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Echoes of the voiceless
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Transcending the metanarrative: the postmodern spirituality of Shirazeh Houshiary's sculpture
(2012)
Through her mystically infused, minimalistic sculptures, Iranian-Âborn,
London-Âbased artist Shirazeh Houshiary (1955-Â ) has continued the trend of
abstract spiritually in contemporary art. However, the theology that ...
Heroic painting and its contemporary interpretation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
of paintings that represent a past glory of traditional art in a modern day setting with updated characters. In techniques employed, each work is a 'master study' from a master artist. Their previous work is examined and informs the decisions made with my...
Display
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] My sculptural work is comprised of tool-like objects of unknown utility. Each object is made up of materials traditionally used both in Art and Craft contexts...
Retromania : graphic design and the American Dream
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This body of work examines the cultural history of the American Dream through the visual language of mid-century graphic design and illustration. Rather than just a powerful...
The traditions and history of indigo dyed textiles in Sierra Leone as they relate to the art and life of Hajja Kadiatu Kamara
(2012)
) was an exception. Using a combination of anthropological, art historical, and archaeological approaches, the history and tradition of gara-dyed cotton textiles are discussed in their cultural context and as they relate to the art of Khadijatu Kamara. The importance...
Gao Brothers' Execution of Christ: visual lexicon transcending culture, time, and place
(2011)
overwhelmingly to Western contemporary arts and philosophies. With both exposure to new Western artistic concepts and a desire to diverge from traditional Chinese art, which was seen as outdated form of art, Chinese artists wanted to modernize the Chinese arts...
"Art is religion:" Adolf Hoelzel's modernism
(2012)
-century art. Through a reworking of the tradition of religious imagery in painting and drawing, and later as a designer of stained-glass works, Hoelzel found a path from nineteenth-century academic narrative to innovative twentieth-century abstraction...
Psychometric dynamic factor models for the analysis of longitudinally intensive data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Dynamic factor model (DFM), a factor analytic approach developed for the analysis of intra-individual time series data, can be estimated using common structural equation modeling...
Eminent domain
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Making the connection: J.B. Murray and the scripts and forms of Africa
(2013)
Many African and African America artists have chosen to represent Nsibidi and other
African and Afro-Caribbean syllabaries in their works of art. However, some artists also
produces art and script given to them "by God" ...
The new portrait Deguise : social identity of the Bourgeoisie in eighteenth-century France : select works by Jean-Marc Nattier
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Homemade home : creating in the face of the nostalgic impulse
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Nostalgia is a pervasive and widely accepted form of dishonesty. Throughout American history, people have made and collected objects, upheld traditions, and revered styles and forms of past eras with the aim of recreating or re-experiencing some...
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. ...
A climatological and contextual analysis of Roman water technologies in Cyprus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This thesis explores the trends of water usage in Cyprus during the Roman period. It seeks to challenge traditional ideas of water usage as a constant off-take system and apply the methods of Andrew Wilson and Zena Kamash to Cyprus. This thesis...
Philographica : that which is written or described of love
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
manufactured using a variety of non-traditional materials and contain an encrypted narrative. The project draws on imagery from western fairy tales, medieval illuminated manuscripts, antique playing cards, and other historical sources as a mode of visual...
Charles and Ray Eames : shaping design through visual imagery
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
that the Eameses grew more sophisticated in how they used multimedia to present themselves, their work, and their belief systems and shows how these representations created tension and often challenged the traditional gendering of glamour associated...
Art for our sakes: An analysis of arts coverage at city and regional magazines
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
The purpose of this research was to better understand how decisions about arts coverage are made at city and regional magazines and the value that these stories have to both the publications they appear in and the communities they are targeted...
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 ...
Gulshan Muraqqa’: An Imperial Discretion
(2016)
This thesis researches two folios (pages) from the Gulshan muraqqa’, an
imperial album of the Mughal Empire. The two folios, The Poet and the Prince
and A Buffalo Hunting a Lioness, are currently in the permanent ...