Browsing Theses (MU) by Thesis Department "Art history and archaeology (MU)"
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Amending the American flag : artistic liberties in the nineteen sixties and seventies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Since its official creation in 1777, the American flag has come to symbolize the Constitution, United States history, and personal political values. ... -
Architectural collages : urban images in Las Vegas hotel/casinos and their production of place
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)This essay discusses the Las Vegas hotel/casinos The New York New York Las Vegas, The Paris Las Vegas, and The Venetian Las Vegas as producers of place during the 1990's and early 2000's. This is in contrast to the common ... -
Ars coquinaria: a study of early Roman cooking wares and their uses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Cooking ware is important for studying how people around the Early Roman Empire cooked and ate. As utilitarian ware, it did not change drastically for ... -
The aura of reproduction : plaster cast collections at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)Plaster casts were an important tool of the fields of Classics and Art History in the nineteenth century, used to show the American public examples of exquisite art when originals were not available. Plaster casts are often ... -
The canvas as her stage : Emma Hamilton's use of her attitudes in portraiture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis examines how the portraiture and life of Emma, Lady Hamilton are representative of trends and interests of the eighteenth-century art ... -
Charles and Ray Eames : shaping design through visual imagery
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)This thesis traces the increasing control Charles and Ray Eames had over the visual imagery associated with their work whether in the promotion of their products or in the promotion of a lifestyle. The analysis relies ... -
The Chinese scholar's garden in France : Moulin Joli in Claude-Henri Watelet's Essai sur les jardins
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Moulin Joli was a garden composed from 1754 to 1772 by Claude-Henri Watelet on three islands and the banks of the Seine northwest of Paris. Designed ... -
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 ... -
A Cypriot hodegetria : the creation, interpretation, and significance of a plaster relief from Kopetra
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Excavations at a church in the village of Kalavasos-Kopetra in southern Cyprus revealed a small plaster relief of the Virgin Mary holding the infant ... -
Death and burial in ancient Alexandria: the Necropolis of Moustapha Pasha
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] As study of the Alexandrian monumental rock-cut tombs in the eastern necropolis of Moustapha Pasha, leads to a re-examination of their artifacts, ... -
Death in Roman Marche, Italy : a comparative study of burial rituals
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The depiction of smell in fifteenth-century Netherlandish painting as cultural sense memory and odor-cued prayer context
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)In the region now known as Belgium, fifteenth-century painters began to exploit the new medium of oil paint to achieve greater realism. This was to remove the barrier between painting and viewer. Odors such as flowers, ... -
The developing child in three portraits by Anne-Louis Girodet
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This paper examines three portraits by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767-1824) as products of a post-Revolutionary French society, highly ... -
Ediciones Vigía books in art and cultural history
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The Cuban press Ediciones Vigía was founded in April of 1985 by Rolando Estévez Jordán, chief designer and draftsman of the press, and Alfredo Zaldívar, ... -
Felix convivum : platters and transformations of dining behavior in the Roman world
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Most people in the Roman world used ceramic tableware, despite its absence in iconographical and in literary sources. This observation leads to many ... -
From loom to laundry : cloth finishers in the Roman city
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Throughout antiquity, much of the population was employed in cloth-related industries from fiber production to laundering finished clothing. Fulling, ... -
Herakles iconography on Tyrrhenian Amphorae
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)The Etruscans, well-known in the ancient world for seafaring and trade, held deep beliefs about death and the afterlife, and often placed foreign objects in their tombs which fit with these traditions. The Athenians, who ... -
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 impression of humor : Mary Cassatt and her rendering of wit
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)The academic scholarship that surrounds Mary Cassatt situates her work within a staunchly gendered category of "female artist." By placing this title on the artist and her work, in the context of 19th century art criticism, ... -
Judged by their covers : Robert Harrison's girlie magazines, 1941-1955
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)This thesis is concerned with pinups depicted in popular magazines, but more precisely concentrates on a group of "girlie" serials published by Robert Harrison dating from 1941 until 1956. These serials all derive from the ...