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  • A Golden Artist: Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt’s Life and Art During the Stonewall Era

    Document thumbnail: A Golden Artist: Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt’s Life and Art During the Stonewall Era
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    This paper explores queer artist Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt (b. 1948) and his piece titled Allegory of the Stonewall Riot (Statue of Liberty Fighting for Drag Queen, Husband, and Home) (1969). I take a biographical approach to the paper, dissecting Lanigan-Schmidt’s childhood and young adult life living as a queer street kid in the 1960s. I follow him to New York City, where he continued creating his kitsch style art and started getting recognized for it. Outside of his artistic endeavors, Lanigan-Schmidt would catch himself hanging out at The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar on Christopher Street. In the early hours of June 28, 1969, The Stonewall Inn was unexpectedly raided by the police. At a time when being queer was criminalized, the patrons of Stonewall had had enough and fought back against the police, sparking a riot that turned into a weeks-long protest. Lanigan-Schmidt was in attendance that night and joined the fight for gay liberation. It was this night that inspired his creation, Allegory of the Stonewall Riot (Statue of Liberty Fighting for Drag Queen, Husband, and Home). By analyzing the contextual importance of The Stonewall Inn and the riots that ensued, I show how Allegory of the Stonewall Riot reflects queer life in the 1960s. In the art historical canon, queer art is largely underrepresented. However, in this paper I show how Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt and Allegory of the Stonewall Riot deserve a place in the art historical canon
    Creator/Author:
    Turner, Lauren
    Submitter:
    Lauren Turner
    Date Uploaded:
    04/27/2026
    Date Modified:
    04/28/2026
    Date Created:
    2026-04-27
    License:
    CC0 1.0 Universal

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    Creator/Author:
    Platts, Christopher
    Submitter:
    Christopher Platts
    Date Uploaded:
    04/27/2026
    Date Modified:
    04/27/2026
    Date Created:
    2026
    License:
    CC0 1.0 Universal

  • Ethical Implications in Marina Abramović’s "Rhythm 0"

    Student Work thumbnail: Ethical Implications in Marina Abramović’s "Rhythm 0"
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    Student Work
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    “In my opinion, wherever there is a public, there is a sacred place. When there is no public, there is no performance because there is no dialogue,” claimed Marina Abramović (b. 1946) in conversation with Italian art critic and contemporary art historian Achille Bonito Oliva. For Abramović, the presence of an audience is constitutive to performance. Performance art has frequently been defined by its provocative impulse, functioning as a responsive and unstable form that artists have turned to when engaging with political, cultural, or social pressures, and when seeking to unsettle the conventions of more established artistic disciplines. These sentiments are conveyed by her first performance works, The Rhythm Series (1973-1974). Over the course of two years, she completed five separate performances that explored the physical limits of the body and the relationship between performer and audience. Abramović performed Rhythm 0 (1974), the fifth and final work, at the gallery Studio Morra in Naples, Italy, from 8 pm to 2 am. She placed seventy-two objects on a table that could cause the human body extreme pleasure or pain, including but not limited to objects like a comb, lipstick, paint, a feather, a bone of lamb, cake, and a gun. Instructions posted on the wall declared: “I am the object. During this period I take full responsibility.” This experiment used the art space to expose what audiences are capable of when social inhibition is suspended and moral responsibility is left unguided. This paper asks, in her performance Rhythm 0, how does Abramović's deliberate surrender of bodily agency transforms the audience from passive observers into ethically implicated subjects, forcing an intersubjective encounter with the artist that exposes unconventional, if not revolutionary, social conditions governing the art space?
    Creator/Author:
    Penix, Sadie
    Submitter:
    Sadie Penix
    Date Uploaded:
    04/26/2026
    Date Modified:
    04/30/2026
    Date Created:
    2026-04
    License:
    CC0 1.0 Universal

  • Ethical Implications in Marina Abramović’s "Rhythm 0"

