Browsing OU - Theses 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Post-Digital Publishing Practices in Contemporary Arts Publishing
Rogers, Kelly (2019-12)A consideration of the ways in which post-digital influence impacts visual culture, and specifically arts publishing. The post-digital moment creates a unique opportunity for analog/digital crossover, which manifests in ... -
Questioning the Nature of Reality: The Emancipatory Politics of Westworld (2016-)
Jones, Morgan (2021-05)The myth of the American West is rooted in a visual language of commodification, nationalism, and violence. The Western film genre codifies this aesthetic representation of space; it naturalizes the United States’ continuing ... -
WAYS OF KNOWING: JEWELRY OF THE NAVAJO, ZUNI, AND HOPI
Eustace Jones, Robert Mac (2020-05)This research examines the introduction of Southwestern Native American jewelry as an art form in the Navajo, Zuni and Hopi cultures in conjunction with developing sociographic variables, supporting cultural survivance ... -
The Works of Will James: His Contribution to the Mythologizing of the American Cowboy
Harrison, Nicole (2016-12)The life of Will James is one of mystery. His works, however, tell the story of a life he was meant to live. Born Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault in 1892 in Saint-Nazaire-d’Acton, the boy grew up yearning to be a cowboy. ...