Art History Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...