Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "art history"
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Art of Documentation: The Sherborne Missal and the Role of Documents in English Medieval Art
(2013-02-22)This dissertation considers an unfamiliar but fundamental aspect of late-medieval art: the role of documentation. Documents played as critical a part in that society as they do in our own. In late-medieval consciousness, ... -
Artistic Production, Race, and History in Colonial Cuba, 1762-1840
(2013-02-11)This dissertation addresses the works of art of two free men of color, Vicente Escobar (1762-1834) and José Antonio Aponte (date of birth unknown-1812), who lived in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Havana. I ... -
A Black Presence Disclosed in Absence: The Politics of Difference in Contemporary Art
(2013-02-25)As an interdisciplinary project that integrates African and African American Studies, critical race theory, and Art History, this dissertation attempts to enrich our understanding of the politics of difference in contemporary ... -
Cross and Book: Late-Carolingian Breton Gospel Illumination and the Instrumental Cross
(2013-02-15)Crosses made in metal, paint, or stone stand at a singular intersection of past, present and future in the early medieval period. The historical cross of Golgotha is the source of such manufactured crosses’ form and power. ... -
An Exploration of the Function of Lamps in Archaic and Classical Greek Culture: Use, Concepts, and Symbolism
(2013-02-13)Scholarship on Archaic and Classical Greek lamps has traditionally been in the form of typological studies and catalogues. This dissertation represents an alternative to such works, offering a fuller picture of the function ... -
Fervent Faith. Devotion, Aesthetics, and Society in the Cult of Our Lady of Remedios (Mexico, 1520-1811)
(2012-07-23)This study examines the cult of Our Lady of Remedios from an art-historical perspective. Choosing this specific cult statue as a case study is not arbitrary: Remedios is among the oldest Marian images in the New World and ... -
The Goblet of Philip the Good. Precious Vessels at the Court of Burgundy
(2013-02-19)Vessels made of precious materials such as gold, silver and hardstone once filled the treasuries of late medieval rulers and were counted among their most valuable and representative possessions. Only a minimal fraction ... -
Land Grant Painted Maps: Native Artists and the Power of Visual Persuasion in Colonial New Spain
(2013-02-12)This dissertation analyzes the social function of native art in colonial New Spain through the examination of a genre of maps painted by Indian artists known as Land Grants or Mapas de Mercedes. Land Grant maps constitute ... -
Political Designs: Architecture and Urban Renewal in the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1973
(2012-09-17)This dissertation considers the impact of the U.S. civil rights movement on postwar urban design and urban policy, looking specifically at the case of urban renewal, a federal program of urban reconstruction intended to ... -
Rethinking Frontier Paradigms in Northeastern New Spain: Jesuit Mission Art at Santa María de las Parras, 1598-1767
(2012-09-12)This dissertation addresses key questions that are yet to be answered related to the involvement of local patrons in the decoration of northern New Spanish churches. The case study of the Jesuits' church of San Ignacio in ...