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

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Dissertations Completed by Subject, 2002

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Avery, Elizabeth Bloom, “New Deal Photography and the Campaign for Public Housing” (Chicago, J. Snyder)

Baillargeon, Claude, “Religious Fervor and Photographic Propaganda: Durandelle's Anatomical Studies of the Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre” (UC Santa Barbara, U. Keller)

Casey-Del Priore, Kimberly Beth, “Théodore Géricault's ‘Erotic’ Drawings Reconsidered as Exercises in Composition and Invention” (Virginia Commonwealth, E. Garberson)

Cooper-Carson, Jeanie, “Interpreting National Identity in Time of War: Competing Views in Office of War Information (OWI) Photography, 1940–1945” (Boston, K. Sichel)

Dermer, Rachelle, “Led to Believe: Photography and the Construction of the Medical Subject” (Boston, C. Jones, K. Sichel)

Grossman, Wendy, “Modernist Gambits and Primitivist Discourses: Reframing Man Ray's Photographs of African and Oceanic Art” (Maryland, College Park, J. Hargrove)

Holloway, Camara, “Race-ing American Moderns: Race and Modernism in Photography between the Two World Wars” (Yale, K. Jones)

Lambert, Carrie, “Yvonne Rainer's Media: Performance, Photography, and American Culture, 1961–1973” (Stanford, P. Lee)

Moore, Kevin, “Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894–1986): Invention of an Artist” (Princeton, P. Bunnell)

Mulligan, Therese, “Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Postmodern Poetics and Photography” (New Mexico, G. Batchen)

Pinson, Stephen, “Speculating Daguerre” (Harvard, H. Zerner)

Rittelmann, Leesa, “Constructed Identities: The German Photobook from Weimar to the Third Reich” (Pittsburgh, B. McCloskey)

Rosenblatt-Farrell, Noah, “Twentieth-Century Photography” (Duke, R. Powell)

Tonkovich, Jennifer, “Claude Gillot and the Theater with a Catalogue of Drawings” (Rutgers, M. Eidelberg)

Vayzman, Liena, “The Self-Portraits of Claude Cahun: Transgression, Self-Representation, and Avant-Garde Photography, 1917–1947” (Yale, C. Mehring)

Yamashiro, Jennifer, “Sex in the Field: Photography at the Kinsey Institute” (Indiana, Bloomington, S. Burns)