Browsing by Author "Fields, Alison"
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Artist Power: Donald Judd's Museum and Foundation
Mogilka, Monique (2018)This thesis examines the Chinati and Judd Foundations, established by Minimal artist Donald Judd, to demonstrate how artists can use organizations to wield power and influence in the art world. The Chinati Foundation, a ... -
Becoming America's Ski City: Place and Identity on the Wasatch Front
Flynt, Mette (2018-12)“Becoming America’s Ski City” explores how skiers remolded the political, economic, cultural, and environmental landscape of Utah’s Wasatch Front, transforming the region’s valley cities and mountain forests into a more ... -
The Business of Atomic War: The Military-Industrial Complex and the American West
Foxley, Curtis (2020)This dissertation examines nuclear weapons manufacturing in the American West from 1942 through the early 1990s. Specifically, it examines Hanford Engineer Works in Washington, Pantex in the Texas Panhandle, Rocky Flats ... -
Collecting During the Indian Craze: Analyzing the Harry L. George Collection of Native American Art
Monahan, Kerrie L. (2018-05)This thesis examines the concepts of primary and secondary markets utilized by artists and collectors of Native American art at the turn of the 20th century. This time period was coined by art historian Elizabeth Hutchinson ... -
The Consumed Bite Back: Issues of Cultural Cannibalism and Appropriation in Andrea Carlson's Windigo and VORE Series
von Gries, Olivia (2021-05-14)Since contact with Indigenous peoples, Western colonizers and settlers have formed and relied upon created differences rooted in misinformation. By labeling Indigenous groups, including Native Americans, as “cannibals,” ... -
Decolonizing the Concrete Wave: Visual Sovereignty in Native American Skateboarding Culture
Fisher, Clarissa (2017-05-12)This thesis focuses primarily on skateboard deck graphics and the cultural and political implications of skateboarding within the context of settler colonialism in the contemporary United States. It examines the intersection ... -
The Educative Spirit-Home: A Thought Experiment to Educate Through Native American Women's Art
Abel, Kendra (2018-05-11)Recognizing historical trauma experienced by indigenous peoples as contributing to social and educational problems for contemporary Native Americans (LaDuke 1999, 2002, 2005, Mihesuah 2003), specifically Native women ... -
"Expressing the Inexpressible": Art Posters, Graphic Modernism, and the American West, 1890–1925
Jerman, Hadley (2020-05)The “art poster” movement swept the United States during the 1890s, generating enthusiasm and commentary for advertising posters designed by fine artists. While American art posters prompted much discussion in their time, ... -
"Fit for a Picture:" Aestheticizing Southwestern Utah and the Creation of Zion National Park
Nuzum, Melissa; Duncan-O'Neill, Erin (2024-05-11)The exploration of the monumental landscapes of the trans-Mississippi West in the decades following the Civil War produced a vast archive of imagery detailing the strange new landforms that would not only elucidate the ... -
Future Tense: Potentiality, Portents, and Permutations in Native North American Art
Herr, Chelsea (2020-05-08)This dissertation examines the ways in which living Native North American artists envision and engage possible Indigenous futures. Indigenous Futurisms (IF) investigates the many ways Indigenous peoples conceptualize, ... -
Gender, place, and cultural memory: intersections of American national identity and the art of Hopi-Choctaw Linda Lomahaftewa
Merz-Edwards, Jean C.Overlooked in the mainstream of so-called American Art, the work of Hopi-Choctaw Linda Lomahaftewa embodies significant aspects of United States history. Despite a prolific oeuvre centered in a place-based aesthetic that ... -
HOMESCAPES: INDIGENOUS LAND ART AND PUBLIC MEMORY
Harris, Alicia (2020-05-08)Indigenous North Americans make visual forms that demonstrate and provide for the practice of kinship connections with land. In art history, discourse about “Land Art” has often omitted Indigenous connections with land and ... -
How to Conceal an Atomic Bomb: Indigenous Art, Political Truth, and the Atomic Age
Wise, Elizabeth (2021-05-14)In this thesis, I examine artwork made by Indigenous artists who challenge ongoing harms from atomic testing on Indigenous lands. I argue that the visual arts have proven to be an important site for political agency for ... -
Imitating and Innovating a Critical Television Studies Model for Communication
Castleberry, Garret (2015-05-08)This project imitates a television studies model of criticism by innovating a critical mixed-methods approach for communication scholars. Jonathan Gray and Amanda Lotz posit a television studies model that comprises ... -
Intra-Colonial Spaces: Desire and Displacement in Images of Indian Territory, the Hawai’ian Islands, and New Mexico Territory, 1885-1920
Peck, James (2016)Depending primarily on image analysis, this dissertation considers a heretofore understudied artistic construct, the American intra-colonial aesthetic. Produced as a byproduct of displaced American colonialist desires near ... -
It's Not About Cowboys: Cowboys as Subject in Contemporary Art
Seaton, Melynda J. (2015-05)Images of American cowboys are examined in a selection of lens-based artworks including Richard Avedon’s In the American West (1984), Laurie Simmons’ Cowboys (1979), David Levinthal’s The Wild West (1987-89), Matthew ... -
Light and Place: Robert Irwin and Others in Southern California
Giani, Francesca (2022-05-13)This dissertation argues that the clement climate and habitability of Southern California, as well as the rhetoric that enveloped its promotion over the course of a century, informed a specific mode of creation and ... -
Ordering Wonder: Collections, Curators, and Showmen in Antebellum America
Burnes, James (2023-12-15)This dissertation explores the development and execution of five museum collections established between the 1793 opening of Charles Willson Peale’s museum in Philadelphia and the opening of the Smithsonian Institution as ... -
PABLITA VELARDE, HELEN HARDIN, AND MARGARETE BAGSHAW: THREE GENERATIONS OF ASSERTION, EXPRESSION, AND INNOVATION
Payne, Emily (2018-05-11)This dissertation examines the work of three generations of Santa Clara women, Pablita Velarde (1918-2006), Helen Hardin (1943-1984) and Margarete Bagshaw (1964-2015). In order to contextualize their work, I discuss the ... -
Paradox Regained: The Trickster in Native North American Art and Culture
Hanawalt, Tammi (2017)Raven, Nanobozho, Wakdjunkaga, Ishtinke, and Coyote were a part of Native North American cultures long before anthropologists began to record their stories in the nineteenth century. Perplexed and captivated by these beings ...