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Toward the Origins of Peyote Beadwork
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Peyote beadwork is a nuanced and elegant art form. Hundreds of thousands of people
today use peyote beadwork, including the Native American Church, powwow people, gourd
dancers and Native Americans wanting a marker of ...
Living Landscapes: John Dunkley and the Cultural Landscape of Colonial Jamaica
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
To many Jamaicans nature itself was spiritual and alive, and while John Dunkley’s
landscapes seek to mystify audiences, this thesis seeks to discern the complex symbolism
within his paintings. Although only moderately ...
Henri Rivière, Japonsime, and Les Trente-Six Vues de la Tour Eiffel
(2020)
Les Trente-Six Vues de la Tour Eiffel is a bound book that contains 36 lithographs by Henri Rivière printed in 1902. These lithographs reflect the social, political, and artistic changes that had occurred in Paris by the ...
Crawford Ralston: Structures of Time
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Ralston Crawford is an American artist best known for his Precisionist aesthetic style
that celebrates the edifices of modern America such as bridges, silos, and grain elevators.
Crawford utilized a highly controlled ...
Re-imaging the Spaces of Femininity: Vanessa Bell and the Domestic Interior
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This study charts British artist Vanessa Bell’s (1879-1961) manipulation of the
feminine interior during the most experimental years in her practice, 1910 through 1915.
Bell’s forays into decorative design and her ...
Evelyn Gleeson and The Dun Emer Guild: Redefining a Woman’s Place in the Arts
(2020)
This thesis will explore a myriad of topics not often analyzed within the art historical academic field. It adds to recent endeavors to understand the role of women as artists in the early twentieth century by highlighting ...
Pictographic dress: decoloniality in the performance of memory
(2020)
My thesis examines pictographic War Honor Dresses collaboratively hand-sewn and painted in North America, attributed to the final decade of the eighteenth century. As a natural progression of the centuries-long Indigenous ...
Sites of trauma, bodies of recovery: the work of contemporary South African artist Jane Alexander
(2019)
Sites of Trauma, Bodies of Recovery: The Work of Contemporary South African Artist Jane Alexander explores the interconnections between the aesthetics of trauma in post-apartheid culture, history, and politics through the ...
Representations of the Dreaming Mind in Nineteenth-Century French Art
(2019)
During the nineteenth century, philosophic and popular interest in dreams and the unconscious increased dramatically. Simultaneously, artists and writers increasingly recognized the immense creative impulses that resided ...
From Pan to Plate: Cased Images of the California Gold Rush, 1849-1865
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
After President Polk’s announcement in December 1848 of the gold discovery in
California, thousands flocked to the region. Lured by the ready market of potential
customers, daguerreotypists also made their way. The ...