Art & Art History ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Constantino Escalante's Lithographs in La Orquesta and the National Legacy of the Mexican Constitution of 1857, Steven V. Cary
Living Between the Lines: How Japanese Crafts Taught Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, and Eileen Gray to See Modern Domestic Space, Regina Nabil Emmer
GRAPHIC SCOTLAND: VISUALITY AND EMPIRE, 1810 – 1913, Laura Michelle Golobish
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
William Blake's Satan as a Hermaphrodite, Genevieve E. Hartsock
From Stasis to Ecstasy: Tracing Bernard of Clairvaux's "Queer" Influence on French Gothic Art, Jackson O. Larson
Stripped and Exploited Blackness: Black Nude Men in the Art of F. Holland Day and John Singer Sargent, David P. Saiz
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
PILGRIMAGE TO THE VIRGIN OF JUQUILA: THE NEGOTIATION OF CATHOLIC INSTITUTIONAL POWER IN COLONIAL OAXACA, Paloma Barraza
The Origins and Development of Textile Writing in Peru, William M. Cheek
Socioeconomic Status and Recognized Talent in Scholastic Art Awards, Steven Heil
Contemporary Alaska Native Identities: Creation and Curation by Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Tess McCoy
"Maa-multh-nii" People Who Came Floating In: Analogues between Nuu-chah-nulth and Tlingit with Spanish Colonial Expeditions in the Eighteenth Century, Suzanne R. McLeod
Healing Through the Photographic Murals of James "Chip" "Jetsonorama" Thomas, Mandolen Sanchez
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Shawn Hunt's Transformation Mask: The Intersection of Contemporary and Traditional Heiltsuk Art, Terese R. Lukey
The Tsin Bee Hooghan: Cross-Cultural Discourse and the Emergence of a New Icon of Diné Cultural Identity, Lillian Makeda
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Arts of Resistance: Ecologic History and Contemporary Interventions in the Valley of Mexico, Chloë L. Courtney
COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS AND CROSS-CULTURAL EXAMINATION OF BLUE AND BLUE-GREEN POST-FIRE COLORANTS ON TOLITA-TUMACO CERAMICS, Breanna F. Reiss
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The Indigenous Sovereign Body: Gender, Sexuality and Performance., Michelle S. McGeough and Michelle Susan McGeough
TESTIMONIES OF VIOLENCE: IMAGES OF FRANCISCAN MARTYRS IN THE PROVINCES OF NEW SPAIN, Emmanuel Ortega
Porous Time and Space in Contemporary Photography: How Social Constructions of Space and Reenactment Produce Alternative Histories, Emma Brooke Lehrer Stein
Yinka Shonibare MBE's Critiques of Empire and His Reception in Four Transnational Case Studies, Johanna Wild
Folk, the Naïve and Indigeneity: Defining Strategies in Violeta Parra's Visual Art, Serda Yalkin
Cultural imPRINT: a History of Northwest Coast Native and First Nations Prints, India Rael Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Rauschenberg, ROCI, and Cuba's Young Lions, Brett Beatty
Refocusing the Frontier: Recalling the Photography of Robert Adams and Mark Klett, Christian W. Olsson
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
DESIGNING FOR IMMERSIVE TECHNOLOGY: INTEGRATING ART AND STEM LEARNING, Jane Crayton
The Fruits of Empire: Contextualizing Food in Post-Civil War American Art and Culture, Shana Klein
Discursive Capabilities of Contemporary Artistic Practices in Honduras, Gustavo Larach
"The Four Horseman of the Late Capitalist Apocalypse": U.S. Comic Books, Ideology, and Trauma in Post-9/11 Society, Kathryn Manis
The Ideal Citoyenne: Women, Class, & The French Revolution in Philibert Louis Debucourt's Fine-Art Prints, Kelsey Martin
Neal Ambrose-Smith: The Artistic Modernity of Indianness, Erik Parker
Festivals of Art, Carnivals of Representation: On Contemporary Art and Neoliberalism, Tijen Tunali
Posh and Tawdry: Rethinking E.J. Bellocqs' Storyville Portraits, Christian Waguespack
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Transformative Skin: The Ongoing Legacy of Inuit and Yupik Women's Tattoos, Mariah Carrillo
Touching Nether-Regionalisms: Paul Cadmus as Exemplary Foil to a Homegrown American Art, Maxine Marks
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Chronicles of Revolution and Nation: El Taller de Gráfica Populars 'Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana' (1947), Mary Theresa Avila
The Other's Other: Negotiating "Normativity" in Contemporary Photography from the United States, Corey Dzenko
Inhabited Landscapes: Nudes, Spirituality, and Coevality in the Landscape Paintings of Armando Morales, Regina Emmer
A Way of Seeing: The Transformation of American Soldiers' Snapshot Photography During the Vietnam War, Sara Hagerty
Defying Binaries: A Critical Examination of 'Old' Versus 'New' in the Art of Pablita Velarde and Helen Hardin, Jenna Kloeppel
The Delaware Indians and the Development of Prairie-Style Beadwork, Denise Neil-Binion
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Subversion through Inversion: Kent Monkman's "The Triumph of Mischief", Monique Belitz
Diego Rivera at the San Francisco Art Institute, Hilary Ellenshaw
Three Rivers as Transitional Zone: Considering a Collective Metanarrative in Pueblo Prehistory, Heather Kline
Quilting: An Examination of Harriet Powers and Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, Jennifer Moreland
FRAMES BEHIND THE THRONE: CONTEXTUALIZING THE CALOTYPE ALBUMS OF PRINCE ALBERT 1850-1859, Sherri Sorensen-Clem
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Utility of Murder: Fred Gildersleeve and the Lynching of Jesse Washington, Stephanie Morimoto
