Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

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Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2002

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Angell, Marisa, “Learning from Urforms of Nature: Organic Functionalism in German Architecture and Photography, 1923–1941” (Yale, S. Isenstadt)

Barberie, Peter, “Landscape and the Discourses of Naturalism: Charles Marville's Photographs of the Bois de Boulogne” (Princeton, P. Bunnell)

Bassnett, Sarah, “Photography, Instrumental Discourse, and City Planning in Early Twentieth-Century Toronto and Montreal” (SUNY Binghamton, J. Tagg)

Bell, Melissa, “Lithography and the French Stage, 1815–1848” (CUNY, P. Mainardi)

Burgess, Rebekah, “Collecting Agency: Turn-of-the-Century Lowell, Massachusetts, Mill Workers Return the Gaze” (Boston, K. Sichel)

Byron, David, “The Visual and Social Strategies of German Propaganda Broadsheets, l608–l62l” (Yale, C. Wood)

Davis, Caitlin S., “Lee Miller: A Critical Analysis of Her Photography” (Rutgers, J. Marter)

De Souza, Carlos, “And Love Will Live Forever: The Narrative Structure of the Fotonovela” (UC Santa Barbara, U. Keller)

Firstenberg, Lauri, “Postcoloniality, Performance, and Photographic Portraiture” (Harvard, S. P. Blier)

Gilderhus, Kirsten Eloise, “Karl Hubbuch: Drawings and Graphic Works, 1927–1930” (Wisconsin, Madison, B. Buenger)

Gordon, Sarah A., “Philadelphians in Motion: Human Bodies in Muybridge's Animal Locomotion” (Northwestern, S. H. Clayson)

Hale, Meredith, “Romeyn de Hooghe and the Birth of Political Satire” (Columbia, S. Schama, D. Freedberg)

Hoss, Mary-Louise, “Ladies and Scholars: Photographic Images of Women Students 1890–1914” (Boston, K. Sichel)

Jones, Jennifer, “A Discourse on Drawings: Salon Culture and the Graphic Arts in Eighteenth-Century Paris” (Columbia, D. Rosand)

Keller, Corey, “The Look of Knowledge: Photographic Imagery and the Discourses of Science, 1839–1895” (Stanford, M. Marrinan)

Lutz, Eric, “The Architect's Eye: R. M. Schindler and His Photography” (UC Santa Barbara, U. Keller)

Maimon, Vered, “Herschel, Talbot, Duchenne and Galton—Photography as an Epistemological Site in the Nineteenth Century” (Columbia, J. Crary)

Onuf, Alexandra, “Local Engagements: Hieronymus Cock and the Small Landscape Prints” (Columbia, D. Freedberg)

Ricciardelli, Lucia, “Packaging the Past for the Spectator: The Status of the Photographic Image in Contemporary Documentary Practice” (UC Santa Barbara, C. Gardner and A. Solomon-Godeau)

Sheehan, Tanya, “Performances and Procedures: The Surgical Operating Theatre and the Photographic Body in American Visual Culture, 1860–1890” (Brown, K. Kriz, K. S. Champa)

Stewart, Lee, “Likeness and Identity: Painted and Photographic Portraiture in France, 1830–1880” (Columbia, R. Brilliant)

Van Arragon, Elizabeth J., “The Photo League: Views of Urban Experience in the 1930s and 1940s” (Iowa, C. Adcock)

Weiss, Marta, “Photographic Fiction: British Photography in the 1860s and 1870s” (Princeton, P. Bunnell)

Weissman, Terri, “Super Sight: The Photography of Berenice Abbott” (Columbia, B. Buchloh)

Werschkul, Hilda, “Modernism into Memory: The Drawings of Eva Hesse” (Columbia, D. Rosand, B. Buchloh)

Zimmerman, Claire, “Photography, Architecture, and Commerce in Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's German Work, 1925–1931” (CUNY, R. Bletter)