Researcher ORCID Identifier
0009-0000-2231-8923
Graduation Year
2025
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Black Studies
Reader 1
Professor Victoria Lobis
Reader 2
Professor Eric Hurley
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© 2025 Ziona C King
Abstract
Culminated in a solo exhibition of three works titled the prodigal daughter and The Great High Priest, Baptism, and The Lord of Hosts, this research explores the implications of the Christian methodologies and iconographies in the works of Henry Ossawa Tanner to influence testimonial artwork containing personal Christian iconographies of water baptism, spiritual encounter in everyday life, the lion of Judah, bowls, and more interpretive motifs.
Recommended Citation
King, Ziona, "Art as Witness: Carrying Christian Iconographies in the works of Henry Ossawa Tanner during the Gilded Age to Contemporary Autobiographical Testimonial Art" (2025). Pomona Senior Theses. 360.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/360
Artist exhibition that culminates the research of Christian iconographies in the works of Tanner to influence my own series.
Thesis Presentation- King (1).pdf (5801 kB)
Visual aid to the ideas presented in the written thesis and exhibition modeling.
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Comments
Find the art recorded here on my artist website: https://zionaking.myshopify.com/
If you're interested in the visual arrangement of these ideas, visit the presentation here: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGmPK8d0vM/_aNKyljAHO_NxVhJcY7g0g/edit?utm_content=DAGmPK8d0vM&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton