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History of Art and Architecture Theses and Dissertations
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(University of Oregon, 2021-04-29)Taking the 2012 Japanese video game La Mulana as a case study, this thesis investigates the contemporary reception the popular culture idea of 1.) an adventuring archaeologist who finds 2.) an artifact in a moment of 3.) ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-04-27)During its ninety-year history, the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) has undergone four major architectural renovations, accrued a permanent collection of almost 200,000 works, mounted over 5,000 exhibitions, and ...
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(University of Oregon, 1980-12)"Quattrocento Female Portraiture: A Study of Literary, Cultural, and Artistic Relationships," is an analysis of the unique visual nature of female portraiture in fifteenth-century Italy. Although rarely commented on in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)This thesis explores the photography of Oregon’s lesbian land communities, through the Ovular workshops hosted at the lesbian land Rootworks from 1980 to 1983 and their subsequent magazine The Blatant Image (1981-1983). I ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)This thesis analyzes Signal Fire, a Portland-based arts organization founded in 2008. The organization produces extended, reading-intensive, and practice-oriented backpacking artist residencies in wild places. My own ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)The complexity of Hélio Oiticica’s Parangolés poses a challenge to art historians. The multiplicity of the Parangolés’ iterations coupled with their unclear history make them hard to define, and consequently hard to put ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)At the 2011 Venice Biennale, the Israeli artist Yael Bartana represented Poland with “…And Europe Will Be Stunned”, a film trilogy that depicts the rise and evolution of the fictional movement JRMIP - Jewish Renaissance ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)As one of the first Chinese modernist artists to study painting in Paris in the 1920s, Pang Xunqin’s art and design projects were profoundly influenced by both Western European and Chinese aesthetics. From the 1930s to ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)While Taiwanese queer film and literature studies have flourished over the last few decades, virtually no English language scholarship on the history of LGBTQ art in Taiwan and Mainland China exists. Due to the contentious ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)In this thesis I apply literary analysis to railroad guidebook illustration (1880-1890) to argue that the framing and decorative embellishments aided the nineteenth century reader in imagining an idealized version of the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)This thesis examines the graphic design and propaganda generated by the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina. The football tournament drew ever more scrutiny to the brutal repression carried out by the Argentina’s last military ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)This thesis analyzes how noblewomen utilized partitions (shutters, blinds, screens, and curtains) to position themselves as active subjects in their social engagements by controlling the attention and perception of visitors ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)This thesis explores the institutional and financial histories of James Turrell’s Roden Crater (1974-ongoing), Michael Heizer’s City (1972-ongoing), and Charles Ross’s Star Axis (1971-ongoing). It frames these works as ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)Eladio Dieste was a tireless innovator of engineering and architecture during the latter half of the twentieth century. His work has not been investigated extensively, although his structural ceramic construction techniques ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)For a long time, most women believed they had to choose between their Muslim or Arab identity and their belief in social equality of sexes. It was almost impossible to choose between either betraying their religious ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)Niccolò Menghini’s marble sculpture of Santa Martina (ca. 1635) in the Church of Santi Luca e Martina in Rome belongs to the seventeenth-century genre of sculpture depicting saints as dead or dying. Until now, scholars ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)Incorporating Egyptian imagery in a Roman medium, Isiac Ritual Worship is a remarkable example of first-century CE Roman wall painting. Discovered in Herculaneum, it illustrates a ritual to the Egyptian goddess Isis. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)This thesis investigates the hybrid nature of Augustus’ Actium Monument at Nicopolis, Greece, completed c. 29-27 B.C.E. A commemoration of Augustus’ naval victory over the forces of Marc Antony and Cleopatra VII, the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)This thesis treats a book-bound miniature library presented (probably in 1619) as a luxury gift to the English politician and courtier Sir Julius Caesar. Though it contains forty-four tiny books, the collection was not ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This thesis looks at illegal public art produced on state built barrier walls. The focus is on the artist Ron English, and his artworks produced on the Berlin Wall, Israeli Barrier Wall, and Mexican Border Fence. I examine ...