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"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 ...
Gao Brothers' Execution of Christ: visual lexicon transcending culture, time, and place
(2011)
After the death of Chairman Mao Zedong in 1979, China began a national transformation from a once self-imposed isolated culture to one that hoped to be economically and culturally engaged with the rest of the world. Chinese ...
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. ...