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The architectural development of block eighty-eight, plat A, Salt Lake City survey during the era of Brigham Young 1847 to 1877 | Rogers, Janie L. | The object of this thesis is to document the architectural development of Block Eighty-eight, Plat A, Salt Lake City Survey during the time of Brigham Young's presidency of the LDS church in Utah, 1847-1877. The history of the block is introduced by discussing the architectural trends of the per... | Art/Art History | 1996-08 |
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Tapisseries | Prevot, Meredith Louise Maynes | Patterns appear throughout the history of visual art. It is on printed or woven cloth that these patterns are most ubiquitous, and at the same time, least noticed. Over the past few years, textile design and decorative arts patterning have become a significant interest in my artwork, especially the ... | Art/Art History | 2007-12 |
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A history of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts | Allen, Ronald C. | In April 2003, an assessment of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts was completed. The results of the assessment revealed that there were substantially differing accounts of the museum's history. This study raised a critical question: What is the history of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts? The last few years ... | Art/Art History | 2005-05 |
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Pathway to color: the art and life of Henri Moser | Alder, Thomas Moyle | John Henri Moser's (1875-1951) paintings are among the most collected in the State of Utah. He is represented in numerous museums and private collections, but his Parisian art training, prolific Expressionist artworks, and adoption of Fauvist colors and painterly techniques have been largely negle... | Art/Art History | 2007-12 |
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Painter of sentiment, painter of politics: Lilly Martin Spencer's allegorical truth unveiling falsehood | Weiss, Jessica R. | Lilly Martin Spencer was one of the foremost American female painters of the nineteenth century. Having built her career on domestic genre painting using the language of sentiment to communicate with her audience, her large allegorical work Truth Unveiling Falseho... | Art/Art History | 2009-08 |
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Constructed realities and metaphotography Gregory Crewdson's twilight series | Cook, Ashlee | Gregory Crewdson's Twilight (1998-2002) is a series o f photographs depicting scenes o f American suburbia embedded in psychological anxiety and uncanny undercurrents. Crewdson stages these photographs, constructing fragmented narratives evoking fantasy, magic and the supernatural, pulling fro... | Art/Art History | 2009-12 |
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Mabel Dodge Luhan: portrait of a patron | Steadman, Kandace Celeste | Mabel Dodge Luhan (1897- 1962) occupies an important and pivotal place in the artistic culture o f early twentieth-century America. Yet despite her prominence, Luhan is seldom heard o f today. This study examines Luhan's life and significance, using painted portraits, word portraits, and photograp... | Art/Art History | 2006-05 |
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The art world expanded | Truxes, Anna | This paper explores the evolution of the concept of the art world, starting with the going-away, in order to show that effective art criticism requires knowledge of the art world. The nature of criticism implies that a critic logically identify, define and evaluate a work of art. Reasons are use... | Art/Art History | 2008-12 |