    Document thumbnail: Ethical Implications in Marina Abramović’s "Rhythm 0"
    Type:
    Document
    Description/Abstract:
    “In my opinion, wherever there is a public, there is a sacred place. When there is no public, there is no performance because there is no dialogue,” claimed Marina Abramović (b. 1946) in conversation with Italian art critic and contemporary art historian Achille Bonito Oliva. For Abramović, the presence of an audience is constitutive to performance. Performance art has frequently been defined by its provocative impulse, functioning as a responsive and unstable form that artists have turned to when engaging with political, cultural, or social pressures, and when seeking to unsettle the conventions of more established artistic disciplines. These sentiments are conveyed by her first performance works, The Rhythm Series (1973-1974). Over the course of two years, she completed five separate performances that explored the physical limits of the body and the relationship between performer and audience. Abramović performed Rhythm 0 (1974), the fifth and final work, at the gallery Studio Morra in Naples, Italy, from 8 pm to 2 am. She placed seventy-two objects on a table that could cause the human body extreme pleasure or pain, including but not limited to objects like a comb, lipstick, paint, a feather, a bone of lamb, cake, and a gun. Instructions posted on the wall declared: “I am the object. During this period I take full responsibility.” This experiment used the art space to expose what audiences are capable of when social inhibition is suspended and moral responsibility is left unguided. This paper asks, in her performance Rhythm 0, how does Abramović's deliberate surrender of bodily agency transforms the audience from passive observers into ethically implicated subjects, forcing an intersubjective encounter with the artist that exposes unconventional, if not revolutionary, social conditions governing the art space?
    Creator/Author:
    Penix, Sadie
    Submitter:
    Sadie Penix
    Date Uploaded:
    04/26/2026
    Date Modified:
    04/27/2026
    Date Created:
    2026-04
    License:
    CC0 1.0 Universal

  • Dancing with the Devil: Salvator Rosa’s Manifestations of Witchcraft in Seventeenth Century Italy

    Student Work thumbnail: Dancing with the Devil: Salvator Rosa’s Manifestations of Witchcraft in Seventeenth Century Italy
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    Student Work
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    Throughout the seventeenth century, ideas of the occult and mystique of witchcraft consumed public interest in artistic circles in Florence, Italy. Salvator Rosa (1615-1673), an Italian artist from Naples, participated in this movement from 1640 until his death. As interests in the occult heightened during his time in Florence, he participated in suspicions of witchcraft through his Scenes of Witchcraft (1645-1649). Located at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the series consists of four tondi, each portraying a witch with harrowing spectators at different times of the day. However, to ensure his esteemed prominence, he returned to Rome and produced religious works. The macabre interests that captivated Rosa in Scenes of Witchcraft (1645-49) became a vehicle of undermining the church through The Shade of Samuel Appears to Saul (1668) when the artist returned to Rome. In this paper I propose that through shared iconography, The Shade of Samuel Appears to Saul is a painting of witchcraft, and serves to undermine the authority of the church. Witches or other necromancing subjects were accepted solely to elevate the morality of biblical characters. By giving the witch of Endor agency, Rosa is offering an alternative subject that serves to rival the power of God.
    Creator/Author:
    Banks, Claire
    Submitter:
    Claire Banks
    Date Uploaded:
    04/26/2026
    Date Modified:
    04/26/2026
    Date Created:
    April 26, 2026
    License:
    CC0 1.0 Universal

  • The Language of the Self: Rejecting the Surrealist focus on Psychoanalysis in Leonora Carrington’s Self-Portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse)

