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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Boundaries of Femininity: A Case for Two Women Artists Working in Eighteenth-century France
(2015)
Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard were two of the most prominent
women artists in France during the second half of the eighteenth-century. I argue in this
thesis that in their responses to a range of ...
Embroidering Biblical Heroines in Seventeenth-Century England
(2015)
English embroideries in the seventeenth century frequently depict biblical
narratives that feature examples of proper female behavior. Produced by young girls and
women, they were made to adorn the embroiderer’s home in ...
Rubens' vision for the Luxembourg Palace
(2015)
Marie de Medici commissioned a series of twenty-four paintings intended as an allegorical cycle of her life from the artist Peter Paul Rubens in 1622. This thesis proposes that the cycle does not have just one intention ...
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 ...