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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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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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Stripped bare: Body Worlds' plastinates as anatomical portraiture, informed by both the wax sculpture of Museo della Specola, Florence, Italy, and the practices of traditional Early Modern portraiture
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Body Worlds, the traveling international exhibitions of posed, skinless cadavers, has attracted controversy since 1995. Installed corpses appear animated due to the plastic polymers that are forcibly injected into their bodies that enable the body to retain an enduring figural posture. A...
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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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Spring 2014
The work of the Marxist cultural historian Eduard Fuchs (1870-1940) has been criticised for its inconsistent application of historical materialism to the fields of caricature and erotica. Although this criticism does have some merit, the question of whether Fuchs treats caricature in a...
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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...