|
SENIOR
PROJECTS
--------------------------------------------------------------
2008
Student:
Camilla Aikin
Project:
Sniffing Glue
vs. No Future: The Visual Culture of Punk in the
US
and UK
Advisor:
Tom Wolf
Student:
Erin Bagley
Project:
Museum Poetics
of Jurasic Technology
Advisor:
Tom Wolf
Student:
Julia Carrozzini
Project:
Valentino a
Roma: The Mythology of Rome and The Shaping
of
Italy's National Identity
Advisor:
Noah Chasin
Student:
Jennifer Caster
Project:
Gluttonous,
Scorched, and Riotous Flocks: Navigating American
Identity
through the Bird Art of Walton Ford and John James Audubon
Advisor:
Laurie Dahlberg
Student:
Olivia Cohen
Project:
Silent Sitters:
The Female Portrait Genre in Renaissance Florence
and
the Representations of Giovanna degli Albizzi Ronabuoni
Advisor:
Jean French
Student:
Colleen Harriss
Project:
Ernesto Pujol,
Odd Man Out: Investigating the Interstices of Otherness
Advisor:
Susan Aberth
Student:
Sarah Kogan
Project:
'All the mutilated
blocks of art': The Rhetoric of the Elgin Marbles
Advisor:
Susan Merriam
Student:
Sara Lurie
Project:
The Gender Veil: The Creation and Myth of the Feminine Identity
in American Culture Illustrated by the Photographs of Cindy
Sherman
Advisor:
Laurie Dahlberg
Student:
Mathew Mauricio
Project:
Illusions of
Submersion: Nature and Artifice in the Public
Aquarium
Advisor:
Susan Merriam
Student:
Chris McCloskey
Project:
The Thrill
of Victory, The Agony of Defeat: An Analysis
of
Michelangelo's Victory Group
Advisor:
Jean French
Student:
Georgia Muenster
Project:
National Identity,
Shinto Aesthetics, and the Architecture of
Kenzo Tange
Advisor:
Patricia Karetzky
Student:
Daniel Mullin
Project:
Systems in
Crisis: An Encyclopedia of Fashionable Thought
Advisor:
Noah Chasin
Student:
Jacleen Simons
Project:
Sculpture and Idolatry in Michelangelo's Brazen Serpent
Advisor:
Susan Merriam
Student:
Jessica Strongin
Project:
Wealth and
Piety: A Contextual Analysis of Jan van Eyck's
Rolin
Madonna
Advisor:
Jean French
Student:
Jean-Luc Unger
Project:
"Recoding,
Remapping, 'Total Melt': Active Spaces of Queer Desires and
Transgender Embodiments"
Advisor:
Susan Merriam
Student:
Leah Whitman-Salkin
Project:
Praxis Makes
Product: Contemporary Collectivist Praxis,
Dialogical
Spaces, and Alternative Economies
Advisor:
Noah Chasin
Student:
Max Yeston
Project:
Vistas of Modernity:
Depictions of New York City in Depression-
era
Murals
Advisor:
Susan Aberth
2007
Student:
Mark Day
Project:
Putting a Lid
on Congress; the Dome Architecture of the United States Capitol
Advisor:
Tom Wolf
Student:
Alessandra Duarte
Project:
Tunga's Experiential
Transformation of Worlds
Advisor:
Susan Aberth
Student:
Ljiljana Dukanovic
Project:
Witnesses of
Existence: Art in Conflict
Advisor:
Noah Chasin
Student:
Elizabeth Eames
Project:
Rivalry and
Respect: The Relationship between Michelangelo and Raphael
through their Acknowledgment of Influences
Advisor:
Diana Minsky
Student:
Rebecca Giusti
Project:
Infectious
Art: Toward an Etiology of Reception
Advisor:
Noah Chasin
Student:
Mikaela Gross
Project:
Folded, Unfolded
and Refolded: The Legacy of the Baroque in the Work of Two
Contemporary Brazilian Artists
Advisor:
Noah Chasin
Student:
Hannah Gruy
Project:
The Movement
of Marble: The Imagery of Mystical Love in Gian Lorenzo Bernini's
