Art History (School of): Recent submissions
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Some otherwhere : Édouard Glissant and the Caribbean landscape in contemporary art
(University of St Andrews, 2020-12-02) - ThesisOver the past two decades, Édouard Glissant’s writings have gained ever-increasing prominence in the fields of post-colonial theory, Caribbean studies, and Francophone literature. They have also been widely used in art and ... -
Opus anglicanum : the visual language, liturgical rituals, and gifting of a medieval English brand
(University of St Andrews, 2020-12-02) - ThesisIn 1246, when Pope Innocent IV saw embroidered copes and mitres which were made in England, he exclaimed; “England is for us surely a garden of delights, truly an inexhaustible well; and from there where so many things ... -
Peddie and Kinnear
(University of St Andrews, 2002-11-29) - ThesisThis thesis explores the architectural practice of John Dick Peddie and Charles Kinnear from Peddie's earliest known designs of 1844 to his withdrawal from the partnership in 1879. A detailed investigation has been made ... -
Light, intermediality, and sensory perception in Francis Bruguière's abstract photographs and films (1921-1936)
(University of St Andrews, 2020-06-25) - ThesisAbstract photographs were a key site of the re-evaluation of photography’s ontology between the First and Second World Wars, bringing to the forefront questions of objectivity, legibility and the photograph’s essential ... -
Putting the peripheral centre stage : performing modernism in interbellum Bucharest 1924-1934
(University of St Andrews, 2020-06-25) - ThesisThis thesis investigates how modernism manifested itself in applied arts and design in interbellum Bucharest, expanding the field of enquiry of the avant-garde outside two-dimensional production. The framework utilised is ...