Browsing by Department "Art, School of"
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A Narrative of Love, Politics, and National Identity in Claes Jansz. Visscher's The Small Landscapes
(2013-05)In 1612 Claes Jansz. Visscher published in Amsterdam a suite of 26 prints that has come to be known as The Small Landscapes. These etchings were based on a pair of suites depicting the Flemish countryside originally published ... -
A Paradigm Shift in African Cultural Exhibits at the National Museum of Natural History
(2018-12)As the National Museum, the Smithsonian Institution echoes American identity and promotes U.S. values. In a 1999 article, From Dioramas to Dialogics: A Century of Exhibiting African at the Smithsonian, anthropology curator, ... -
A Possible Ehecatl Figure from West Mexico
(2018-05)This thesis focuses on a particularly sophisticated example of Pre-Columbian West Mexican ceramic sculpture from the Museum of Fine Arts Houston: a dancing figure with a complex zoomorphic headdress. Late Pre-Classic Colima, ... -
An investigation of color theories and the teaching of color theories in selected private art schools, state supported institutions, and public schools in the United States
(1952)An analysis of the literature in the fields of Physics, Physiology, and Psychology, utilizing the descriptive Method of research, reveals a body of knowledge relating to several theories concerning color which are based ... -
Beneath the Hanging Moss: The Journey of African American Female Artist/Educators at a Historically Black College
(2017-05)Background: Incorporating the histories and works of art of African Americans from a multicultural perspective could enhance understandings of American heritage and contributions in art education. African American artists ... -
Beyond Montmartre and the Avant-Garde: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and the Democratization of Art
(2022-05-09)This thesis is a multi-faceted exploration into Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s contribution to the democratization and modernization of art. A variety of factors, such as the artist’s personal rejection of elitism after being ... -
Britain's Camp: The British Nationalist Narrative of Bergen-Belsen by Doris Zinkeisen
(2012-12)British painter Doris Zinkeisen (1889 – 1991) is largely unknown to art history. Therefore, her paintings done as a commissioned war artist (1941 – 1945) have yet to be adequately examined. The majority of these 14 works ... -
Celebratory Yet Unsettling: Studies on Early 1970s Chicano Student Murals in UCLA and UH
(2021-05)This thesis describes the documentation of two historic murals that are exceptional in their relationships to the rising of the Chicano consciousness insofar as their stories will become an integral part of the historical ... -
Chuck Ramirez: Outsider Objects
(2014-05)Chuck Ramirez, a graphic designer for H-E-B, a Texas-based grocery store chain, spent his workdays communicating ideas through the products he promoted in glossy advertisements and posters. His professional career undoubtedly ... -
Composing the World in Spanish Colonial Painting: The Descent of Christ into Limbo and the Pilgrimage to Paradise
(2021-05)Composing the World in Spanish Colonial Painting explores the cross-fertilization between western images of the world and indigenous traditions of envisioning the earth through one enigmatic seventeenth century painting ... -
Contemp(t)lating
(2022-06-13)The totality of the work in my thesis underscores the processes of my studies as an art student pursuing my undergraduate degree in Painting with a minor in art history. This thesis chronicles two years of my work consisting ... -
Data-Morphic Analyzing Approach for Understanding a Tennis Racket: Comparison of Tennis Rackets in UH Tennis Club
(2017)The shapes in the beginner group are relatively moderate than other groups. Some similar shapes are found in the intermediate group while extremely sharp shapes appear in the advanced group. I believe the reason that ... -
Decolonizing Taste: A Mesoamerican Staple In Colonial And Contemporary Art
(2020-05)In this thesis, the staple food of Mesoamerica features in a pair of comparison studies each containing two representations, one from colonial Mexico and another from the contemporary Southwest US. The association of the ... -
Glass Box
(2018-05)Although the white cube has served as the institutional standard for exhibiting modern and contemporary artworks and continues to be utilized for its perceived neutrality, it does not serve every medium of art equally well. ... -
Goya Reclaimed: Contemporary Artists' Appropriation of Francisco de Goya's Work for a Contemporary Consumption
(2019-05)Francisco de Goya was a Spanish painter during the 18th and 19th centuries whose body of work, paired with the social commentary and his role as a critic, is still heavily influential on many contemporary artists working ... -
Houston Punk Fanzines And Print Culture: 1979-1989
(2022-05)This thesis serves to analyze and explore the art historical importance of punk fanzines from the Houston area from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. By utilizing resources from various media, the thesis focuses on identifying ... -
Idols behind Altars – Revisited: Examining the Construction of the Mexican Artistic Identity through Visual Culture and Folk Art in the United States
(2018-05)This thesis examines the post-revolutionary creation of Mexican visual identity in the U.S. Focusing on the role of Idols Behind Altars by Anita Brenner, and her use of photography and text that attempt to frame the visual ... -
Investigative Aesthetics between Latin America and the Middle East
(2021-05)This thesis proposes a definition for a category of contemporary art, titled “investigative aesthetics,” that questions the authority of historical narratives and remediates archival resources, from photographs, documentation, ... -
JANNIS KOUNELLIS, CARLA LONZI AND THE APPROPRIATION OF THE WORKERISM MOVEMENT'S IDEAS IN UNTITLED (12 HORSES) AND AUTORITRATTO
(2019-05)The focus of my thesis is the appropriation of the methodology of Workerism in Untitled (12 Horses) by Jannis Kounellis and Autoritratto by Carla Lonzi. The project started out of my curiosity for the history of "poor" ... -
Joan Jonas and the Object of Performance
(2021-05)Performance art as a medium poses numerous difficulties to scholars and museum professions when trying to both study and preserve the works in question. The work itself is tied closely to a performer’s actions with respect ...