Browsing by Thesis Department "Art and Art History (UMKC)"
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1897 Exposition Congolaise, Tervuren: Colonialism and the Belgian Avant-Garde
(2014)In May of 1897, the Exposition Coloniale in Le Palais des Colonies, opened on the site of the Royal Park in Tervuren in conjunction with l'Exposition internationale de Bruxelles held at the same time in the city center. ... -
Ana Mendieta- a search for identity
(2012)Ana Mendieta was a Cuban-American female artist, whose work was a continuing search for identity throughout her life. She often searched for her roots in the earth itself, using it directly in her art and with her own ... -
Art in Scale: Barbara Marshall and the Fine-Scale Miniature Movement
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)Throughout time, humans have engaged with miniatures as a means of making sense of their world. For each generation and each culture, this phenomenon manifests in a way that meets the needs of its participants. This thesis ... -
"Art is religion:" Adolf Hoelzel's modernism
(2012)This study considers the work of Austrian-born Adolf Hoelzel (1853-1934), an innovative artist and educator whose contributions to German modernism deserve to be reassessed. His intense lifelong search to understand the ... -
The Boundaries of Femininity: A Case for Two Women Artists Working in Eighteenth-century France
(2015)Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard were two of the most prominent women artists in France during the second half of the eighteenth-century. I argue in this thesis that in their responses to a range of ... -
Buddhist imagery in the work of Paul Gauguin: the impact of primitivism, theology and cultural studies
(2014)Scholars attribute aesthetics in Gauguin's work to the 1889 Paris Exposition universelle and Gauguin's quest for the primitive and 'exotic. This study takes a deeper look at Gauguin and examines the personal context in ... -
Camille Claudel: The Struggle for Artistic Idenity
(2014)During Camille Claudel's lifetime, she pursued a career that was largely defined in terms of Auguste Rodin. This perspective of her work may be seen most notably in the reactions to her sculpture L'Âge Mûr. This work was ... -
Caricature as the record of medical history in eighteenth-century London
(2013)This thesis examines two disparate developments that began in sixteenth-century Renaissance Italy and converged in almost inconceivable ways in eighteenth-century London. One of these developments was the public study ... -
Contemporary Landscape Photography: Dissolving Boundaries in Jungjin Lee’s Wind Series
(2016)In the Wind series (2004-2007), Korean photographer Jungjin Lee captures tumultuous views of the American desert. These photographs are printed on handmade mulberry paper, which Lee sensitizes by hand and heavily edits ... -
Crafting the past: the appropriation of found photography in the African-American revisionist art of Betye Saar
(2013)This thesis uses Betye Saar as a lens through which to explore how contemporary black artists address negative, inaccurate, or incomplete perspectives of African-American history. It will focus on the popular trend of ... -
Daniel H. Burnham: his legacy to American architecture
(2013)This thesis will identify artistic sensibilities and leadership characteristics of the American architect Daniel H. Burnham (1846-1912). It will assert that this particular architect had enormous impact on urbanism in ... -
Dialogue at the Threshold: The Artist Between Museum and Community
(2015)Artists Suzanne Lacy and Ann Hamilton use forms of language to produce experiences that challenge the individual’s perception. While differing in methods and outcomes, Lacy and Hamilton construct environments that allow ... -
Diego Rivera: constructing a myth
(2011)Diego Rivera was a master of creating visual languages to express his ideas and beliefs. Throughout his life, he actively sought to define Mexican culture and his life through his art and his writing. Much of how he is ... -
Dining and revelry in French rococo art
(2012)This thesis explores the popularization of the theme of the 'hunt luncheon' in the Rococo period, within the context of the châteaux renovations undertaken during the reign of Louis XV. In 1730s, the young king commissioned ... -
Eatopia: aesthetic spaces of collective food consumption in contemporary art
(2013)Contemporary artists Rirkrit Tiravanija and Jennifer Rubell offer food and sociability both literally and metaphorically. By inviting exhibition visitors to eat meals in specially conceived spaces within art galleries, ... -
Egypt, the Fictive Theater of Napoleon's Glory: A Celebration of the Egyptian Campaign in Paintings, Architecture, and Decorative Arts
(2013)The reign of Napoleon Bonaparte was one of military glory, both real and imagined. In this thesis, I examine the promotion of Napoleon's Egyptian campaign (1798-1801), perhaps the most disastrous episode of his military ... -
Embroidering Biblical Heroines in Seventeenth-Century England
(2015)English embroideries in the seventeenth century frequently depict biblical narratives that feature examples of proper female behavior. Produced by young girls and women, they were made to adorn the embroiderer’s home in ... -
Forgotten landmark: the Municipal Auditorium of Kansas City, Missouri
(2013)The Municipal Auditorium is a grand civic building in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, which encompasses venues for theater, music and athletics. Designed by Gentry, Voskamp, and Neville, and associated architects, Hoit, ... -
François Boucher and His Chinoiserie
(2010)In this master's thesis, I reexamine the Chinoiserie of the French Rococo artist François Boucher (1703-1770). First, I discuss the French concept of China during the first half of the eighteenth century. Second, I analyze ... -
Frank Overton Colbert: A Study in Trans-Customary Indigenous Modern Art
(2021)As the art historical canon makes a turn toward decolonization in the 21st century, art historians have an opportunity to rediscover and recognize long marginalized artists whose contributions expand, complicate, and enhance ...