The University of St Andrews Postgraduate Journal of Art History and Museum Studies is an annual publication that prints original and innovative research by current postgraduate students from the UK and abroad.

Recent Submissions

  • The embroidered diplomacy:the symbolism of banners used in the inauguration ceremony of the Illirian-Rascian regiment in 1735. 

    Todorovic, Jelena. (School of Art History, University of St Andrews, 2003) - Journal article
    Apart from more common forms of state aggrandisement, such as official portraiture, grand allegorical compositions and public monuments, ephemeral spectacles have played an important role in the formation of the state’s ...
  • The Idea of Sacrum in Polish Art of the 1980s 

    Gralinska-Toborek, Agnieszka. (School of Art History, University of St Andrews, 2003) - Journal article
    Polish art of the 1980s was in a period of transition from modernism to postmodernism. Theoretical debates and disputes concerning both of these terms and their interrelations are still going on. However, the goal of ...
  • Tamara de Lempicka 1898-1980 

    Hodge, Kim. (School of Art History, University of St Andrews, 2003) - Journal article
    Tamara de Lempicka’s fusion of artistic influences from 16th & 17th century Italy with the exuberant modernity of 1920’s Parisian society made her a leading figure in the world of Art Deco’s painters. Lempicka’s accomplishments ...
  • Body and space: discovering the compositions of Paul Burman 

    Burman, Kristi (School of Art History, University of St Andrews, 2003) - Journal article
    This article will discuss some aspects of Paul Burman's compositions. The creative endeavour of Paul Burman (1888-1934) belongs to the earliest period of Estonian art history. Born into a Baltic-German family, living mainly ...