The Institute of Fine Arts Dissertations
2019
Edina Adam , Jacopo Ligozzi ‘Come Forestiero’ and the Notion of Foreignness in His Art. Advidor: Patricia Rubin
Stephanie Rose Mary Caruso , Redirecting Gazes: The Design and Reception of a Late Antique Pictorial Motif. Advisor: Thelma Thomas
Francisco J. R. Chaparro , Victimhood in Goya. Rhetorics and Anti-Rhetorics on the Threshold of Photography. Advisors: Edward J. Sullivan, Jonathan Brown
Grace Chuang , Bernard (II) Vanrisamburgh, Master Cabinetmaker in Eighteenth-century Paris. Advisor: Thomas Crow
Benjamin Clifford , Painting After Modernism: Rethinking Historical Change. Advisor: Robert Slifkin
Alexis Lowry , A Study of Line and Its Possibilities’: Michael Heizer’s Nine Nevada Depressions. Advisor: Jeffrey Weiss
Elizabeth McGovern , Fashioning Identity in Eighteenth-Dynasty Egypt: Costume, Communication, and Self-Presentation in the Tombs of the Nobles. Advisor: David O'Connor
Andrea Nitsche-Krupp , Material Proposition: The Early Work of Matthew Barney. Advisor: Jeffrey Weiss
Fatima Quraishi , Necropolis as Palimpsest: The Cemetery of Makli in Sindh, Pakistan. Advisors: Barry Flood, Dipti Khera
2018
Andrea Mari Myer Achi , Illuminating the Scriptorium: The St. Michael Collection and Monastic Book Production in the Fayyum Oasis, Egypt during the Ninth and Tenth Centuries. Advisor: Thelma Thomas
Elizabeth Buhe , Sam Francis: Functional Abstraction. Advisor: Thomas Crow
Laura Dickey Corey , Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), American Tastemaker: Portrait of the Artist as Advisor. Advisor: Jonathan Brown
Allison KIdd , Imaginibus vel Simulacris: Depicting Urban Landscapes and Architecture in Roman Antiquity. Advisor: Katherine Welch
Heather Kopleff , A Community in Stone: The ‘Cenotaph’ Stelae of Abydos. Advisor: David O'Connor
Andrew Larkin Farinholt Ward , Beyond Hellenization: Terracotta Ritual Furniture in Ancient Sicily. Advisor: Clemente Marconi
Matthew Worsnick , Ambivalent Lines: Urban and Architectural Appropriation in Contested Italo-Yugoslav Territories, 1918 - 1954. Advisor: Jean-Louis Cohen
2017
Peter Jonathan Bell , The Reinvention of the Bronze Statuette in Renaissance Italy: Presentation, Material, Facture. Advisor: Alexander Nagel
Kara Fiedorek , Priests of the Sun: Photography and Faith, 1860-1910. Advisor: Robert Slifkin
Matthew Hayes , What Burckhardt Saw: Restoration and the Invention of the Renaissance c.1855-1904. Advisor: Patricia Rubin
Sean Nesselrode , The Harvest of Modernity: Art, Oil, and Industry in the Venezuelan Twentieth Century. Advisor: Edward J. Sullivan
Tara Prakash , Statues of the ‘Other’: An Examination of Three-Dimensional Representations of Foreigners in Ancient Egypt. Advisor: David O'Connor
Blanca Serrano Ortiz De Solorzano , Between Limit and Possibility: Art in Cuba During the Special Period. Advisor: Edward J. Sullivan
Jason Andrew Vrooman , Crossing the Threshold: Nabi Depictions of Men in Public, Private, and Pretend Spaces. Advisor: Linda Nochlin
Allison K. Young , Torn and Most Whole': On the Poetics of Difference in the Art of Zarina Bhimji. Advisor: Thomas Crow
2016
Claire Rita Brandon , Spaces of Art in the Exhibition Age: Italy as a Laboratory for Global Exhibition Paradigms since 1970. Advisor: Alexander Nagel
Robert Scott Brennan , Painting as a Modern Art: The Era of Giotto. Advisor: Alexander Nagel
