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History of Art and Architecture Theses and Dissertations

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"Drama Sustains the Spirit": Art, Ritual, and Theater in Jin and Yuan Period Pingyang, 1150-1350

Description:
Pingyang (modern Linfen, Shanxi) was a major art and theater center in North China during the Jin and Yuan periods. Soon after the Jurchen conquered …
Year:
2011
Contributor:
Zhang, Fan (creator)
Bickford, Maggie (Director)
Bickford, Maggie (Reader)
Zerner, Catherine (Reader)
Hansen, Valerie (Reader)
Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Zhugongdiao
Chinese archaeology
Cizhou pillow
Quanzhen Daoism
Conquest Dynasty
mortuary art
Filial piety
Language:
English
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
Theses and Dissertations
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(Dis)location, Diaspora, and the Camera Image: Zarina Bhimji in the 1980s

Description:
My thesis takes up Zarina Bhimji’s untitled series of ten large-format Polaroid photographs taken in 1989 at the Victoria and Albert Museum. While Bhimji is …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Xiao, Grace (creator)
Shaffer, Holly (thesis advisor)
Caplan, Lindsay (reader)
Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Postcolonialism
Third World
African diaspora
Feminism
Contemporary art
Photography
South Asian diaspora
Bhimji, Zarina, 1963-
Victoria and Albert Museum
Art, British
Polaroid
Black Arts movement
Language:
English
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
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A Bohemian Monastery: The Last Bishop of Prague (1301-1343) and the Monastery of Augustinian Canons at Roudnice (Raudnitz) on the Elbe

Description:
Roudnice monastery in the Kingdom of Bohemia has fascinated scholars due to two facts regarding its cultural context; first, the Prague bishop Jan IV of …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
Klima, Alice (creator)
Bonde, Sheila (Director)
Zerner, Catherine (Reader)
Fidler, Masako (Reader)
Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Medieval Architecture
Architecture Gothic
Roudnice on the Elbe
Kingdom of Bohemia
Patronage ecclesiastical
Bishop John IV of Drazice
Architecture, Medieval
Church architecture
Architecture, Gothic
Augustinian architecture
Monasteries
Monastic and religious life
Patronage, Ecclesiastical
Czech Republic
Language:
English
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
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African Art at the Portuguese Court, c. 1450-1521

Description:
This study concentrates on the court practices of circulation and exchange of objects between Portugal and sub-Saharan Africa, as well as between Portugal and other …
Year:
2010
Contributor:
Pereira, Mario (creator)
Lincoln, Evelyn (Director)
Flores, Jorge (Reader)
Zerner, Catherine (Reader)
Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Court
Ivory
Portugal
Africa
Language:
English
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
Theses and Dissertations
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All Eyes on Russia: Margaret Bourke-White's Early Soviet Photographs

Description:
In 1930, American photographer Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971) traveled to the Soviet Union on her first trip abroad. Her auspicious visit occurred during a moment of …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Johnson, Josie Rose (creator)
Nickel, Douglas (Advisor)
Shaffer, Holly (Reader)
Sichel, Kim (Reader)
Brown University. Department of History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Periodicals
United States
Photography
Russia
Photobooks
Soviet Union
interwar
Women artists
Photojournalism
Propaganda
Newspapers
Photomurals
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
Theses and Dissertations
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Angelic Devotion: Embodying Belief with Bernini's Angels on the Ponte Sant'Angelo

Description:
In 1667, Gian Lorenzo Bernini—the most celebrated Italian artist of his day—received a papal commission to design ten marble angels carrying the relics of the …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Whitford, Kelly (creator)
Lincoln, Evelyn (Advisor)
Castiglione, Caroline (Reader)
Bass, Laura (Reader)
Brown University. Department of History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Opera
Catholic Church
History of Art
Sculpture
Baroque
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680
Italy--Rome
Performance theory
Ritual
Pilgrims and pilgrimages
City planning
Ponte Sant'Angelo
Castel Sant'Angelo
Tordinona
Public Executions
Angels
Guardian angels
Angels in art
Cult of Angels
Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano
Arciconfraternita della Misericordia (Rome, Italy)
Processions, Religious
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
Theses and Dissertations
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Architects of National Identity: an Analysis of Urbanization and Historic Preservation of Minority Religious Venues in Shaxi, Yunnan

