Art History, The Kress Foundation Department of: Recent submissions
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Drawing on the Neighbourhood in Rembrandt’s Inscription on a Drawing
(Rembrandthuis, 2022-03)In the undisputed hand of Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, the intriguing inscription that appears beneath the drawing of an Old Testament scene, The Departure of Rebecca, c. 1637, has generated various studies. The rarity ... -
Precious Items Piling up Like Mountains: Buddhist Art Production via Fundraising Campaigns in Late Koryŏ Korea (918–1392)
(MDPI, 2021-10-15)Considering visual culture alongside written source material, this article uncovers the socioeconomic aspect of Korean Buddhist monastic life, which has been a marginalized field of research. Arguing against the idea of ... -
Synaesthetic Dress: Episodes of Sensational Objects in Performance Art, 1955-1975
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)This study examines the significance of clothing-like sculptural forms in the performance practices of three international postwar and contemporary artists: Atsuko Tanaka (Japanese, 1932-2005), Hélio Oiticica (Brazilian, ... -
Glimpses, Glances and Gossip: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paintings of Domestic Interiors on Their Neighbourhood’s Doorstep
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The life and art of Ōtagaki Rengetsu
(University of Kansas, 1988-12-31)Ōtagaki Rengetsu was a poetess, potter, calligrapher and painter. The aim of this thesis is to describe the general characteristics of her style in each of these fields, particularly those which give some insight into her ... -
Like Life: Royal Portraits of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) in Ritual Context
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)This dissertation examines the functions and meanings of Joseon royal portraits by investigating them in light of the material culture and the ritual practices of royal ancestor worship in royal portrait halls, where ... -
The Thun-Hohenstein Album: Constructing and Commemorating the Armored Body in the Holy Roman Empire
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)Through the lens of the Thun-Hohenstein album, this dissertation explores the ways that late medieval constructions of martial identity continued to inflect how the armored body was represented and perceived in the early ... -
Situating Contemporary Korean Art in the Age of Globalization
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)This dissertation examines the development of contemporary Korean art from the late 1980s through the first decade of the 21st century under the influence of globalization through case studies of selected internationally ... -
The Kōfukuji Nan’endō and Its Buddhist Icons: Emplacing Family Memory and History of the Northern Fujiwara Clan, 800-1200
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)This dissertation investigates how the memorial function of the Nan’endō (Southern Round Hall) at Kōfukuji in Nara began, continued, and transformed within the history of the Northern Fujiwara clan from the ninth through ... -
Embracing Death and the Afterlife: Sculptures of Enma and His Entourage at Rokuharamitsuji
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)This dissertation investigates a sculptural group of Enma and his entourage that was once enshrined in an Enma hall located within the Kyoto temple Rokuharamitsuji precinct, and hopes to highlight the role that significant ... -
Picturing Processions: The Intersection of Art and Ritual in Seventeenth-century Dutch Visual Culture
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)This study examines representations of religious and secular processions produced in the seventeenth-century Northern Netherlands. Scholars have long regarded representations of early modern processions as valuable sources ... -
Familial Identity and Site Specificity: A Study of the Hybrid Genre of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Family-Landscape Portraiture
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)In the seventeenth century, the proliferation of Dutch family portraits among the broad middle class was a distinctive facet of artistic production. Within this visual trend, the vast majority of such paintings present the ... -
Discovering Davies-Land: Arthur B. Davies in the West, 1905
(University of Chicago Press, 2017)Arthur Davies’s 1905 excursion in the West is only occasionally mentioned in discussions of his career, and then but briefly. The artist’s itinerary and the subjects that captured his attention have, like his western ... -
Chu-lu : a northern Sung ceramic legacy
(University of Kansas, 1989)In 1108 A.D., Chu-lu Hsien and neighboring areas, all located in China's present-day southern Hopei Province, were inundated by a flood of the Yellow River. Northern Sung Chu-lu, including its ceramics, remained preserved, ... -
KITAGAWA TAMIJI’S ART AND ART EDUCATION: TRANSLATING CULTURE IN POSTREVOLUTIONARY MEXICO AND MODERN JAPAN
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)This dissertation investigates the life and career of the Japanese painter, printmaker, and art educator, Kitagawa Tamiji (1894-1989), and his conception of Mexico as cultural Other. Today, Kitagawa is widely recognized ... -
An American Jesuit Treasury of Religious Art: The Van Ackeren Collection in the Greenlease Gallery at Rockhurst University
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Abstract On 13 October 1967 Virginia P. and Robert C. Greenlease donated a walnut crucifix by French sculptor César Bagard to Rockhurst University’s Jesuit community in Kansas City, Missouri. This gift initiated a collaboration ... -
Essay for “Susan White: River of Solace, River of Hope”
(Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, 2017-10-19) -
Essay for the exhibition “May Tveit: Universal Boxes”
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Essay for the exhibition “Robert Bingaman: Night Pools”
(Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, 2014-06-27) -
Essay for the exhibition “Dylan Mortimer: Illuminate”
(Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, 2013-10-25)