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

Nineteenth Century
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2023

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de Godoy Lopes, Nicholas, "A Tournament of Ornament: The Creative Stakes of Nineteenth-Century Ornament Folios" (Bard Graduate Center, F. Hartzell)

Denis, Beatrice, "Les Guerres napoléoniennes de Louis-François Lejeune: Histoire, Identité et Notoriété au début du 19e siècle" (University of Montreal, E. Contogouris)

Elenowitz-Hess, Caroline, "The Most Beautiful Woman in Paris: Politics, Art, and Fashion in France's Third Republic" (Bard Graduate Center, M. Rado)

Glama, Barthelemy, "How Colonial Archaeology Transformed the Louvre: Antiquities, Empire, and the Encyclopedic Museum in France, 1840–1870" (Columbia University, A. Higonnet, Z. Bahrani)

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)

Humphrey, Elizabeth S., "Visualizing Racial Ambiguity and Fluidity in North America, 1750–1870) (University of Delaware, J. Van Horn)

Kylindreas, Miltiadis, "Building up the Classical Past: The Politics of Architectural Reconstruction in Modern Greece" (Emory University, B. Wescoat, E. Varner)

Laffick, Jennifer, "Neoclassicism's Atlantic Currents: French Painting and Power in the Early Nineteenth Century" (Southern Methodist University, A. Freund, R. Conduru)

Lee, Meng-Hsuan, "Shop-House, Verandah-Arcade, Decorated Façade: An Excavation of Commercial Architecture in Japanese Colonial Taiwan" (Columbia University, J. Reynolds)

Maleki, Kimia, "Ornament Refigured: Weaving Modernity in West Asia" (Johns Hopkins University, Ü. Rüstemnver)

McClendon, Emma, "Sizing the Fashionable Body: Butterick Patterns, Grading, and Normalcy 1860–1910" (Bard Graduate Center, M. Linn, M. Majer)

nalbant, emine esra, "DEMYSTIFICATION OF UNCHARTED WATERS: THE JOURNEY OF LATE OTTOMAN LIGHTHOUSES" (State University of New York, Binghamton, J. Kirkwood)

Onabanjo, Oluremi, "Seeing Bahia: On the Limits of Photographic Representation in Black Brazil, 1835–1977" (Columbia University, Z. Strother, K. Jones)

Pitts, Phillippa, "Pharmacoepic Dreams: Art & America's Medical Democracy, 1800–1860" (Boston University, R. Barrett A. M. Reyes)

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

Price, Thomas, "Body Work: Masculinity and Extraction in Late Nineteenth-Century American Art" (University of Delaware, W. Bellion)

Skeath, Alicia, "On the Other Side: Representations of the Ojibwe from the Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century" (Penn State University, A. Cross)

Stephenson, Lea, "Sensing Egypt, Shaping Empire: American Collectors, Artists, and Egyptomania, 1870–1922" (University of Delaware, W. Bellion)

Williams, Ashley, "Unfree Artists on the Borders of U.S. Empire, 1850–1930 (Columbia University, E. Hutchinson, N. Cooke)