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Eduard Fuchs and the Dialectical Image of Caricature: Marxist Cultural Theory in an Age of Fake News
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The Marxist cultural historian Eduard Fuchs (1870–1940) made major contributions to our understanding of caricature which are of continuing relevance today. Although he has been criticised for his inconsistent methodology, the question of whether Fuchs treats caricature in a dialectical fashion...
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Imag(in)ing the cancerous body: representations of cancer in medical discourse and contemporary visual art
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This thesis examines representations of cancer in contemporary art, with a particular focus on unruly, un-idealized bodies at risk. In bringing together the discourses of art history and medicine, its aim is to engage conventions of visualizing cancer, and more importantly, to highlight the ways...
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Images of the Experiential: The Petroleum Roots of the Phenomenology of Religion and Architectural Phenomenology, 1945–1967
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This dissertation, titled “Images of the Experiential: Petroleum Roots of Architectural Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of Religion (1945–1967),” exposes the petrocultural philanthropy that funded imperialist knowledge production and gave rise to the phenomenology of religion and...
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Implications of Performance, Site, and Dialogue in Abdulnasser Gharem’s Social Practice Artworks
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In this thesis, I explore the artworks of Abdulnasser Gharem and situate them within the genre of social practice. I isolate three features to examine in conjunction with Gharem’s works. My first chapter draws on performance scholar Shannon Jackson’s theories to address the roles of support and...
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Negotiating Identities: Embodied Experience as Resistance to the Orientalist Gaze in the Artworks of Three Contemporary Women Artists from Iran
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This dissertation offers three case studies of contemporary women artists from Iran: Ghazaleh Hedayat (b. 1979), Simin Keramati (b. 1970), and Katayoun Karami (b. 1967), to challenge stereotypical readings of Iranian contemporary art that are based on homogenized notions of Iranian identity. I...
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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...