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

Performance Studies
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2007

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Aldana, Erin Denise, "Urban Interventions: 3Nós3 and the City of São Paolo, 1979–1982" (UT Austin, J. Barnitz, A. Reynolds)

De Leon, Joseph, "The Passion Drama at San Fernando: Mediating the Relationship between Von Balthasar's Theo-Drama and Nahua Ritual using Royce's Notion of Interpretant" (Graduate Theological Union, A. Garcia-Rivera)

Dumett, Mari, "Corporate Imaginations: The Fluxus Collective in the Age of Multinational Capitalism" (Boston, C. Jones)

Geppert, Melissa, "Bioaesthetic: The Production of Art and Life" (Minnesota, J. Blocker)

Johnston-Keane, Kathy, "Caravaggio's Drama: The Influence of Baroque Popular Theater and Literature on the Paintings of Michelangelo Merisi" (Pittsburgh, A. Sutherland Harris)

Kuo, Michelle, "To Avoid the Waste of a Cultural Revolution: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), 1966–1979" (Harvard, Y-A. Bois, B. Buchloh)

Lima, Benjamin, "Wolf Vostell's Décollage and the Forms of Destruction, 1958–1972" (Yale, D. Joselit)

Macchiavello, Carla, "Marking the Territory: Performance, Video, and Conceptual Graphics in Chilean Art, 1975–1985" (SUNY Stony Brook, D. Kuspit)

Millar, Eve, "New Sacred Spaces: Transforming the Mundane through Dance, Trance, and South Asian Cultural Iconographies" (University of Victoria, A. Wright)

Richter, Marianne, "Merged Identities: The Transformation of the Artist's Persona, 1960–1980" (UIC, P. Hales, H. Higgins)

Schuld, Dawna, "Nothing to Look At: Art as Situation and Its NeuroPsychological Implications" (Chicago, B. Stafford)

Sorkin, Jennifer, "Live Form: Gender and Performance Craft, 1940–1970" (Yale, D. Joselit)

Trotman, Nat, "Performance, Ritual, and Multimedia in 1970s Body Art" (CUNY, A. Chave)

Veitch, Michelle, "Site-Specific Practices and Urban Regeneration: Canada from 1980 to the Present" (Queen's, Kingston, J. Helland, K. McKittrick)

Wendt, Pan, "The Group Cloth Works of James Lee Byars, Michelangelo Pistoletto, and Franz Erhard Walther, 1967–1970" (Yale, D. Joselit, C. Mehring)

Wyman, Jessica, "Absence, Object Relations, and Performance Historiography" (Queen's, Kingston, C. Robertson)