Kim Conaty , Mapping a Cultural Breakthrough: A Study of Avalanche Magazine (1970-76), the “New Forms of Art Making and Emerging International Networks." Advisor: Robert Slifkin
Marina Daiman , Rubens Remaking Rubens: Self-Repetition, Transformation, and Invention in Early Modern Art. Advisor: Mariët Westermann
Jennifer Field , The New York School and the Development of Avant-Garde Printmaking in the United States. ADvisor: Jeffrey Weiss
Marya Faith Fisher , Architecture of the Sacred Among the Western Greeks: The Non-Peripteral Temples of South Italy and Sicily. Advisor: Clemente Marconi
Joanna Hecker , Outside Looking In: Francisco de Holanda and the Margins of Renaissance Art. Advisor: Alexander Nagel
Stephanie Lynn Herdrich , John Singer Sargent: A ‘Modern Old Master’ and the Italian Renaissance. Advisor: Robert Slifkin
Amanda Kay Herrin , Narratives of Origin in Netherlandish Art: Maarten de Vos & Late Sixteenth-Century Print Design as Visual Exegesis. Advisor: Mariët Westermann
Marci S. Kwon , Vernacular Modernism: Joseph Cornell and the Art of Populism. Advisor: Thomas Crow
Brett Lazer , The New World, the Basque Language, and the Power of Painting: the Art and Writing of Baltasar de Echave Orio. Advisor: Jonathan Brown
Mark R Loiacono , Out From the Shadows: Andy Warhol’s Abstractions. Advisor: Thomas Crow
Rebecca Skafsgaard Lowery , Contingent Bodies: Art In and Around Los Angeles, 1969-75. Advisor: Thomas Crow
Jeremy J. Ott , Mortuary Practices in Late Antique Corinth. Advisor: Thelma Thomas
Jeongho Park , El Greco and the Art of Portraiture. Advisor: Jonathan Brown
Lindsay Anne Peterson , Building the Home Front: The Lanham Act and the Modernization of Housing in the United States. Advisor: Jean-Louis Cohen
Claire De Dobay Rifelj , Mediums and Messages: Collage and Narrative in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. Advisor: Thomas Crow
Susan Schafer , Rome Year Zero: Continuity in Post-World War II Architecture and Culture in Rome. Advisor: Jean-Louis Cohen
Lillian Stoner , Hair in Archaic and Classical Greek Art: An Anthropological Approach. Advisor: Clemente Marconi
Susanna Temkin , Un arte social y revolucionario (A Social and Revolutionary Art): Marcelo Pogolotti and the International Avant-Garde. Advisor: Edward J. Sullivan
Daniel Scott Williamson , Modern Architecture and Capitalist Patronage in Ahmedabad, India 1947 - 1969. Advisor: Jean-Louis Cohen
2015
Nora Abrams , Para-realism and the Early Sculpture of Rachel Whiteread. Advisor: Linda Nochlin
Birgitta Augustin , Painting Authenticity: Intersections in the Lives and Art of Zhang Yu, Huang Gongwang and Ni Zan. Advisor: Jonathan Hay
William Bracken , Rembrandt as Creative Inventor. Advisors: Eric Jan Sluiter and Mariet Westermann
Carolina Carrasco , The Lives of Working Objects: Functionalism and the Institution in the Archival “Readymades” of George Maciunas. Advisor: Robert Storr
Elizabeth Dospel Williams , Worldly Adornments: Women's Precious Metal Jewelry in the Early Medieval Eastern Mediterranean (9500-1100 CE). Advisor: Thelma Thomas
Galia Halpern, Open Geography and the Illuminated Mandeville's Travels. Advisor: Colin T. Eisler
Nina Harkrader , Building for the Poor and the Pauper: Architecture, Morality and Medical Models in Victorian England, 1850-1900. Advisor: Jean-Louis Cohen
Rachel Kaplan , Mexican Modernism in National and Transnational Contexts. Advisor: Edward Sullivan
