Browsing by Subject "Washington and Lee University -- Honors in Art History"
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The Nine Friends of Suzhou: A Study of Traditional Chinese Fan Painting from the Qing Dynasty in the Groke Mickey Collection at Washington and Lee University
The Groke Mickey Fan Collection at the Reeves Center of Washington and Lee University represents a variety of styles and trends during the closing years of the Qing Dynasty in China. By choosing to look at this selection ... -
No Strings Attached: Fernando Botero's "Boy Playing Guitar" in Context
This thesis serves to expand upon our understanding of Fernando Botero's early career through the analysis of an undocumented work entitled "Boy Playing Guitar." This painting is a crucial work in Botero's early stylistic ... -
Pope Nicholas IV and the Feast of the Assumption: Style as Propaganda
In 1288, Pope Nicholas IV took advantage of the popularity of the Feast of the Assumption among pilgrims and centered his program of patronage on the two churches involved in the procession: St. John Lateran and Santa ... -
The Power of Ojbects: An Exploration Into the Work of Chiharu Shiota (thesis)
I begin this thesis with a discussion of Shiota's Across the Continents. Seeing this exhibit in the spring of 2015 inspired what was to become this year-long project. Throughout this thesis, I explore Shiota's Across the ... -
The Question of Success in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Propaganda
When beginning my research on the two seventeenth-century battle paintings by Velazquez and Maino, Surrender of Breda and Recapture of Bahia, I frequently encountered information concerning the declining state of the Spanish ... -
Re-Imagined Elephants: Authenticity, Authority, and Culture in Indian and South African Souvenirs (thesis)
In brief, then, to properly understand these elephants and other cultural constructions, I posit that these souvenirs present ‘imagined representations' – deliberate, economically beneficial, and performative identities ... -
Reevaluating "Peripheral Sources" : The Impact of David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco on Jackson Pollock (thesis)
In the 2000 biopic titled Pollock starring Ed Harris, a photographic reproduction of José Clemente Orozco's Prometheus is prominently displayed in Jackson Pollock's studio (Figure 1). Harris, who also directed the movie, ... -
Signs of Yuan Dynasty Imperialism in Tibet: Decoding the Fourteenth-Century Painted Representations of Textiles at Shalu Monastery (thesis)
Two primary questions guide my thesis. First, why did the Mongols, one of the most powerful empires of Asia ruling Tibet at the time (1279-1368), not establish their own aesthetic or simply import one of the well established ... -
The Symbiotic Relationship Between Klimt and the Bourgeoisie for the Development of Artistic Identity (thesis)
Fin-de-siècle Vienna was a hotbed of cultural activity with an ethnically diverse population because it was the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This turbulent time in history led to the formation of the Vienna ... -
The Birth of the Modern Book: Re-reading Vollard's Livres d'artistes
Ambroise Vollard certainly treated all his book projects as works of art. He was tremendously involved in all his book projects, from choosing the literary artist and visual artist to editing the final appearance of the ... -
The Photographic Image: New High Art of the Twentieth Century
The production of the photograph, by exposing the negative film to light through the aperture of the camera can be qualified as the "art" of photography; mastering the "art" has everything to do with the process of creation. ... -
Triumph and Tradition in Veronese's Venice: Political Propaganda in the Doge's Palace
Works such as the Triumph of Venice seem only ornate, skillfully painted images of allegory and overblown state glory. Yet upon further inspection, the relationship of this work to the Paradise connects the power of the ... -
Vox Clamantis in Deserto: Carthusian Experience in the Papal Chapel at Villeneuve (thesis)
The scholarship that has dealt with Giovanetti tends to focus on his surviving works in the Palace of the Popes, especially the chapels of St. Martial and St. John. These spaces have survived more or less intact, and they ... -
We Warred Over Art: Pandemonium at Le Sacre du Printemps (thesis)
Diaghilev continued this process of bringing Russian art to France under the auspices of the Ballets Russes. With this company, Diaghilev assembled dozens of innovative artists, choreographers, and composers with the common ...