Browsing by FAS Department "History of Art and Architecture"
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American Painting and the Systems of World Ornament
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines the work of nineteenth-century American painters Frederic Edwin Church, William Michael Harnett and Albert Pinkham Ryder, and focuses on the relationship between their work in painting and their ... -
Ancient Roman Topography and Architecture Ian Campbell Arnold Nesselrath Johannes Röll Lynda Fairbairn David Hemsoll
(University of California Press, 2006) -
Anxious Landscapes: From the Ruin to Rust
(MIT Press - Journals, 2000) -
Architecture for a New Age: Imperial Ottoman Mosques in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul
(2013-10-17)The eighteenth century saw the Ottoman capital Istanbul undergo some of its most significant physical changes. Restored as the seat of government in 1703 after the court had spent fifty years in Edirne, the city became the ... -
"The Architecture of the Book": El Lissitzky's Works on Paper, 1919-1937
(2015-05-17)Although widely respected as an abstract painter, the Russian Jewish artist and architect El Lissitzky produced more works on paper than in any other medium during his twenty year career. Both a highly competent lithographer ... -
Architettura scultura e arti minori nel barocco italiano. Ricerche nell'Archivio Spada Minna Heimbürger Ravalli Palazzo Spada Lionello Neppi
(University of California Press, 1979) -
Art History Reviewed XI: Hans Belting's 'Bild und Kult: eine Geschichte des Bildes vor dem Zeitalter der Kunst,' 1990
(Burlington Magazine Publications Ltd., 2011) -
Art of Documentation: The Sherborne Missal and the Role of Documents in English Medieval Art
(2013-02-22)This dissertation considers an unfamiliar but fundamental aspect of late-medieval art: the role of documentation. Documents played as critical a part in that society as they do in our own. In late-medieval consciousness, ... -
Art, Enclosure and the Cura Monialium: Prolegomena in the Guise of a Postscript
(International Center of Medieval Art, 1992)A history of the art and architecture of female monasticism requires a social history of female spirituality in the Middle Ages. Neither, however, has been written, perhaps because each is integral to the other. The cura ... -
Artistic Production, Race, and History in Colonial Cuba, 1762-1840
(2013-02-11)This dissertation addresses the works of art of two free men of color, Vicente Escobar (1762-1834) and José Antonio Aponte (date of birth unknown-1812), who lived in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Havana. I ... -
Asante Stools and the Matrilineage
(2013-09-04)Discussions of Asante stools in Western literature and museum records have focused exclusively on their association with male chiefs. My research, which combines archival and oral histories, and sets the existing literature ... -
Azuchi Castle: Architectural Innovation and Political Legitimacy in Sixteenth-Century Japan
(2016-05-10)This study seeks to clarify the limits of knowledge regarding Azuchi Castle (Azuchi-jō) and, in turn, offers a multifaceted interpretation of its crowning glory―the six-story, lavishly decorated, timber-framed tower known ... -
Back to the Drawing Board: Ed Ruscha 1956 – 68
(2015-05-15)This dissertation considers Ed Ruscha’s work through the theoretical lens of tacit knowledge, thereby making the argument that the commercial artist’s drawing board, and the world that it embodies, constitutes the material ... -
Berenson and Katherine Dunham: Black American Dance
(Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 2014) -
The Berenson Collection: A Guide
(University of Chicago Press, 2016) -
Bernard Berenson and Katherine Dunham: Black American Dance
(Harvard University Press, 2014) -
Beyond the Modern Beauty: Takehisa Yumeji and the New Media Environment in Early Twentieth Century Japan
(2014-06-06)This thesis focuses on the modern Japanese artist Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) and his diverse range of graphic production, from illustrations in socialist newspapers and magazines with images of anti-war and leftist sentiment ... -
Bilder in der Kirche, im Herzen oder gar nirgends? Überlegungen zu Periodisierungen am Beispiel des Bilderstreits in der Frühen Neuzeit
(Akademieverlag, 2013-02-04)Wir schreiben den vorliegenden Artikel als zwei an amerikanischen Universitäten tätige Mediävisten: als ein in London geborener und in den USA aufgewachsener Kunsthistoriker mit teils deutschen Wurzeln und als eine in der ... -
Bloody Mary: Traces of the Peplum Cruentatum in Prague—and in Strasbourg?
(Brepols Publishers, 2011)