When Howard Manning wakes from a fainting spell to find himself hospitalized with a serious but correctable weakness in his heart, his refusal of treatment intimates a death wish that provokes consternation among the skilled medical professionals...
Large pile of wooden planks and other material sits at the end of the driveway of 4408 Winnrose Way. A red dumpster sits in the driveway. Photograph was taken in the late morning.
A black dumpster sits in the driveway of 4405 Winnrose Way with a blue car parked in front of it. Debris from the flood sits in the backyard of the neighbor's house. Photograph was taken in the late morning.
Federal Art Project; Art and social action; Politics in art
This thesis project exhibition brought together Works Progress Administration prints
from the University of Louisville collection, as well as the University of Kentucky Art
Museum and Murray State University. The thirty-three works were...
Photography--Psychological aspects; Mourning customs in art; Mourning customs in literature; Phenomenology and art
The creation of liminal spaces has been used for centuries cross-culturally to create sacred or taboo meanings in rituals, people, places, or objects. Liminality is constructed by the overlapping of cultural categories and "ruptures" an...
Psychic trauma in art; Psychoanalysis and art; Art--Psychological aspects; Salomon, Charlotte, 1917-1943. Leben oder theater?
This thesis explores the presence of the dialectic of trauma in Charlotte Salomon’s magnum opus, Life? or Theatre?, a series of more than seven hundred paintings created during her time in exile in France between 1941 and 1942. In this series,...
After a careful study of Madison Cawein's poetry, and comparing his views on religion and philosophy with those of some of the great English poets, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Tennyson and Browning, I shall summarize them as follows, and treat each...
Haute tension (Motion picture); Homosexuality in motion pictures; Horror films; Violence in motion pictures; Motion pictures--Social aspects
The film High Tension (2005) is a complex and powerfully threatening portrait of queer monstrosity and negativity. Upon its release, the film's twist ending garnered widespread derision, but there is a mad method, so to speak, in its insistence on...
Data libraries--Security measures; Computer networks--Security measures; Information storage and retrieval systems; Digital preservation
Data centers (DC) are the core of the national cyber infrastructure. With the incredible growth of critical data volumes in financial institutions, government organizations, and global companies, data centers are becoming larger and more...
Identity (Philosophical concept) in art; Museum techniques; Museum exhibits--Social aspects; Museums--Social aspects
This thesis paper expands upon the aspects of identity and power explored in the exhibition that I curated, entitled "Being & Making: Artists Investigating Identity," at the Speed Art Museum. The developments on topics of identity...
Recent advances in high throughput methodologies offer researchers the ability to understand complex systems via high dimensional and multi-relational data. One example is the realm of molecular biology where disparate data (such as gene sequence,...
Indians of North America--British Columbia; Literacy--British Columbia--Case studies
This dissertation examines the literacy practices of a group of First Nations women who live in British Columbia and whose jobs entail the production and dissemination of texts which reflect the local, Carrier, culture. In this qualitative study of...
A partially submerged car sits trapped in the flooded intersection of Third Street and Eastern Parkway under the Southern Railroad overpass. The Reynolds Building, also known as Reynolds Lofts, can be seen in the background. Photograph was taken in...
Floods--Kentucky--Louisville; Floods; Interiors; University of Louisville--Buildings; Stairways; Sculpture
View of the flooded south wing atrium of the University of Louisville College of Business. What appears to be a Gallopalooza horse sits in front of the Reinhardt Academic Center.
A woman spinning wool with a great wheel or "walking wheel" in front of a wooden house with a large stone chimney in Harlan County, Kentucky. A young woman with a baby on her lap sits in a chair next to the spinning wheel. A man sits on...
Jacob "Jake" West holds a young child. Joseph Hignite stands beside Jake and a tar kiln sits over an unlit fire pit nearby. Behind them, Polly West sits on the porch of the Wests' cabin and an unidentified man sits in the shade near the...
Government facilities; Buildings; United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.); United States. Congress. House; Memorial rites & ceremonies; McKinley, William, 1843-1901
United States Capitol chamber filled with people during a eulogy for President William McKinley. The desks on the floor, the mounted desk, and the galleries above are full. Title: (6)-8961-A tribute to McKinley's memory-Secretary Hay's eulogy...
