Annie Tucker (Class of 2020) links Claude Monet’s La Japonaise (1876) to French Japonisme as an advertising strategy.
Art Out of Conflict
Adi Shmerling (Class of 2022) proposes an exhibition idea: art made in Mozambique and Tanzania that tells the story of socialist activism in eastern Africa.
Servants of Illusion
Eliza Browning (Class of 2022) explores how stereoscopy was featured at the 1855 Universal Exhibition in Paris, focusing on a Disdéri photograph in the Wheaton Permanent Collection.
Class and Nostalgia in Atget’s Organ Grinder and Girl (1898-99)
Natasha Coleman (Class of 2016) uses a print from the Wheaton Permanent Collection to explore Atget ‘s efforts to document a vibrant working class street culture in Paris.
The Masculine Body: Staged Suffering
Walker Downey (Class of 2013) discusses the role of pain in portrayals of the male body.
Piranesi Etches a Portal to Another Time
Emily Swalec (Class of 2014) conducts a visual analysis of an eighteenth century Piranesi etching in the Wheaton Permanent Collection.
Kollwitz and the Powerful Peasant
Oona Laurie (Class of 2013) explores the innovate printmaking techniques of artist Käthe Kollwitz.
