Browsing 2017 MU dissertations - Freely available online by Thesis Department "Art history and archaeology (MU)"
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Lt. Claggett Wilson, queer masculinity, and the formation of American modernism /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)An American artist best known for a 1919 watercolor series that depicts scenes of the First World War, Claggett Wilson's varied oeuvre includes watercolors, oil paintings, stage sets, costumes, murals, and decorative ... -
Micromosaics : souvenirs, collective memory, and the reception of antiquity on the Grand Tour
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)Micromosaics were popular souvenir objects on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Grand Tour, a didactic trip taken by elite, young men. Created from tiny, intricately arranged tesserae, micromosaics typically depict ... -
The Nemean Wells : sanctuary context and ritual activities in the northeast Peloponnese
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)Nemea is known as the site of the panhellenic Sanctuary of Zeus and yet can also be considered a place of rural cult activity due to its location within the Nemea Valley, removed from large polis centers. The sanctuary is ... -
Pottery from two late Roman wells in the Athenian Agora
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)Two recently excavated wells at the east end of the Painted Stoa in the Athenian agora have yielded new evidence for the fate of this building in Late Antiquity. The pottery from the wells sheds new light on how the Painted ... -
Visual humor : female photographers and modern American womanhood, 1860-1915
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)The late 19th and early 20th century was a period of humor, photography, and rampant gender debates. This dissertation was founded on an attempt to make sense of a period in American history that was messy and confusing. ...