In Progress
Opaque Surfaces and Lived Illusions: Minimalism and the Status of Painting in the 1960s
Adviser: Hal Foster
Staging the Social Document in the Progressive Era: Jacob Riis, Frances Johnston, Lewis Hine
Adviser: Anne McCauley
The Content of Context: Appropriation in American Art of the 1980s
Adviser: Hal Foster
Wassily Kandinsky and the Vicissitudes of das Innere, 1908–1914
Adviser: Brigid Doherty
The Disposition of Persons: Conventions of Pose and the Modernization of Figural Art, 1886–1912
Adviser: Brigid Doherty
Xul Solar and the Formation of the Argentinean Avant-Garde: Sociability, Tactility, Language, and the Revision of the Depicted Body
Adviser: Brigid Doherty
A Medley of Brushes: Painting Collaborations in Eighteenth-Century Japan
Adviser: Andrew Watsky
Between Buddhist Temple and Imperial Palace: Reframing the Shōjūraigōji Six Paths Hanging Scrolls
Adviser: Andrew Watsky
Tunisian Modernisms: (Re)constructions, Colonial Continuities, and Vernacular Reckonings, 1920–1980
Adviser: Esther da Costa Meyer
Drawing from Architecture: The Conceptual Methods of Sol LeWitt's Art, 1965–1980
Adviser: Brigid Doherty
A Rule Without Measure: Michelangelo in French Painting, 1814–1850
Adviser: Rachael DeLue; Carol Armstrong (Yale University)
The Itinerant Image: Media and Repetition in the Art of Honoré Daumier
Adviser: Bridget Alsdorf
Johann Georg Bendl: Premier Sculptor of Prague’s Early Baroque
Adviser: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Mandu Yenu Thrones: Tradition, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Bamum Kingdom, 1885–2008
Adviser: Chika Okeke-Agulu
Kunstgewerbe als Erzieher: Bernhard Pankok and Others, 1895–1917
Adviser: Esther da Costa Meyer
The Augustan Honorific Altar: Its Emergence, Monumentalization, and Eclipse
Adviser: Michael Koortbojian
Qian Du (1763–1844) and Landscape Traditions in an Era of Change
Adviser: Jerome Silbergeld
Properties of Word and Image: Mou Yi's 1240 Fulling Cloth Handscroll
Adviser: Jerome Silbergeld
The Art of Vija Celmins (Hal Foster)
Court and Countryside: Central Italian Villas of the Mid-Sixteenth Century
Adviser: John Pinto
I am the True Vine: Acculturation, Appropriation, and Assimilation in Religious Iconography of Late Antiquity
Adviser: William Childs
"Right Matter in the Right Place": The Paintings of Albert Pinkham Ryder
Adviser: Rachael DeLue
The Dead Christ on Display at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome
Adviser: Charles Barber; Nino Zchomelidse (Johns Hopkins)
Moscow Conceptualism and ‘Shimmering’: Authority, Anarchism, and Space
Adviser: Hal Foster
The World of the Chinese Bronze Mirrors: Production, Markets, and Exchange, 600–100 B.C.
Adviser: Robert Bagley
The Persistent Past: Refoundations in Sicily and Magna Graecia in the 5th and 4th Centuries BCE
Adviser: Michael Koortbojian; Nathan Arrington; Nino Luraghi
The Prehistory of the Middle and Lower Changjiang Region
Adviser: Robert Bagley
"Ein Liebhaber aller freyen khünst": Bonifaz Wolmut and the Architecture of the European Renaissance
Adviser: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
"When we made movies just to make them": Warhol's Films and the Surface of the 1960s
Adviser: Hal Foster
Picturing Flanders Abroad: Flemish Painters and their Audiences in Seventeenth-Century Madrid
Adviser: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
The MARS Group: Going Modern in Britain, 1933–1957
Adviser: Esther da Costa Meyer
Orders of Elaboration: Wendel Dietterlin and the Architectura
Adviser: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Color after Mimesis: Odilon Redon and the Development of Arbitrary Color in Symbolist Painting, 1888–1905
Adviser: Anne McCauley
"Our Decorative Scheme": Abstraction and Subversion in the Designs of the Omega Workshops, 1913–1919
Adviser: Hal Foster
The Album Format in Nanjing Painting, 1640–1680
Adviser: Jerome Silbergeld
Byzantium not Forgotten: Constructing the Artistic and Cultural Legacy of an Empire between East and West in the Early Modern Period
Adviser: Patricia Fortini Brown
Veri Ritratti: Pietro Longhi and Genre Painting in Eighteenth-Century Venice
Adviser: Patricia Fortini Brown
Framing the Monastic Ritual: Architecture and Liturgy of the Byzantine Church Narthexes on Mount Athos (10th–15th Centuries)
Adviser: Slobodan Ćurčić
The Bishop, His House, and His Church: Early Medieval Episcopal Complexes in the Mediterranean (A.D. 300–600)
Adviser: Nino Zchomelidse (Johns Hopkins)
Afro-Brazilian Ideals in the Architecture of Southwest Nigeria (c. 1880–1960)
Adviser: Esther da Costa Meyer
Methods for Modernism: Arthur Wesley Dow Intersects the Stieglitz Circle
Adviser: Rachael DeLue
Truth in Translation: Discourses of Photography in Republican Era China
Adviser: Jerome Silbergeld
Hyperborean Baroque: European Representations of the Far North, 1644–1716
Adviser: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Building Faith: Ethiopian Art and Architecture during the Jesuit Interlude, 1557–1632
Adviser: Chika Okeke-Agulu
Collaboration in Painting Practice: Notions of Individuality and Quality in Chinese Art
Adviser: Jerome Silbergeld
Pages of Memory: Paper Travel in Renaissance Europe, 1480–1600
Adviser: Patricia Fortini Brown