The last two decades have seen the emergence and formalization of game studies as an academic discipline as well as a repeating cycle of debates over videogames legitimacy as an artistic medium. Using a speculative conceptual ...

This dissertation establishes a framework for understanding embodied experience within immersive art environments by examining artworks that deploy interdisciplinary conventions to turn attention towards spectatorship ...

French-American artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) is best known as the iconoclastic author of the readymade. In spite of the vast corpus of scholarship dedicated to his oeuvre, the artists preoccupation with clothing has ...

This dissertation investigates the date, patronage and style of King Alfonso IIs (d. 842) extant church of San Julin de los Prados in Oviedo, Spain. More specifically, I challenge traditional methods of dating the building, ...

This dissertation traces the social life of a group of Japanese ceramic objects collected by Sir William Cornelius Van Horne (18431915) in late nineteenth-century Montreal, and examines the ways in which the meaning of ...

The Gothic Revival is, without question, the most influential architectural movement to have ever come out of England. Its effects on houses, and colonial houses, in particular, however, have been little studied. Nation ...

Citizenship has emerged as a key term in recent photography theory as way to assert the critical potential of images as tools of civic engagement and political action, insisting that photographs are a forceful language ...