"The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa of Avila" and "The
Beata Ludovic Albertoni"
Advisor:
Jean French
Student:
Aurora Halal
Project:
Rendering the
Bigger Picture from a Mile Away: Quantum Mechanics, Conceptual
Art, and the Ontological Crisis
Advisor:
Noah Chasin
Student:
Sarah Heslip
Project:
And Everywhere
That Mary Went, The Lamb Was Sure to Go: An Investigation
of Bayside, a Contemporary Marian Cult
Advisor:
Laurie Dahlberg
Student:
Rebecca Matalon
Project:
Performing
the Archive: Reading Chris Burden through Chris Burden
Advisor:
Noah Chasin
Student:
Tracy Pollock
Project:
Joan Semmel:
Painting the Female Gaze
Advisor:
Susan Aberth
Student:
Lillian Slezak
Project:
On the Matter
of Living Spirit: Kandinsky, the Blue Rider, and the Unification
of the Arts
Advisor:
Laurie Dahlberg
Student:
Alice Whiteside
Project:
The Ara Pacis:
Repackaging History
Advisor:
Diana Minsky
--------------------------------------------------------------------
2006
Student:
Alexandra Abella
Project:
Inside and
Out: The Romanticized Images of Women from the Qing Dynasty
(1644-1912)
Advisor:
Particia Karetzky
Student:
Michelle Antonisse
Project:
Spatial Memoirs
- Iconoclasm and the Church Interiors of Emmanuel De Witte
Advisor:
Susan Merriam
Student:
Angelo Aponte
Project:
Santeria Reclaimed:
Cuban Identity
Advisor:
Susan Aberth
Student:
Jessica Blau
Project:
Semana Santa:
Identifying Sevillians
Advisor:
Susan Merriam
Student:
Alexandra Church
Project:
The Urban Villa:
Origins of Suburbanism in 19th Century Newburgh
Advisor:
Julia Rosenbaum
Student:
Matthew Cummings
Project:
God Created
All Things in Measure and Number and Weight: Austerity and
Ornament in Centralized Church Construction in 15th and 16th
Century Italy
Advisor:
Diana Minsky
Student:
Shlomit Dror
Project:
Re-encountering Jewish identity in Latin America: The Art
of José Gurvich, Moico Yaker, and Elena Climent
Advisor:
Susan Aberth
Student:
Eric Erdle
Project:
Going MoMA: The Commodification of the Modernist Utopian Dream
Advisor:
Noah Chasin
Student:
Matthew Evans
Project:
History Matters: Testimony, Tradition, and Invention in Jean
Fautrier's Otages
Advisor:
Noah Chasin
Student:
Michael Gumener
Project:
Thomas Struth's and Olafur Eliasson's Arcadias: For a New
Ethos of Natural Beauty
Advisor:
Noah Chasin
Student:
Peter Haffner
Project:
The Politics of Haitian Art and the Visual Language of Vodou
Advisor:
Susan Aberth
Student:
Alexandra Irving
Project:
Filling in the Blankness
Advisor:
Noah Chasin
Student:
Sarah Kathyrn Keezing
Project:
Beautiful Scoundrels: The Fox as Cultural and Personal Icon
in Edo, Japan, 1603-1867
Advisor:
Patricia Karetzky
Student:
Kristen Keys
Project:
Marys of the Sea: the Cult of the Black Madonna in France
Advisor:
Jean French
Student:
Shirin Khosravi
Project:
Yasumasa Morimura: Gender and Race Peformance in Photography
Advisor:
Susan Aberth
Student:
Marie Kropp
Project:
Sacred and Secular Narratives in Hans Memling's Diptych of
Maarten van Nieuwenhove
Advisor:
Jean French
Student:
Jennifer Lewis
Project:
The Method and the Madness of Albert C. Barnes: Vying for
Eduction, Resisting a Tourist Attraction
Advisor:
Susan Merriam
Student:
Alessandra Merrill
Project:
You Press the Button, We Do the Rest: How Kodak Advertisements
Shaped the Postwar American Family.