Allyson McDavid , The Legacy of the Great Baths of Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity. Advisor: Thelma Thomas
Nicole Myers , Courbet and the Realist Nude. Advisor: Linda Nochlin
Berit Potter , Grace McCann Morley and the Dialectical Exchange of Modern Art in the Americas, 1935 – 1958. Advisors: Thomas Crow and Edward J. Sullivan
David Jacob Rabinowitz , Public Construction: Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Running Fence. Advisor: Jeffrey Weiss
Delia Solomons , Installing Latin American Art for Cold War Culture: U.S. Exhibitions (1959-1967). Advisor: Edward Sullivan
Anna Swinbourne , Marvelous Spectacle: The Role of Ostend's benediction of the Sea in Selected Paintings and Drawings by James Ensor. Advisors: Robert Lubar and Priscilla P. Soucek
Michael Waters , Materials, Materiality, and Spolia in Italian Renaissance Architecture. Advisor: Marvin Trachtenberg
Shannon Wearing , Power and Style: The Liber Feudorum Maior and the Court of Alfonso II, King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona (r. 1162-1196). Advisor: Jonathan Alexander
2014
Joseph Ackley , 'Offer him gold; that is true love': Ottonian gold repoussé and the Western medieval church treasury. Advisor: Jonathan J. G. Alexander
William Ambler , The Portrait Workshop at the Court of Philip IIII of Spain. Advisor: Jonathan Brown
Jennifer Miyuki Babcock , Anthropomorphized Animal Imagery on New Kingdom Ostraca and Papyri: Their Artistic and Social Significance, Advisor: David O'Connor
Andrea Bell , French Artists in Rome: An Examination of Eighteenth-Century Drawing Albums. Advisor: Thomas Crow
Anna Katherine Brodbeck , Parallel Situations : Artur Barrio, Brazilian Art, and International Exchange in the Post-Studio Era (1969–1974). Advisor: Edward J. Sullivan
Lauren Cannady
, Owing to Nature and Art: The Garden Landscape and the Eighteenth-Century French
Interior. Advisor: Thomas Crow
Christopher Corradino
, Giovanni Mansueti Painting in Venice. Advidor: Colin T. Eisler
Nicholas Herman
, Jean Bourdichon (1457-1521): Tradition, Transition, Renewal. Advisor: Jonathan J. G.
Alexander
Titia Hulst
, Leo Castelli and the Market for American Contemporary Art. Advisor: Thomas Crow
Kenji Kajiya
, Color-Field Painting in the Cultural Context of America. Advisor: Robert S. Lubar
Meggie Morris , Rediscovering Madrid through the Lens of Tourism: An Analysis of 'La Luna de Madrid,' 1983-1984. Advisor: Thomas Crow
Zhijian Qian , Modernism Re-oriented in a Chinese Context: Painting of Modernist Artiti in Wartime Chongqing, 1937-1945. Advisor: Jonathan Hay
Anooradha Siddiqi , Just Add Water? Architecture and Humanitarianism, 1991-2011. Advisor: Jean-Louis Cohen
Ileana Selejan , Postmodern Warfare in Images: The Aesthetics of War Photography in the Late 1970s and 1980s. Advisor: Thomas Crow
Jennifer Sudul , The Early works of Niki de Saint Phalle. Advisors: Robert Storr and Linda Nochlin
Julia Valiela , Model Women: Female Portrait Busts in Renaissance Italy. Advisors: Beverly Brown and Patricia Rubin
2013
Mark Abb , The Polychromy of Roman Marble Sculpture: Aphrodisias and Corinth. Advisor: Katherine Welch
Denise Birkhofer , On and Off the Streets: Photography and Performance in Mexico City, 1974-1984. Advisor: Edward J. Sullivan
Cathleen Chaffee , Decors: Marcel Broodthaers Late Exhibition Practice, 1974-75. Advisor: Robert Storr
Nathaniel Donahue
, Decorative Modernity and Avant-Garde Classicism in Renoir's Late Work, 1892-1919.
