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

  • If you build it, they will come: Europos Parkas. 

    Untiks, Inga. (School of Art History, University of St Andrews, 2003) - Journal article
    This article will examine the marriage of art and nature in the Europos Parkas Open-Air Museum on the outskirts of the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, which has become one of the most successful demonstrations of the ...
  • Asger Jorn and the photographic essay on Scandinavian vandalism 

    Henriksen, Niels. (School of Art History, University of St Andrews, 2003) - Journal article
    This article will examine the work of the Danish painter, potter and sculptor Asger Jorn (1914-1973). Although Asger Jorn is sometimes presented as the Scandinavian exponent of post war Abstract Expressionism, he was really ...
  • Writers' Bloc: reading into late Soviet experience through Latvian artists' books. 

    Svede, Mark Allen. (School of Art History, University of St Andrews, 2003) - Journal article
    This article focuses on book works by Latvian artists during the late-Soviet period, and also offers an initial discussion of the peculiarities of the Soviet publishing environment, as it existed shortly before the USSR’s ...
  • Symbols of growth: the decoration of Swedish schools 1890-1920. 

    Shepherd, Rachael (School of Art History, University of St Andrews, 2003) - Journal article
    This article will discuss the placing of art in schools in Sweden and the ideology behind this. The activities of Föreningen för skolornas prydande med konstverk [The Society for the Decoration of Schools with Artwork] and ...
  • Jüri Okas’ ‘specific objects’: diverging discourses in Estonian Art in the 1970s. 

    Kurg, Andres. (School of Art History, University of St Andrews, 2003) - Journal article
    This article will look at the early works of Estonian architect and artist Jüri Okas and will try to work between diverging languages and interpretations, reading works by Okas against the background of Anglo-american ...

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