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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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Humble Hands in Humble Homes': The Irish Homespun Society, Women's Labour, and Craft Co-operatives in Ireland, 1935-65
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This dissertation provides a historical analysis of the Irish Homespun Society (IHS), a female-led craft advocacy group active in Ireland between 1935 and 1965. Established to slow the steady decline of traditional craft manufacture in poverty-stricken western counties, the IHS worked directly...
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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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Making the Qianlong Emperor’s Private Garden: Imperialization of the Lion Grove in Eighteenth-Century China
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This thesis examines the imperialization of the Lion Grove, a time-honored scenic site in Suzhou, during the reign of the Qianlong emperor (r. 1736-95) in the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Qianlong visited the garden during five of his Southern Inspection Tours and initiated a rewriting of the...
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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...