Art History (School of)
School staff and students participate in University-wide research centres such as the St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies and the Scottish Studies Network. Our principal strengths lie in the areas of medieval and Renaissance art, in European and American modernism, the history of photography, the decorative arts in Britain and Museum and Gallery Studies.
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British collecting in Ethiopia, 1769 to 1972 : travellers, military expeditions, museums and royal gifting
(2024-12-04) - ThesisThe Ethiopian objects found in Britain’s museums and cultural institutions today reflect over two centuries of interconnected history, and multiple shifts in the political, diplomatic, and cultural relationships between ... -
The rainbow cube : a survey of lesbian, gay, and bisexual art in contemporary art museums in the United Kingdom and United States of America
(University of St Andrews, 2024-06-12) - ThesisThis paper researches the current state of lesbian, gay, and bisexual artists in contemporary art collections. The purpose was to discover if museums collect based on sexuality, and if they change displays in exhibitions ... -
Showtime! The influence of theatrical spectacle on four American modernists
(2024-06-12) - ThesisThis dissertation addresses the interrelationships between the visual and performing arts in the work of Alexander Calder, Walt Kuhn, Everett Shinn, and Florine Stettheimer, artists whose careers in early twentieth-century ... -
The zoo paintings of Gilles Aillaud : art engagé and camouflage in France, 1950-1980
(2024-06-12) - ThesisThis thesis explores the corpus of zoo paintings by French artist Gilles Aillaud (1928-2005). It focuses on the 1960s and 1970s, a period of intense activity for Aillaud, whose political influence expanded beyond his Salon ... -
National-ish artists : Victorio Edades and the founding of Filipino modern art
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-16) - ThesisVictorio Edades has long been regarded as the founding father of modern art in the Philippines. For a long time, the artist’s devotion to this cause has been traced to a paradigm-altering encounter with Post- Impressionist ...