Master of Arts in Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism: Thesis Abstracts
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Each year, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago celebrates the culmination and closure of students' studies at the masters level. In studio areas, the celebration takes place in the form of the thesis exhibitions, while the academic areas complement this with the thesis abstracts publication. This thesis abstract collection gathers and showcases thesis research undertaken in six programs: Master of Arts in Arts Administration and Policy; Master of Arts in Art Education; Master of Arts in Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism; Master of Arts in Art Therapy; Master of Arts in Teaching; and Master of Science in Historic Preservation.
2012 Thesis Abstracts
Lauren Bellard
Black mountain college campus as a cultural landscape
Alison Bovaird
Nuanced nostalgia : critical subversion of childhood memories in the work of Charles Ray, Tom Sachs and Cory Arcangel
Katherine Brown
Everyday I'm tumblin' : performing online identity through reaction GIFs
Bridget Carron
Self-portraits beyond carnal : Arnulf Rainer and Lucas Samaras
Cecily Ferguson
Different light : creolizing Swedish modernism
Jennifer Gerow
Pronouncing the shift : Zoe Leonard's Analogue
Charles Laurier
Arata Isozaki and the problem of tradition in post World-War II Japanese architecture
KC Lynch
Moonlighting : gender, screwball and postmodernity in the 1980s
Matthew Mullane
Capsular Japan : the "information society" and Kisho Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower
Destinee Rose Oitzinger
Techno-visions and digital paradoxes : electronic media and the politics of public space
Emily Scibilia
Renewed "Spirit of Hyde park" : a case study in mural restoration
Jeannette Tremblay
The digital, the analog, and the spectral : two case studies of contemporary Chinese art
Natalie M. VanOverbeke
The relationship of the American parlor, social etiquette, and the iconography of dress as seen in art in the nineteenth century
Hanna Yoo
In and out of character : Eleanor Antin's role-playing project, 1972-87
2011 Thesis Abstracts
Allison Paige Ashmore
Architecture designed to be published : modernism over construction in Arts & Architecture magazine's case study house program.
Beth Capper
Pleasure Palace Theater of the Future : Shirley Clarke and the Tee Pee Video Space Troupe
Melanie Erica Emerson
Mirrored and masked : the work of Elke Krystufek and Mathilde ter Heijne
Emily (Maggie) Gottlieb
The muppets take the met : puppetry, public media, and the American museum
Alice Heeren
The Inhotim Cultural Institute : the museum in the neodevelopmentalist era
Ashley L. Homitz
The 1925 Sigel and Stockman mannequin papier-mch
Amelia Ishmael
Black Metal in the white tower : metal's formless presence in contemporary art
Michelle A. Lee
Ingestional aesthetics : deciphering eating in contemporary art
Lea Schleiffenbaum
The establishment of loan exhibitions at the Royal Academy, or Genesis in old master paintings
Courtney R. Thompson
Specters of ownership
Paul-David Young
The cinematic animal and the cinematic umwelt in Au Hasard, Balthazar
2010 Thesis Abstracts
Francesca L Baldry
In a Fantastic Hour: Contextual Investigations of Corporeal Response to Giuseppe Penone's Hidden Life Within and Alpi Marittime
Lana P Beardslee
Themes In and Implications of Andy Warhol's Blow Job
Margaret Ellen Di Giulio
Trauma theory in art history
Gregory J Harris
Photography By the Book: Wall, Matta-Clark and the Photobook After Ruscha
Nika Levando
Natalia Goncharova and The Ballet Russes
Grace Elizabeth Murray
Building the Devi Art Foundation and the Kolkata Museum of Modern Art : Global art and museums in the new urban India
Rabbya Naseer
Promises to Keep: Performance of the Self Portrait in Contemporary Pakistani Art
Karin J Patzke
