Browsing by Subject "Contemporary Art"
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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 ... -
An Aesthetic Disposition: Art, Social Reproduction, and Feminist Critique
(2020)This project focuses on the question: how might we understand the politics of contemporary art? Grounding my research in feminist political theory, I argue that art’s most critical function—in the US-based context ... -
“Chinese Whispers”? The “China” that Disappears from Lossy Communications
(2021)In 1949, Bell Lab mathematician Claude Shannon modeled telephone communication by assigning statistic regularity to the rather irregular usage of human language. His lab mate Warren Weaver took a step further, putting the ... -
Ethiopia in Focus: Photography, Nationalism, Diaspora, and Modernization
(2020)This dissertation examines photographic representations of Ethiopian identity. It focuses on Emperor Haile Selassie I as a recuperative figure in Pan-African contexts, images by court photographer and later London studio ... -
Framing Latin American Art: Artists, Critics, Institutions and the Configuration of a Regional Identity
(2015)This dissertation investigates how non-academic agents (i.e. artists, curators, and institutions) helped construct the current canon of Latin American art. It takes as case studies key exhibitions held in Brazil in order ...
