camp, Izabel Galliera Jan 2021

The Spatial And Visual Dimension Of Protests: Art And Activism In The 2013 Ludwig Lépcsö (Ludwig Stairs) Budapest Protest Camp, Izabel Galliera

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Lethaby, Brockhampton, And The Early Development In England Of Concrete As A Vernacular-Modern Building Material, Robert M. Craig Jan 2021

Lethaby, Brockhampton, And The Early Development In England Of Concrete As A Vernacular-Modern Building Material, Robert M. Craig

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Art Inquiries, Xviii:2-3, Full Issue Jan 2021

Art Inquiries, Xviii:2-3, Full Issue

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.


Iconoclasm And The Museum, Catherine Chastain-Elliott Jan 2021

Iconoclasm And The Museum, Catherine Chastain-Elliott

Art Inquiries

Book review of Iconoclasm and the Museum, by Stacy Boldrick.


Dyani White Hawk: Speaking To Relatives, Sara Stepp Jan 2021

Dyani White Hawk: Speaking To Relatives, Sara Stepp

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.