Browsing by Subject "Art history"
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3D Animated Painting: Walking Inside of the Painting of The Goddess of the Luo
(2020)Increased consumption of virtual museum content today has fueled the development of new ways of improving the ‘museum experience.’ The sophisticated needs and expectations of the modern visitor in the pursuit of education, ... -
A Dangerous Undertaking: Appropriation Art, Intellectual Property, and Fair Use Since the 1990s
(2017)This dissertation is a historical examination of the broad and multifaceted role of appropriation in twentieth and twenty-first century American art. It argues for the complementarity of research in legal and art theory ... -
A Matter of Decision: Experimental Art in Hungary and Yugoslavia, 1968-1989
(2013)This dissertation analyzes experimental art movements in Hungary and the former Yugoslavia from 1968 to 1989, examining the variety of ways that artists responded to the ideological and practical failures of communism. I ... -
A New Approach to Digitizing Cultural Heritage: Constructing Immersive VR Experiences of Traditional Huizhou Architecture
(2023)Vernacular architectural studies are an integral part of the world’s cultural heritage research. Compared with other tangible or intangible cultural heritage, the physical properties of vernacular architecture and ... -
A Republic of the Arts: Constructing Nineteenth-Century Art History at the Musée national du Luxembourg, 1871-1914
(2014)Before the rise of the ubiquitous MOCA (museum of contemporary) there was the Musée national du Luxembourg that since its foundation in 1818, served as the first museum anywhere dedicated to contemporary art. Yet the ... -
A Transnational Bohemia: Dandyism and the Dance in the Futurist Art of Gino Severini, 1909-1914
(2011)ABSTRACTMy dissertation studies the intersection of popular entertainment and the visual arts in Paris during the first decades of the twentieth century and the dialogue that formed between this subculture and the avant-garde ... -
A Virtual Museum of Architecture: Creating an Alternative Visitor Experience
(2022)Although an integral part of art historical studies, authentic experiences of architecture have been excluded from the cathedrals of cultural objects, art museums. The built forms can seldomly fit into the doors of museums ... -
A Virtual Reality Application: Creating an Alternative Immersive Experience for Dunhuang Mogao Cave Visitors
(2023)As the largest cave of Buddhist art with thousands of murals spanning ten dynasties, the Dunhuang Mogao cave has been described as a “peerless cave” because of its fabulous frescos and handcrafted delicate sculptures. However, ... -
Analyzing the Crisis of Hilma af Klint: The Digital and Analog Analysis of Spirituality, Abstraction, and Art
(2018)Hilma af Klint, an oft-cited but underresearched Swedish artist, is often included in art historical literature on art and spirituality. And yet, the assumed art world affinity between Swedish artist Hilma af Klint and other ... -
Anarchism and Visual Culture in Greater Mexico, 1910-1950
(2019)This dissertation explores the influence of anarchism on the development of modern art in Mexico and the Americas from 1910 to 1950. It argues that art was an integral component of anarchist movements and that the philosophy ... -
Applying GIS to the Logistics of Material Transportation for Constructing the Baths of Caracalla in Rome
(2017)The purpose of this thesis is to visualize the economic system (supply, production, and transportation) and the logistics of the movement of marble in the Roman Empire in an effort to better understand the larger system ... -
Architectures of Aliveness: Building Beyond Gravity
(2015)In the context of today's global mobility, information, bodies and goods are circulating across the globe, and even further into outer space. However, we face a paradox: the more we move, the more we become sedentary. The ... -
Archiving Ephemerality: Digitizing the Berlin Wall
(2015)This thesis explores the way digital technologies inflect experiences with and meanings of art historical objects. Specifically, it addresses the way digital technologies can change the archiving, exhibiting, and experience ... -
Art, Commerce, and Caricature: Satirical Images of Artistic Life in Paris, 1750-1850
(2017)This dissertation examines a corpus of 486 satirical images of artistic life in Paris. The Parisian art-world was regularly the subject of a form of satirical criticism conducted in visual media. More significantly, this ... -
Attention to Suffering in the Work of Simone Weil and Käthe Kollwitz
(2018)This dissertation traces the ethical and conceptual connections between Weil’s account of attention and Kollwitz’s artistic practice of attention, especially attention to suffering. Attention, in Weil’s view, is a strenuous ... -
Coloring the Sacred: Visions of Devotional Kinship in Colonial Peru and Brazil
(2019)My dissertation, “Coloring the Sacred: Visions of Devotional Kinship in Colonial Peru and Brazil,” spans disciplinary, linguistic, and imperial bounds to explore how local devotion to saints expressed through visual media ... -
Decoding Artifacts for the Museum Viewer: Case Study of a Virtue from the Cathedral of Notre Dame in the Nasher Museum of Art
(2015)Decoding Artifacts is a project that explores the ways in which technologies and interactive media enhance the museum visitor’s learning experience with art. The digital components of the project include a website and a ... -
Dedication and Display of Portrait Statues in Hellenistic Greece: Spatial Practices and Identity Politics
(2016)This dissertation models a new approach to the study of ancient portrait statues—one that situates them in their historical, political, and spatial contexts. By bringing into conversation bodies of evidence that ... -
Diplomatic Gifts and Cold War Strategies: The Role of North Korea’s Overseas Art Studios in Egyptian Memorial Culture
(2023)The dissertation explores the artistic and cultural histories behind Egyptian national monuments and museums that were built and renovated by North Korean artists and architects. Archival materials from the American University ... -
Documenting Chile: Visualizing Identity and the National Body from Dictatorship to Post-Dictatorship
(2016)I study three contemporary Chilean works of visual culture that appropriate and re-assemble visual material, discourse, and atmosphere from the bureaucracy of the military state. I examine Diamela Eltit’s textual performance ...
