Enfilade

With topics ranging from the colonial Enlightenment (Gabrillea De la Rosa) to eighteenth-century China (Yun-Chiu Mei), art history dissertations completed in Canada and the United States in 2008 offer an array of intriguing titles. The College Art Association’s tally at caa.reviews lists eight completed dissertations in the eighteenth century, including:

• Anne-Louise Fonseca, “Pedro Alexandrino de Carvalho (1729–1810) et la peinture d’histoire à Lisbonne: cycles religieux et cycles profanes” (Université de Montréal, L. de Moura Sobral)

• Hope Saska, “Staging the Page: Graphic Satire and Caricature in Eighteenth-Century England” (Brown, K. D. Kriz)

• Kristel Smentek, “Art, Commerce, and Scholarship in the Age of Enlightenment: Pierre-Jean Mariette and the Making of Art History” (Delaware, N. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer)

• Pamela Whedon, “Sensing Watteau: The Artist’s Musical Images as Preludes to the Age of Sensibility” (UNC Chapel Hill, M. Sheriff)

CAA likewise, provides an account of dissertations in progress. For 2008 there were twelve, including:

• Amber Ludwig, “‘She is all Nature, and yet all Art’: Portraits of Emma Hamilton” (Boston, B. Redford)

• Molly Medakovich, “Between Friends: Representations of Female Intimacies in French Genre Paintings and Prints, 1770–1830” (UNC Chapel Hill, M. Sheriff)

For the full lists, see the caa.reviews site.