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 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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Marking and Meaning
(2017)Arboretum: the inner loop trail is an interpretive sound map of a trail in the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center. It is a form of cognitive map that combines methods from the visual arts to diagrammatically represent the ... -
Modern Art in Your Life and in the Suburbs
(2016-05)Modern Art in Your Life and Suburbia analyzes Life’s 1948 article “A Life Round Table on Modern Art.” My thesis specifically offers a new perspective of Life’s suburban utopia to previous art historical discussions about ... -
New Monumentality, Integration of the Arts, and the Shaping of Modern Life
(2015-12)The American art history canon poses modern art as an individualistic and detached enterprise. However, an examination of the New Monumentality discourse reveals that modern art was as socially and politically engaged as ... -
San Juan Nepomuceno and Criollo Identity in Late Viceregal Mexico
(2014-05)This thesis argues San Juan Nepomuceno was an integral part of the rise of the criollo consciousness and its visual culture by presenting archival evidence of the saint’s devotion being cultivated by the criollos and Jesuits ... -
'The Hair As Remembrancer': Hairwork and the Technology of Memory
(2013-05)Sentimental hairwork, especially popular in Europe and the United States during the nineteenth century, is an understudied subject for art history, and need to be considered beyond it connection the painted portrait miniature ... -
The Many Disguises of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Doyle (Sherlock Holmes, Fairies, and the Symbolist Movements in Art and Literature)
(2015-05)While fairies and Sherlock Holmes may not seem to have much in common, both were thought to be real by many Victorians. Most people are unaware that in addition to the Sherlock Holmes series, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote what ... -
The Medieval Modern Discourse and the Ethos of the Menil Curatorial Method
(2018-05)This thesis examines how an obscure exhibition from 1958 called Islands Beyond: An Exhibition of Ecclesiastical Sculpture and Modern Paintings is the first visual embodiment in the United States of the early twentieth-century ... -
THE RIDDLE OF THE MANY HEADS: TEOTIHUÁCAN FIGURINE FRAGMENTS AT THE HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE
(2014-05)The purpose of this study is to examine a collection of 128 terracotta figurine fragments presently housed at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. These terracotta figurine fragments are believed to have originated at ... -
The Warwick Vase and British Nostalgia
(2014-05)After The Warwick Vase’s “creation” between 1771 and 1774, the form of the ancient-Neoclassical hybrid object was highly replicated in the decorative arts throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. In particular, the British ... -
"To Delight and Instruct": Children's Education at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Midcentury
(2016-05)This thesis describes and analyzes two programs for children’s education in art museums at midcentury – the Masterson Junior Gallery in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York’s Education ...