Esta dissertação está focada no levantamento arquitetónico conjugado com a fotogrametria, esperando-se que a conjugação destas metodologias se torne mais eficaz para o levantamento e documentação do edifício, o que possibilitará aumentar a quantidade de informações detalhadas pa…
Günümüzde Suriye'nin doğusunda bulunan antik Dura-Europos kentinin keşfi, Arkeoloji ve Sanat Tarihi açısından bir dönüm noktasıdır. Dura araştırmacılarından biri olan Hopkins, ortaya çıkarılan hazine değerindeki resimleri “soluk topraktan fışkıran resim vahası” olarak ifade etmi…
Bu tezin amacı 20. yüzyılın en etkili düşünürlerinden Martin Heidegger’in Varlık ve onun anlamı düşüncesinde aldığı yolda, felsefesinin izlekleri için görsel materyallerin kullanılma olanağını araştırmaktır. Bu amaçla resim sanatı tarihinden seçilen eserler konularının hikâyeler…
This project charts the development of a brand inspired by the symbol of three rabbits with interlocking ears. The process documented in this book details the evolution of the brand, charting its history and the deciphering of its language. The symbol is explored through a colle…
One of the main challenges on the creation of glass pieces in casting, is to obtain a surface of the glass as clean as possible, without adhering residues, or devitrification. In glass Sculptures where the surface is not flat, the polishing process becomes very complicated, and …
Between 1753 and 1774, John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) painted some 350 portraits depicting men, women, and children of the British-American colonies, where he lived. Though his portraits were painted two and a half centuries ago, still they strike contemporary viewers as comp…
The aim of this dissertation is to conceptualize the aesthetics of the 1920's in relation to their role amid the art and society of the time. It also strives to describe the concise artistic environment that was born in Paris during the period motivated by several historical fac…
‘Mothership’ is a term of endearment used to describe the condition of ‘mother’. The term suggests that ‘mother’ provides respite and maintenance, and exists as a home base for the sole purpose of service to its offspring, in perpetuity. It does not account for the subjectivity …
My return to Columbus, Ohio back in June 2019 allowed me to reflect as I walked along Stewart Avenue in the south side of the city on my way to Linwood where I once lived. Through my old hood, I recognized the homes where my friends once stayed, Stewart’s Carry Out and South Hig…
I am in this messy world with you and everyone and everything else, automatically defining one another by constituting the context of one another. Even the dust gathering on my windowsill is the product of that universal collaboration, and the consequences of even the most perso…
After Rome conquered Egypt, Egypt invaded Rome. Or so it would seem, judging from the explosion of Egyptian-inspired art in Rome beginning in the mid-first century BC—including a host of Egyptian motifs incorporated into Roman wall painting. These motifs are based on pharaonic a…
In the relatively nascent field of Deccani art history, the Bijapuri ruler Ibrahim `Adil Shah II (r. 1580-1627) has attracted substantial scholarly attention. Ibrahim ruled for nearly fifty years, and the largest corpus of extant Bijapuri art and architecture dates to his length…
This text will examine the technique and symbolism of my series of pen and ink drawings entitled Ruin. These drawings were made in reaction to a trip to Israel that I took in 2010. They investigate the ways in which humor and automatic drawing may be used to enter into a convers…
This dissertation explores the history of colonial representations of the Dutch East Indies and analyzes the tropes that undergird those representations. The relentless damp of the tropics, it argues, suffuses European evocations of the Indies; from drenched forests and malarial…
Tang Hou, an early Yuan connoisseur, has been forgotten in the core of Chinese art history until the late 20th century. He experienced the political transition between the Chinese Southern Song and the Yuan Mongols in the 1270s and was nurtured by dynamic artistic and cultural b…
This dissertation examines contemporary concepts of artistic identity in uli body and wall painting in Igbo-speaking southeastern Nigeria through the study of thirteen female uli artists. The artists include Ekedinma Ojiakor and Martina Okafor in Agulu, Mgbadunnwa Okanumee and A…
From Mussolini to Mao, from Kim Il Sung to Saddam, leader cults have been a staple feature of twentieth-century authoritarian politics. This dissertation examines the cult of Joseph Stalin from its inception in December 1929, the date of Stalin's fiftieth birthday, to his death …
Recent scholarship has suggested that French artist Théodore Chassériau (1819–1856), born in Santo Domingo to a French diplomat and a Creole woman, was in fact a sang-mélé, whose racial identity is reflected in his pictures. Unsettling notions of a direct correlation between bio…
The seventeenth century was an incredibly fascinating time for art in England developmentally, especially because most of the artists that were receiving the commissions from English patrons and creating the art weren’t English, they were Dutch. Over this one hundred year period…