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he Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History is a student-run annual publication that aims to showcase the talentsof Concordia University’s

undergraduate Art History and Fine Arts students. CUJAH is composed of an executive committee of editors, copy editors,

feature writers, and is assisted by faculty members in the

Department of Art History.

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

CUJAH VOLUME X TEAM BIOGRAPHIES

REBEL ROCKET ATTACK, BANKSY, 2013 OU COMMENT RENDRE IDEOLOGIQUE LA MORT DE DUMBO L’ELEPHANT Written by Catherine Bergeron

A MODERN FILM IN SERACH OF A MODERN SOUNDWritten by Luke Quin

URBAN ARCHEOLOGY: MONTREAL’S EMPRESS THEATRE AND DISCOVERING ITS CONNECTION WITH THE TEMPLE OF HORUS AT EDFUWritten by Catriona Schwartz

SITE-SPECIFICITY AND ART VIEWERSHIP: EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP OF SPACE TO THE ARTWORK OF AARON DOUGLASWritten by Kris Miller

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LIFE IS BUT A DREAM: REVISITING THE MARITIME CHARACTER OF EILEEN GRAY’S E1027Written by Laura O’Brien

A CLOSE LOOK AT THE STUDIOLO OF ISABELLA D’ESTEWritten by Samantha Wexler

THE SATURDAY EVENING GIRLS: ART AS A TOOL FOR SOCIAL IMPROVEMENT IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY BOSTONWritten by Johanne Durocher Norchet

NARCO-WARS & DEATH: THE LATIN AMERICAN ARTIST’S RESPONSEWritten by Vikki Bras

KENT MONMAN’S TRAPPERS OF MEN: (DE/RE)CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY, GENDER AND SEXUALITYWritten by Daniel Saenz

THE HOMOSEXUAL AND STATE REPRESSION IN THE RISE OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM: RUPTURING THE DISCURSIVE FRAMEWORK OF PROVENANCE RESEARCHWritten by Clinton Glenn and Braden Scott

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our Co-Coordinators Clinton Glenn and Claude W. Bock, our Graduate Advisor Erika Ashley Couto, and Dr. Alice Jim, whose help and support throughout the conference weekend was as always invaluable. I would also like to congratulate Alice Zhang on the beautiful design and illustrations of our print edition, and express my gratitude to Samantha Wexler for agreeing to serve as CUJAH’s de facto publicity designer. Another word of thanks goes to Dr. Cynthia Hammond, Dr. Kristina Huneault, and Dr. Steven Stowell for agreeing to work with CUJAH in preparing our first workshop series; to Dr. Anna Waclawek for serving as supervisor of our activities; to Dr. Kristina Huneault and Dr. Catherine MacKenzie for their advice on art historical writing and editing over the past two years; and to Katrina Caruso, CUJAH’s former Editor-in-Chief, for the groundwork she laid last year, and her continued support this year.

Finally, I would also like to extend my gratitude on behalf of CUJAH to the Concordia University Alumni Association, the Concordia Council on Student Life, the Concordia University Small Grants Program, the Department of Art History, the Fine Arts Student Association, and most importantly, the students of Concordia’s Faculty of Fine Arts, for their financial support and continued faith in CUJAH’s activities. I sincerely hope that this journal proves worthy of your confidence.

Without all of your support and contributions, we would not be here today.

Congratulations.

Sincerely,

Katerina Korola

Editor-in-ChiefConcordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History

“Language,” says W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz, “may be regarded as an old city full of streets and squares, nooks and crannies, with some quarters dating from far back into time while others have been torn down, cleaned up, and rebuilt, with suburbs reaching further into the surrounding country.”1 In preparing this volume for publication, Austerlitz’s words were never far from mind, and the essays included herein can be considered along similar lines. All have undergone transformation over the past few months, and to recognize this transformation is to recognize the commitment of the authors and editors whose hard work, criticality, and perseverance has made possible this tenth edition of the Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History. I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank each one of them, and celebrate the result of their efforts. Your talent, passion, and dedication is what has made CUJAH the publication it is today, and I am confident that it will lead all of you to great achievements as you continue on your personal and professional journeys.

Each moment of CUJAH has been a challenge, but one which each of you, your enthusiasm and application, has made worthwhile. As we’ve learned over the past months, all good writing is a process and journey. It is, at times, frustrating and exhausting—but it is also rewarding. For my part, I am honoured to have worked with each of you (authors and editors) in this process, and am proud of what we have managed to build together.