Advisor:
Susan Merriam
Student:
Amy Monaco
Project:
Rene Magritte and the American Audience
Advisor:
Julia Rosenbaum
Student:
Amy Nightingale
Project:
Social Documentary Photography in America: Transitions in
Intent, Methodology, and Function from 1890 to 2005
Advisor:
Diana Minsky
Student:
Eiren Shea
Project:
The Poetic Sculptor: Rodin and His Literary Contemporaries
Advisor:
Julia Rosenbaum
Student:
Benjamin Thornborough
Project:
L'Exposition Universelle de 1900: Visions of Empire and National
Identity in Turn-of-the-Century France
Advisor:
Julia Rosenbaum
Student:
David Valdini
Project:
The Importance of Family: The Applied Heraldry of Popes Sixtus
IV, Julius II, and Alexander VII
Advisor:
Diana Minsky
2005
Student:
Caitlin Adkins
Project:
Devotion to
the Natural: The Dress of Henry van de Velde
Advisor:
Tom Wolf
Student:
Heather Carroll
Project:
Scallop, Staff, and Scrip: Accoutrements of the Camino de
Santiago Pilgrim in Romanesque Sculpture and the Formation
of a "Pilgrim Identity"
Advisor:
Jean French
Student:
Julie Feldman
Project:
Dia:
Conduit to Immortality, A Critical Analysis of the Dia Art
Foundation
Advisor:
Susan Merriam
Student:
Ariella Feller
Project:
The Perception of a King: An Investigation into Foreign Symbols,
Conventions, and Presence in Mughal Empire Painting under
Emperor Jahangir
Advisor:
Patricia Karetzky
Student:
Natalie Franz
Project:
The Farm Beautiful:
Agricultural Architecture on Mid-Hudson Valley Estates, 1890-1920
Advisor:
Julia Rosenbaum
Student:
Martha Hart
Project:
VROOM - VROOM - BEEP - BEEP: The Social and Spatial Implications
of Ford in the Motor City
Advisor:
Noah Chasin
Student:
Nicholas Himmel
Project:
The Mythic Pennsylvania Station Civic: Space in a Material
World
Advisor:
Julia Rosenbaum
Student:
Chiara Noelle Issa
Project:
Hip-Hop Blackwards:
Representations Through Depictions of Black Masculinity on
Hip-Hop Album Covers, circa 1978-Present
Advisor:
Laurie Dahlberg
Student:
Lesley Kanner
Project:
Collection and Perception: A Mule-back Ride Through Nothern
Spain and the Hispanic Society of America
Advisor:
Susan Merriam
Student:
Alexander Klebanoff
Project:
Clyfford Still:
A Rebel With a Cause
Advisor:
Tom Wolf
Student:
Elizabeth Prairie Belle Murphy
Project:
Re-visioning
Enchantment: Cultural Hybridity and Appropriation in the Arts
of Luis Tapia, Ray Martin Abeyta, and Diego Romero
Advisor:
Susan Aberth
Student:
Lacy Marie Simkowitz
Project:
Just Another
Canvas: Fernand Leger's Works Outside of Painting from the
Post-War Period 1918-1924
Advisor:
Julia Rosenbaum
Student:
Olivia Tamzarian
Project:
Visions of
Mexico: A Bilingual Curriculim in Mexican Art of the Twentieth
Century
Advisor:
Susan Aberth
Division:
Multidisciplinary
Studies, Program: Art History, Cultural Anthropology and Latin
American Studies
Student:
Erica Yao
Project:
The People's
Square: Sociopolitical Agendas and the Transformations of
Architecture and Public Space in Shanghai, 1860s-1990s
Advisor:
Patricia Karetzky
2004
Student: Jaya Sati Blakeslee
Project:
" Las Meninas: A Self-Portrait Revealed,"
study of Diego de Velazquez's Las Meninas within
the context of self-portraits
Advisor:
Susan Merriam
Student:
Brooke Tami Borg (Art History
& Latin American and Iberian Studies)
Project:
Racial and Spatial Identifiers: Changing Depictions of Women
and Food in Mexican Painting, 1830-1950
Advisor:
Susan Aberth
Student:
Andrea Helen Dawa Cashman
Project:
Mariko Moi's Cyborgs: Hybrid
Identity and Hybrid Consciousness, Techno-Evolution in Response
to Globalization
Advisor:
Michael Lobel
Student:
Matthew Benjamin Jacobs
Project:
Axis in Imperial Archtiecture: A Study of Divine Sanction
in Roman and Kushan Commissions
Advisor:
Diana Minsky
Student:
Claire Hart Johnson
Project:
R. Crumb in "What's Inside a Girl?" True Confessions
of a Head Comix Artist
Advisor:
Michael Lobel
Student:
Rachel Laila Juris
Project:
Participatory Spaces: Aspects
of Performance in Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall,
Los Angeles, and Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing
Arts, Bard College.