    Article thumbnail: The Language of the Self: Rejecting the Surrealist focus on Psychoanalysis in Leonora Carrington’s Self-Portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse)
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    Article
    Description/Abstract:
    This project will explore the artist Leonora Carrington’s Self-portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse, ca. 1937-38) and its relationship to and rejection of the male-centric, sexist ideology of psychoanalysis that governed the Surrealist movement. As outlined in Andre Breton's First Manifesto of Surrealism (1924), Freudian psychoanalysis had a great influence on Breton, the movement's founder (1896-1966). He believed in Freud's tenets and theories regarding dreams and the unconscious as a liberating and radical force that could tear down society’s systems of oppression. Yet there is a willful ignorance in Breton’s philosophy on the deep-rooted misogyny of Freud’s psychology and how the institution of psychoanalysis ignores the realities of female development and existence within inherently sexist societal structures of that period. However, Leonora Carrington rejected psychoanalytic theory as it pertained to her art. She refused to be categorized within sexist ideologies and asserted herself as a creative artist with her own interpretations of her work, positing her own ideologies in the process. She demonstrated her identity through her work and found liberation by developing her own feminist consciousness. Through researching Carrington's work, I want to expand on her ability to challenge the sexist paradigms of Surrealism and to reaffirm how her rejection demonstrates that female nonconformity is not only revolutionary but also necessary for female artistic freedom today. Other scholars have delved into this driving aspect of Carrington’s work but I will be utilizing Helene Cixous’ concept of “ecritutre feminine” in order to demonstrate how Carrington developed a “pictorial language” of her own within her work Self-Portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse). I will use Cixous’ seminal work, "The Laugh of the Medusa," to expand on this idea and how Carrington developed that language, constituted of her own personal symbols, which is on full display in her self-portrait.
    Creator/Author:
    Morriss, Ella
    Submitter:
    Ella Morriss
    Date Uploaded:
    04/26/2026
    Date Modified:
    04/26/2026
    Date Created:
    2026-04-27
    License:
    CC0 1.0 Universal

  • SAMPLE

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    SAMPLE
    Creator/Author:
    Rose, Emma
    Submitter:
    Emma Rose
    Date Uploaded:
    04/26/2026
    Date Modified:
    04/26/2026
    Date Created:
    April 26, 2026
    License:
    CC0 1.0 Universal

  • Globalization of The Adoration: Pilgrimage, Trade, and Shifting Perspectives within The Master of the Legend of Saint Lucy’s 'Adoration of the Magi' (c. 1480-85)

    Document thumbnail: Globalization of The Adoration: Pilgrimage, Trade, and Shifting Perspectives within The Master of the Legend of Saint Lucy’s 'Adoration of the Magi' (c. 1480-85)
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    By considering various depictions of the Adoration of the Magi between 1400 to 1485, I establish that the portrayal of the Magus within The Master of the Legend of Saint Lucy’s painting directly reflects the economic realities in Bruges throughout the same period. In turn, my close examination of marketplace standards alongside themes of pilgrimage, shifting racial ideals, and a growing interest in secular subjects, offers new insight into 15th century adaptations of the Adoration.
    Creator/Author:
    Wells, Maiana
    Submitter:
    Maiana Wells
    Date Uploaded:
    04/29/2025
    Date Modified:
    04/29/2025
    Date Created:
    2025-04-30
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    All rights reserved

  • 'Keeping Up Appearances' DAAPworks Poster

    Image thumbnail: 'Keeping Up Appearances' DAAPworks Poster
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    Description/Abstract:
    Poster for Senior Seminar paper.
    Creator/Author:
    Reisser, Kristopher
    Submitter:
    Kristopher Reisser
    Date Uploaded:
    04/29/2025
    Date Modified:
    04/29/2025
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

  • Keeping Up Appearances: A Lacanian Perspective on American Mythmaking in Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ 'The Puritan' (1886)

    Document thumbnail: Keeping Up Appearances: A Lacanian Perspective on American Mythmaking in Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ 'The Puritan' (1886)
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    Beneath the severe bronze of Saint-Gaudens' 'The Puritan' (1886) lies a fracture in an American myth. This paper reads the statue through the Lacanian concept of the Name-of-the-Father, revealing a national fantasy subtly unraveling at its seams. What at first conveys ancestral virtue is exposed as a compensatory myth-- an Imaginary projection built atop repression. Through patronage, iconography, and psychoanalysis, this study brings to light the scaffolding of Gilded Age mythmaking.
    Creator/Author:
    Reisser, Kristopher
    Submitter:
    Kristopher Reisser
    Date Uploaded:
    04/29/2025
    Date Modified:
    04/29/2025
    License:
    All rights reserved