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
(December 2)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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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" ... -
"Magiciens de la Terre" and Multiple Histories of Curating Global Art in Paris
(2020-05)Curator Jean-Hubert Martin’s 1989 exhibition "Magiciens de la terre" is considered the first exhibition of global contemporary art, displaying recent works by 50 Western and 50 Nonwestern artists. Most of the scholarship ... -
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 ... -
Mayanizing Modernity
(2020-05)This thesis analyzes the cultural and political events of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Mexico that led to the Mayanization of Indigenous subjects in modern Mexican art. Situated in post-1910 Revolutionary ... -
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 ... -
Multi-Disciplinary Modernism: Peggy Guggenheim and Art of This Century
(2017-05)Peggy Guggenheim built one of the most important and internationally esteemed collections of modern art, and established what is the most famous gallery of our time, Art of This Century. Guggenheim’s scandalous life and ... -
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 ... -
Palace Maid Murals: Establishing a Feminine Space in the Tang Imperial Tomb of Princess Yongtai
(2019-05)This thesis examines Princess Yongtai’s satellite tomb in Qianling Mausoleum, which was constructed in 706 CE during the Chinese Tang dynasty. It boasts one of the most intact and exemplary murals of palace maids within ... -
Pondering the Palma: Functional Analysis and Formal Typology in Classic Veracruz Art History
(2017-05)This thesis significantly expands the corpus of portable sculptures known as the palma. The palma object-type has remained anomalous throughout the years despite being linked to the ballgame and other stone accoutrements ...