Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The Retrospection and Prospection of Contemporary Feminist Art in China, Li Hou
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Value of NFTs in the Digital Art sector and Its Market Research, Su Yeon Jeong
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NFT — Friend or Foe of Today’s Art Market?, Anna Maria LaGuardia
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The Influence of Zen on Contemporary Aesthetics in Decorative Arts and Interior Design, Ronit Lee
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Why Be a Great Women Artist When You Could Be Spectacular: The Study of Women Old Masters in the Art History Canon Through Art Market Bias, Zoë Mahler
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Risk Management for Small and Mid-Sized Contemporary Art Galleries in the United States, Lauren Pappas
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Bertha Palmer and Anna Wintour: How Does Private Patronage Impact Identity-Building within Cultural Institutions?, Marie Redetzki
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More Than Just Middlemen: The Legacy and Influence of Art Dealers Joseph Duveen, Peggy Guggenheim and Leo Castelli on Shaping Art Collections, Valencia Tong
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An Analysis of Immersive Art Experiences, Adele Whitmyer
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Operationalizing Anti-Racist Curatorial Strategies in Early American Collections: An Appraisal of the Brooklyn Museum’s 2020 Re-Installation of Three American Galleries, Melly Wirtes
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Yokai Ukiyo-e: ExploringAesthetics of Monsters in Japanese Ukiyo-e, Ranshanzi Xiao
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The Role of Art Hotels in the Art Ecosystem, Nicola Ziman
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Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The Art of Healing: The effects and importance of art in hospitals and clinical settings, Olivia Adamaitis
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Analysis of the Relation Between Trauma and Art as a Result of Context and Purpose with The Holocaust as a Subject Matter, Robert Bandeen
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Threading the Future : Contemporary fiber in the global, Erin Choi
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Hilma af Klint's Divine Commission, Paintings for the Temple : Modern western esotericism embodied and art historical norms redfined, Hilary Cianciolo
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Helen Frankenthaler : The calculus for gender neutrality within the post abstractionist color field movement, Aelxandra H. Dodge
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Appalling Aftermath : The idealization of sympathy in battle paintings of the Great Siege of Gibraltar, Sean F. Galvin
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De-Orientalizing Classical Ballet in the Twenty-First Century, Pamela Gendron
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On the Fluidity of Honey and Fugitivity of Sound in Trauma, Ecstasy, and Black Radical Tradition, Evgenia Grant
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The Reckoning that Seized Museums from The Aesthetic : How novel iterations of anti-neutrality activism condemned institutionalized white supremacy while misconstrued as cancel culture, Emily Griffin
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Thoughts around the Psychological Attributes of Fascist Aesthetics, Carolina Mimi King
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Re-thinking Risk Management of Auction House Guarantees and Third-Party Irrevocable Bids, Nathan Krasnick
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For Those in Peril on the Sea : The motivations of nineteenth century European artists to create shipwreck paintings, Calvin Liepins
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Radical Queer Gazes : How lesbian and nonbinary contemporary photographers are destabilizing the male gaze, Eliza McDonough
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Role of Art in International Relations : Analysis of the key operational patterns on the example of French cultural cluster, Maria Meshcherskaya
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How Fat-Positive Art Asserts Validity in the Face of Social Erasure, Humiliation & Objectification of the Fat Female Nude, Elizabeth Powell
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Collectors Beware: A glimpse into the high-risk, high-reward world of antiquities and its dark underbelly, Claire M. Purcell
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Business Interrupted : COVID-19 and its impact on auction houses, Carolina Sagardoy
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The Reemergence of Celebrity Imagery in Twenty-First Century Art, Maria Olsson Skalin
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Relational Accountability in the Art Business : A study of ethics, Theodore Soliman
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The Old Masters Market and the Salvator Mundi: What did it do, what can be done?, Mary Sullivan
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The Art of Marketing Luxury, Aiho Tan
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Terrible Beauty : The many faces of Helen of Troy in painting from antiquity to the nineteenth century, Lindsay M. Taylor
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“Whose Utopia?” Kimsooja & Bottari Utopia, Younghee Kim Wait
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The Crown Jewel of Divinity : Examining how a coronation crown transforms the virgin into the queen, Sara Sims Wilbanks
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Reappraising the Rococo : The enduring relevance of eighteenth-century French painting, Emma M. Woodberry
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From Spectacle to Collectible : A reappraisal of Katherine Dreier and Juliana Force's pioneering impact to bolster the ascendancy of Modern Art in America, Caroline Holt Yarbrough
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The Development of the Jewelry Industry under the Patronage of the Russian Imperial Court in the XIX-XX Centuries, Julia Zubko
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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Evolving Ethics: Deaccessioning from Museum Collections in the Twenty-First Century, Julia Baker
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Story of Twin Cities, Who Will be the Next Storm Center of Art Fairs?, Rui Bian
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Museum Websites and Restitution: Rediscovering Holocaust-Era Objects in the Digital Age, Gabriella Bloom
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Small, Yet Mighty: The Influence of a Famous Figure Provenance on Commonplace Objects in Single Owner Sales, Shannon Brown
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Private Art Museum backed by Hong Kong Invetment - Wan Fung Art Musem as an Example, Yiye Chen
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The Demand for Women Who Painted: Recent Art Market Trends for Female Artists of the Premodern Era, Cristina Demiany
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Digitization of Future Art Market through Blockchain Technology, Yuan Fang
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The Celebrity Factor: An Evaluation of the Effect Celebrity Provenance at Auction, Danielle Gray
