Art History Theses: Recent submissions
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Showtime! The influence of theatrical spectacle on four American modernists
(2024-06-12) - ThesisThis dissertation addresses the interrelationships between the visual and performing arts in the work of Alexander Calder, Walt Kuhn, Everett Shinn, and Florine Stettheimer, artists whose careers in early twentieth-century ... -
The zoo paintings of Gilles Aillaud : art engagé and camouflage in France, 1950-1980
(2024-06-12) - ThesisThis thesis explores the corpus of zoo paintings by French artist Gilles Aillaud (1928-2005). It focuses on the 1960s and 1970s, a period of intense activity for Aillaud, whose political influence expanded beyond his Salon ... -
National-ish artists : Victorio Edades and the founding of Filipino modern art
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-16) - ThesisVictorio Edades has long been regarded as the founding father of modern art in the Philippines. For a long time, the artist’s devotion to this cause has been traced to a paradigm-altering encounter with Post- Impressionist ... -
Look at the Sky : the bird Simurgh in text and image in Iran (1010-1650)
(2023-11-29) - ThesisThis research focuses on the mythological bird Sīmurgh and her representations in literature and art in the Persianate world from 1010 to 1650. Sīmurgh is generally overlooked in both art and literature, and she has not ... -
The Maison Bonfils in the Middle East (1867-1918) : visual technologies, empire, and spectacle
(2023-11-29) - ThesisThis thesis explores the works of the prominent nineteenth-century photography studio the Maison Bonfils, which was founded in 1867 by the French photographer Félix Bonfils and his wife Marie-Lydie Cabanis in Beirut, ...