Advisor: Linda Nochlin
Jason Dubs
, Making a Scene: The Colectivo Acciones de Arte, the Chilean Neo-Avant-Garde, and the
Politics of Visibility, 1975-89. Advisor: Edward J. Sullivan
Rachel Federman
, Framing Los Angeles: Artists’ Environments and Institutional Space, 1962-1994.
Advisor: Thomas Crow
Ross Finocchio
, Henry Clay Frick: The Making of an American Collector, 1880-1905. Advisor: Jonathan
Brown
Maryl Gensheimer
, Decoration and Display in the Imperial Thermae: Issues of Intention, Reception, and
Visual Experience at the Baths of Caracalla. Advisor: Katherine Welch
Melanie Hanan
, Romanesque Casket Reliquaries: Forms, Meanings, and Development. Advisor: Jonathan
J.G. Alexander
Genevive Hendricks
, Collision and Collusions: Interactions in Le Corbusier’s Art and Architecture,
Purism and Beyond. Advisor: Jean-Louis Cohen
Joe Hill
, Becoming Global: Contemporary Art Worlds in the Age of the Biennials Boom. Advisor:
Robert Storr
Alison Hokanson
, The Soul of Solemn: Places; The Interior Scenes of Henri de Braekeleer (1840-1888).
Advisor: Linda Nochlin
Jai Imbrey
, Fictive Frames in Mantegna’s Devotional Art. Advisor: Colin T. Eisler
Abby Kornfeld
, Meanings in the Margins: Between Text and Image in the Barcelona Haggadah. Advisor:
Jonathan J.G. Alexander
Matthew Levy
, Abstract Painting and the Minimalist Critiques: Robert Mangold, David Novros, Jo
Baer. Advisor: Robert Storr
Lihong Liu
, A Known World: The Pictorial Construction of Place in the Art of Shen Zhou, Wen
Zhengming, and Lu Zhi. Advisor: Jonathan Hay
Beth Merfish
, Stars in Complex Constellations: Mexico City’s Taller de Gráfica Popular
through Inside and Outside Histories. Advisor: Edward J. Sullivan
Elizabeth Monti
, Art for an Antipope at the Court of Clement VII (1378-1394). Advisor: Jonathan J.G.
Alexander
Judith Noorman
, The Unconventional Career of Jacob van Loo (1614-70), Painter in Amsterdam and
Paris. Advisor: Mariët Westermann
Rory O’Dea
, Science Fiction and Mystic Fact: Robert Smithson’s Ways of World Making,
Advisor: Robert Storr
Alexander Rich
, Artist or Critic: Guy Pène du Bois and the Search for Artistic Identity. Advisor:
Linda Nochlin
Lindsey Schneider
, The Late Career of Pietro da Cortona and Roman Baroque Painting after 1650. Advisor:
Jonathan Brown.
Deanna Sheward
, Building for the Bomb: Monumentality and the Manhattan Project. Advisor: Thomas Crow
Hannah Sigur
, Neoclassicism and National Identity: Japan, the United States, and International
Expositions 1862-1915. Advisor: Jean Louis Cohen
Denise-Marie Teece
, Vessels of Verse, Ships of Song: Persian Anthologies of the Qara Quyunlu and Aq
Quyunlu Perod. Advisor: Priscilla Soucek
Rosemarie Trentinella
, The Roman Villa in Calabria: Case Studies in Visual Culture. Advisor: Katherine
Welch
Derek Weiler
, Serial Aesthetics and the Concept of Technique: Mel Bochner and the 1960s. Advisor:
Jeffrey Weiss
Michelle Anne Wijegoonaratna
, Tradition, Innovation and the Construction of Identity in Otto Dix’s Portraits
and Self-Portraits 1912-1925. Advisor: Robert S. Lubar
2012
Guendalina Ajello
, Afterlives: The Reuse, Adaptation and Transformation of Roma’s Ancient
theaters. Advisor: Marvin L. Trachtenberg
Liam Considine
, New Realisms: Pop Art in France, 1962-1968. Advisor: Thomas Crow
Isabel Fowkles
, The Cults of Syrian-Phoenician Gods in Rome: Archaeology, Topography, and
Connections to the Roman East. Advisor: Clemente Marconi
Ana Franco
, Edgar Negret and Eduard Ramirez-Villamizar: Transnational Encounters and the Rise of
Modernism in Colombian Art, 1944-1964. Advisor: Edward J. Sullivan
Casey Gardonio-Foate
, Professional Women Artists of Iberia’s Golden Age: Careers in Context.
