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Showing 1 to 20 of 152 for “"American art"”.
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'Brush and Pencil'; Tastemaker of American Art
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A national museum of American art and archaeology
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1936.
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American Art Histories: Framing Race in Exhibitions, 1842-1876
… in the United States presented histories of art by laying out sequences of objects. Paintings, sculptures, and prints were aligned or juxtaposed with so-called artifacts and specimens as well as plaster casts of classical sculpture in order to convey a sense of progress or development across …
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Appalachian Regionalism: Reimagining Modernism on the Periphery of American Art
… Reimagining Modernism on the Periphery of American Art,” defines and contextualizes the distinctive regional contributions of Appalachian culture to American art production. To further diversify the range of art historical study, my dissertation proposes that from the mid nineteenth to mid …
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The Aesthetics of Resistance in Latin American Art in Canada
This dissertation examines contemporary art by Latin American diaspora artists in Canada, focusing on artworks that address trauma, displacement, feminist resistance, and anti-colonial perspectives in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, and British Colombia. While drawing on extensive artists' …
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Auto-America: The Automobile and American Art, Circa 1900-1950
… explores the theme of the automobile in American visual art in the first half of the twentieth century, specifically as it appears in painting and printmaking. During the period under consideration, the automobile evolved from a technological novelty owned and operated by wealthy …
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Scribner's Monthly 1870-1881: Illustrating a New American Art World
… improvements in reproduction technology and art criticism, Scribner's played a major role in the development of the nation's art world in the Gilded Age, transforming the reception, perception and consumption of images by the American public.
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Through the Body: Corporeality, Subjectivity, and Empathy in Contemporary American Art
… subjectivity, and empathy expressed in artworks created and exhibited in New York in the early 1990s and linked with identity politics. I focus on works that represented or evoked bodies and elicited viscerally somatic responses from viewers. As I demonstrate, the multicultural and …
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"By Popular Demand": The Hero in American Art, c. 1929-45
… changes, heroes were sought out and created as part of an ever-changing national culture. American artists responded to the widespread desire for heroic imagery by creating icons of leadership and fortitude. Heroes took the form of political leaders, unionized workers, farmers, folk icons, …
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An Art of Translation: French Prints and American Art (1848-1876)
… of translation for two related trends in American art and visual culture of the antebellum and Civil War eras: the transatlantic expansion of the nineteenth-century French art publishing industry, and the conceptual shift in the period's literature on reproductive prints from the notion of …
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Trends Effecting the Evolving role of Handcraft in American Art Education to 1910
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Reexamining 1930s American Art: The 'Realisms' of Archibald Motley, Jr. And Reginald Marsh
… on its own inherent instability; these two artists employed fantasy, distortion, and self-reference in their work in order to expose realism as decidedly non-mimetic and in need of close scrutiny. In doing so, they also pointed to the precarious social, political, and economic situation …
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New races, new media : the struggle for a modern American art, 1890-1925
American modernism was formulated at the turn of the twentieth century, when artists and intellectuals became newly self-conscious of their aesthetic strategies in a rapidly urbanizing United States. During that same period, new immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe poured into the U.S., …
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Framing Latin American Art: Artists, Critics, Institutions and the Configuration of a Regional Identity
… investigates how non-academic agents (i.e. artists, curators, and institutions) helped construct the current canon of Latin American art. It takes as case studies key exhibitions held in Brazil in order to examine how the central concepts of anthropophagy, geometric abstraction, and the …
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Opening the floodgate: the first major exhibition of American art in China's reform era
… investigates the first major exhibition of American art in China’s reform era, The Exhibition of Important Original Works from the American Paintings Collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (referred to as The Exhibition) in 1981. As a result of the Cultural Exchange Agreement signed in …
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The spectral imagination: American art between science and superstition in the late nineteenth century
… were embedded in and constitutive of the visual arts in late nineteenth-century America. By focusing on the work of artists Henry Alexander (1860–94), William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), Edwin Romanzo Elmer (1850–1923), and Irving Ramsay Wiles (1861–1948), this project examines the interplay of …
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Elusive matter, material bodies: American art in the age of electronic mediation, 1865-1918
This dissertation examines how American art engaged new electronic media during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, when techno-utopian desires for global harmony and interconnection surged throughout American culture, encouraged by the advent of the electromagnetic telegraph. While the …
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