Yet impressive an achievement this volume is, as Editor-in-Chief I cannot help but be conscious of the ways in which it fails to adequately represent the efforts of CUJAH’s team, constituents, and advisors throughout the year. As a corrective, I would like to take this moment to applaud all those who helped bring the activities of a particularly ambitious year into fruition. A heartfelt thanks in particular all those who worked on, presented at, and participated in the first CUJAH Undergraduate Art History Conference, especially1W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz, trans. Anthea Bell (New York: Random House, 2001), 124.

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T E A MC O P Y E D I T O R S

Johanne Durocher NorchetKaren LeeLauren Toutikian

ONLINE FEATURE W R I T E R S

Leyla GokaAshley Ornawka

Lauren Toutikian

C O N F E R E N C E C O M M I T T E EKaterina KorolaClinton Glenn (External Coordinator)Claude W. Bock (Internal Coordinator)Erika Ashley Couto(Graduate Advisor)

C U J A HE X E C U T I V E C O M M I T E E

E D I T O R - I N - C H I E F : Katerina Korola

ASSISTANT EDITOR: Ashlee Griffiths

MANAGING EDITORS: Jera MacPherson (External), Jennifer Rassi (Internal)

EDITORIAL EDITOR: Sarah Catherine De Montig-ny Racher

F R E N C H E D I T O R S : Ashley Ornawka

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PRINT PUBLICATION DESIGNER & ILLUSTRATOR:

Alice Zhang

PUBLICITY DESIGNER:Samantha Wexler

WEBSITE BUILDING/MANAGING: Katerina KorolaAshlee Griffiths

Sarah Catherine De Montigny Racher

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A S H L E Y O R N A W K AAshley Ornawka is currently studying Art History and Film Studies with a minor in Classical Civilization (BFA) and she is in the Co-Operative Pro-gram at Concordia University. She is passionate about cinema, photog-raphy, numeric arts and journalism. With a DEC in communications, where she was Editor-in-chief for Cégep Marie-Victorin’s student newspaper Le Médium Saignant (2012-2013), she loves being on the scene, reviewing cultural events. She is currently an Associate Edi-tor for CUJAH and Feature Writer.

She is also part of the Ethnocultural Art History Research Workgroup (EAHR), a new student initiative that curates exhibitions and organizes lectures by art professionals.

K A T E R I N A K O R O L AKaterina Korola is a senior under-graduate at Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, pursuing a joint Major in Art History and Film Studies, and is set to begin doctoral studies in Autumn 2014. Her interests include travel narratives, exhibition practices, spatial theory and post-war architecture. She is Ed-itor-in-Chief at the Concordia Un-dergraduate Journal of Art History and her writing has been published in Offscreen, Film Matters, and a num-ber of student publications. In her free time enjoys studying modern languag-es and indulging in creative writing.

CUJAHT E A MB I O G R A P H I E S

JERA MACPHERSONJera MacPherson is a third year Art History/ Studio Arts major at Concordia University with hopes of pursuing curatorial studies in the not so distant future. Her present schooling involves a balance between art creation and art scholarship with both offering components of research, and practice which inform the other. She has become particularly interested in fibre arts and its convey-ance of tactile information in both the stages of making and display. But paramount to it all, re-mains the melding roles between artist, research-er, and writer in the cultural emergence of the artist as curator. Amongst all the double binds art history presents, the love of the gallery space and a critique of institutional practices become significant in almost every way. Jera is an exec-utive managing editor for CUJAH and has writ-ten a catalogue entry or two around Concordia.

continues her studies. Her interests includes the portrayal of the black female subject in the visual culture of advertising, Victorian architecture, Royal monumental art and biblical art by Dutch painters. When she is not focused on her studies, she enjoys developing her own artistic talents, which are painting, creative writing, photography and knitting. After two years of being a part of the CUJAH team, she now serves as the Assistant Editor.

