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

Twentieth Century
Dissertations Completed by Subject, 2022

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Bergendorff, Karlee, "Diplomatic Gifts and Cold War Strategies: The Role of North Korea’s Overseas Art Studios in Egyptian Memorial Culture" (Duke University, K. Stiles)

Cooper, Ashton, " 'How hard to give form to oneself honestly' ”: Liberation Politics and the Remaking of Painterly Expression in 1970s New York" (University of Southern California, S. Hudson, A. Jones)

Chang, Yuri, "Negotiating Urban Identities: International Art Events and the Cultural Identities of Korean Cities, 1988–1995" (State University of New York, Binghamton, T. McDonough)

Emmer, Regina, "Living Between the Lines: How Japanese Crafts Taught Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, and Eileen Gray to See Modern Domestic Space" (University of New Mexico, C. Mead, S. Anderson-Riedel)

Goddard, Brandi, " ‘Humble Hands in Humble Homes’: Cottage-Industry Textiles, Women’s Labour, and Craftwork Co-operatives in Ireland, 1935–1960" (University of Alberta, M. Maegher)

Harakawa, Maya, "After the Renaissance: Art and Harlem in the 1960s" (Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), S. Wilson)

Hsieh, Pei-chun (Viola), "Common Senses: The Postwar Sensorium and Contemporary Art in Taiwan" (State University of New York, Binghamton, K. Hatch)

Kahng, Hannah, "This Film Which Is Not One: Intersections of Expanded Cinema and Feminism, 1970-1979" (University of California, Los Angeles, G. Baker)

Kwon, Vicki Sung-yeon, "Connections in Friction: Socially Engaged Art in East Asia in Transnational Contact Zones" (University of Alberta, M. Boone, N. Loveless)

Mohammadi , Banafsheh, "Images of the Experiential: The Petroleum Roots of the Phenomenology of Religion and Architectural Phenomenology, 1945–1967" (University of Alberta, S. Wilson)

Pappas, MaryClaire, "Making Modern Viewers: Painting in Norway and Sweden, 1908–1918" (Indiana University Bloomington, M. Facos)

Postlewait, Mariah, "Richard Avedon’s “In The American West” Revisited" (State University of New York, Binghamton, J. Tagg)

Rawlings, Courtney, "The Architecture of Red Los Angeles: Building Low-Cost Housing Communities for a Postwar Future, 1940-1960" (Emory University, T. Cronan)

Schwaller, William, "Translating Arte de Sistemas: The Centro de Arte y Comunicación in Buenos Aires and Abroad, 1969–1977" (Temple University, M. Alvarez)

Thomas, David William, "Turn on, Tune in, Don’t Drop out: Pulsa’s Computer-Based Ecology"(State University of New York, Binghamton, K. Hatch)

Turner, Madeline, "What Women Write: Artist's Books, Postal Objects, and Independent Theater in Mexico City (1979-92)" (New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, E. Sullivan)

Varela, María Paula, " 'My Goddesses and My Monsters:' Maria Martins’ Paradoxical Modernism" (University of Florida, K.M. Cabañas, R. Silveri)