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

Global Networks/Diasporas/Comparative
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2015

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Curtis, Susan, “Moving Metal, Emotional Kinesthetics: The Sculpture of Sokari Douglas Camp” (Wisconsin, Madison, H. Drewal)

Faccion e Ferreira Pinto, Debora, “An Odd Man Out: Antonio Dias in 1970s Art Worlds” (Binghamton University, K. Hatch)

Ferrero, Sebastian, “Interprétation, transfiguration, et réélaboration du paysage du nouveau monde dans l’imagerie Européenne et Andine à l’époque moderne” (Université de Montréal, L. de Moura Sobral)

Garon, Sandrine, “L’artiste ‘géographiquement pluriel’ au cœur du réseau: Étude de l’impact de la mobilité internationale sur les représentations symboliques des nations canadiennes (1880–1920)” (Université de Montréal, L. Vigneault)

Gautier, Viviane, “Le Louvre Abou Dhabi: dans quels espaces? Les représentations géopolitiques, patrimoniales, muséales, et touristiques” (Université de Montréal, C. Bernier; M. J. Zahar)

Grusiecki, Tomasz, “Globalising the Periphery: Poland-Lithuania and its Interactions with the World, 1587–1668” (McGill, A. Vanhaelen)

Hatton, Brynn, “Via Vietnam: Critique and Collapse in Transnational Protest Art, 1965–75” (Northwestern, H. Feldman)

Magloughlin, Amara, “Art and the City: Walid Raad, postwar Beirut, and the Question of Cosmopolitanism” (Columbia, A. Alberro)

Marshman, Amy, “Ancient Puebloan Human Effigy Vessels: An Examination of Iconography and Tradition” (Virginia Commonwealth, J. Farmer)

Miller, Rachel, “Patron Saint of a World in Crisis: Early Modern Representations of St. Francis Xavier in Europe and Asia” (Pittsburgh, A. Harris; K. Savage)

Nelson, Josh, “The ‘Great Canadian Art Fraud’” (Queen’s, L. Jessup)

Nicewinter, Jeanette, “Cajamarca Ceramic Spoons: Forming a Symbolic Function” (Virginia Commonwealth, J. Farmer)

Occhietti, Raphaelle, “La salle de finance et ses actions: de Goya à l’art contemporain” (Université de Montréal, T. Porterfield)

Parkinson, Nicholas, “Imagining the North: Nordic Art in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture and Criticism” (Stony Brook University, J. Rubin)

Richer, Angèle, “Image de la nation: Le musée national des beaux-arts du Québec” (Université de Montréal, E. Dubuc)

Stein, Emma Natalya, “All Streets Lead to Temples: Mapping Monumental Histories in Kanchiparam, ca. 690–1199 CE” (Yale, T. Sears)

Strauss, Stephanie, “Rethinking Epi-Olmec: The Art and Epigraphy of the Late Preclassic Isthmus of Tehuantepec” (Texas, Austin, J. Guernsey)

Trottier, Maude, “La sculpture comme objet théorique: Approche transhistorique d’un refoulé de l’histoire de l’art” (Université de Montréal, J. Lamoureux)

Underwood, Joseph, “Platforms for Defining and Disseminating ‘Contemporary Art’ of Senegal: 1960–2015” (Stony Brook University, B. Frank)