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The Land of the Stars: The Origin of Cy Twombly's Aesthetic (thesis)
My thesis focuses on a little-known backdrop Twombly painted for a children's Christmas program in 1953. The backdrop was first brought to my attention after The News-Gazette, the local Lexington newspaper, ran an archival ...
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 ...
The Careful Crafting of a Utopia: Yves Klein and the Anthropometric Event of March 9, 1960 (thesis)
. . . I have attempted to examine the Anthropometric event using a larger analytical framework -- I have looked back to the artist's earlier works, placed the performance within its socio-historical context, and prioritized ...
Dating a Femme Fatale: Donatello's Judith and Holofernes and the Battle of Anghiari (thesis)
The Battle of Anghiari marks the only moment in Cosimo's reign where he faced internal and external threats joined against Florence. Judith, a character often used to personify virtues,
takes on the role of a Medicean-led ...
Multiple Solutions to the "problem of the window" : A Historiographic Approach to René Magritte's Paintings-Within-Paintings (thesis)
I intend to look at the historiography of interpretations of Magritte's Fair Captive series to find the strongest methodology for the series' specifically. Because Magritte returned to the Fair Captive theme so often ...
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 ...
From Lexington to the Luxembourg Gardens: An Artist Rediscovered (thesis)
"Modern," as it applies to art, is a convenient catch-all term but hardly descriptive of anyone trend or style. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, innumerable painters, sculptors, and decorative artists emerged ...
Accessing the Divine: Private Devotional Diptychs and Triptychs of Fifteenth-Century Flanders (thesis)
Diptychs were not static portraits but rather functioning objects.' They demanded active viewer participation and contemplation. Yet, the diptych represents a very specific genre that developed because of the religious ...
The Birth of the Modern Book: Re-Reading Vollard's Livres d'Artistes (thesis)
It is my contention that Ambroise Vollard's livres d'artistes are not "mere" illustrated books, as Drucker would have it. Instead they are true artists' books in which the literary and the visual interact to create a more ...