This collection includes theses and dissertations from the Department of Fine Arts, in the College of Arts & Sciences. It is not exhaustive since most paper theses and dissertations have not been digitized. Generally, paper copies of theses and dissertations published prior to 2014 can be accessed in the University of Louisville Libraries. If you would like to add your thesis or dissertation to this collection, please fill out the Electronic Theses & Dissertations form.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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That limbless sign the thesis document., Donna R. Charging

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Alabaster glory., Chloe Cheng

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Origin stories., Danielle Deeley

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Art justice: The Nazi aesthetic, cultural theft, and restitution in the 21st century., Kathryn Elaina Jacob

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Authentic fake: Authenticity and authentication., Suyun Son

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As the night is lit: The nocturnal urban landscapes of Childe Hassam., Diana M. Wilder

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Perception is reality! How perception shapes our world., Nicole Clay

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Someone, stop her! The musical (the gallery show): The thesis document., Hannah DeWitt

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Spirits in my studio., Katelyn Gabbard

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Second nature: Impressions of place., Trish Korte

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The landscape does not care it is a landscape: A utopian pessimist journey in Kentucky., Shachaf Polakow

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Di•as•po•ra: Displaced, not erased., Betty Álvarez

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Meat the future., Xin Chen

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Betwixt & between., Xuanyi Wang

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Transformation., Jingshuo Yang

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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But also full of seeds for a future that could have turned out differently., Megan Marie Bickel

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Letting the days go by: an Investigation into the artistic and functional nature of calendars., Elise Alexandra Blankenship

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The uncanny desire in American animation and film., Kristen Hankins

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Witness and testimony: the role of race and community in forming Black Aesthetics., Cathy Smith Shannon

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Shifting sands., Rachid Tagoulla

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-rhiza., Katherine E. Watts

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Love labor: literal symbols and true abstractions., Karen Weeks

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Analysis of twenty-first century zines., Anna Blake

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Women of pop., Jourdan Cunningham

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An exploration of provenance and ownership history and the critique of curatorial practice., Sacra J. Fallen

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Invocation., Shae Taylor Goodlett

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American nocturne., Zahid Saeed

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Send nudes : art on social anxiety and human connection in an internet driven society., Lauren A Bader

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Thinging : powerful objects., Tammy M. Burke

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Exploring place as a producer of localized art styles and its role in a contemporary global art world., Alexis Doerr

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The house that credit built: How advertising shaped a culture of borrowing in the decade of prosperity., Morgan Folden

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Waiting room., Helen Payne

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It's a mad world after all: the influence of stoic thought in Goya's Los Caprichos., Jennifer Anne Steward

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All the better to see you with., Monica Stewart

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Trace., KCJ Szwedzinski

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Leonora Carrington : A Bestiary., Stephanie Wise

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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The history and signification of the Navicella Mosaic at St. Peter's Basilica, Rome., Eston Dillon Adams

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The mosaics of Ciudad Universitaria : Mexican muralism at the crossroads., Annemarie Elizabeth Carney

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Frederic Lindley Morgan : gentleman architect and reluctant modernist., Lisa Grace Carpenter

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The disjointed moment : marking, mapping, and making the real in William Eggleston's election eve (1976)., Joel Darland

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North American indigenous collection and curation and its impact on market arts., Adelaide McComb

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Title., Douglas Miller

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Common ground, diverging paths: eighteenth-century English and French landscape painting., Jessica Robins Schumacher

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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A fly has died a splendid death in a pool of strawberry ice cream., Miranda L. Becht

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MAN/BOY., Nick Hartman

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Traces of the (un)familiar : family, identity, and the return of the repressed in the photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard., Hunter Martin Kissel

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Challenging the self : an examination of the media's role in creating idealized bodies and the artists that challenge them., Jessica Oberdick

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Transplantar : los frutos de sus labores Transplant : fruit of their labor., Marie-Elena Ottman

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Transversal approaches and ecological artwork., Madison DeAnna Sevilla

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Farmscapes : picturing land transformation in nineteenth-century America., Eileen L Yanoviak

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Site responsibility : eco-art and environmental ethics in the anthropocene., Nicholas Flint Collins

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Putting Christians on the map : topographic mosaics from late antique Jordan as representations of authority and status., Tracey Elizabeth Eckersley

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Murakami-ego : collective culpability and selective retention., Yun Kweon Jeong

