Art and Visual Culture Theses and Dissertations

 

This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Art and Visual Culture, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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The Visual Culture of Niagara Falls: From Kitsch to Keepsake, Sonya M. de Lazzer

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ART THROUGH A DIGITAL LENS: A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF NEW MEDIAS ON THE MUSEUM, ITS WORKS, AND THE PUBLIC., Shelley Kopp

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Chthulucenic Living [and dying and composting]: Pursuing Ongoingness through Animality and Biophilia, Ashley Snook

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Confined By Darkness, Alyssa C. Sweeney

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Women, Spirit Photography & Psychical Research: Negotiating Gender Conventions and Loss, Katie Oates

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Speculative Subjectivities: Essayistic Forms and Material Bodies, Eeva Siivonen

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Remnants, Outlaws, and Wallows: Practices for Understanding Bison, Michelle Margaret Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Indisciplined Ceramic Outhouses and Blob-like Glass Bunnies: Four Case Studies on Canadian Prairie Ceramics and Glass, Julia Krueger

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To Be Me: The contingency of the body, Sepideh Tajalizadeh Dashti

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Disaster as a Framework for Social Change: Searching for new patterns across plant ecology and online networks, Christina Battle

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More than a Spasm, Less than a Sign: Queer Masculinity in American Visual Culture, 1915-1955, Thomas D. Baynes

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Rui(N)ation: Narratives of Art and Urban Revitalization in Detroit, Jessica KS Cappuccitti

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The Simultaneous Book: Women's Writing in Contemporary Art, Maryse Lariviere

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Representation of Settler Colonial Violence in Palestine, A Thesis in support of the multi-media exhibition Choreographies of Resistance, Rehab Nazzal

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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The Longest Way Round Is the Shortest Way Home, Sarah Munro

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Representing Wilderness: Community, Collaboration, and Artistic Practice, Michael J. Farnan

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Un-Natural Histories: The Specimen as Site of Knowledge Production in Contemporary Art, Helen Gregory

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Standing For Something Not Present: Contested Representations in Contemporary Art, Trista E. Mallory

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Faces of (and for) Toronto: Community-Engaged Portrait Projects in the Neoliberal City, Jennifer E. Orpana

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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The Things We Know but Cannot Explain: an Inquiry into the Nature and Significance of Artistic Knowledge as a Subset of the Larger Category of Tacit Knowledge, David Kemp

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Making Ourselves at Home: Representation, Preservation & Interpretation at Canada's House Museums, Stephanie Karen Radu

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Communicative Methodologies and Mechanisms in Public Art, Jeremy P. Jeresky

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Transformation, Transduction and Prolonged Formation, Laura E. Mitrow

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"A Painter's Brush That Also Makes Poems": Contemporary Painting After Northern Song Calligraphy, Andy J. Patton

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Relational Viewing: Affect, Trauma and the Viewer in Contemporary Autobiographical Art, Matthew Ryan Smith