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

Africa
Dissertations Completed by Subject, 2016

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Beck Cohen, Stephanie, “The Visual Nation: Exhibition, Quilting, and Cultural Diplomacy in Liberia, 1847–2015” (Indiana, P. McNaughton)

Colard, Sandrine, “Photography in the Colonial Congo, 1885–1960” (Columbia, Z. Strother)

Kirkwood, Meghan L.E., “The Representation of Landscape in Contemporary South African Photography” (Florida, V. Rovine)

Schade, Jill Baskin, “Picturing Freedom’s Shores: The Visual Culture of Liberian Colonization, 1821–1861” (Virginia, L. Nelson)

Sheldon, Brittany, “Visualizing Culture: Women’s Artistry in Northeastern Ghana and Southern Burkina Faso” (Indiana, P. McNaughton)

Sims, Theresa, “Unfinished Bodies: The Figurative Object in Southeast Africa, 1860–1920” (Harvard, S. Blier)

Teriba, Adedoyin, “Afro-Brazilian Architecture in Southwest Colonial Nigeria (1890s–1940s)” (Princeton, E. da Costa Meyer)

Windmuller-Luna, Kristen, “Building Faith: Ethiopian Art and Architecture during the Jesuit Interlude, 1557–1632” (Princeton, C. Okeke-Agulu)