Art History Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"By Popular Demand": The Hero in American Art, c. 1929-45
(University of Kansas, 2011-01-01)During the 1930s and 1940s, as the United States weathered the Great Depression, World War II, and dramatic social changes, heroes were sought out and created as part of an ever-changing national culture. American artists ... -
Auto-America: The Automobile and American Art, Circa 1900-1950
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)This dissertation explores the theme of the automobile in American visual art in the first half of the twentieth century, specifically as it appears in painting and printmaking. During the period under consideration, the ... -
Written Stūpa, Painted Sūtra: Relationships of Text and Image in the Construction of Meaning in the Japanese Jeweled-Stūpa Mandalas
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)This dissertation contextualizes the twelfth- and thirteenth-centuries Japanese jeweled-stupa mandalas as some of the most striking examples from the early medieval period of innovative elaborations on sutra transcription. ... -
The Five Great Space Repository Bodhisattvas: Lineage, Protection and Celestial Authority in Ninth-Century Japan
(University of Kansas, 2010-12-31)This dissertation explores the protective role of the Five Great Space Repository Bodhisattva (Godai Kokuzo Bosastu) sculptural pentads in Japan during the mid-ninth-century. While existing art historical scholarship ... -
Re-Forming Mary in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Prints
(University of Kansas, 2009-09-02)Late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch artists portrayed the Virgin Mary in an impressively diverse and iconographically complex range of themes--particularly in the easily reproducible medium of prints. Despite the ...
