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Pratt, Stephanie Rose. "The European perception of the Native American, 1750-1850." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2748.

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The thesis on which I have based my research proposes that while the European perception of the Native American from 1750 to 1850 came to be mediated via all the visual arts, it was specifically via the graphic media that the proliferation of imagery concerning the Native American developed certain iconic and representational conventions and that these consistently overwhelmed other sources of information, from experience to written interpretation. The ubiquity of certain modes of presentation, of figure-types, and of synecdoches which stood for the Native American (e.g. feather decoration or

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Arana, Emilia. "Eighteenth century caste paintings: The implications of Miguel Cabrera's series." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278537.

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This study examines caste paintings, an art form unique to eighteenth century colonial Mexico. Hundreds of caste paintings were produced, following a compositional template that remained fairly uniform throughout the century. The distinguishing characteristic of these images is their depiction and labeling of Mexico's racially mixed population. A broad discussion of the caste genre places these works in the context of hierarchical colonial society. Focus is on select images by prominent Mexican artist Miguel Cabrera, and the changes Cabrera brings to the caste template. This study places parti

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Hacker, Jonathan Joseph. "The Visual Creation of the State Apparatus, Nineteenth Century American Landscape Paintings." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1556557056790917.

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Routenberg, Scott Kevin. "Americana Suite: A Composition for Full Orchestra, Big Band, and Jazz Chamber Ensembles Inspired by American Master Paintings." Scholarly Repository, 2008. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/80.

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Americana Suite is a seven movement musical composition inspired by nineteenth and early twentieth century American master paintings. Representative artists from each of the major schools of American painting include Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, George Bellows, Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe. Essentially pluralist in style, the suite is written for ensembles of varying size and genre, spanning from full orchestra and contemporary big band to intimate jazz chamber ensembles and electro-acoustic hybrids. Four of the seven movements are written for jazz ensem

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Scott, Gabriella Boschi. "Dismantling cultural hierarchies| A prefiguration of Mexican postmodernism in Enrique Guzman's paintings." Thesis, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1556588.

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<p> This thesis argues that Mexican painter Enrique Guzmán is a central figure in the transition between the Ruptura movement and postmodernism. Construed by many as a surrealist artist, Guzmán employs idiosyncratic imagery not to probe inner realities, but to explore themes such as abjection and the fragmentation of self into commodity images. Inhabiting the chasm between an oppressive ultra-conservative provincial culture and the turbulent revolutionary ideology of Mexico City of the sixties and seventies, Guzmán articulates, by fusing aesthetic categories such as, amon

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Meyers, Julia Isabell. "Prehistoric Wall Decoration in the American Southwest: A Behavioral Approach." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194060.

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Major social and demographic changes occurred during the Pueblo IV Period (AD 1300-1600) in the American Southwest. Small scattered communities aggregated into large settlement centers with more complex social organization during this period. Mural paintings created at this time are dramatically different stylistically from murals created before the social and demographic shift. At Homol'ovi in northeastern Arizona, these mural changes were accompanied by changes in plastering behaviors, including the development of distinct pigment use patterns.The hypothesis of the present study is that the

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Muente, Tamera Lenz. "Repose, Reflections, and “Girls in Sunshine”: Frederick Carl Frieseke’s Paintings of Women, 1905–1920." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1147531632.

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Hefner, Cody Nicholas. "An Evocation of the Revolution: The Paintings of John Trumbull and the Perception of the American Revolution." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1259821977.

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Stark, Heather L. "Nine paintings by Charles Sheeler : a study in the literary and aesthetic influences upon Sheeler's expression of the local /." View Abstract, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3220620.

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Donno, Julian. "American Progress - A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21695.

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19th century America is shaped greatly by territorial expansion into NativeAmerican lands. A famous painting which represents this process is called AmericanProgress by John Gast. This study argues that the display of power between the settlersand the Native Americans in the painting mirrors the dominant discourse on 19th centurywestward expansion. So, the analysis is concerned with how the settlers are constructed,how the Natives are displayed and how this results in a power hierarchy. These findingsare then compared to 19th century discourse on the westward movement. The analysis isguided by

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Iturralde, Mantilla Diana. "Between New York and the Andes, Abstraction and Indigenismo: Camilo Egas's Paintings from the 1940s and 1950s." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/506052.

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Art History<br>M.A.<br>Recent studies of Andean Indigenismo and Andean abstraction tend to overlook the intersections between these two artistic trends, as well as schematize the production of artists who experimented with both. The scholarship on Ecuadorian artist Camilo Egas, for example, only focuses on his role as a precursor of Indigenismo without delving into the diverse artistic styles that intertwine in his transnational career. Such selective interest in his Indigenist production, which tends to focus on his early works from the 1910s to the 1930s in Ecuador, Paris, and the first deca

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Sikes, Graydon R. "Henry Farny’s Paintings of American Indians, 1894-1916: Images of Conflict Between Indians and Whites Evolve into Symbolic Representations of the Demise of the Western Frontier." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1236196493.

