Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

Visual Studies
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2023

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Benson, Madalen, C., "Land-Based Relations: Art and its Contestations with Settler State Law and Property Regimes" (1989–2024) (University of California, Santa Cruz, Tj. Demos)

Casimir, Zane, "Play by Play: Ludic Spaces, Interventions, and Medias within 20th-Century Japanese Visual Cultures" (University of California, Irvine, B. Winther-Tamaki)

Choi , Suhyun, "Transnational Socialism, Decolonial Worldmaking, and the Development of Modern Art in North Korea" (Columbia University, J. Reynolds)

Ernst, Michael, "Visual Culture & Spaces of Nationalism and Islamic Identity in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan" (Temple University, E. Neumeier, T. Cooper)

Florey, Audrey, "Women Artist-Educators' Construction of the Modern American Art World: The Case of Elsa Ulbricht, Otellie Loloma, and Samella S. Lewis" (University of Missouri-Columbia, K. Schwain)

Golovchenko, Margaryta, "Strange Kinship: Women-Animal Relationships in French and British Art, 1700–1900" (University of Oregon, N. Amstutz)

Havet, Isabelle, "Beneath the Surface: Representations of Subterranean Space, 1850–1900" (University of Delaware, N. Kallmyer)

Plazas, Hugo, "The Image of Racialized Groups in Nineteenth-Century Colombian Costumbrista Painting" (University of Alberta, B. Boone, L. McTavish)

Schwartz, Stacy, "Unsettling Authenticity: Renegotiating Contemporary Identities and Cultural Trauma in Post-Jewish Art" (University of California, Santa Cruz, Murray D. C.)