A S H L E E Ashlee Griffiths is a third-year undergraduate student majoring in Art History with a minor in Spanish. Ac-tively involved in student life at Concordia, Griffiths’ has been exposed to diverse endeavors which has led her to developing a thirst for more knowledge as sheG R I F F I T H S

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KAREN LEE C H U N G

COPY EDITORS & FEATURE WRITERS

Karen Lee Chung is a third-year student at Concordia University, majoring in Art History and Studio Art (BFA) with a minor

in Classical Languages and Literature. Her artistic and art historical in-terests lie primarily in the narrative and the figurative; artworks that con-cern identity, history and memory through the intersection of literature and the visual arts, such as personal journals and artists’ sketchbooks, are of special interest to her. Recently, she authored a text for Concordia’s COMBINE 2013 - an exhibition and publication project intending to unite students from different disciplines of the university’s Fine Arts fac-ulty into collaboration - and was accepted as a copy editor for the Con-cordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History and for Yiara Magazine.

L A U R E N TOUTIKIAN

Lauren Toutikian is an Undergraduate student pursuing a Major in Art History at Concordia University. Her primary interests include sculpture of the High and Late Renais-sance, 17th century Northern European art, Feminist Theory and Women’s Classic Fashion. She is Copy Editor and Feature Writer at the Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art His-tory. In her free time, she enjoys indulging in creative writing, and reading both fictional nov-els and publications directed towards the growing success of women in the corporate world.

L E Y L A G O K A

Leyla Goka is in her final semester completing a BFA in Art His-tory at Concordia University. Throughout achieving her degree she has found great interest in postcolonial theory and public art,

and in addition to being a feature writer for CUJAH, fills the role of archivist for Con-cordia’s Ethnocultural Art Histories Research Group (EAHR). She has contributed cu-ratorial essays to initiatives presented by Concordia’s FOFA and VAV galleries, and her writing has also been published in CUJAH Volume VII (2010-2011). Her research inter-ests have expanded to include aesthetically-oriented media from the less familiar reaches of the art world such as internet and web aesthetic-inspired art, music videos, cosmetic artistry and extralinguistic visual features used in social media. She finds supreme per-sonal benefit in the processes of travel, creative writing, and seeking out new music.

J O H A N N E D U R O C H E R- N O R C H E T

As an adult student, Johanne Durocher is a certi-fied freelance translator (Honours BA in Translation from Concordia University, member OTTIAQ and ATA). She is currently pursuing a BFA in Art Histo-ry as well as a Master’s in Translation/Terminology. She has published three books of translations (two on photography and architecture in Montreal, one on the Montreal survivors of the Titanic) and works mainly with univer-sity presses. She is doing terminology research with the Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art (History of Canadian Photography under the direction of Prof. Martha Langford). Her areas of interest are: Canadian photography, material culture, 19th c. pottery and porcelain, fashion, world fairs, Expo 67 as well as provenance and restitution.

A L I C E Z H A N GD E S I G N :

Alice Zhang is a senior undergraduate student majoring in Studio Arts. She con-siders herself to be primarily an illustrator but she also works with graphic design, sculpture/installation and animation. Her work ranges from highly detailed and figurative drawings to trashy cartoons. She is hoping to do her masters in either animation or graphic design, but for the meantime she would like to attempt free-lance illustration while keeping up with a studio practise. In the past few years, she has done illustration/graphic designwork for Kafein, Burger Bar, The 2014 Katy Perry Tour, a series of mu-sic books and has had her work featured in Interfold and Branch Maga-zine. She is currently the founder and president of “The Sad Girls Club.”

S A R A H C A T H E R I N E D E M O N T I G N Y R A C H E RSarah Catherine de Montigny Racher is an undergraduate student at Concordia pursuing a Major in Art History. Her in-terests include post-colonial theory, Crafts, conservation practices as well as commu-nity engaged art practices, institutions and projects. She is currently editorial editor at the Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History and has previously worked with the Ethnocultural Art Histories Re-search Group (EAHR) as media relations coordinator. In her free time, she has

been practicing shotokan karate for more then ten years. At the end of her Bache-lor’s degree, she hopes to return to Australia to specialize in conservation practices.

JENNIFER RASIJennifer Rassi is in her second year at Concordia University studying Art History. Her writing has been published in Combine 2013, and will be active in Art Matters 2014. Jen is always on the lookout for new artistic inspirations in her life to combine with her studies. Her interests, although always developing, include photography and the con-nection to ephemerality, as well as architecture, street art, and advertising. She is cur-rently the Managing Editor at the Concordia Undergraduate Journal of Art History.