Cultural Heritage and Digital Culture: Understanding the Role Of Digital Images Of Museum Objects On The World Wide Web
Katherine A. Pill
Appropriating Desire: Collier Schorr's Jens F. Series
Greg Stuart
Reclaiming Trash: Three Artists from Nigeria
Candace Wirt
2009 Thesis Abstracts
Jennifer Balton
Yue Minjun, Liu Jianhua, and Zhou Xiaohu : images of multiples, repetition and the Chinese economy
Emily Joan Bauman
Projected monuments : successes and failures of the projected image memorial
Anna Kryczka
Medium as disruption : pop drawings
Denise Mahoney
Cecilia Beaux : image and class in the age of innocence
Roman Petruniak
Art workers on the Left : the Art Workers Coalition and the emergence of a new collectivism
Jesse Adams Stein
Domesticity and gender in the industrial design of Apple Computer 1977-1984
Whitney S. Tassie
Primary dealers of contemporary art use symbolic capital to create value
Eduardo Vivanco
Between you and me, on Dan Graham and James Turrell
Michelle West
Questioning bodies in space : identity, perception and intersubjectivity in the early performances of Rebecca Horn
2008 Thesis Abstracts
Lindsay Bosch
Reading at the interface : exploring parallels between internet art and artists' books
Jessica Cochran
Organized, instigated, and devised : considering the "relational" practice of Jeremy Deller
Thea Liberty Nichols
Chicago imagism defined : Franz Schulze and Dennis Adrian in conflict and conversation
Shannon R. Stratton
Re-materializing the subject : handicraft and the re-articulation of subjective identity and personal agency
2007 Thesis Abstracts
Melanie Bollman
The Bohm-Biederman correspondence : collaborative possibilities for the art-science discourse
Rebecca E. Davis
Shahzia Sikander : screening creative exile through cross-mediation
Alison H. Denner
Hybridization : vulgarizing the modernist canvas
Caroline Morgan Ewing
Kindred refuse and unbound identities : the performative installations of Georges Adeagbo
Catherine Hannah
American memorial quilts and the material culture of mourning
Kari Holt
Ironies of desire
Karen I.M. Huang
Chicago's own Mexican odyssey : a dialogue in the arts, 1925-1946
Lisa Jaronski
The early photographs of Robert Rauschenberg : 1949-1955
Audrey M. Mast
Thoroughly modern Coco : an examination of the work of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel as modernist design
Justin Thomas Natale
What's the difference between an orange? Indeterminacy in Wolfgang Tillmans's still life photography
Patrick Page
Millennium Park : people at the center
Britany L. Salsbury
Theorizing the gaze in representations of prostitution by two female painters in Weimar Germany
Lily B. Siegel
The lowrider and other extremes : lowrider aesthetic as defiant bravado
Jennifer E. Stone
Fifth Avenue avant-garde : convergences of contemporary art and store window display in New York department stores
Alisa Swindell
Lights on the pedestal : depictions of whiteness in the photography of Tina Barney
Soren Whited
The task of history : the demands of meaning and immediacy
2006 Thesis Abstracts
Elisa Camp
Minimalism split : James Turrell and light and space on the West Coast
Jennifer Gheith
Who I am is Palestinian : Emily Jacir's documentation of everyday life
Margo Handwerker
Shifting places/solid ground : bordering on visibility in Tijuana
Katrina Kuntz
A new American expression in the 1980s : the neoexpressionist paintings of David Salle and Eric Fischl
Jessica Moss
Lee Godie - artist in a "publick camera"
Kelly Roark
Color and artistic identity : Whistler, van Gogh and yellow
Emily A. Soszko
The language of modern museum sculpture gardens : the development of gardens at the Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center
Farris Wahbeh
Forget Godard : the cinematic abductions of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Guy Debord
John Patrick Walsh
Hommage á Cézanne : Odilon Redon, the Nabis and the French Avant-Garde,1890-1900
Michaelene Zawacki
William Valentiner : champion of modern German art
