Art History & Archaeology

• NEITHER WOMAN NOR MAN: NEGOTIATIONS OF THE THIRD SEX IN WESTERN VISUAL CULTURE, 1900-1930 

  Cope, Ashley Lynn (2022)

  As concepts that differ across history and between cultures—even diverging radically within a single time and place—sex, gender, and desire are most accurately understood when examined through a historically and culturally ...

• VERY ANXIOUS PEOPLE: ALICE NEEL’S LATE PORTRAITS 

  Callahan, Maura (2022)

  In the mid- to late 1960s, as her previously underrecognized work as a painter started to secure visibility in the art world, the American portraitist Alice Neel (1900-1984) began to minimize her subjects’ physical ...

• Peruvian Feather-work: Development, Purposes, and Techniques 

  Roll, Virginia Helen (1965)

  The purpose of this study was to gain knowledge of Peruvian feather-work, its development, its purposes, and the techniques involved in the production of this material. Through research and through examination of ...

• Picturing Island Bodies Under US Imperialism 

  Robinson-Tillenburg, Gabrielle (2022)

  Since the end of World War II, the US has maintained the naval occupation of Okinawa,a small island off the coast of Japan. Across the globe in Puerto Rico the US operated what was at one point the largest naval station ...

• On the Threshold: Visualizing Ambiguity in the Art and Experience of Ancient Roman Doorways 

  Chen, Amanda Kane (2022)

  Neither interior nor exterior, doors, thresholds, and passageways were regarded as powerful, yet ambiguous areas by the ancient Romans. Ancient myths and texts characterize thresholds as sites of magic and ritual and record ...

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