Browsing by Author "Buchloh, Benjamin"
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"The Architecture of the Book": El Lissitzky's Works on Paper, 1919-1937
Johnson, Samuel (2015-05-17)Although widely respected as an abstract painter, the Russian Jewish artist and architect El Lissitzky produced more works on paper than in any other medium during his twenty year career. Both a highly competent lithographer ... -
Body, Subject, Self: The Art of Piero Manzoni
McGrath, John Thomas (2014-06-06)Piero Manzoni (1933-1963) is one of the best-known and under-theorized artists in all of postwar Europe. His body of work includes a range of practices from monochrome painting to readymade objects, from participatory ... -
an Exhibit / an Aesthetic: The Independent Group and Postwar Exhibition Design
Lotery, Kevin (2015-05-17)This dissertation tracks the exhibition design practices developed in and around the Independent Group (IG) from the late 1940s through the 1950s. A loose affiliation of artists, architects, and critics, the IG gathered ... -
Exile at Work: The Portrait Photography of Gisèle Freund, Lisette Model, and Lotte Jacobi, 1930-1955
Yoon, Hyewon (2016-05-17)My dissertation examines the emergence of photographic portraiture as a vehicle for illuminating the experience of European exiles and their cultural migrations under the threat of fascism. I anchor my study in the works ... -
Hantai, Villegle, and the Dialectics of Painting's Dispersal
Buchloh, Benjamin (MIT Press, 2000) -
I Want to Go to the Future Please: Jenny Holzer and the End of a Century
Breslin, David Conrad (2013-03-18)The task of this dissertation is to assess the historical conditions that permitted Jenny Holzer to formulate a practice premised on language and conceptions of public space to break from historical avant-garde and ... -
Raymond Pettibon: Return to Disorder and Disfiguration
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Total Expansion of the Letter: Cubism, Dada, Mallarmé
Stark, Trevor (2016-06-22)This dissertation, entitled “Total Expansion of the Letter: Cubism, Dada, Mallarmé,” studies the transformation of the status of language in European avant-garde art of the 1910s and 20s. This occurred both literally, in ...