Advisor: Jonathan Brown
Sarah Graff
, Humbaba/Huwawa. Advisor: Katherine Welch
Erik Gustafson
, Tradition and Renewal in the Thirteenth-Century Franciscan Architecture of Tuscany.
Advisor: Marvin L. Trachtenberg.
Karen Hung
, Carved Elegance: Hans Thoman, German Renaissance Sculptor. Advisor: Colin T. Eisler
Lauren Jacobi
, The Topography of Money: The Architecture and Urbanism of Banks in Renaissance
Italy. Advisor: Marvin L. Trachtenberg
Danielle Johnson
, Salvador Dalí and René Magritte, 1928-1938. Advisor: Robert S. Lubar
Ronda Kasl
, The Making of Hispano-Flemish Style: Art, Commerce, and Politics in Fifteent-Century
Castille. Advisor: Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
Laura Leaper
, Time, Memory and Ritual: deciphering visual rhetoric in Diego Valades’
Rhetorica Christiana. Advisor: Jonathan Brown
Yulin Lee
, Strategies of Spatialization in the Contemporary Art Museum: An Exploratory Study of
New Museums and Contemporary Art in Japan. Advisor: Jean-Louis Cohen
Niria E. Leyva-Gutierrez
, Painting Power: Images of Ecclesiastical Authority in Seventeenth-Century New Spain.
Advisor: Jonathan Brown
Sarah Madole
, Innovation and Identity on Mythological Frieze Sarcophagi from Roman Asia Minor.
Advisor: Katherine Welch
Michele Matteini
, Painting in the Age of Evidential Scholarship (Kaozheng): Luo Ping’s Late
Years, ca. 1770-1799. Advisor: Jonathan Hay
Sarah Montross
, Cartographic Communication: Latin American New Media Artists in New York, Juan
Downey and Jaime Davidovich (1960s-1980s). Advisor: Edward J. Sullivan
Adele Nelson
, The Monumental and the Ephemeral: The São Paulo Bienal and the Emergence of
Abstraction in Brazil, 1946-1954. Advisor: Edward J. Sullivan
Lelia Packer
, Imitation and Innovation in Materials in Early Modern Northern European Art: Pen
Prints, Pen Drawings, and Pen Paintings, c. 1580-1670. Advisor: Mariët Westermann
Maggie Popkin
, The Trimphal Route in Republican and Imperial Rome: Architecture, Experience, and
Memory. Advisor: Katherine Welch
Jennifer Udell
, Times of Day and Times of Year on Athenian Vases. Advisor: Clemente Marconi
Kathryn Wysocki
, Images for the King: The Bronze Plaques of the Benin Court in their Architectural
Context. Advisor: Jonathan Hay
2011
Qamar Adamjee
, Strategies for Visual Narration in the Illustrated Chandayan Manuscripts. Advisor:
Priscilla Soucek
Esther Bell
, Charles-Antoine Coypel: Painting and Performance in Eighteenth-Century France.
Advisor: Jonathan Brown
Johanna Blokker
, (Re) Constructing Identity: World War II and the Reconstruction of Cologne’s
Destroyed Romanesque Churches, 1945-1985. Advisor: Jean-Louis Cohen
Michael Brown
, Portraiture in New Spain, 1600-1800: Painters, Patrons and Politics in Viceregal
Mexico. Advisor: Jonathan Brown
Luis Castaneda
, The Twilight of the Miracle: The Politics of Architecture in Mexico, 1953-1968.