Description:
Architectural authenticity is a theoretical concept with tangible consequences. Differing definitions of authenticity yield multiple methods of historic preservation, which in turn alter how users …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
McCarthy-Kelley, Olivia L. (creator)
Moser, Jeffery (thesis advisor)
Yapp, Lauren (reader)
Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
China
China--Yunnan Sheng
China--Shaxi Zhen
Heritage tourism
Historic sites
Buddhist architecture
Buddhist architecture--Conservation and restoration
Tourism
Sustainable tourism
authenticity
Historic preservation
Language:
English
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
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Architecture and Urban Visions in Nineteenth-Century Utopian Literature

Description:
It has long been acknowledged that one of the most influential urban planners of the twentieth century, Ebenezer Howard, began his career as a social …
Year:
2014
Contributor:
Walker, Nathaniel Robert (creator)
Neumann, Dietrich (Director)
Vidler, Anthony (Reader)
Roemer, Kenneth (Reader)
Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
urban planning
utopian literature
Architecture
Garden suburbs
Utopias
Language:
English
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
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Artful Visions: Aesthetic Possibility and Social Transformation in Zizek, Hardt and Negri, Foucault, and the New Relational Art

Description:
This dissertation brings together the work of a group of contemporary social theorists, art critics, and artists, including Slavoj Zizek, Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, …
Year:
2011
Contributor:
Oliver, Lisa Ann (creator)
Doane, Mary Ann (Director)
Nickel, Douglas (Reader)
Dean, Carolyn (Reader)
Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
modernity
post-modernity
Michel Foucault
The Order of Things
J?rgen Habermas
Slavoj Zizek
Michael Hardt
Antonio Negri
digital art
re-enchantment
Jacques Ranci?re
Nicolas Bourriaud
Civilization, Modern
Capitalism
Desire
Subjectivity
Relational art
Computer art
Foucault, Michel > 1926-1984
Habermas, Jürgen
Žižek, Slavoj
Hardt, Michael > 1960-
Negri, Antonio > 1933-
Rancière, Jacques
Bourriaud, Nicolas
Language:
English
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
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Authorities of Presence: Robert Gill, the Photographic Survey of India, and the Colonial Sublime

Description:
This study is about topographical photography of nineteenth-century British India, and the critical interpretation of that imagery. From the mid-eighteenth century, British makers of topographical …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Stein, Nathaniel M (creator)
Kriz, K (Director)
Nickel, Douglas (Reader)
Lukitsh, Joanne (Reader)
Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
history of photography
British India
nineteenth-century India
visual cultures of British India
topographical representation
the sublime
colonial sublime
survey photography
postcolonial criticism
photography and the archive
colonial archive
art history
British Raj
British Empire
India Office
Alkazi Collection of Photography
Robert Gill (1804-1879)
Sublime, The, in art
Great Britain. India Office
British Library
Yale Center for British Art
Victoria and Albert Museum
Language:
English
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
Theses and Dissertations
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Becoming Walker Evans: Photography, Literature, and Transnational Modernism, 1926-1938

Description:
This project foregrounds the connections between American, European, and Latin American influences in American art history as signaled by the use of “transnational” in my …
Year:
2014
Contributor:
Oehlrich, Kristen (creator)
Nickel, Douglas (Director)
Trachtenberg, Alan (Reader)
Vanel, Herve (Reader)
Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Walker Evans
transatlantic avant-garde
photography and literature
American Modernism
the Museum of Modern Art
Eugène Atget
Hart Crane
Carleton Beals
William Faulkner
Diego Rivera
Edith Wharton
Berenice Abbott
Edward Hopper
Charles Burchfield
Muriel Draper
Transnationalism
Photography
Literature and photography
Great Depression
Vernacular architecture
Evans, Walker > 1903-1975
Atget, Eugène > 1857-1927
Crane, Hart > 1899-1932
Beals, Carleton > 1893-1979
Rivera, Diego > 1886-1957
Wharton, Edith > 1862-1937
Abbott, Berenice > 1898-1991
Hopper, Edward > 1882-1967
Burchfield, Charles > 1893-1967
Draper, Muriel > 1886-1952
Language:
English
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
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BLIND STICKS AND DEAD STONES: ICONOCLASM AND RELIGIOUS ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND, c.1382-1500

Description:
From 1382, when the ideas of theologian John Wycliffe (c.1328-1384) were deemed heretical by the Church, England was gripped by a debate about the role …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Coulson, Oliver (creator)
Bonde, Sheila (Advisor)
Muller, Jeffrey (Reader)
Drimmer, Sonja (Reader)
Brown University. Department of History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Iconoclasm
Iconoclasm in art
Heresy
Lollards
lollardy
late medieval art
angel roof sculpture
heresy and art
fox preacher
House churches
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
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Building an Order: Architecture, Space, and Gender in Isabelle of France’s Rule of Sorores Minores