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Morris, Anthony J. "The Censored Paintings of Paul Cadmus, 1934-1940: the body as the boundary between the decent and obscene." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1270569282.

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Sikes, Graydon R. "Henry Farnys paintings of American Indians, 1894-1916 images of conflict between indians and whites evolve into symbolic representations of the demise of the western frontier /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1236196493.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Cincinnati, 2009.<br>Advisors: Theresa Leininger-Miller PhD (Committee Chair), Susan Meyn PhD (Committee Member), Diane Mankin PhD (Committee Member). Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed May 1, 2009). Includes abstract. Keywords: Henry Farny; painting; western; american; artist. Includes bibliographical references.

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Easterbrook, Carolyn Louise. "American space, American place : Edward Hopper, painting and his personal vision of modern America." Thesis, University of Kent, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410921.

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Krieger, Ela [Verfasser], Isabel [Akademischer Betreuer] Wünsche, Isabel [Gutachter] Wünsche, Paul [Gutachter] Crowther, and Julia [Gutachter] Timpe. "The Role and the Nature of Repetition in Jasper Johns’s Paintings in the Context of Postwar American Art / Ela Krieger ; Gutachter: Isabel Wünsche, Paul Crowther, Julia Timpe ; Betreuer: Isabel Wünsche." Bremen : IRC-Library, Information Resource Center der Jacobs University Bremen, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1194646638/34.

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Pravdenko, Inna. "Artistic migration from Latin America to Paris : stories of nine exhibitors at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and some of their paintings." Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSE3027.

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Au XIXe siècle les peintres latino-américains se rendaient en Europe à la recherche de la perfection artistique. Paris, le centre de l’art moderne, était l’une des principales destinations de la migration artistique intercontinentale. Les artistes de l’Amérique latine sont venus à Paris pour étudier dans des écoles d’art célèbres et pour participer aux salons afin de montrer la qualité de leur travail et tenter de lancer leur carrière sur la scène internationale. Beaucoup d’entre eux sont restés en Europe, mais ont été ignorés par la critique française et plus tard par les historiographies mod

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Sierra, Nicole Marquita. "Literature, architecture, and postmodernity : Donald Barthelme and J.G. Ballard." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:909bff3c-6eea-46a6-9c7f-72d52b9d43ee.

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Focusing on works between the 1960s and the early ’80s, this thesis sets the literature of Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) and J.G. Ballard (1930–2009) within the context of twentieth-century architectural theory and history (written), design (drawn), productions (built), professional practice (managed), and pedagogy (taught). The primary aim of this study is to explore the discursive exchange between literature and architecture, while probing the putative association between postmodernity and architecture. By introducing a broader set of social phenomena into debates about postmodernity, my thes

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Marley, Anna O'Day. "Rooms with a view landscape representation in the early national and late colonial domestic interior /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1836637881&sid=7&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Pfohl, Katie A. "American Painting and the Systems of World Ornament." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11537.

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This dissertation examines the work of nineteenth-century American painters Frederic Edwin Church, William Michael Harnett and Albert Pinkham Ryder, and focuses on the relationship between their work in painting and their work in the decorative arts. Through their decorative work, all three artists explored "systems of world ornament" that introduced them to an international range of ornamental form by compiling, cataloguing, and comparing ornament from nearly all cultures and eras. Combining all of world culture single folios, these "systems of world ornament" promised to help American artist

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Ehmann, Christina. "American Splendor." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4102.

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Artist Statement My photographs and paintings are reflective of a simpler and slower paced, rural life. This focus is in high contrast to what contemporary urban life often requires. I depict scenes of tranquil landscapes, farm animals, old barns, fields of grasses, and growing crops. I alter my digital photographic images with computer software. I use various filters that transform color, clarity, and value to give the photographs of nature an intentionally peaceful mood. These photographs are a basis for my paintings where I soften nature’s contours and emphasize tranquility. My desire

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Mills, Christina Murdoch. "The enigma of the everyday." Diss., [Missoula, Mont.] : The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06172009-095638.

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Pena, Nicholas. "Land of the American condition." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5834.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (January 24, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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L'Clerc, Lee. "Painting and visual imagery in literature, three contemporary Latin American novels." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0015/NQ41201.pdf.

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Guardiano, Nicholas. "Transcendentalist Aesthetics in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/914.

