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Quest for the Legitimizing Jesus Deployment of a Contested Symbol by a Non-traditional Religious Movement
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2007)
There have always been alternative interpretations of Jesus throughout Christian history. The meaning of such a symbol is never static. However, a general theological consensus had maintained an essentially hegemonic ...
Penitence, Punishment, and Pain: Negotiating Personal Authority in Francis Lathom's The Midnight Bell
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008)
Francis Lathom's novel, The Midnight Bell (1798), uses conventional gothic themes of crime, guilt, and punishment to interrogate gender roles and to explore how individuals may conform to, reject, or subvert mechanisms of ...
Until We See His Blessed Face: Sight as Privileged Insight in the Spirituality of Margery Kempe
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2009)
This paper explores how, despite an inherited Christian tradition that worked to elevate hearing and denigrate sight in an unofficial hierarchy of the senses, the fifteenth-century English mystic Margery Kempe came to ...
Diverse Struggles to Preserve Tribal Identity on the Plains: Religion as Survival Strategy in the Late Nineteenth Century among the Lakota and Osage
(Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2007)
Blasphemous bodies: Transgressive morality as cultural interrogation in romance fiction of the long nineteenth century
(2011)
The long nineteenth century was characterized by advances in medical, biological and technological knowledge that often complicated definitions of human life and blurred the lines between life and death. These changes ...
Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Months: A Perspective
(2015)
In the year 1565, Antwerp merchant Nicolaes Jongelinck commissioned Pieter Bruegel
the Elder to paint a series of paintings, The Months, for his suburban villa. Unfortunately,
Jongelinck lost possession of the series of ...
Hayv Kahraman’s Bodyscreens: Skin, Depth, and Surface
(2015)
Hayv Kahraman is most widely known for her large-scale paintings of pale women
with skin like silk and soft clouds of dark black hair. She often draws on her experiences as
an émigré from Iraq to represent the challenges ...
For conscience's sake: the 1839 emigration of the Saxon Lutherans
(2013)
This study traces the assimilation process of more than six hundred Saxon Lutherans
who migrated to Perry County, Missouri, in 1839. As one of the few groups in the
nineteenth century who chose to move to the United ...
Dialogue at the Threshold: The Artist Between Museum and Community
(2015)
Artists Suzanne Lacy and Ann Hamilton use forms of language to produce
experiences that challenge the individual’s perception. While differing in methods and
outcomes, Lacy and Hamilton construct environments that allow ...
Fresh Meat Rituals: Confronting the Flesh in Performance Art
(2016)
Meat entails a contradictory bundle of associations. In its cooked form, it is
inoffensive, a normal everyday staple for most of the population. Yet in its raw, freshly
butchered state, meat and its handling provoke ...
Daniel H. Burnham: his legacy to American architecture
(2013)
This thesis will identify artistic sensibilities and leadership characteristics of the
American architect Daniel H. Burnham (1846-1912). It will assert that this particular
architect had enormous impact on urbanism in ...
A Medieval tale: Saxons, Normans and the telscombe ring
(2013)
A medieval silver-gilt finger ring was found in July, 2010 using a metal detector near the village of Telscombe, in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. The object, hereto referred to as the Telscombe Ring, was ...
Subversive exposure: realism and masquerade in Song Byeok's art practice
(2013)
At age 24, Song Byeok became an official state propaganda artist under the totalitarian Kim regime of North Korea. After famine, family death, torture and prison camp, Song escaped from North Korea in 2002 and continued ...
Forgotten landmark: the Municipal Auditorium of Kansas City, Missouri
(2013)
The Municipal Auditorium is a grand civic building in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, which encompasses venues for theater, music and athletics. Designed by Gentry, Voskamp, and Neville, and associated architects, Hoit, ...
Egypt, the Fictive Theater of Napoleon's Glory: A Celebration of the Egyptian Campaign in Paintings, Architecture, and Decorative Arts
(2013)
The reign of Napoleon Bonaparte was one of military glory, both real and imagined. In this thesis, I examine the promotion of Napoleon's Egyptian campaign (1798-1801), perhaps the most disastrous episode of his military ...
Painting the Mundane: An Examination of the Life and Career of René Magritte
(2013)
This thesis explores the important role René Magritte's biography plays in relation
to his work as a painter. His works were primarily inspired by his middle class lifestyle
and upbringing, something that was uncommon ...
Camille Claudel: The Struggle for Artistic Idenity
(2014)
During Camille Claudel's lifetime, she pursued a career that was largely defined
in terms of Auguste Rodin. This perspective of her work may be seen most notably in the
reactions to her sculpture L'Âge Mûr. This work was ...
Crafting the past: the appropriation of found photography in the African-American revisionist art of Betye Saar
(2013)
This thesis uses Betye Saar as a lens through which to explore how contemporary black artists
address negative, inaccurate, or incomplete perspectives of African-American history. It will
focus on the popular trend of ...
Eatopia: aesthetic spaces of collective food consumption in contemporary art
(2013)
Contemporary artists Rirkrit Tiravanija and Jennifer Rubell offer food and sociability both literally and metaphorically. By inviting exhibition visitors to eat meals in specially conceived spaces within art galleries, ...
Lotte Reiniger’s career in animation and her first full-‐length animated film, The Adventures of Prince Achmed
(2015)
Lotte Reiniger was the woman responsible for making the world’s first full-‐length animated film, Die Geschichte des Prinzen Achmed (The Adventures of Prince Achmed, 1926). Along with her collaborators, she worked on the ...