The Open Veins of Guayasamín's Paintings, Maria Otero
Indigenous Remapping in the Southern Californian Landscape, Elysia Poon
Performing Graffiti: The Use of Electronically and Digitally Modified Graffiti in Activist Art Practices, Megan Schultz
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Conquest, Consequences, Restoration: The Art of Rebecca Belmore, Kathleen DeBlassie
The Interrelationship of Identities: How Artistic Practice Informs Teaching in the Visual Arts, Karen G. Adams Edwards
Three Case Studies of National Narratives in Central American Art, Gustavo Larach
The Once and Future King: A New Approach to Ancient Maya Mortuary Monuments from Palenque, Tikal, and Copan, Elizabeth Olton
The Reception of Autos-de-Fe in 18th Century New Spain: Image, Text and Practice, Emmanuel Ortega
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
The Cusco School Defense of the Eucharist: A Tribute to Tink, Annick Benavides
IMAGINING THE NOBLE AND LOYAL CITY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BIOMBO FRANZ MAYER, Madalena Consuelo Salazar
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
'Bajo su sombra': The Narration and Reception of Colonial Urban Space in Early Nineteenth-Century Havana, Cuba, Paul Barrett Niell
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Arthur Shilling: Anishinaabemowin-Mazinibiiʼigewinini, Suzanne Rita McLeod
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Syncretic topographies: the portraits of Seydou Keïta, Sara L. Marion
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Types and Markets: Photography and Masks Among the Nuxalk in the Twentieth Century, Joanne P. Carrubba
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
The Slide: Image and Object, Cindy D. Abel Morris
Giving Birth To Onions, Stefanie London Feld-Galbraith
Rethinking Martín Chambi, Michele M. Penhall
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Egypt Recovered: The Photographic Surveys of Maxime Du Camp, Félix Teynard, and John Beasley Greene, and the Development of Egyptology, Kathleen Stewart Howe
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Sculptors of the Realm: Classic Maya Artists' Signatures and Sculptural Style During the Reign of the Piedras Negras Ruler 7, John Ellis Montgomery
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
The Linguistic Affiliation And Phoneticism Of Teotihuacan Iconography, David Brown
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Anne Seymour Damer (1748-1828), Sculptor, Susan Benforado
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
The Fossil Records, Glenn Craig Cornwall
Stylistic And Iconographic Study Of Lower Central American Stone Sculpture, Joan Kathryn Lingen B.V.M.
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
Architecture and town development in the mining camps of Southwestern New Mexico, Carol L. Clark
Edward Weston's Early Photography, 1903-1926, Amy Conger
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Restoring Soul With Art, Lawrence Michael Rutherford
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
DéSiré Charnay: Photographer, Keith F. Davis
Progress in Preparedness, Vahe Guzelimian
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
The Camera: Its Literary Context, Dana Asbury
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
The Iconography Of Mesoamerican Stone Yokes, Laurie Castro
The Reciprocal Influence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Meridel Rubenstein
The Kilburn Brothers Stereoscopic View Company, Thomas W. Southall
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Francis Bedford, 1816-1894: English landscape photographer of the wet-plate period, Bill Jay
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Gold Disks from the Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza, Yucatán: Stylistic Analysis and Ethnohistorical Interpretation, Merideth Daniel Paxton
The Resonant Environment, Frank Joseph Rolla
The Creative Thought Process in Scientific and Artistic Problem Solving, James Michael Scott
Aspects of Light in Photography, Christopher Seiberling
Wet Grounds, John Stascak
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
The Venus Image, William Jay Masterson
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
The Religious Polychromed Wood Sculpture Of Colonial Quito: Its Origins and Sources, Gabrielle G. Palmer
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
From Visigothic To Gothic:A Study Of Styles In The Church Of The Divine Saviour; Vejer De La Frontera (Cadiz), Spain., Dolores Coppel Bogard
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Recent Sculpture, Joseph A. Chavez
American Family Memorial Imagery, the Photograph, and the Search for Immortality, Daniel Gyger Snyder
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
René Lalique: A Biographical And Stylistic Analysis Of Two Areas Of Influence - Classical And Japanese Art, Judith Gayle Booth
Navajo Pictorial Weaving: Its Past and Present Condition, Dorothy Elizabeth Boyd
Recent Developments in Representational Painting, William Arthur Richards
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
A Study Of The Mary Lester Field Collection Of Spanish Colonial Silver, Leona Mae Boylan
An Initial Evaluation Of A Sixth Grade Group'S Attitude Toward Art Using A Semantic Differential Instrument., Nancy Carnohan
Mexico'S Thermidorian Reaction, 1940-1960., Kenneth S. Cott
Problems Related To Selected Spanish Colonial Paintings in New Mexico., Louberta Ann Culley
