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History of Art and Architecture Theses and Dissertations
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For more information about the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, visit the web site at: https://design.uoregon.edu/arthistory
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(University of Oregon, 2009-09)This thesis examines the interior design collaborations of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh with Charles Rennie Mackintosh, most notably for Kate Cranston's Ingram Street Tearooms and Willow Tearooms. By considering these ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)One of the largest and best preserved copies of the Athena Parthenos, the famed statue was found in Pergamon, a major city in the Hellenistic period. This statue from c. 170 BCE diverged in part from the original becoming ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)Scholarship has examined the Greco-Roman deities used as prototypes for Buddhist figures in Gandhara, such as Apollo-Buddha, Tyche-Hariti, and Atlas. Minimal research has explored the surmised correlation between Nike and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)The Grave Stele of Hegeso (410 – 400 B.C.E) is an ancient Greek mistress-maid type funerary stele from Athens that depicts an elite woman attended to by an enslaved attendant. This thesis centers the analysis on the enslaved ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)The Mexican-Hungarian photographer Kati Horna (1912–2000) photographed the Spanish Civil War and created photomontages for the anarchist organization, the CNT-FAI (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo-Federación Anarquista ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)Networks of Experience: Interactive Digital Art in the 21st Century considers interactivity in digital art practices. Emerging technologies advance so quickly that artworks using such technologies are not fully understood. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)New York City, a major capital of the art world since the mid-20th century, has long been an important center for site-specific contributions by avant-garde artists interested in activism, identity, and collectivism. This ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)Botanical gardens are a place where research is typically performed, but over time, the need for funding has pushed these institutions to exhibit art within their garden spaces. This thesis demonstrates how these exhibitions ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)Ikeda Manabu (b. 1973) creates monumental images that emerge from an aggregate of unrelated miniature motifs. These small motifs are made from an accumulation of short, colorful lines drawn on paper canvases. Taking Buddha ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)Scholars universally acknowledge the eleventh century as the turning point in medieval Iberian history. Léon-Castile did not ally with the papacy until 1080 at the Council of Burgos when their liturgical practices were ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-04-29)Taking the 2012 Japanese video game La Mulana as a case study, this thesis investigates the contemporary reception the popular culture idea of 1.) an adventuring archaeologist who finds 2.) an artifact in a moment of 3.) ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-04-27)During its ninety-year history, the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) has undergone four major architectural renovations, accrued a permanent collection of almost 200,000 works, mounted over 5,000 exhibitions, and ...
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(University of Oregon, 1980-12)"Quattrocento Female Portraiture: A Study of Literary, Cultural, and Artistic Relationships," is an analysis of the unique visual nature of female portraiture in fifteenth-century Italy. Although rarely commented on in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)This thesis explores the photography of Oregon’s lesbian land communities, through the Ovular workshops hosted at the lesbian land Rootworks from 1980 to 1983 and their subsequent magazine The Blatant Image (1981-1983). I ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)This thesis analyzes Signal Fire, a Portland-based arts organization founded in 2008. The organization produces extended, reading-intensive, and practice-oriented backpacking artist residencies in wild places. My own ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)The complexity of Hélio Oiticica’s Parangolés poses a challenge to art historians. The multiplicity of the Parangolés’ iterations coupled with their unclear history make them hard to define, and consequently hard to put ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)At the 2011 Venice Biennale, the Israeli artist Yael Bartana represented Poland with “…And Europe Will Be Stunned”, a film trilogy that depicts the rise and evolution of the fictional movement JRMIP - Jewish Renaissance ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)As one of the first Chinese modernist artists to study painting in Paris in the 1920s, Pang Xunqin’s art and design projects were profoundly influenced by both Western European and Chinese aesthetics. From the 1930s to ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)While Taiwanese queer film and literature studies have flourished over the last few decades, virtually no English language scholarship on the history of LGBTQ art in Taiwan and Mainland China exists. Due to the contentious ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)In this thesis I apply literary analysis to railroad guidebook illustration (1880-1890) to argue that the framing and decorative embellishments aided the nineteenth century reader in imagining an idealized version of the ...