Art & Art History ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Dream Confirmation: Present Thoughts on My Work Completed Between the Summer and Autumn of 1977, Philip J. Calabria
Modern Photography in America: Marketing the Machine Esthetic, Joseph Maurice Deal
From Obsession to Oxymoron: Sonic Cartoons, Steven Ralph Fitch
The Cliché-Verre in the Nineteenth Century, Elizabeth J. Glassman
Response to Structure: An Explication of My Work, Dennis Paul Grady
The Photography of Charles Fletcher Lummis, 1887 to 1892, James Richard Hajicek
Predicting the Unpredictable, Elizabeth A. Kay
An Historical and Practical Manual for Hand Silk Screened Textiles, Grace Danisch Kraft
I Want To Say Something About All That Noise, Stacy Louise Mann
Apologia Photographica, Joseph William Marshall
Towards the Completion of an Illusion, Joan Emaime Martin
Of Elements, Memories, and Dreams, Margaret Emily Newman
Decoration and Pattern as Picture, Nancy Norman
The Creation of Abstract Forms in Metal, Lynn Ellen Peters
Because I Must, Debra M. Sachs
Mother Knows Best, Robert Saxby
Picto-Relieves Ritmicos: Una Forma de Integrar la Pintura y la Escultura, Miguel A. Sosa
Maps and Space: Notes on Organization, Michael Christopher Stousland
Second Generation Abstract Expressionism, Donna Kay Tennant
Issues and Ideas: Shifting Perspectives in My Photographic Concerns, 1974-1978, Robert A. Widdicombe
Reflections on the Mundane, Virginia Stone Yen
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Nonverbal Communication, Mary Deborah Britton
The Art of Kiftlis Eg Marmae: An Interdisciplinary Work Exploring the Use of Art History and Museology as Vehicles for Aesthetic Statements, Juan Manuel Cabrero-Oliver
The Iconography of Mesoamerican Stone Yokes, Laurie Castro
The Old Gods of the Obverse of Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I, Jill Leslie Furst
On My Development as a Painter Since 1971, David Glenn Hines
My Work as the Visible Revelations of My Private World, Susan Louise Ricker
An Analysis of My Work, Michele Rockstroh
"Untitled", Sharret Rose
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
Toward a New Definition of Art, Glenna Boltuch
Notes on the Formation of a Photographic Aesthetic in Great Britain, 1839-1890, Philip R. Flower
The Development of My Work Between 1974-1976, David James Frazer
Apollonian and Dionysian Aspects of Greek and Roman Antiquity in Pablo Picasso's Prints, Griffin Philip Gaddie
The Published Writings of Alfred Stieglitz, Sarah E. Greenough
Francis Bedford, 1816-1894: English landscape photographer of the wet-plate period, Bill Jay
A Study of My Work and Its Influences, Vickie Kallies
Evolution of a Theme: From Simplicity to Complexity, Bruce M. Meisner
The Knowing View, Donald Lee Neal
Aspects of Photography as a Means of Growth, Bruce H. Patterson
The Contemporary Shaman, Harry Alvin Paynter Jr.
A Discussion of My Work, Illona M. Petrovits
Surrealism as Propaganda: American Social Surrealist Painters, 1930-1945, Michael Regan
My Work as a Visual Exploration of Human Conditions, Robert J. Sanchez
Activity Art, Benson Kurt Shaw
Harvey Ellis as Architect and Draftsman: A Clarification and Re-Evaluation, Ellen Threinen
Toward a Transformal Icon, John D. Werenko
Taking or Making Photographs: Intuitive and Cognitive Decisions of the Art Process, Edward Kenly White
Revolt Against the Mystical, Joel Peter Witkin
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
A Report on a Thesis in Painting Entitled "Discussion on Recent Work", Jane Grace Cole
An Analysis of the Creative Process: From Metal Imagery to Enigmatic Form, Virginia Mae Crompton
Filmmaking, Filmmakers, and Films: The Filmmaker-in-the-Schools Approach, Jon William Hardwick
Kinesthetic Sculpture, Andy Ray Jork Jr.
Ironic Vision in Twentieth Century Photography, Nicholas Hill Nixon
Gold Disks from the Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza, Yucatán: Stylistic Analysis and Ethnohistorical Interpretation, Merideth Daniel Paxton
The Resonant Environment, Frank Joseph Rolla
A Report on the Image Construction and Presentation Processes and Their Implications Within My Work, Kent T. Rush
The Creative Thought Process in Scientific and Artistic Problem Solving, James Michael Scott
Aspects of Light in Photography, Christopher Seiberling
Wet Grounds, John Stascak
The Arcane Leitmotiv: Inner Vision as Autobiography, Karen Rose Truax
On My Photographs, Kevin Wrigley
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Maps and Plans of Cities and Towns in Colonial New Spain, the Floridas, and Louisiana: Selected Documents from the Archivo General de Indias of Sevilla, François-Auguste de Montêquin
The Emergence of Twentieth Century Illusionism, Thomas Alan Goodman
An Analysis Of The Change In Contemporary Art Sensibilities In The Late 1960'S., Charles A. Hagen
The Venus Image, William Jay Masterson
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Manipulation in Photography, Stanley J. Bowman
Streamlining: Functionalism in American Product Design, 1927-1939, Donald John Bush
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
The Symbolic Photograph: A Means to Self-Knowledge; a Jungian Approach to the "Photographic Opus", Steven D. Foster
Le Théatre Poétique de Théodore de Banville, Christina Candelaria Gutiérrez
Photography Thesis, Andrea West Hecht
Charlotte Buell Coman, American Impressionist, Louise M. Lewis
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Recent Sculpture, Joseph A. Chavez
American Family Memorial Imagery, the Photograph, and the Search for Immortality, Daniel Gyger Snyder
Light, Form and Polyester Resin, Michael A. Willins
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
A Study of Spanish Colonial Silver In New Mexico, Leona Davis Boylan
European and Japanese Influences on Winslow Homer's Early Oil Paintings, 1859-1876, Cleta Honeyman Downey
Art at the "Mexican Front": Robert Henri, George Wesley Bellows and Leon Kroll in New Mexico, 1916-1922, Denise Catherine Melnick
Recent Developments in Representational Painting, William Arthur Richards
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
A Report on a Thesis in Sculpture Entitled "Experiments with Electro-Mechanical Light Switching as a Means of Visual Expression.", Richard Franco Baronio
The Nabis, Their Exhibitions and Critics: A Study of Their Position in the Parisian Art World of the 1890's, Clive Frank Getty
Vincent Van Gogh and Japonisme: One Source of His Artistic Development, Mayching M. Kao
The "Depth" Versus the "Breadth" Method for the Development of Creativity at the Sixth Grade Level, Onetia Jean Leonard
Developing Use of Student's Imagination in High School Art Classes, Lawrence Henry Sinnott
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
Beginning in Photography, James Alinder
A Survey of High School Art History in School Systems of 500,000, Thomas R. Farrar
The Life and Work of Thomas Duncan Benrimo, Richard Kurman
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
A Philosophical and Critical Analysis of My Work in Painting and Drawing, James Robert Bolton
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
Cady Wells: The Personal Vision, Kate Corbin Duncan
The Preservation of Art, Architecture and Artifacts of Trampas, New Mexico, Louise A. Harris