Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"American painting"”.
-
Effects of Cubism on American Painting Since 1914
… to discover these factors in representative paintings produced in America subsequent to 1914. The final step will be to show the extent of the influences by reproducing selected American paintings, quoting current writers, and drawing conclusions.</p>
-
Turbulent Bodies: Disruptive Materiality in American Painting, 1880-1940
… study historicizes the physical processes of painting of the American artists Winslow Homer (1836-1910), Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847-1917), and John Marin (1870-1953). It situates their practices in the context of late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American culture by thinking of painting as …
-
Art at Ashland Farm: the collection of Sarah Avery Key Patten
… documented by completing Smithsonian Museum of American Art Inventory of American Painting information forms, and detailed digital photography, where possible. The report forms for these pieces were then submitted to the Smithsonian Inventory of American Painting, adding to the body of scholarly …
-
MoMA in France: The Construction of an *American Cultural Identity
… on my archival research at MoMA, the Archives of American Art, and the National Archives I analyze the three major historical surveys of American art sent abroad by MoMA during the fifties: 12 Modern American Painters and Sculptors (1953); 50 Ans d'art aux etats-unis (1955); and The New American …
-
Beyond the easel : the dissolution of abstract expressionist painting into the realm of architecture
A defining feature of American abstract expressionist painting is its enormous size and scale. Heroic ambition, the vast American landscape, and the sense of "something big" happening in American painting are often cited as determining factors in this phenomenon. This dissertation examines how …
-
The Radicant Artist: Echoes of Georgia O'Keeffe in Contemporary Poetry
… into poetry of the life and works of the American Modernist painter, Georgia O’Keeffe. This study intends to show how these poems have interpreted, de-codified and translated O’Keeffe’s subjects into words by making room for new meaningful images, thereby expanding what O’Keeffe meant to …
-
American Images of Childhood in an Age of Educational and Social Reform, 1870-1915
… created some of the most famous contributions to American imagery. More often than not, these images dealt with the extraordinarily complex social issue of children and childhood, and the way that the sentimental value of children evolved alongside a transitioning nation. Post-bellum genre …