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

Drawings/Prints/Works on Paper
Dissertations Completed by Subject, 2010

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Ackerman, Ada, “Regards d’Eisenstein sur l’œuvre d’Honoré Daumier: une réception méconnue” (Université de Montréal, T. Porterfield; Université de Paris X-Nanterre, S. Le Men)

Balaschak, Chris, “Unstable Ground: Photography Books and the Modern Landscape, 1938–1975” (UC Irvine, S. Stein)

Belden-Adams, Kris, “Modern Time: Photography and Temporality” (CUNY, G. Batchen)

Chapman, Kathleen, “Expressionism Multiplied: Early Twentieth-Century German Posters between Art, Commerce, and Politics” (USC, K. Lang)

Denny, Margaret, “From Commerce to Art: American Women Photographers, 1850–1900” (UIC, P. Hales)

Fredericks, Keri, “‛Black Saturday’: Eudora Welty’s Unpublished Photographic Essay of Depression-Era Mississippi” (Florida State, R. Neuman)

Goldstein, Holly Markovitz, “American Landscapes as Revisionist History: The Frontier Photographs of Mark Klett, John Pfahl, Deborah Bright, and Robert Adams” (Boston, K. Sichel)

Hellman, Karen, “Antoine Claudet, A Figure of Photography, 1839–1867” (CUNY, G. Batchen)

Kelly, Sarah E., “Camera’s Lens and Mind’s Eye: James McNeill Whistler and the Science of Art” (Columbia, D. Rosand)

Lobis, Victoria Sancho, “Artistic Training and Print Culture in the Time of Rubens” (Columbia, D. Freedberg, D. Rosand)

May, Jessica, “Off the Clock: Walker Evans and the Crisis of American Capital, 1933–1938” (UC Berkeley, M. Lovell)

McCann, Carmen, “Status Viatoris: A New Construction of Death in Paintings by Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix and Prints of Père Lachaise Cemetery, 1815–1830” (Penn State, N. Locke)

McIntosh, Laurentia, “Maria van Oosterwyck” (Wisconsin, Madison, J. Hutchison)

Mulhearn, Kevin, “Taking Critical Positions in Contemporary South African Photography, 1967–2007” (CUNY, G. Batchen)

Peiffer, Prudence Marie, “Routine Extremism: Ad Reinhardt and Modern Art” (Harvard, Y-A. Bois, B. Buchloh, J. Roberts)

Quick, Kathy, “The Narrative Document: Lewis Hine and ‘Social Photography’” (Brown, M. Doane)

Terjesen, Lori Ann, “Collecting the Brücke: Their Prints in American Museums” (Case Western Reserve, E. Landau)

Van Scoy, Susan, “Exteriors, Interiors, and Positionality: The Photography of Tina Barney” (SUNY Stony Brook, J. Monteyne)