This study deploys the Spanish illustrator Francisco Rivero Gil (1899-1972) as a paradigmatic figure of the graphic arts in order to explore the relationships between image and text being played out in representation as expressions of Spain's unique process of modernization. The…
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The Ferapontov Monastery, founded by the monk Ferapont in 1398, stands in the White Lake (Belozersk) District, a flat, forested area some 430 miles north of Moscow. Stunning frescoes painted by the iconographer Dionisy and his sons between 1500–1502 cover not only the interior w…
This thesis is focused on American gay male comics and queer alternative comics. I argue that the field of gay male comics production is dominated by two key genres: gay porno comics and gay ghetto comics. The conventions and characteristics of these genres help to construct and…
Jules Vallée Guérin (1866-1946), arguably America's foremost "architectural decorator" of the early twentieth century, remains largely outside the canon of historical study. In an effort to revive interest in Guérin's art and luring hues, this dissertation addresses a sample of …
This thesis paper aims to describe how using tarot aspects outside of the tarot context can spark visual metaphors in illustration. Tarot, while famously known for as a tool of determining one's fate, is also a source of the many intricacies of the human experience. The 22 Major…
This research examines images of adolescents made in late 19th and early 20th century America, the same time that “adolescence” as a concept was coined and codified. Many of these first images of adolescence were forged in marginal and experimental visual media, particularly in …
The Ethelind Pope Brown collection at the Irvin Department of Rare Books & Special Collections at the University of South Carolina contains thirty-two gouache paintings of south-eastern North American flora and fauna from the eighteenth century. Colonel John Laurens, a native So…