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The General's House: The Lee House as Building, Home, and Shrine (thesis)
Houses that still fill their intended role of "family home" rarely can be described as a shrine or memorial, yet that is the best way to describe the Lee House. While built to house a university president, a function it ... -
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 ... -
Critiques of a Strategist: Jean-Michel Basquiat (thesis)
Jean-Michael Basquiat (1960-1988) was one of the most distinguished artists of the 1980s international art scene. His strategic alliances with the media and major galleries in New York City allowed him to legitimize his ... -
At the Forefront of Feminism: William Merritt Chase and the American New Woman
Chase married Alice Gerson, whose father managed a large lithography firm, in 1886. She proved to be an inspiration for Chase throughout the rest of his life and frequently appears in his work. While other artists painted ... -
Florence + The Machine: A Computational Approach to Florentine Liturgical Manuscript Illuminations from the Late Trecento (thesis)
This thesis investigates early methods to use artificial intelligence to sort images of medieval Italian manuscript illuminations by workshop from 1360 to 1400. Sorted images were passed through a 2-dimensional convolutional ... -
The Challenges Facing Changemakers in Increasing Museum Collection & Exhibit Inclusivity (thesis)
Over the last forty years, growing demands from activists and stakeholders have increased pressure on museums throughout the United States to diversify their permanent collections, exhibitions and programming by including ... -
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 ... -
Adriana Corral: Reimagining U.S. History and Creating Memory Along the U.S.-Mexico Border Through Unearthed: Desenterrado (thesis)
By approaching Corral's work from a theoretical perspective, one more fully appreciates how Unearthed: Desenterrado works to acknowledge the dominant historical narrative and how it manipulates which memories are remembered. ... -
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, ... -
Divine Intervention: Visionary Imagery and Authority in the Convent of San Domenico of Pisa (thesis)
My thesis forces viewers to reconsider the purpose of images in the convent of San Domenico of Pisa. While scholars such as Ann Roberts argue that the founder of the convent, Chiara Gambacorta, commissioned images of ... -
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 ...