Advisors: Jean-Louis Cohen and Edward J. Sullivan
Amy Calver
, The Integration of Quantitative and Qualitative Research in a Study of the Regalia
of Ramses III. Advisor: David O’Connor
Jacquelyn Coutre
, Jan Lievens: Painting, Politics and Decoration in Dutch Art, 1653-1669. Advisor:
Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
Vanessa Davidson
, Paulo Bruscky and Edgardo Antonio Vigo: Pioneers in Alternative Communication
Networks, Conceptualism, and Performance (1960s-1980). Advisor: Edward J. Sullivan
Keely Heuer
, The Head as a Decorative Motif in South Italian Vase Painting. Advisor: Joan Mertens
Pamela Huckins
, Art in the Alta California Mission Churches, 1769-1834. Advisor: Jonathan Brown
Maile Hutterer
, Broken Outlines and Structural Exhibitionism: the Flying Buttress as Aesthetic
Choice in Medieval France. Advisor: Marvin L. Trachtenberg
Matthew Israel
, Paradigms of Protest: American Artists Against the Vietnam War. Advisor: Robert
Storr
Anna Jozefacka
, Rebuilding Warsaw: Conflicting Visions of a Capital City, 1916-1956. Advisor:
Jean-Louis Cohen
Yumiko Kamada
, Flowers on Floats: The Production, Circulation, and Reception of Early Modern Indian
Carpets. Advisor: Priscilla Soucek
Lauren Kinnee
, The Roman Trophy: From Battlefield Marker to Emblem of Power. Advisor: Katherine
Welch
Cheryl Korte
, Plychromed Quattrocento Sculpture in Florence. Advisor: Colin T. Eisler
Jonathan Lackman
, Art-Critical Invective in Paris: 1844-1876. Advisor: Linda Nochlin
Heather McCarthy
, Queenship, Cosmography, and Regeneration: The Decorative Programs and Architecture
of Ramesside Royal Women’s Tombs. Advisor: David O’Connor
Kathryn Moore
, Italian Copies of Holy Land Architecture: The Illustrated Versions of Niccolò da
Poggibonsi’s Libro d’Oltramare.
Heather Turnbow
, Sacrophagi and Funerary Display in Roman Aphrodisias. Advisor: Katherine Welch
Jessica Veith
, Memorializing the Past: Jan de Bray and the Construction of Identity in
Seventeenth-Century Haarlem. Advisor: Mariët Westermann
2010
Marta Ameri
, Sealing at the Edge of the third Millennium Middle Asian Interaction Spheres: The
View from Gilund, Rajasthan, India. Advisor: Colin T. Eisler
Jamieson Donati
, Towards an Agora: The Spatial and Architectural Development of Greek Commercial and
Civic Space in the Peloponnese. Advisor: Clemente Marconi
Lindsay Harris
, Picturing the ‘Primitive’: Photography, Architecture, and the
Construction of Italian Modernism, 1911-1936. Advisor: Jean-Louis Cohen
Heather Horton
, Authority and Innovation in Alberti’s Theory and Practice. Advisor: Marvin L.
Trachtenberg
Anne Hrychuk
, From Fornix to Arcus: The Origins, Development and Imperial Transformation of the
Freestanding Roman Arch (196 BCE to 54 CE). Advisors: Katherine Welch and Priscilla
Soucek
Lorraine Karafel
, Raphael’s all’antica Tapestries for Pope Leo X: Art, Culture, and
Politics in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome. Advisor: Colin T. Eisler
Abigail McEwen
, The Practice and Politics of Cuban Abstraction, c. 1952-1963. Advisor: Edward J.
Sullivan
Margaret Samu
, The Female Nude in Nineteenth-Century Russian Art: A Study in Assimilation and
Resistance. Advisor: Linda Nochlin
Eve Straussman-Pflanzer
, Felsine Pittrici: The Women Artists of Early Modern Bologna. Advisor: Linda Nochlin
Lori Waxman
, A Few Steps towards a Revolution of Everyday Life: Walking with the Surrealists, the
Situationist International, and Fluxus. Advisor: Thomas Crow