In order to qualify for departmental honors,
students must have a GPA of at least 3.7 in classes for the major and
have submitted a senior theses of distinction. The faculty of the
Department of Art History and Archaeology submits recommendations to the
College Committee on Honors for confirmation. Normally no more than ten
percent of the graduating majors in the department receive departmental
honors.
Taylor Walsh, CC 2008, for Context in Context: Two Photographs by Louise Lawler
Adviser: Rosalyn Deutsche
Description: Text to come.
Tina Le, CC 2008, to travel to Vietnam to study Bui Xuan Phai
Ryan Reineck, CC 2008, for travel to France to study and interview Sophie Calle
Amanda Anderson, GS 2007, for A Villanovan Hut Urn, Miniaturization and Change
Advisor: Joanna Smith
Description: Miniature spatial representations today are used to solve problems and teach lessons; to put something into a controllable scale. In archaeology these have rarely been discussed in this context. The Villanovan hut urn from the Olcott collection of Columbia University is an interesting example of scale reduction; in the context of miniaturization as a means of making something controllable, what does this indicate about the culture and community that created this item? How does the funerary context add to this? The cremated remains interred in the urn are also part of Columbia's collection and were analyzed with the urn, giving an added level to a miniature hut; unlike most miniature spatial representations this hut had an occupant.
Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, CC 2006, for Mortification: Duchamp's Etant donnés and the Fortunate Fall
Advisor: Susan Laxton.
Description: This thesis explores the relationship of Duchamp's installation (1946-1966) to a particularly pregnant constellation of bodily attitudes: shame, modesty, and exhibitionism. The thesis attempts to show how Etant donnes crystallizes a radically new concept of sexualized social relationships within the modern museum as a public space.
Andrea Herbst, CC 2003, for Perception and Reception Between Athens
and Etruria: The Imagery on Tyrrhenian Amphorae
Advisor: Clemente
Marconi.
Description: I looked at a particular class of Athenian vases known as the Tyrrhenian
amphorae, which were made between 560 and 530 B.C. There is general
agreement that these vases were made in Athens specifically for export
to Etruria, the ancient name of the area that roughly encompasses
Tuscany today. I proved that the iconographies of many of the
Tyrrhenian amphorae were altered in order to appeal specifically to the
Etruscan market. This brought up a series of issues of relating to
Athenian stereotypes of the Etruscans and how the Etruscans presented
themselves to the rest of the ancient world.
Jon Brilliant, CC 2007 "Personality Cult of Mao Zedong, from photographic portraits to propaganda posters"
Elisabeth Vastola, CC 2007 "Paul Klee and the Philosophical Child"
Karolyna Dryjanska, CC 2003, for research towards her senior
thesis on
Jacek Malczewski (1854–1929), a Polish symbolist painter
and his role as
"creator" of a nation.
Andrea Herbst, CC 2003, for research towards her senior thesis
on
Tyrrhenian amphorae and imagery, the relationship between Etruscan
consumers and their Atenian products. |