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Let's keep in touch : conversations about access and tactility., Whitney E. B. Mashburn

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Claude Cahun, Marcel Moore, and the collapse of "surrealist photography"., Elizabeth Ann Driscoll Smith

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Top Drawer : 150 years of Bittners in theory and practice., Wesley Elizabeth Spencer

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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The process of curating Trace of a Body : creating relationships and building experiences., Bailey Marie Mazik 1990-

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Traces of the hand., Molly F. Passafiume 1989-

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Displacement : a reckoning of internal affairs : curatorial practice following artist praxis., Stacey Reason 1987-

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Corporate history and curatorial practice at Buffalo Trace distillery., Stephanie Rose Schmidt

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Body image., Emma Sharps 1989-

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Iconoclastic fervor : Sally Hazelet Drummond, abstract expressionism and curatorial practice., Hillary Sullivan

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Public art in urban parks., Taylor Crush, 1990-

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The formation of a sacred political site : the birthplace of Mao Zedong at Shaoshan, Zhe Dong 1988-

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Not even or pretty : improvisational textiles from recycled clothing., Karen Anne Habeeb 1974-

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Hugh Haynie and the art of opinion : examining history, memory and controversy in museum exhibitions and interpretation., Jessica Bennett Kincaid

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Women of the 1913 Armory Show : their contributions to the development of American modern art., Jennifer Pfeifer Shircliff

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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The founding of the Art in Embassies program and the misrepresentation of American art., Zachary Scott Distel

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The sea empress's garden., Brandon Dyer 1980-

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Art museum deaccessioning : conflict between museum professionals, donor intent, the public, and living artists., Megan Elizabeth Kociscak 1987-

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Knitting as art., Deborah Levine

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Seeking Bob Thompson : dialogue/object., Slade Stumbo 1971-

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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The adytum., Lexi Bass

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The Dome of the Rock: the historical, political and religious motivations behind its construction., Greg Clark 1962-

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Studies in the image of the Madonna lactans in late medieval and Renaissance Italy., Cecelia M. Dorger

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Maidens, matrons, and magicians : women and personal ritual power in late antique Egypt., Meghan Paalz McGinnis

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The impact of Edward Perry Warren on the study and collections of Greek and Roman antiquities in American academia., James Murley 1947-

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Dames, doilies, & divorce., Tenille Novinger

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Visualizing female agency : space and gender in contemporary women's art in Mexico., Jamie L. Ratliff

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Unearthing Charles Rolwing : the problem of documentation in the small museum., Elizabeth A. H. Rue 1988-

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P.A.I.N.T. : a case study in engaging the community through public art., Katherine Jo Sowada

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Ibrida., Dawn N. Struck

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Collections care and management at the Howard Steamboat Museum, Inc., Katherine LeClerq Wanke 1988-

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Finding the brutal aesthetic., Marcy R. Werner

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The Paramount Ballroom in the 1930s : a modernist social and architectural space., Xi Zhang 1987-

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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A reconsideration of the apse of Hagia Eirene., Eston Adams 1979-

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Addressing identity/redressing the museum., Sarah Guadalupe Cassidy

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Pattern play : pieced works on paper., Gweneth A. Dunleavy 1954-

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Leo Wrye Zimmerman : return to Main Street., McKenna Graham

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Counter-Reformation agenda in the paintings of the Virgin Mary., Sharon Lynne Heaphy 1987-

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Power in plaster : the installation of stuccowork during the late antique and early Byzantine periods., Kaelin Merritt Jewell

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The dialectic of trauma in Charlotte Salomon's Life? or theatre?, Brooke Leeton

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A social networking space : a study on the productivity of Twitter in museum practice., Cara C. Lyons

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An exploration of the earthen feminine : the vessel., Sharon Madison 1955-

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Medieval churches on the Spanish frontier : how elite emulation in architecture contributed to the transformation of a territorial expansion into Reconquista., Kelly L. Watt

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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Vincent van Gogh, a formal and psychological analysis of the final years at Arles, Saint-Remy and Auvers., Sue Ann Grey 1943-

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New Deal printmaking : politics and protest., Andrew Joseph Hardin

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Difference as identity in "The other story" and the 1993 Whitney biennial., Vanessa Faye Johnson

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The gorilla and the cuttlefish., Nick Karl 1982-

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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The quilt as concept., Denise Mucci Furnish