Die Asoke-Gemeinschaft wurde Mitte der 70er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts gegründet und hat sich seitdem zu einem maßgebendem und außergewöhnlichem Bestandteil der thailändischen Religionslandschaft entwickelt. Die Gemeinschaft besteht sowohl aus ordinierten Frauen und Männern, als…
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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 …
I mine relationships. I think about my own interpersonal relationships: to my parents, siblings, friends, mentors, lovers, colleagues, teachers, students, neighbors, strangers on the street. More significantly, I am interested in relationships that are less easily categorized, o…
The work of contemporary British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE is widely described as theatrical. This characteristic is especially present in the most well-known segment of his practice: his work in three dimensions, which often stages headless mannequins wearing copies o…
Various attempts have been made to understand the Buddhism of Central Java, especially as reflected in ancient statuary and archaeological monuments, but little effort has been expended on examining the Buddhist sculpture of the East Javanese period (circa tenth–fifteenth centur…
The sculptural reliefs depicting the Rāmāyana at the ninth-century Hindu temple complex of Loro Jonggrang in Central Java represent the most extensive telling of the epic in stone. For over a century the identification of many of their episodic themes and the influences leading …
The purpose of this dissertation is to demonstrate the vitality and diversity of Chinese Buddhist art in China from the tenth to fourteenth centuries through a close examination of images from the Buddhist cave site Feilaifeng [Peak that Flew in (from India)] located in the Hang…
Sculptor Ephraim Keyser (1850-1937) was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his artistic training in Baltimore, Munich, Berlin and Rome. The work of his early career included both marble and bronze statues, busts and allegorical figures. In later years, when he modeled Worl…
The bronze statuary of certain non-royal personages is investigated---more specifically, the ancient Egyptian priest. Recent studies of ancient Egyptian bronze sculpture have focussed on royal bronzes (Hill 2004) and bronzes of deities (Gasser 2001); bronze statuary of the priva…
This body of work is a way of understanding, reflecting on, and contributing to a contemporary dialogue about the impact of digital technology and the Internet on society by looking at the organization of information that lies behind the computer screen, and creating work that i…
The monastery tou Libos is one of the most important imperial foundations to survive in Constantinople. The earlier church, dedicated to Theotokos Panachrantos, was erected in the early tenth century by Constantine Lips, a high military official of the imperial army. At the end …
In 1856, Charles Cordier spent six months in Algeria in an attempt to seek aesthetic inspiration. The product of this trip was a series of bronze and marble polychrome busts inspired by the various non-Western ethnicities he encountered there. Despite the clear aesthetic qualiti…
Examining Cordier's nineteenth-century ethnographic busts, I argue that their contemporary exhibition must include the contexts of their creation and early display. Curators in the twenty-first century approach his works as celebrations of visual difference motivated by curiosit…
Colored marble has been used throughout the Mediterranean as a building material, architectural veneer, sculptural material, even a support for painting since at least the second century BC. This thesis examines the poetics and symbolism of marbles, as a medium more than a mater…
This dissertation is the first systematic description and analysis of the sepulchral and commemorative monuments at Aytaş Mevkii, an ancient cemetery set in the hills just north of modern İslamlar in the Elmali basin. This is a liminal location, surrounded by the better-known an…
This research presents a study of the public monumental sculpture in Iraq. Its purpose is to offer a perspective on the tensions between the artistic vision of the contemporary Iraqi sculptor and social, political and ideological imperatives. The study examines the sculptural tr…
Architectural stone blocks, relief orthostats, decorated with sculpture were found in great quantities at sites in South-East Anatolia and North Syria, set up in monumental architectural structures such as palaces and gateways. The reliefs offer a wealth of religious, mythologic…
What explains patterns of visual homogeneity in a diverse society? An emphasis on visual uniformity in the early and middle Roman empire seems to contradict what we know of regional, cultural and social differences around the Mediterranean. This dissertation addresses that tensi…
The dissertation examines a series of marble relief panels that decorated the upper story of a Roman civil basilica of the late first or early second century A.D. at Aphrodisias in Caria (S.W. Turkey). Remains of approximately forty-six different reliefs are preserved featuring …