Browsing Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects - Architecture and the Arts by Title
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Accumulating Things: Folk Art and Modern Design in the Postwar American Projects of Alexander H. Girard
(2015-10-21)This dissertation examines several projects by Alexander H. Girard (1907-1993) to add complexity to the discourse of postwar architecture and design in the United States. Girard’s design approach across multiple media ... -
Apocalypse According to Vasily Kandinsky
(2014-06-20)Abstract The main objective of this dissertation is to identify and analyze the influence of Russian icons, frescoes and popular broadsheets (lubki) and prove their essentiality to Vasily Kandinsky’s breakthrough ... -
Architectural Forum, 1932-64: A Time Inc. Experiment in American Architecture and Journalism
(2015-10-21)This study tells the story of Architectural Forum magazine during the Time Inc. ownership period, 1932-64. Why and how did this episode in American discursive life come about? What were its failures and successes, lessons, ... -
Art Access: Accommodating Adults with Intellectual Disabilities in the Art Museum
(2016-10-18)A study related to accommodations, or lack thereof, for adults with intellectual disabilities in art museums. Information from existing resources was collected and the research drew on the author’s personal and professional ... -
The Art of Artists' Personae: Yayoi Kusama, Yoko Ono, and Mariko Mori
(2014-06-20)This dissertation presents artists’ personae as a trajectory of contemporary art, while conceptualizing persona as an unstable yet productive site that can reveal the complicated relations among performance, representation, ... -
Before the Endless Miles of Wind and Sand and Empty Far Off Sky: Deserts in Hollywood’s Silent Era
(2018-06-25)When Robert Smithson donned a cowboy hat and boots in the classic 1968 film Mono Lake, he revealed how deeply the mythic imagery of the Hollywood Western has penetrated widespread attitudes towards the West. Scholars ... -
Beneath the Surface: The Aesthetic and Ideological Appropriation of Native American Artwork
(2015-10-21)ABSTRACT Beneath the Surface: The Aesthetic and Ideological Appropriation of Native American Art during the Arts and Crafts Period, 1880–1920 by Brandon K. Ruud Advisor: Professor Ellen Taylor Baird During ... -
Building the Modern Turkish Household: Koç Industries
(2012-08)This dissertation is a study of the changing visual and spatial culture of Turkey during and after the so-called “Marshall Plan Years,” from 1947 to 1980. Looking at a series of cultural reconstructions, the dissertation ... -
The Coffee House Art Gallery: An "Alternative" to the Alternative Art Space
(2017-10-13)The term “alternative space,” referring to art exhibition and performance spaces that combated the strict and dominating mainstream art world, has already been largely defined through academic and professional research. ... -
Cooking in Oz: Designing Instruction and Packaging Nostalgia
(2014-10-28)The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Cookbook synthesizes childhood memories of food and stories to create an intensely nostalgic experience for its readers. The cookbook is separated into sections based on Dorothy’s journey through ... -
Designing Destinations: Hotel Architecture, Urbanism, and American Tourism in Puerto Rico and Cuba
(2014-10-28)This study examines hotel design—from interior furnishings and artworks to their place in the larger urban environment—to reveal the importance of these sites in shaping international relationships and in the negotiation ... -
The Ecole des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine: Victor Tardieu and French Art Between the Wars
(2016-10-19)The thesis examines Victor Tardieu, the director of the École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine (EBAI) in the colonial cultural context of the interwar era in France. The EBAI, founded in 1924 was a School of Fine Arts following ... -
Embodied and Situated: Kerry James Marshall’s Formulations of Blackness in the Garden Project Series
(2012-12-07)Kerry James Marshall’s Garden Project paintings (1994-95) refer to the ways dual mechanisms of racialized subject production and racialized spatialization compound and work to define blackness as an invisible other within ... -
Engaging Detroit: The Detroit Institute of Arts and the African American Community
(2015-07-21)This study analyzes the Detroit Institute of Arts' (DIA) exhibition and interpretive labeling strategies that attempt to create a more inclusive institution for the predominantly African American population of Detroit. ... -
The Gazette du Bon Ton and the 1915 War Issue: Aligning Art and Commerce Through Fashion Illustration
(2013-10-22)Amid news of men in the trenches of the First World War, and encroaching German soldiers, a group of couturiers, fashion illustrators, and writers huddled together at the Studium’s press in Paris to create the 1915 special ... -
“Girl, if you make the movie, I promise you somebody will see it” DIY, Grrrl Power, and Miranda July.
(2016-07-01)In 1995 an aspiring young artist named Miranda July withdrew from her sophomore year in a California film school and relocated to Portland Oregon, a city that was home, in the early 1990s, to a thriving punk and feminist ... -
Iconographic Schemes of the Center and the Margins of a Fifteenth Century Rouen Book of Hours
(2012-12-10)This thesis examines the relationship between the central, religious images and the marginal, secularized images contained in fifteenth century books of hours from Northern France. The central object in this study is a ... -
Institutionalized Community Archives: Understanding a Community's Relationship with Its Collected History
(2015-07-21)This thesis looks how institutional archives that accession community archive function with the community. Three distinct community archives based in the United States for case studies for this observation. The first, the ...