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

West Asia
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2019

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Haines, Chelsea, “Staging the Modern, Building the Nation: Israeli Exhibitions, 1948-1965” (CUNY-Graduate Center, R. Golan)

MacMurdie, Meekyung, “Geometric medicine: aniconism and Arab painting” (University of Chicago, P. Berlekamp)

Mohammadi, Banafsheh, “Images of the Experiential: the Petroleum Roots of Architectural Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of Religion, 1945-1967” (University of Alberta, J. Greer)

O’Brien, Jeffrey, “The Right to be Seen: Archiving Absence in Post-Civil War Lebanon” (The University of British Columbia, J. O’Brian)

Rauh, Elizabeth, " An Islamic Cosmos: Contemporary Art Engagements with Islamic Heritage in Iran and the Arab East, 1958-2018" (University of Michigan, C. Gruber)

Schneller, David, "Strangers in the Shrine: Itinerant Objects in Greek Sanctuaries of the Geometric and Archaic Periods" (Columbia University, I. Mylonoloupos)

Shirazi, Somayeh Noori, “Negotiating Identities in the Artworks of Three Contemporary Iranian Women Artists” (University of Alberta, L. McTavish)

Soltani, Zohreh, “Tehran: a symptomatic rendering of public architecture” (Binghamton University, T. McDonough and N. Um)

Stavis, Jacob, "The Formation of Achaemenid Art: Beyond Iconography and Attribution" (Columbia University, Z. Bahrani)

Stavis, Jacob, "The Formation of Achaemenid Art: Beyond Iconography and Attribution" (Columbia University, Z. Bahrani)

Tamur, Erhan, “Site-worlds: An Account of Material Lives from Tello (ancient Girsu)” (Columbia University, Z. Bahrani)

Willson, Justin,“The Moods of Early Russian Art: A Belated Chapter of Byzantine Aesthetics” (Princeton, C. Barber and B. Kitzinger)