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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, 2013-07-11)Cases of Italian embedded self-portraiture appear in the sacred art of some of the most renowned artists of the Cinquecento and early Seicento, artists such as Bronzino, Michelangelo, Titian, Tintoretto, and Caravaggio. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)The Grave Stele of Hegeso (410 – 400 B.C.E) is an ancient Greek mistress-maid type funerary stele from Athens that depicts an elite woman attended to by an enslaved attendant. This thesis centers the analysis on the enslaved ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)Between the late 1940s and the 1970s, the New Brutalism attempted to establish an ethical architecture befitting post-World War II Britain. For this reason, it became a popular style for public buildings, including social ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-12)This thesis will position the work of contemporary photographer Jeff Wall among his peers from the 1980s until the present with an emphasis on the transition from theoretical modes of references to the art historical ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-09)While the use of Native and non-Native elements in recent American Indian art is well documented, the work of contemporary Northwest artist Rick Bartow is frequently discussed almost exclusively in terms of biography. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)Raoul Dufy created woodcut illustrations for a book of poetry by Guillaume Apollinaire entitled, Le Bestiaire, au, Le Cortege d'Orphee, in 1910. Shortly thereafter, radical haute couture leader, Paul Poiret, commissioned ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)This thesis examines the history of distribution platforms for artists' video. Artists' video is defined as time based art works that employ the medium of film, videotape, digital video, or any combination thereof. The ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)In 1944, Marcel Duchamp organized a widely publicized exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City, The Imagery of Chess. This thesis will explore The Imagery of Chess exhibition in terms of the intertwined aspects ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)The Mexican-Hungarian photographer Kati Horna (1912–2000) photographed the Spanish Civil War and created photomontages for the anarchist organization, the CNT-FAI (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo-Federación Anarquista ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)New York City, a major capital of the art world since the mid-20th century, has long been an important center for site-specific contributions by avant-garde artists interested in activism, identity, and collectivism. This ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-10)The Baramon is a handmade kite from the Gotô Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Its motif features a fierce ogre biting an ornate warrior's helmet. Today, the Baramon is widely recognized as a unique Gotô product. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)My thesis examines four major religious commissions from distinct points within Goya's artistic development. Each piece serves as a touchstone for a discussion of its particular moment, provoking analyses of iconography, ...
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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, 2010-06)When André Breton released his Manifesto of Surrealism in 1924, he established the pursuit of psychic automatism as Surrealism's principle objective, and a debate concerning the legitimacy or possibility of Surrealist ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)Saint Theodosia of Constantinople, an iconodule martyr of the eighth century, was credited with leading the resistance to the destruction of the icon of Christ on the Chalke Gate. This thesis focuses on the icons of ...
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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 ...
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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, 2014-09-29)Many scholars exclude New York painter Philip Guston (1913-80) from the artistic tradition of Abstract Expressionism due to his absence from New York City during the group's early formative years. This thesis asserts, ...
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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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