Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of Art, Stanford University. / Bibliography: leaves 291-311.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles--Art History. / Typescript (photocopy). Vita. Catalogue of the sacral-idyllic paintings: leaves 74-278. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-73).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles--Art History. / Typescript (photocopy). Vita. Catalogue of the sacral-idyllic paintings: leaves 74-278. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-73).

This diploma work is virtually focused on the landscape-painting. The presented painting cycle reflects the temporal variations of landscape. It provides a transcription of emotional experiences and feelings arising from an intimate communication with a certain landscape spot. The changes in time are demonstrated via a repeating motif, which enables to follow the colour variability of the nature and the surrounding atmosphere. Photos attached to the work display the landscape variations in the durations of two years. The regular observations of two tree motives result in a cycle of nine paintings, which can be further divided into three series. The theoretical part of the diploma work clarifies its principal idea. It explains motivations, inspiration resources and circumstances leading to the completing the painting cycle. The attention is also paid to the landscape-painting as a genre art and selected artists, those creations were inspired by the close touch of the nature.

O presente estudo trata da linguagem pictórica do artista plástico Mario Zanini (1907-1971), tomando como referência suas leituras dedicadas à temática da paisagem. Norteia os esforços desta investigação a seguinte questão: será possível reconhecer os paralelos entre a produção pictórica de Zanini e as discussões sobre a questão da paisagem apresentada em sua biblioteca particular? Na busca por uma resposta, foram selecionados três livros (Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh e André Lhote) que compõem a Biblioteca particular de Mario Zanini, formada entre as décadas de 1930 e 1970, e posteriormente doada ao MAC USP, em conjunto com obras produzidas pelo artista. Este estudo também apresenta dois críticos que escolheram Mario Zanini como foco de suas pesquisas: Alice Brill e Walter Zanini. Ao final, o leitor encontrará a listagem com os títulos dos 226 livros da Biblioteca de Mario Zanini, ordenados pela data de publicação. / The research deals with the pictorial language and the landscape paintings of the Brazilian artist Mario Zanini (1907-1971), and the connections with his private Library, constituted between 1930 and 1970, and later donated by his family to MAC USP, along with his artworks. The study traces the parallels between his artworks and his pictorial language, through three books of his Library (Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh and André Lhote). The study is also based on the analysis of the art critics Walter Zanini and Alice Brill. Nevertheless, the total set of 226 books of his personal Library and their identifications are listed at the end of the thesis, sorted by date of publication.

Focusing on a period roughly from 1865 to 1900, this dissertation utilizes close readings of paintings, illustrations, photographs, and other material culture to provide a lens on the rapid political and cultural transformation of the final decades of the Kingdom of Hawai‘i. Visual culture played a key role as a coercive tool as postbellum planters and industrialists who eyed Hawai‘i as the first Pacific outpost in an overseas American empire developed a colonial rhetoric that obscured Native authority and visibility and touted the “inevitable” extinction of the Hawaiian race. However, many images from this period which appear to illustrate Hawai‘i’s docility in the face of American supremacy do not fall as neatly into this simple interpretative framework as we might initially assume. For instance, this project observes how figures such as Queen Emma and King David Kalākaua refused to accept the threat to their sovereignty as they themselves leveraged visual culture in resistance to American imperialism. Chapter One analyzes photographs of Queen Emma as reflections on both Victorian mourning culture and Emma’s political ascendency from 1865-1885. Chapter Two explores paintings of early Maui sugar plantations by Enoch Wood Perry, Gideon Jacques Denny, and Joseph Dwight Strong as lenses on questions of slavery, Asian contract labor, and annexation. Chapter Three provides a close reading of the anti-annexation critique in Mabel Clare Craft’s illustrated book Hawaii Nei alongside the visual and literary production of other women who depicted Hawai‘i in the years surrounding annexation. Chapter Four jumps to the mid-20th century as it examines the painted portraits of late nineteenth-century Hawaiian royalty created by Fredda Burwell Holt alongside key works of literature by her husband, John Dominis Holt, a leading voice of the “Hawaiian Renaissance” that emerged in the 1960s following the resolution of Hawaiian statehood. Overall, this dissertation embraces its case studies as necessarily multivalent and open-ended as it resists the tendency to craft a narrative in which primitive indigeneity meekly yielded to the unstoppable barrage of American imperial pressure. Together, these chapters navigate a material landscape of nineteenth-century Hawai‘i that was layered with imperial control as well as opposition.

This dissertation is the first monographic study of the monk-calligrapher Yishan Yining (1247-1317), who was sent to Japan in 1299 as an imperial envoy by Emperor Chengzong (Temur, 1265-1307. r. 1294-1307), and achieved unprecedented success there. Through careful visual analysis of his extant oeuvre, this study situates Yishan’s calligraphy synchronically in the context of Chinese and Japanese calligraphy at the turn of the 14th century and diachronically in the history of the relationship between calligraphy and Buddhism. This study also examines Yishan’s prolific inscriptional practice, in particular the relationship between text and image, and its connection to the rise of ink monochrome landscape painting genre in 14th century Japan. This study fills a gap in the history of Chinese calligraphy, from which monk-calligraphers and their practices have received little attention. It also contributes to existing Japanese scholarship on bokuseki by relating Zen calligraphy to religious and political currents in Kamakura Japan. Furthermore, this study questions the validity of the “China influences Japan” model in the history of calligraphy and proposes a more fluid and nuanced model of synthesis between the wa and the kan (Japanese and Chinese) in examining cultural practices in East Asian culture.

The Landscape painting in Prague 1840-1890: Presentation and reflection of landscape painting at the Art Union exhibitions. PhD thesis by PhDr. Lucie Vlčková Supervisor: Prof. PhDr. Roman Prahl ABSTRACT: The present thesis summarizes the results of the research project focused on the history of ladscape painting and its presentation at the annual exhibitions of the Art Union in Bohemia ("Krasoumná jednota") from 1840 to 1890, the period of a critical significance for evolution of the genre and establishing the aesthetical and ideological schemes characteristic for the Czech landscape painting of the 19th Century. The landscape painting was a respectufull and popular branch already from the beginning of the respective period, yet since then it grew into a leading source of aesthetic innovations and dominant component of the exhibitions and art trade. The 1840-1890 period begun with the establishing Max Hushofer's landscape class at the Prague Academy of Arts and terminates with close contacts with impressionists. For local landscape painting it brought not only the dramatic rearrangements of aesthetical frameworks but also the subsequent establishment of the standard cliches and themes which further accompanied Czech landscape painting until present. Although the history of the Czech landscape painting of...

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