Description:
This study examines the history and architecture of female Franciscan monasteries following the Order of Sorores minores inclusae (Enclosed sisters minor) whose rule was co-written …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Kinias, Erica (creator)
Bonde, Sheila (Advisor)
Lincoln, Evelyn (Reader)
Roest, Bert (Reader)
Brown University. Department of History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
History of Art
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
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Designing Seclusion: Staging Carthusian and Ducal Access to the Divine in Late Medieval Burgundy

Description:
Between 1382 and 1400, Margaret of Flanders (1350-1405), the duchess of Burgundy, worked with an architect and an army of artisans to create the château …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Chilson-Parks, Laura (creator)
Bonde, Sheila (Advisor)
Muller, Jeffrey (Reader)
Proctor-Tiffany, Mariah (Reader)
Brown University. Department of History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Middle Ages
History of Art
Architecture
France
Medieval Religion
France--Flanders
Philip, Duke of Burgundy, 1396-1467
Margaret of Flanders (1350-1405)
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
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Digital Color: A Numerical Metaphor That Speaks to Presentness

Description:
This thesis is concerned with color’s presentness and ubiquity in digital technology and with the implications of these aspects as reflected in artistic practices engaging …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Federici, Valeria (creator)
Martin, Courtney J. (Reader)
Brown University. Department of History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Computer art
Art--Digital libraries
Computer art--Technique
Computer artists
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
Theses and Dissertations
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Doorways to the Demonic and Divine: Visions of Santa Francesca Romana and the Frescoes of Tor de'Specchi

Description:
The noblewomen-turned-oblates who commissioned the impressive body of imagery at Tor de'Specchi were at once pious servants of God and savvy consumers of art, reflecting …
Year:
2010
Contributor:
Scanlan, Suzanne M (creator)
Lincoln, Evelyn (Director)
Bonde, Sheila (Reader)
Castiglione, Caroline (Reader)
Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Francesca Romana
demons
quattrocento Rome
art history
pinzochere
women's monasticism
Visions
Demonology
Frances, of Rome, Saint > 1384-1443
Language:
English
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
Theses and Dissertations
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Drafting a Profession: Drawings and Architects in the United States, 1880–1920

Description:
This project examines drawings as a means of historicizing the professionalization of architecture in the United States around the turn of the twentieth century. I …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Duval, Jonathan R. (creator)
Neumann, Dietrich (Director)
Nickel, Douglas R. (Reader)
Osman, Michael (Reader)
Brown University. Department of History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Architecture
Architectural drawings
Mechanical drawing
Architecture, American
Professions--Sociological aspects
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Architecture and Planning
Blueprints
Chandler, F. W. (Francis Ward), 1844-1926
Architectural drawing--Detailing
Copying processes
Lettering
Graphology
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
Theses and Dissertations
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Examining the German Ledigenheim: Development of a Housing Type, Position in the Urban Fabric and Impact on Central European Housing Reform

Description:
This examination of a little known German building type of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Ledigenheim, or home for single individuals, is an …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Sassin, Erin Eckhold (creator)
Neumann, Dietrich (Director)
Poore, Carol (Reader)
Blau, Eve (Reader)
Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Ledigenheim
housing reform
Ledige
single women
Single men
Single women
Germany
Language:
English
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
Theses and Dissertations
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Exhibiting the Medieval: The Use of Historicist Architecture in Modern Iberian Expositions, 1929-1940

Description:
In the early twentieth-century, Spain and Portugal hosted three international expositions under the fascist dictatorships of Miguel Primo de Rivera and António Salazar. The primary …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Dykstra, Lia (creator)
Bonde, Sheila (Advisor)
Neumann, Dietrich (Reader)
Mendelson, Jordana (Reader)
Brown University. Department of History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Architecture
Architecture, Modern
Spain
Portugal
Exhibitions
Medieval Revival
Buildings--Remodeling for other use
Appropriation (Art)
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
Theses and Dissertations
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Farmlink Zero: Growing Food Sovereignty Through Urban Agritecture in Providence, Rhode Island

Description:
The history of the charitable food space is one fraught with hardship, class conflict, and socio-economic struggle. Despite these problems, urban agriculture has become a …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Nasta, Patrick S. (creator)
Neumann, Dietrich (thesis advisor)
von der Schulenburg, Julian (thesis advisor)
Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Architecture
Agriculture
Sustainability
Language:
English
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
Theses and Dissertations
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