Advisor:
Diana Minsky
Student:
Gabrielle Lauren Kammerer
Project:
Under Mexican Skies: Sixteen-Century
Open-Air Churches and the Franciscan Building Program
Advisor:
Susan Aberth
Student:
Amy Rebecca Levin
Project:
Public/Private: Masking the Metropolis in Fin de Siècle
Vienna
Advisor:
Noah Chasin
Student:
Alicia Marie LoBiondo
Project:
Titian's Sacred and Profane Love: The Evolution of
Scholarship
Advisor:
Jean French
Student:
Sarah Mariel Mosbacher
Project:
Domestic Service and Labor Spaces at Vanderbilt Mansion in
Hyde Park
Advisor:
Diana Minsky
Student:
Samantha Erin Safer
Project:
Zandra Rhodes and Her Knited Circle: Creating the Woman and
Her Work, 1965-1977, project examining British textile and
fashion designer Zandra Rhode's early career, and exhibition
of her textile designs
Advisor:
Susan Aberth
Student:
Thomas Paul Scott
Project:
Flayed Cyborgs and Other Social
Heroes: the Art of the Third-Generational Muralist Arnold
Belkin
Advisor:
Susan Aberth
Student:
Mae Hunnewell Williams (Art History & Medieval
Studies)
Project:
From Dragon Myth to the Gospels:
The Stave Church at Uvdal
Advisor:
Jean French
2003
•
Student: Reuben Traite
Project:
Revolutionary Art. The Life of Luis Quintanilla, A Gramscian
Perspective
Advisor:
Susan Aberth
*
Student: Anna Bohichik
Project:
Paint it Black: The Evolution of Lousie Nevelson's Public
Architectural Commissions
Advisor:
Tom Wolf
*
Student: Anne Flammang Killefer (Latin
American and Iberian Studies)
Project:
An Unearthing of the Presence and Power of Women in the Mixtec
Codices:
A
Feminist Reading of the Zouche-Nuttal
Advisor:
Susan Aberth
*
Student: Sarah Davies
Project:
Lumps, Bumbs, and Holes: The Art of Hans Bellme
r
and Cindy Sherman
Advisor:
Laurie Dahlberg
*
Student: Rio Alexander Hendrix Dubberstein
Project: Strike
a Pose: Examination of the Homosocial Arena of Masculinity,
the Male Nude, and the Interdisciplinary Understanding of
Gender and Stereotypes.
Advisor:
Laurie Dahlberg
* Student: Kat
Geng
Project: The
Aesthetics of Suffering.
Advsior:
Tom Wolf
* Student: Lora
Mary Majourau
(Art History and African Diaspora Studies)
Project: A Necessary
Femininity: An Exploration of the Gender, Function,
and Meaning of the Female-Featured Masks of the Dan of Liberia.
Advisor:
Susan Aberth
* Student: Suzanne
Read
Project: The
Derivation of the Triumph of Death Fresco in Pisa.
Advisor:
Anne Bertrande
* Student: Anna
L. Sanchez
Project: The
Lives and Times of Baroque Chiselers.
Advisor:
Anne Bertrande
* Student::
Eleanor Marie Woods Strehl
(Art History and Latin American and Iberian Studies)
Project: Some
Spanish Dancers: An Exploration of the Theme of the
Spanish Dancer in the Works of Manet and Sargent.
Advisor:
Susan Aberth
2002
* Student: Maria
Bonarska
Project: The
Sexuality of Space: A Study of the Nude in 19th Century
French Painting.
* Student: Miya
Buxton
Project: Indonesian
Vernacular Architecture: of Home, Body and Universe.
* Student: Elizabeth
Christine Clingerman
Project: Creating the Myth of Artemesia Gentileschi or the
Development of a Feminist Critique.
* Student: Ian
Gold
Project: My
So-Called Art and the Interesting, Attractive, Motivating,
Appealing,
Exciting, Fascinating, Attention-Grabbing, Out of the Ordinary,
Worthy
Of Note Life of Sophie Callé .
* Student: Erin
Brooke Horahan
Project: Chaos
of the Flesh, cultural analysis of Gunther Von Hagen’s
Körperwelten: Die Faszination des Echten.
Advisor:
Carol Ockman
* Student: Csongor
Imre Kis
Project: Six
Hundred Thousand Guldens’ Worth of Patronage: Political
Propaganda and Princely Devotion in the Archiepiscopal Palace
Of Würzburg.
Advisor:
Diana Minsky
* Student: Melanie
Anne Meyer
Project: Pulcinella
as an Agent of Change: The Use of Social
and Political Satire in Domenico Tiepolo’s Divertimento
per li regazzi.
* Student: Jessica
Kate Pavone
Project: Site/Nonsite,
Sight/Nonsight: Reworking L’informe via the work
of Robert Smithson.
BACK
TO ART HISTORY HOME PAGE |
