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Visual narratives and the portrait busts of Edmonia Lewis
(2011)
of Cleopatra (1876). The academic attention paid to these works obscures the fact that portrait busts account for over a third of her artistic output. Consequently, Lewis's portrait busts have not received a concentrated analysis. Who were the individuals...
Goya and the grotesque: a study of themes of witchcraft and monstrous bodies
(2012)
Francisco de Goya lived during the "Enlightenment," an age associated with reason, when traditional superstitions became viewed as ridiculous beliefs of the ignorant poor. Goya adopted the theme of witchcraft into his artistic oeuvre from a desire...
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 ...
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 ...