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Land Art : True Capitalist Art, Annie Gustafsson
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Contemporary Methods of Preserving Land Art: A Case Study of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, Samara Johnson
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Artist Frames: A Lost History Tracking the Innovations of Discarded Visions, Isabella Leokadia Kapczynski
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Study of Dansaekhwa’s Identity through Analysis of its Criticisms, Ji Hyun Kim
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The Role of the Curator in Curated Auctions, through the Lens of Sotheby’s Examples, Elizaveta Klimko
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A Study on the Commercial Promotion Mode of Contemporary Young Artists in China Taking Art Nova 100 as an Example, Han Le
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Development and Brand Management of Chinese Contemporary Furniture in the Twenty-first Century, Jiaying Li
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teamLab Research, Chinchen Liu
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What Made Vincent Van Gogh a Great Artist?, Yuanting Lu
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Double-edged Experiences and Their Impact on the Twenty-First-Century Audience: The Ever-Evolving Museum, Ana Sanz Menchero
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AMRITA SHER-GIL: Painting Beyond Boundaries, Rupi Sood
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History and International Market for Russian Avant-Garde Art, Ekaterina Tsareva
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From Micro to Marco: Jade Snuff Bottles in Qianlong Era, Jinpeng Wang
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The Artistic Merit and Market Price of Bosch’s Paintings, Xiaoou Wang
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Chinese Audience’ Perception and Interests in Western Modern Arts, Xuewei Wang
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The Explosion Development of Chinese Contemporary Art Market from 2000 to 2015, Yaning Wang
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The Role of Independent Curators in the Contemporary Art Exhibitions, Yiru Wang
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Research on the Operation and Management of Foreign-funded Galleries and Local Galleries in China, Yumeng Wu
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The Gallery Industry in China – A Study, Ziwei Xia
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Why Visual Art Could Train Brains in Leadership, and How, Qiao Ye
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UBS Corporate Art Collection Study, Chongwei Yi
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Market Value Analysis of Takashi Murakami's Artwork Under Howard Becker's theory, Liu Yi-Ding
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No Words: A Three-part Analysis of Xu Bing’s Book from the Sky, Zheng Yuan
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Theses/Dissertations from 2018
For the Sake of Art: The Intersection Between Animal Rights and Freedom of Speech, Joelle Araujo
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How Do You Depict the Life of a Soul?: Word and Text in and as Image in Soviet Nonconformist Art, Matthew Blong
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Moral Rights: The Economic Ramifications of Moral Rights Under VARA in the U.S., Akilah Chandler
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Comparative analysis on a corporate sponsorship for art museums in Korea and the United States, Hayoung Chung
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Chuck Close: The Cost of Behaving Badly, and #Metoo, Rebecca Cohen-Homapour
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The Glass Ceiling: Female Artists' Gallery Representation in the New Millennium and a History of Imbalance, Caroline Currier
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From the Academy to the Marketplace: An analysis of New York and London Fine Art Schools' Responses to the Market in Pedagogy and Curricula, Adelaide Dunn
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Diversity and Inclusion in Art Museum Board of Governance: Does The Boardroom Reflect the Community?, Margaret Farrell
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Phenomenal Encounters: Perception as Medium in Art from Minimalism to the New Millennium, Ella Froelich
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Current Issues in the Conservation of Contemporary Art and its Non-traditional Materials, Sandra Hong
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Modern and Contemporary Female Expressions in the Islamic Art World, Zahra R. Karimi
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Old Dog, New Tricks: Incentivizing price data disclosure in private art market sales, Eliza G. King
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Behind the Scenes: The Role of Visual Art in Prestige Television, Lauren Lichtenberg
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Museum Provenance and its Financial Impact: The Analysis of Museum Deaccessioning and the Value of Art, Kwoung jin Maeng
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Hybridity, Subversion & Anthropophagy: Revisiting Colonial History in Brazilian Contemporary Art, Maria Eduardo Dittmar Silveira Nonato
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High or Low? The Value of Transitional Paintings by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko, Monica Peacock
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Mistreating a Cultural Symbol: How We Are Failing Museums, Wonder Woman, and Everything in Between, Brandon Reis
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Marketing Artists in the Digital Age, Victoria Rutledge
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The Rococo Revival in Contemporary Porcelain, Ariel Senackerib
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Giuseppe Panza as Curator: New Methods of Display, Francesca Serraino
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The "Whys" of the Grand Cameo: A Holistic Approach to Understanding the Piece, its Origins and its Context, Constantine Prince Sidamon-Eristoff
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French Wallpaper Decors: Papiers Peints in Homes of the American South, Christine Speare
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Protest of Controversial Art in New York City Museums in 2017-2018: Reactions, Responses, and Legal/Ethical Obligations of Museums in the Age of #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, and Activism on the Internet., Isabel Telonis
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Theses/Dissertations from 2017
We Were There, We Are Here: Queer Collections and Their Repositories and Legacies, Alexandria Deters
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The Capitalist-Marxist Dichotomy within the Hudson River School: Conceptualizing American Property through the Career of Worthington Whittredge (1820-1910), Astrid Tvetenstrand
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Theses/Dissertations from 2011
An Investigation into How Greater financial Stability Can Be Achieved for Portugal’s National Museums Under Management of The Portuguese Institute of Museums and Conservation (IMC), Luis Ramos Pinto
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