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| 1 |  | 2021-09 | RaeAnn Ellise Bell | Adapting Renaissance Designs for the Nineteenth-Century Consumer: A Study of a Rock Crystral Cup from the Utah Museum of Fine Arts | The Utah Museum of Fine Arts houses a small vessel titled Festival Cup that is; made from rock crystal, metal, and enamel. The object file presents two conflicting dates; for the vessel, one in the Renaissance and one in the eighteenth-century. In this paper, I; propose a third alternative date for ... |
| 2 |  | 2019-08 | Kelli Bettilyon | Both Sides of the Lens: Woman as Photographer and Subject | The New Woman was a popular media trope that represented the changing definition of modern femininity in the early twentieth-century. She was a sexually liberated, metropolitan woman with progressive ideologies concerning femininity, and her image circulated in the cinema, photographs, illustrated p... |
| 3 |  | 2018-05 | Alexander V. Stanfield | Hot Commodity: An Exhibition on Coffee, Controversy, & Global Trade in Early Modern England | Coffee is a ubiquitous beverage in contemporary culture. It is produced in over fifty countries worldwide, and a report from the International Coffee Organization states that, during the crop year of 2016-2017, all coffee growing countries produced 9,461,640,000 kg of coffee. The National Coffee Ass... |
| 4 |  | 2020-01 | Chandler Keeling | Identities in Motion in Hélio Oiticica's Parangolés (1964-1980) | Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica's series of objects, titled Parangolés (1964-1980), are wearable and useable objects made from layered fabrics and often appear as capes. The Parangolés created a liberating experience for the participant, allowing them to present their gender and sexuality in dive... |
| 5 |  | 2020-05 | Elizabeth Shattler | Material Translations: Chinese Porcelain in the Dutch Golden Age, A Proposed Exhibition | In the early seventeenth century, the trading ventures of the Dutch East India; Company (or V.O.C.) introduced the United Provinces to Chinese export porcelain. The; exotic, luminous blue and white ceramics were so in demand amongst Dutch consumers; that, by 1638, over three million Chinese porcelai... |
| 6 |  | 2019-12 | Christina Jones | Objects, Actions and Spaces in Kate Gilmore's 2012 Rock, Hard, Place | Kate Gilmore's video Rock, Hard, Place (2012) not only corresponds with the rest of; Gilmore's oeuvre in its combination of physically demanding self-appointed tasks and the female body as a tool to humorously challenge conceptions of gender, but it also formally and; conceptually aligns with two ma... |
| 7 |  | 2019-05 | Allison Pinegar | The Performative Touch: Self Performance and Landscape in Laura Aguilar's "Nature Self Portrait" Series | Laura Aguilar's Nature Self-Portrait #2 (1996, 16x20 inches) (Fig. 1) is a black and; white photograph that shows Aguilar laying on her side, naked, with her back to the camera.; Aguilar's back is almost in the center of the composition and her legs jut out backwards, toward; the left, top corner of... |
| 8 |  | 2020-05 | Emily Morrison | The Politics of Portraiture in George Caleb Bingham's "Portrait of Mrs. James Thomas Birch" of 1877 | This project examines George Caleb Bingham's Portrait of Mrs. James Thomas Birch of 1877, part of small collection of portraits that Bingham painted of members of the Nelson and Birch families of Boonville, Missouri. The American Realist painter's devotion to political issues associated with frontie... |
| 9 |  | 2020-05 | Leah Carlson-Downie | Restaging Disaster: Narrativizing the 1772 Amsterdam Theater Fire through Six Opera Stage Set Prints in the UMFA Collection | In 1665, the city of Amsterdam unveiled a brand new public theater. Designed by the architect Philips Vingboons, this new structure replaced the city's existing public theater, which had been built approximately thirty years earlier and could not accommodate the kinds of spectacular stage effects fa... |
| 10 |  | 2022-07 | Cory Dee Wayman | She Smiles, She Lies, She Cries: The Currencies of Affect, Beauty & Performance in Leah Rachel's 'Curious Female Casting Couch' (2017) | Filmmaker Leah Rachel explores the personal and cultural intersections of identity, affectual exchange, and sex economies in her Web video project Curious Female Casting Couch (2017). Produced in a Los Angeles County adult entertainment studio, CFCC features four videos of young women interviewing w... |
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