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- 1<i>Apollon</i> (<i>Apollo</i>, 1909-1917), art periodical
- 1<i>Mir Iskusstva</i> (the <i>World of Art</i>, 1899-1905) art periodical
- 1<i>Zolotoe Runo</i> (<i>The Golden Fleece</i>, 1906-1909), art periodical
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Spring 2023
This thesis offers an iconographical analysis of the album cover of Temple of Shadows by Brazilian power metal band Angra, situating it within the context of heavy metal visual culture. It argues, through a post-colonial lens, that instead of focusing on religious blasphemy, violence, and...
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Masquerade and Modernity in the Cypress Hills: Performing Prairie Photography in the late 1870s
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Both Aboriginal people and settlers of European descent participated in the construction of a series of curious tintypes set in the late-1870s Cypress Hills. The portraits perform complex and fluid cultural identities and they represent the particular conditions of modernity experienced by those...
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Fall 2023
This thesis examines Charles R. Knight’s images of dinosaurs produced around the turn of the nineteenth century in comparison to natural history images of living animals. Using a combination of scholarship from animal studies and an analysis of the side of production, it argues Knight used visual...
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Spring 2016
In 1915, Ireland was on the brink of the revolutionary Easter Rising. By 1949, the nation was officially declared a republic, no longer part of the British Commonwealth. These years flank the creation of five paintings by the Irish artist Seán Keating in which the painter has included his own...
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The Art of Printing and the Culture of the Art Periodical in Late Imperial Russia (1898-1917)
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This interdisciplinary dissertation explores the <i>World of Art</i> (Mir Iskusstva</i>, 1899-1904), <i>The Golden Fleece</i> (<i>Zolotoe runo</i>, 1906-1909) and <i>Apollo</i> (<i>Apollon</i>, 1909-1917), three art periodicals that became symbols of the print revival and Europeanization in late...
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Views in Hudson’s Bay (1825) and Peter Rindisbacher: Constructions of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Culture in the Red River Settlement
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Within the Views in Hudson’s Bay (1825) print series are six hand-tinted lithographs depicting indigenous and non-indigenous culture in the Red River Settlement. The images engage with visual language from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century print series and travel books that construct North...