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Spring 2012
The objective of this thesis is to consider modern Chinese painting of the Chang’an School, studying in particular an undated painting titled Scenery of Shanbei by Shi Lu. It investigates the fact that Shi Lu’s painting distorts the appearance of the depicted terrain of Shanbei, expressing what 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...
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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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Spring 2018
This thesis examines issues of performance art documentation. An art historical survey contextualizes performance art practice and theory, situating the contradicting nature of performance art as a medium that both requires documentation while also denying its possibility. A detailed case study...
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Spring 2013
My thesis explores the intersection of time and speed in two different displays at the 1915 San Francisco Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE). In chapter one, titled “The Assembly Line: Accumulation,” I analyse a narrative of progress enacted in the Ford Motor Company’s popular...
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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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The Politics of Funding: The Impact of Federal and Corporate Funding on the Art Gallery of Alberta and the Art Gallery of Ontario
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This thesis critically examines the influence exerted by both the federal government and corporate sponsors on arts institutions in Canada. Focusing on the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Ontario, the author outlines the historical influence...
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Fall 2013
This thesis provides a study of the Ottoman Empire’s display and citizens at the Great Exhibition of 1851 as represented by British print culture. Using official and satirical sources, it examines mediated images of the “Turk,” identifying and interpreting differences between English and Turkish...