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My thesis is that there is an aesthetic dimension of nature that is metaphysically significant, qualitatively pluralistic, and artistically creative, and that this accounts for the sensuous complexity of experience, as well as the possibility of discovering new qualitative features about the world and expressing them in novel forms, as exemplified in art. I call the philosophy that endorses the reality of this dimension Transcendentalist Aesthetics. The term "Transcendentalist" recalls the philosophy of New England Transcendentalism with its core in Ralph Waldo Emerson, and which influenced th

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KLEOPFER, KIRSTIE L. "NORMAN ROCKWELL'S CIVIL RIGHTS PAINTINGS OF THE 1960s." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179431918.

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Maurice, Roland. "The otherings of Miss Chief : Kent Monkman's Portrait of the artist as hunter /." Address to access a reproduction of the painting on the Kent Monkman website (viewed Feb. 14, 2010), 2007. http://kentmonkman.com/works.php?page=painting&start=38.

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Hall, Denis Michael. "Purchasing power: the New York market for modern American painting 1913-40." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.589736.

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This study sets out to examine the development of the art market in New York for modem American art between the years 1913 and 1940. In doing so, it aims to make a significant contribution to this relatively neglected subject. Whilst much has been written about artistic production in New York much less has been written about its distribution and consumption, though these form co-dependent elements of an art market. Without a community of art producers neither distributive mechanisms nor an appreciative audience of purchasers can be established; at the same time, continuing art production is re

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Bryant, Benjamin R. "The artist as shaman." Virtual Press, 2005. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1327289.

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Albert Einstein is one indisputable luminary who in my opinion exemplifies the balance, brilliance, and altruism I look for in my heroes. Subsequent to his dream of riding a beam of light to the edge of the universe, with the tools of calculus and physics, he radically changed our understanding of the universe. But the dream came first, and everybody dreams.I believe everyone has something incredible to offer. In my creative project paintings I attempt to demonstrate with the tools of paint and canvas my peculiar dream of the cosmos from macrocosm to microcosm.I ride the beam of light using pa

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Ye, Guo Shin. "Appropriation and hybridity of Taiwanese literati painting and American abstract expressionism (1949-2007)." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.536723.

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For centuries, traditional Literati painting has been unchallenged and has not undergone any real or radical change. The Taiwanese Modem Ink-wash Painting that emerged in the 1950s is an extension of this painterly tradition. This new visual form of modern Ink-wash painting that I am presenting, is a hybrid, combining both Chinese Ink-wash painting and American Abstract Expressionism, and represents a different and I hope more progressive artistic style in comparison to the restricted conventions of Literati painting. My thesis seeks to evaluate the mutual appropriation of the stylistic and id

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Lewy, Patricia L. "Painting history in mid-century America : a case study of Friedel Dzubas's mature style." Thesis, University of Essex, 2018. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/22893/.

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My thesis, “Painting History in Mid-Century America: A Case Study of Friedel Dzubas’s Mature Style (1970s)” examines why Friedel Dzubas—an American artist of German descent whose friends and supporters included the powerful critic Clement Greenberg and the artists in his circle, among them Morris Louis, Jules Olitski, Helen Frankenthaler, and Kenneth Noland—disappeared from the canon of artists associated with Post Painterly Abstraction (Color Field Painting) as it evolved from the later 1950s into the 1970s. My work offers an account of the genesis of Dzubas’s mature style based on a formalis

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Kant, Kristin Mary Agnes Helen. "PAINTING THE MOUNTAINS: AN INVESTIGATION OF TOURIST ART IN NORTH AMERICA." Lexington, Ky. : [University of Kentucky Libraries], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10225/1055.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Kentucky, 2009.<br>Title from document title page (viewed on September 17, 2009). Document formatted into pages; contains: xii, 327 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-321).

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Lenehan, Daniel Timothy. "Fashioning taste Earl Shinn, art criticism, and national identity in gilded age America /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/668.

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Dixon, Erin. "Parables." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04252008-135822/.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Georgia State University, 2008.<br>Joseph Peragine, committee chair; Teresa Bramlette-Reeves, Cheryl Goldsleger, committee members. Title from file title page. Electronic text (25 p. : col. ill.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Aug. 14, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 16).

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Sprinkle, Mark E. "Picturing home: Domestic painting and the ideologies of art." W&M ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623460.

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This dissertation describes domestic painting in Atlanta, Georgia between 1995 and 2004 as a market defined by its intentional connection of the ideologies and spaces of art with those of bourgeois domesticity. The first half of the work seeks to contextualize the market's various objects and texts within public and academic discourses on culture that commonly posit an antithesis between the practices of bourgeois women (especially decoration) and "high" or avant-garde art, as suggested by the sentiment, "GOOD ART WON'T MATCH YOUR SOFA." Thus, Chapter 1 addresses the promises and pitfalls of

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Bruhn, Janet. "The Everyday in America." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2177.

