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Making the Connection: J.B. Murray and the Scripts and Forms of Africa
(2016)
This dissertation focuses on the artwork of J.B. Murray, an African American artist
from Mitchell, Georgia. The goal of this dissertation is to explore J.B. Murray’s production
of protective scripts and spirit figures. ...
Representations of Insanity in Art and Science of Nineteenth-Century France: From the Demonic to the Degenerate
(2016)
This thesis seeks to analyze depictions of insanity in the nineteenth century, especially in
France. Through research into the history of psychiatry and the history of image culture, I
intend to explain the changing ...
Rubens' vision for the Luxembourg Palace
(2015)
Marie de Medici commissioned a series of twenty-four paintings intended as an allegorical cycle of her life from the artist Peter Paul Rubens in 1622. This thesis proposes that the cycle does not have just one intention ...