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Art History, The Kress Foundation Department of: Recent submissions
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Wet Paint: Herman Melville, Elihu Vedder, and Artists Undersea
(University of Chicago Press, 1997-06-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin (1896-1986)
(University of Chicago Press, 1997-03-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
Ernest Lawson's Spain
(University of Chicago Press, 2003-09-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
Irving Norman, Redwoods, and Refugees
(University of Chicago Press, 2006-06-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
Gu Wenda’s United Nations: A Consideration of Two Monuments
(University of Hawaii Press, 2003-12-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
Reflections on Reflections
(University of Hawaii Press, 2012-01-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
A French King and a Magic Ring: The Girolami and a Relic of St. Zenobius in Renaissance Florence
(University of Chicago Press, 2002-06-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
Comparative and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Chinese and Korean Court Documentary Painting in the Eighteenth Century
(University of Kansas, 2014-08-31)This dissertation is the fruit of cross-cultural and comparative research on Chinese and Korean court documentary painting, a genre that depicted important state rituals, court ceremonies, and political events taking place ... -
TRACES OF A LOST LANDSCAPE TRADITION AND CROSS-CULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN KOREA, CHINA AND JAPAN IN THE EARLY JOSEON PERIOD (1392-1550)
(University of Kansas, 2014-08-31)This dissertation traces a lost landscape tradition and investigates cross-cultural relationships between Korea, China and Japan during the fifteenth and mid sixteenth centuries. To this end, the main research is given to ... -
GUANGSHENG MONASTERY: THE CREATION OF LOCAL IDENTITIES THROUGH ART AND ARCHITECTURE
(University of Kansas, 2012-12-31)The Guangsheng Monastery, standing on a hill on the southern side of Mount Huo in Shanxi, has been recognized as a significant site in the history of later Chinese Buddhist art and architecture because of its large assembly ... -
Foundation Day Meeting
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2007-11-28)Broadcast Transcript: South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il met in Pyongyang in October. Was it a coincidence that this summit that marked the second time the leaders of these two countries ... -
The Kansas University Hours of the Virgin
(University of Kansas, 1965)A Book of Hours in the Special Collections Department at the University of Kansas has been dated circa 1445, from the region of Langres. The manuscript, which is specifically an ''Hours of the Virgin," has been attributed ... -
YONGHEGONG: IMPERIAL UNIVERSALISM AND THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF BEIJING'S "LAMA TEMPLE"
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)Yonghegong ("Palace of Harmony and Peace"), popularly known in English as the "Lama Temple," is often described as Beijing's largest and most important Tibetan Buddhist monastery, but from its establishment in 1694 during ... -
Baiyun guan: the Development and Evolution of a Quanzhen Daoist Temple
(University of Kansas, 2012-12-31)This dissertation addresses the development and evolution of the Daoist temple Baiyun guan in Beijing, China. Based on textual sources combined with the analysis of architectural and sculptural features, this study provides ... -
Postcolonial Architecture through North Korean Modes: Namibian Commissions of the Mansudae Overseas Project
(University of Kansas, 2011-05-31)Since the 1970s the North Korean design firm, the Mansudae Overseas Project, has completed commissions for public sculptures and buildings in eight different African nations. Though these commissions incorporate subject ... -
Size Matters: Imagery of the Fat Female Body in the Art of Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville, Joel-Peter Witkin, Laurie Toby Edison, Leonard Nimoy, and Laura Aguilar
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)Since the early 1990s, a number of prominent artists have begun to produce images of the nude fat body. This dissertation looks at the works of several of those artists--Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville, Joel-Peter Witkin, ... -
Dynamic Doorways: Overdoor Sculpture in Renaissance Genoa
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)Soprapporte--rectangular, overdoor lintels sculpted from marble or slate--were a prominent feature of both private residential and ecclesiastic portals in the Ligurian region in northwest Italy, and in particular its capital ... -
Broken Ground: Plowing and America's Cultural Landscape in the 1930s
(University of Kansas, 2011-05-31)This dissertation considers the significance of images related to plowing from the 1930s and their connection to humanity's relationship with the land. Environmental history, agricultural history, and the cultural geography ... -
Storing Sanctity: Sacristy Reliquary Cupboards in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
(University of Kansas, 2011-5-31)Sacristy reliquary cupboards played significant roles in the ritual activities of most late medieval and Renaissance Italian churches. Best understood as a type of liturgical furniture, these large, wall-mounted structures ... -
Qiu Ti’s Contributions to Juelanshe and the Intersection of Modernist Ideology, Public Receptivity, and Personal Identity for a Woman Oil Painter in Early Twentieth-Century China
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)Despite her pioneering actions as one of the first female oil painters in China, Qiu Ti (1906-1958) remains on the periphery of China's modernist art movement. This dissertation repositions her to the center of a lively ...