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Abstract: My vanilla, Grade A, white bread, run-of-the-mill, middle-of-the-road, threadbare, well-worn, moth-eaten, potato sack, butterscotch, grass stained America: Mundane American life is an existence clinging to the ordinary, where a quilt of mass- mediated preferences and ingrained traditions define many people, specifically from north to south and east to west. Yet, the tastes and dialects of people within the mundane are complex. Ideological preferences are rooted in immigrant history and political persuasion. Various modes of realism have been used by American painters such as The Ash

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Steiner, Shep. "Great moments in American painting : dogged looks from the other side of the fence." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq25167.pdf.

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Kilbane, Nora C. "A Tug From The Jug: drinking and temperance in American genre painting, 1830-1860." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1164648727.

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Keck, Michaela. "Walking in the wilderness the peripatetic tradition in nineteenth century American literature and painting." Heidelberg Winter, 2004. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2811163&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

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Crouch, Rachael M. "Rhetoric and Redress: Edward Hopper's Adaptation of the American Sublime." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1186602058.

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Samuel, Anne E. "Vision conceptualized in the American Renaissance murals of Edwin Howland Blashfield." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 817 p, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1397902901&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Iepson, Sarah M. "Postmortem Relationships: Death and the Child in Antebellum American Visual Culture." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/236801.

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Art History<br>Ph.D.<br>Since Roland Barthes published Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography in 1982, the prevailing theory about photography has revolved around its primary role as a manifestation of transience, death, and mortality. Whether one promotes the philosophy that the photographic image steals away the soul and promotes death, or that it simply captures images of those that have died or will die, the photograph has been commonly interpreted as a visual reminder of the finality of human life. At no time does such an interpretation appear to be more tangibly true than during the m

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Brooks, Queen E. "The ties that bind : art of an African American artist." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1144433506.

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Cecil, Joseph S. "The figure as an exploration of cultural/self identity." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1371197.

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The primary objective of this creative project was the exploration of cultural and self identity and the painting techniques used for their creation. The paintings are an attempt to portray through the use of the human figure and symbolic elements to communicate my personal struggle relating to events in my past, present, and future. In these three large paintings I have explored an approach reminiscent to German Expressionism style along with more contemporary motifs which are derived from my research and past experiences in painting at Ball State University. It was very important for me to s

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Piper, Corey S. "David Gilmour Blythe's Street Urchins and American Nativism." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1112.

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David Gilmour Blythe's street urchin paintings created during the 1850s are disturbing and often grotesque. The image of childhood that he created was quite different from that of his American contemporaries who adapted the romantic notion of the child from eighteenth-century English painters. Previous scholars have noted the contrast between Blythe's vision of America's street children and the optimistic view offered by other American painters but have not offered a sufficient explanation as to why they differed so radically. This thesis will examine several of Blythe's urchin scenes, as well

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Douglas, Nakeina Erika. "The Color of Marginalization: Painting the Picture of Race and Public Policy in American States." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29766.

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Building on the conceptual lens of Hero and Tolbert (1999), this study examines differences between policy restrictiveness in states with high minority populations and states with low minority populations for three policies areas: felony voting policies, Unemployment Insurance (UI) and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). This study examines whether states with minority populations greater than the national average have public policies that are more restrictive than states with minority populations at or below their national average and the patterns that emerged. Overall, I

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Trever, Lisa Senchyshyn. "Moche Mural Painting at Pañamarca: A Study of Image Making and Experience in Ancient Peru." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11013.

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This dissertation is a study of the late Moche murals found within the adobe temples of Pañamarca, Peru (ca. 600-850 CE). This project was designed to redress the problem of iconographic decontextualization of the Pañamarca paintings that, through limited documentation and repetitive scholarly publication, had become effectively untethered from their material moorings and spatial settings. New fieldwork succeeded in contextualizing and conserving remains of all known mural paintings. This field research also resulted in the discovery of a new corpus of paintings at the site. Together these pai

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Peterman, Aaron L. "Judgement." Virtual Press, 2006. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1347734.

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The objective of this creative project is the creation of sculptures and paintings that make statements concerning judgment and its subsets, fault, blame, martyrdom, self-sacrifice, and absolution. The group of pieces shown at the Thesis Exhibition explores recurring themes and iconography within a historical context, while addressing issues in a contemporary social framework. Repetitive elements and images such as self-portraits, the pointing finger, and the heart, are set in the present, but layered with the iconography and history of Saint Sebastian. The techniques used to achieve these wor

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Olson, Amanda Jean. "Facing celebrity in America : Thomas Sully's theatrical portraits of Fanny Kemble /." Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1460095.

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Thesis (M.A. in Art History)--S.M.U.<br>Title from PDF title page (viewed Oct. 7, 2009). Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 47-03, page: 1237. Adviser: Janis Bergman-Carton. Includes bibliographical references.

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Balic, Iva Foertsch Jacqueline. "Always painting the future utopian desire and the women's movement in selected works by United States female writers at the turn of the twentieth century /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-11060.

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