Art History (School of): Recent submissions
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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 ... -
John Adamson 1810-1870 and early photography at St Andrews
(University of St Andrews, 1994-09-30) - ThesisJohn Adamson (1809-1870) was the eldest of 10 children born to Rachel and Alexander Adamson, tenant of Burnside Farm near Boarhills, a few miles east of St. Andrews. If photography had never been invented Adamson would ...