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

Nineteenth Century
Dissertations Completed by Subject, 2018

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Acosta, Taylor, “Real and Ideal: The Realism of Jules Breton” (University of Minnesota, G. Weisberg)

Adams, Alissa “French Depictions of Napoleon I's Resurrection (1821-1848)” (The University of Iowa, D. Johnson)

Beach, Caitlin, “Sculpture, Slavery, and Commence in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World” (Columbia University, E. Hutchinson)

Coman, Sonia, “ New Values in Art: Japanese and Japoniste Ceramics, 1866-1904” (Columbia University, A. Higonnet)

Fraser, Alexandra, “Art, Decoration, and the Texture of Modern Experience: The Interior Before 1900” (University of Michigan, A. Potts)

Fuldner, Carl. “Evolving Photography: Naturalism, Art, and Experience, 1889–1909” (University of Chicago, J. Snyder)

Hooper, Rachel, “American Art Histories: Framing Race in Exhibitions, 1842-1876” (Rice University, L. Costello)

LeBourdais, George Philip, “Tracing The Arctic Regions: Exploring Ice and Time in Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Greenland” (Stanford University, A. Nemerov)

Lee, Ja Won, “Visualizing the Past: Collecting and Representing Chinese Antiquities in Late Chosŏn Korea” (UCLA, B. Jungmann)

Lum, Julia, “Art at the Meeting Places of Britain and Oceania, 1788-1848” (Yale University, T. Barringer)

Zirnheld, Bernard, “Presque un Monument: Republican Urbanism and Commercial Architecture of the Rue Réaumur (1896-1900)” (Yale University, C. Armstrong)

Malone, Kelsey Frady, “Sisterhood as Strategy: The Collaborations of American Women Artists in the Gilded Age” (University of Missouri, K. Schwain)

McGeorge, Christopher, “Mediums for the Masses: Stained Glass & Murals in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (University of Southern California, K. Flint)

Michelon, Christina, “Interior Impressions: Printed Material in the Nineteenth-Century Home.” (University of Minnesota, J. Marshall)

Sperling, Juliet, “Animating Flatness: Moving Images in American Art, 1780-1895” (University of Pennsylvania, M. Leja)