Art History, The Kress Foundation Department of: Recent submissions
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Mother of the Nation: Femininity, Modernity, and Class in the Image of Empress Teimei
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Abstract This dissertation examines the political significance of the image of the Japanese Empress Teimei (1884-1951) with a focus on issues of gender and class. During the first three decades of the twentieth century, ... -
Carved into the Living Rock: Japanese Stone Buddhist Sculpture and Site in the Heian and Kamakura Periods
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)This dissertation examines cliff-carved Buddhist stone sculpture through four site-specific case studies: two from the Heian period (794-1185) and two from the Kamakura period, including both central and peripheral sites ... -
Re-Framing the American West: Contemporary Artists Engage History
(University of Kansas, 2015-12-31)This study examines contemporary artists who revisit, revise, reimagine, reclaim, and otherwise engage directly with art of the American Frontier from 1820-1920. The revision of the historic images calls attention to the ... -
The Diamond Ordination Platform of Tongdosa: Buddhist Spaces and Imagery in 18th-century Korea
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)The Diamond Ordination Platform at Tongdosa is a stone structure reportedly constructed in the early seventh century by the eminent Silla monk Jajang 慈藏 (fl. 636-645). It was intended to enshrine the true-body relics of ... -
A Parade of Pictures: An Examination of the Illustrated Evolution of Gion Matsuri Throughout Japanese History
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)This study of the Japanese festival known as Gion Matsuri examines a range of images, from seventeenth century painted screens of the capital and its environs to early twentieth century woodblock prints, based on their ... -
Bertram Hartman (1882-1960), an early modernist from Kansas
(University of Kansas, 2004)This dissertation is a biographical study of the American artist Bertram Hartman (1882-1960). Hartman was born in Junction City, Kansas, to a German-American family. After graduating from high school in 1900, he studied ... -
The Exotic Gift and the Art of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)This dissertation examines the intersection between art and the gifting of exotic objects in the seventeenth-century United Provinces, directing attention to a special class of imagery visualizing the remarkable extent to ... -
Upending the Melting Pot: Photography, Performativity, and Immigration Re-Imagined in the Self-Portraits of Tseng Kwong Chi, Nikki S. Lee, and Annu Palakunnathu Matthew
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Tseng Kwong Chi, Nikki S. Lee, and Annu Palakunnathu Matthew each employ our associations with photography, performativity, and self-portraiture to compel us to re-examine our views of immigrants and immigration and bring ... -
Jacobus Vrel’s Dutch Neighborhood Scenes
(2014)Jacobus Vrel’s mid-seventeenth-century paintings of close-up street scenes pictorially engage the intimate physical parameters and ambiance of the Dutch neighborhood rather than the city, as scholars have previously ... -
The Engagement of Carel Fabritius's Goldfinch of 1654 With the Dutch Window, A Significant Site of Neighborhood Social Exchange
(2016)This article posits that Carel Fabritius’s illusionistic painting The Goldfinch, 1654, cleverly traded on the experience of a passerby standing on an actual neighborhood street before a household window. In daily discourse, ... -
ART PERPETUATING FAME: THE POSTERS OF BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST
(University of Kansas, 2013-08-31)From 1883 until 1913, Buffalo Bill's Wild West attracted fifty million people in more than one thousand cities in ten countries. William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody's globe-galloping extravaganza would not have attained ... -
On the Streets and In the Suburbs: Photographers of the American Social Landscape, 1963-1976
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)Three American photographers came to prominence during the years bracketed by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and the American Bicentennial in 1976. Lee Friedlander (born 1934), Garry Winogrand ... -
DESIGNING A NEW MOLD: THE AMERICAN SILVER INDUSTRY AND JAPANESE MEIJI METALWORK 1876-1893
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)The flood of Japanese decorative arts that reached American shores after Commodore Matthew C. Perry of the U.S. Navy compelled the opening of Japan to the West in 1854, initiated a mutually beneficial circuit of exchange ... -
Celestial Themes, Censorship and War in Henry de Groux's The Face of Victory
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Su Shih's Copy of the "Letter on the Controversy over Seating Protocol"
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Ho Ch'eng and Early Yüan Dynasty Painting in Northern China
(University of Hawaii Press, 1986-01-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
Probationes Pennae: Some Sixteenth-Century Doodles on the Theme of Folly Attributed to the Antwerp Humanist Pieter Gillis and His Colleagues
(University of Chicago Press, 1998-06-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
Torre dei Schiavi: Monument and Metaphor
(University of Chicago Press, 1987-09-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
Shifting Identities in Buddhist Sculpture: Who's Who in the Murō-Ji Kondō
(University of Hawaii Press, 2000-01-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
Ernest Blumenschein's "The Peacemaker": Native Americans, Greeks, and Jurisprudence circa 1913
(University of Chicago Press, 2001-03-01)No abstract is available for this item.