RSS 1.0Department of Art History and Archaeology (MU)
Art History and Archaeology faculty and staff reflect the widening scope of our discipline with particular strengths in the areas of classical Mediterranean archaeology, medieval and Renaissance art, and the art and architecture of modern Europe and the Americas. Current faculty research interests range from early Greece and Rome to modern architecture and contemporary painting. Our programs prepare students for a variety of employment and study opportunities in arts-related fields. Recent graduates are working in art galleries and museums, businesses, government agencies, research institutes, colleges, and universities throughout the country.
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Helen Torr: navigating the woman's experience in American modernism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In 1971, scholar Linda Nochlin called for a feminist art history that not only sought to recover the work of women artists, but that examines ... -
'High places' in the Aegean: the case for non-Cretan peak sanctuaries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2023] My dissertation, centers on the overseas religious and cultural influences of the so-called Minoan culture of Bronze Age Crete through a critical, comparative analysis of alleged peak sanctuaries ... -
A re-evaluation of the kernos, with special reference to the kernos in Demeter's rites
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1978)The focus of this paper has therefore become the objects excavated throughout the Mediterranean, which have been called "kernoi." An examination of these vessels of various shape and a survey of the finds from excavated ... -
Boron-neutron-capture radiation treatment of polymers for application in laminated glass window interlayer material
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Critical infrastructure that is either vulnerable to attack or that is located within a high threat area will require increased protection. United States government facilities worldwide have seen ... -
Metasurface based uncooled Sixgeyo1-x-y microbolometer for infrared detection
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/31/2023] In this research, we have investigated metasurface integrated uncooled SixGeyO1-x-y microbolometers. Two device architecture were fabricated and characterized. The first design presents the ... -
The material politics of ivory in early modern Europe
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)This dissertation sets out to challenge the material history and biography of ivory in early modern Europe (ca. 1600-1800) and explores the mutable materialities of ivory as both a sculptural material and a vehicle of ... -
Remodeling the narrative of women and the built environment in the Middle Ages
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Scholarship on the design, construction, decoration, and reception of the built environment during the medieval era has tended to focus on men as the primary makers and default users of this environment. However, recent ... -
Pre- and protopalatial Minoan larnax : individuals vs collective identity in pre- and protopalatial Crete
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Prepalatial and Protopalatial larnakes offer a corpus of material with their own biography which has long been ignored, passed over, or forgotten. They represent the beginning of a mortuary tradition of burials in ceramic ... -
The spirit of exhibition and visual pedagogy in the work of Charles and Ray Eames
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)This project examines the ways in which Charles and Ray Eames promoted visual pedagogy in their exhibitions and new media experiments. Through cooperative efforts with various artists, designers, educators, scholars, ... -
Rose O'Neill's Sweet Monsters : an exploration in motherhood and romantic love in early 20th century America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)During the late 19th and early 20th centuries in America Rose O'Neill, artist, illustrator, and author, achieve unparallel success. She was a self-taught artist, although her informal training was surprisingly academic in ... -
Bathing on the edge of empire : local variation and regional adaptation in the late Roman military bathhouses of Arabia/Palaestina
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation examines the evidence for Roman military baths in the provinces of Arabia and Syria Palaestina dating from the late 2nd-5th ... -
Historia spintriae : the pleasures of collecting ancient erotica
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Ancient erotic art has an unusual place in the history of art, affected variously by changing archaeological practices and the tastes of collectors over many centuries. In the early modern period erotic artifacts were both ... -
The visual language of identity : women's seals in Scotland and Ireland, c. 1100-1400
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] My dissertation explores the visual expression of the power and authority of secular women in Scotland and Ireland from the twelfth through the ... -
Images of the worker in John Heartfield's pro-Soviet photomontages
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)John Heartfield is widely-known for his anti-Nazi photomontages created in Germany during the 1930s and published in the Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung (AIZ). However, there is a subset of his images in which he celebrates ... -
The lower senses in early Netherlandish epiphany altarpieces
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)The late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries were a time of growing affective piety and engagement with the material culture of Christian devotion in Northern Europe. The three so-called lower senses of smell, touch, ... -
Early Franciscan painted panels as a response to the Italian Cathars
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)The wood-panel paintings created by the Franciscan order in the thirteenth century present a dramatic transition from a static, stoic Byzantine style to increasing degrees of naturalistic, realistic, emotional, and corporeal ... -
Reliquaries, tapestry, and still life painting : the mutability of bodies and bodily ideologies from Medieval to early-modern Europe
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis considers how human, animal, spatial, and material bodies function within diverse systems of knowledge. In the context of this ... -
Big ideas in little boxes : nation building in three nineteenth-century American parlor games by Milton Bradley and Company
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)Milton Bradley and Company manufactured its first game, The Checkered Game of Life, in 1860, only months before the American Civil War broke out. Soon after, it produced the Myriopticon A Historical Panorama of the Rebellion, ... -
The early imperial ceramics as evidence for life at Roman Sardis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Historical testimonia tell us that in the year 17 CE, an earthquake struck in Western Asia Minor and destroyed the city of Sardis. Recent excavations ... -
After Watteau: Nicolas Lancret and the creation of the hunt luncheon
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)Dining is inarguably one of the oldest, most prevalent and pervasive acts of social interaction. In the modern age the ability to display one's taste or refinement with regard to fashionable or trendy food items has become ...