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
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Nuthin' Lasts, Steve deBruyn
Nonhuman Melancholy: Objects of Decay, Darkness, and the Computational Gaze, Sasha Opeiko
“We Make Things Today For Tomorrow”: Artists’ Publishing for the Future, Ruth Skinner
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
The Visual Culture of Niagara Falls: From Kitsch to Keepsake, Sonya M. de Lazzer
ART THROUGH A DIGITAL LENS: A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF NEW MEDIAS ON THE MUSEUM, ITS WORKS, AND THE PUBLIC., Shelley Kopp
Chthulucenic Living [and dying and composting]: Pursuing Ongoingness through Animality and Biophilia, Ashley Snook
Confined By Darkness, Alyssa C. Sweeney
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Women, Spirit Photography & Psychical Research: Negotiating Gender Conventions and Loss, Katie Oates
Speculative Subjectivities: Essayistic Forms and Material Bodies, Eeva Siivonen
Remnants, Outlaws, and Wallows: Practices for Understanding Bison, Michelle Margaret Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Indisciplined Ceramic Outhouses and Blob-like Glass Bunnies: Four Case Studies on Canadian Prairie Ceramics and Glass, Julia Krueger
To Be Me: The contingency of the body, Sepideh Tajalizadeh Dashti
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Disaster as a Framework for Social Change: Searching for new patterns across plant ecology and online networks, Christina Battle
More than a Spasm, Less than a Sign: Queer Masculinity in American Visual Culture, 1915-1955, Thomas D. Baynes
Rui(N)ation: Narratives of Art and Urban Revitalization in Detroit, Jessica KS Cappuccitti
The Simultaneous Book: Women's Writing in Contemporary Art, Maryse Lariviere
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The Longest Way Round Is the Shortest Way Home, Sarah Munro
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Representing Wilderness: Community, Collaboration, and Artistic Practice, Michael J. Farnan
Un-Natural Histories: The Specimen as Site of Knowledge Production in Contemporary Art, Helen Gregory
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Standing For Something Not Present: Contested Representations in Contemporary Art, Trista E. Mallory
Faces of (and for) Toronto: Community-Engaged Portrait Projects in the Neoliberal City, Jennifer E. Orpana
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Making Ourselves at Home: Representation, Preservation & Interpretation at Canada's House Museums, Stephanie Karen Radu
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Communicative Methodologies and Mechanisms in Public Art, Jeremy P. Jeresky
Transformation, Transduction and Prolonged Formation, Laura E. Mitrow
"A Painter's Brush That Also Makes Poems": Contemporary Painting After Northern Song Calligraphy, Andy J. Patton
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Relational Viewing: Affect, Trauma and the Viewer in Contemporary Autobiographical Art, Matthew Ryan Smith