Browsing Art & Art History Electronic Theses and Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Advisor "Albu, Cristina"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Frank Overton Colbert: A Study in Trans-Customary Indigenous Modern Art
(2021)As the art historical canon makes a turn toward decolonization in the 21st century, art historians have an opportunity to rediscover and recognize long marginalized artists whose contributions expand, complicate, and enhance ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...