Kant’s essay ‘Project for Perpetual Peace’, written in 1795, was seminal in the relationship it constructed between the individual, national governance and international relations. Peace became a rallying cry after the Napoleonic wars and for a century, societies for peace sprou…
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Exhibitions of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMOCA) in the last thirteen years are distinguishable by two distinct periods: the reform period under TMOCA Director Dr. Alireza Sami Azar from 1999–2005, and the conservative period under TMOCA Director Mahmood Shalooei fro…
This dissertation examines the experiences of four southern African missionary art programs. The four, Grace Dieu and Rorke's Drift in South Africa, and Cyrene and Serima in Rhodesia (as well as their offshoots) pioneered art education for Africans in the region. Art emerging fr…
This dissertation, "Léon Tutundjian: Trauma, Identity, and Modern Art in the Aftermath of Genocide," explores the artistic output of an Armenian Genocide survivor in twentieth-century Paris. Looking through the lens of trauma theory, I argue that the oeuvre of Léon (Levon) Tutun…
Modern art by Jews was neither defiant nor rebellious. Instead, I believe that modern art for European Jewish artists was a natural outgrowth of strong oral and written Jewish traditions that encourage self-exploration and personal spirituality and provide for individual and col…
This dissertation explores the viability of multiple modernisms in mid-twentieth-century Iraq by examining the practice of the artist Hafidh Druby (1914-1991). Modern art’s paradigm of originality combined with local ancient forms was used by many Iraqi artists to overcome colon…
This thesis analyzes the cultural and political events of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Mexico that led to the Mayanization of Indigenous subjects in modern Mexican art. Situated in post-1910 Revolutionary Mexico, artists selectively chose specific motifs from …
Existing scholarship on the Brazilian 1960s has prioritized the participatory art of Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, emphasizing their transcendence of the discrete and static art object as the epitome of Brazilian modernism. What is less recognized is the role figurative artist…
Although he was active during the height of the avant-garde in Paris and was responsible for germinating the ides of modern art in the United States, Jan Matulka is unknown to many and left out of the narrative of American art history. Art history is self-perpetuating, and many …
My thesis analyzes the critical and pioneering role that Katherine Dreier, Juliana Force, and other New York-based female cultural promoters played in advancing the education, acceptance, and appreciation of modern art in America. By illuminating the strategies these women used …
The dissertation focuses on several Romanian avant-garde magazines, such as Contimporanul, Integral, and 75HP, that Romanian artists and writers created in Romania in the 1920s, after Romanian Dadaists Tristan Tzara and Marcel Iancu disbanded from Zurich Dada in the 1910s. The R…
With the Cy Twombly Gallery exhibiting only three paintings from 1962 to 1984, this examination of Twombly’s career features his evolution in these crucial two decades. With the Chalkboard series at its core, this monograph supplies a critical analysis based firmly in an art his…
Square Kufic is a unique style of Arabic calligraphy that developed in the 12th century and was extremely popular for architectural decoration from the 14th to the 16th centuries, after which time it went out of favor and its use, both in architecture and other media, declined g…