Featured White Papers
Dissertations in progress by subject
Art Bulletin, The, June, 2004
GARNER, JEFFREY, "The Fine Arts and Hollywood Visual Culture: Art Practices and Artistic Identity in the California Southland of the 1930s" (UC Santa Barbara, B. Robertson)
GOLEC, MICHAEL, "Andy Warhol and New Realism" (Northwestern, W. Davis)
HICKSON, SALLY, "Female Patronage and the Language of Arts in the Circle of Isabella d'Este in Mantua (c. 1470-1560)" (Queen's University, C. Hoeniger)
MELTZER, EVE, "Art after Words: Conceptualism, Structuralism, and the Dream of the Information World" (UC Berkeley, K. Silverman, A. Wagner)
MULLER, KEVIN RICHARD, "Cultural Costuming: Native Americans, Inversion, and the Power of an Exceptional White Masculinity" (UC Berkeley, M. Lovell)
OTTO, ELIZABETH, "Figuring Gender: Photomontage and Cultural Critique in Germany's Weimar Republic" (Michigan, M. Biro)
PATTERSON, ELAINE C., "Decoration and Desire: Women of the Home Arts Movement in Britain and Ireland 1884-1915" (Queen's University, J. Helland)
READE, CYRIL, "Mendelssohn to Mendelsohn: Visual Case Studies of Jewish Life in Berlin" (Rochester, J. Wolff)
RICHMOND, PATRICIA, "Gender and the Forms of Modernism: Dancers and Painters" (Case Western Reserve, E. Landau)
ROTH, ANDREA, "La Matrona Bergamasca: Portraying Women in Renaissance Bergamo" (USC, E. Howe)
UNRUH, HOLLY, "A Pilgrimage of the Eyes: Sacred Topography in Black and White" (UC Santa Barbara, B. Robertson)
VAN DER WATT, LIESE, "The Many Hearts of Whiteness: Dis/Investing in Whiteness through South African Visual Culture" (Stony Brook, N. Mirzoeff)
Decorative Arts/Textiles/Design History
BRYAN, JAMES E., III, "Material Culture in Miniature: Historic Dolls' Houses Reconsidered" (Wisconsin, A. Smart-Martin)
PATTERSON, ELAINE C., "Decoration and Desire: Women of the Home Arts Movement in Britain and Ireland 1884-1915" (Queen's University, J. Helland)
Drawings/Prints/Photography/Works on Paper
FINN, JONATHAN, "Police Photography: Visual Representation, Scicntific Evidence, and the Construction of the Criminal" (Rochester, L. Cartwright)
MARKS, MARY JO, "Ordinary Pictures and Everyday Language: Photography and Text in 1960s American Art" (CUNY, A. Chave)
SIEGEL, ELIZABETH, "Galleries of Friendship and Fame: The History of Nineteenth-Century American Photograph Albums" (Chicago, J. Snyder)
Early Christian/Byzantine Art
BOECK, E., "The Art of Being Byzantine: History, Structure, and Visual Narrative in the Madrid Skylitzes Manuscript" (Yale, M. Georgopoulou)
HILSDALE, CECILY, "Diplomacy by Design: Rhetorical Strategies of the Byzantine Gift" (Chicago, R. Nelson)
Early Medieval/Romanesque/Gothic Art
BERTHA, REV, JOSEPH, "The Illustration of the Akathist Hymn at the Ferapontov Monastery" (SUNY Binghamton, B. Abou-El-Haj)
BOND, SARAH CARRIG, "Studies of the Romanesque Sculpture of Saint-Pierre de Mozac in Auvergne: Location and Meaning" (hr J. Hamburger)