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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"American Art and Architecture"”.
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English Cottage Style Homes in America: Expressions of Architectural, Technological and Social Innovation
… simplification of design, a rationalism of plan, and a structural integrity reminiscent of rural medieval buildings. English Cottage Style homes gained popularity in Britain and later in America as a middle-class house type, promoted by Progressive Era housing reformers, including Gustave …
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Refinement and Architecture in Early Ypsilanti
… objective of this work is to examine refinement and architecture in nineteenth-century America with a focus on rural areas and Ypsilanti, Michigan in particular. The research utilized consists of an analysis of primary and secondary sources. Included among the primary sources are architectural …
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“An American Sun Shines Brighter”: Art, Science, and the American Reinvention of Photography
<p>When and where was photography invented? Received knowledge tells us that a few European men of distinction invented the medium sometime around 1839. This dissertation de-centers this origin story to include the United States, where artisans, chemists, and instrument-makers effectively …
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The Real and the Digital: Female Agency and Resisting the Male Gaze in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Works
… on three major feminist works by multimedia artist, Lynn Hershman Leeson (b. 1941), that grapple with the construction and potential of female identity. Considering the works within the context of Laura Mulvey’s seminal text “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” this paper will attempt to …
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Seeing the God of New Mexico: Mary Austin's Starry Adventure and the Optic of Enchantment
<p>This thesis examines 20th century American writer Mary Austin's last novel, <em>Starry Adventure</em> (1931), a work unjustly ignored by most Austin scholars, yet touted by the photographer Ansel Adams (in a letter to Austin) as "the greatest thing I have ever read." This thesis will be …
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Henry James, Virginia Woolf, And Frank Lloyd Wright: Interiority, Consciousness, Time, And Space In The Modernist Novel And The Home
… period, generally defined between the years 1890 and 1945, artists were attempting to break away from previous forms and styles. For example, writers like Henry James and Virginia Woolf sought to change the novel by exploring the consciousness of characters, while playing with the ideas of time …
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Food and the Social Body in US Performance Art, 1962–1980
… that passes through the borders of the body and links our biological organism with the social and political world. This complex, life-sustaining substance began to appear in US art in the early 1960s not just as an image, but as a literal material. Artists associated with every major artistic …
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Windows on the World: The Aesthetics of Difference in Neoliberal New York
… critical methods for interpreting global cities and their cultures, charting an aesthetic history of neoliberal New York — from the 1929 regional plan to the present. Surveying a range of literature, art criticism, and planning discourse, I argue that the global has served as the dominant motif …
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The Gilded Tropics: Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent in Florida, 1886-1917
… examines the Floridian works of Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent in the context of tourism, race, and the environment as perceptions of the tropics in an Anglo-American context. Both artists sojourned in Florida and produced a number of watercolors and related oils that not only testify to …
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Satirical Dissent: The Subversive Messaging of Ad Reinhardt’s 1946 and 1961 Art Comics How to Look at Modern Art in America
<p>Through a close analysis of Ad Reinhard's 1946 and 1961 art comics "How to Look at Modern Art in America,” examined in the context of their times, this paper will argue that Reinhardt’s idealist view and involvement with abstraction, as he saw it in its “purest” form, was intrinsically formed …
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The Integration of Art, Architecture, and Identity: Alfred Kastner, Louis Kahn, and Ben Shahn at Jersey Homesteads
… how a 1930s utopian enclave utilized modernist art and architecture to express the radical back-to-the-land agrarian idealism and socialist ideology of its settlers. The flat-roofed, concrete buildings that housed these Jewish garment workers were designed by German architect Alfred Kastner …
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Weathered
… focuses on themes of change, accumulation, time, and acceptance. Each artwork holds layers of information and experiences that form a unique narrative for all its viewers. The construction of each piece is a symbol of the physical ability it takes to create each painting. After my mobility was …
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DESIGN GUIDELINES: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PRESERVING THE HISTORIC, CULTURAL, AND ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE OF GLADEWATER, TEXAS
… a flurry of building projects in the 1930s and 1940s that left an indelible mark on the landscape of Gladewater’s downtown area. Unfortunately, a lack of oversight, planning, and guidance has since led to the deterioration of the design, materials, and integrity of Gladewater’s historic …
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Impression, Storm
… explores issues in gender, sexuality, the body, and place. An experiment in form, the novel is structured to replicate the passing of a hurricane over land. This model allows the narrative to expand its scope to encompass the swamp as a larger entity amidst the ecosystem of the coastal south. By …
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Bloomsbury's Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Art
<p>“Bloomsbury’s Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Art” examines the role of Byzantine art in Bloomsbury art critics Roger Fry’s and Clive Bell’s narratives of aesthetic Modernism. Fry, in his pre-World War I and interwar writings and teachings on art, and Bell, in seminal texts such as …
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Raphael Montañez Ortiz and Alternative Art Spaces, 1966–1971: From Repulsion to Exaltation
<p>In the 1960s, Brooklyn-born Puerto Rican artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz built a successful and provocative career in New York. Throughout the decade, Ortiz created sculptures, performances, and events that were part of a sustained investigation into how embodied destructive and uncomfortable …
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I. M. Pei, William Zeckendorf, and the Architecture of Urban Renewal
… dissertation reevaluates the practice of design and real estate in the United States through an insufficiently understood case study of the architect-developer team of I. M. Pei and William Zeckendorf and their twelve-year partnership in urban renewal. William Zeckendorf (1905-1976) was the most …
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