Art History Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Yang Weizhen (1296-1370) and the Social Art of Painting Inscriptions
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-24)The dissertation explores the text-image relationship in late Yuan literati painting and the social dimension of painting inscriptions. Each of the first three chapters is devoted to the discussion of one painting and its ... -
Marginalized yet Devoted: Buddhist Paintings Commissioned by Nuns of the Early Joseon Palace Cloisters
(University of Kansas, 2010-12-17)This dissertation studies the three extant Buddhist paintings commissioned by Buddhist nuns in the palace cloisters of the sixteenth-century Joseon dynasty. The examination of the theme, iconography, and composition of ... -
THE ART OF THOMAS HICKS AND CELEBRITY CULUTRE IN MID-NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEW YORK
(University of Kansas, 2010-12-17)During the antebellum period, American audiences became fascinated, even obsessed, with celebrity. While celebrity was traditionally associated with fame and its classical ideals of virtue and honor, by the mid-nineteenth ... -
Hybrid Zones: Representations of Race in Late Nineteenth-Century French Visual Culture
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-26)In this study, I examine images of the black female and black male body and the female Spanish Gypsy by four artists ��_�� Edgar Degas, �_��douard Manet, Fr�_��d�_��ric Bazille, and Henri de Toulouse��_���Lautrec ��_�� ... -
Modern Art and Modern Movement: Images of Dance in American Art, c. 1900-1950
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-12)"Modern Art and Modern Movement: Images of Dance in American Art, c. 1900-1950," considers the intersections and interrelations of two of the major artistic developments of the twentieth century, modern dance and modern ... -
The Intersection of Sculpture, Scripture and Salvation at the Romanesque Cathedral in Sovana, Italy
(University of Kansas, 2009-08-28)The purpose of this dissertation is to shed light on the study of Romanesque art in Italy with a investigation of the cathedral in Sovana, an historically significant but understudied Romanesque church located in southern ... -
Beyond Sweetgrass: The Life and Art of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
(University of Kansas, 2008-10-27)This dissertation is a brief monographic study of noted American Indian artist-Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. No such study of Smith has been completed to date. This particular study is different because it consists of a Native ... -
The Proceeds of Prosperity: Images of Domestic Money Management and Exchange in Dutch Genre Painting in the Middle of the Seventeenth Century
(University of Kansas, 2009-01-01)The Proceeds of Prosperity: Images of Domestic Money Management and Exchange in Dutch Genre Painting in the Middle of the Seventeenth Century provides a comprehensive study of genre paintings of household money management ... -
Representing the Daoist God Zhenwu, the Perfected Warrior, in Late Imperial China
(University of Kansas, 2008-02-29)Zhenwu, the Perfected Warrior, emerged as an anthropomorphic deity in the early Northern Song (960-1126) and reached the peak of his popularity in the Ming (1368-1644). Prior to this time he was known as Xuanwu, the Dark ... -
Barbara Morgan's Photographic Interpretation of American Culture, 1935-1980
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)In 1935, Barbara Morgan, a recent arrival in Depression-era New York, reinvented her career as an artist when she abandoned painting and adopted the medium of photography. In the four-and-a-half decades that followed, ... -
Christine de Pizan's Livre d'Epitre d'Othea a Hector at the Intersection of Image and Text
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)Christine de Pizan, the first professional author in Western Europe, wrote the Book of the Epistle of Othea to Hector in 1399. Of Italian origins, Christine had moved with her family to the Valois court of Charles V in ... -
James Ormsbee Chapin and the Marvin Paintings: An Epic of the American Farm
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)James Ormsbee Chapin and the Marvin Paintings: An Epic of the American Farm This dissertation re-examines the early career of James Ormsbee Chapin (1887-1975), and his most celebrated group of works known collectively as ...