Art History: Recent submissions

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    • Memorials of endurance and adventure : exhibiting British polar exploration, 1819 – c.1939 

      Murray, Katie (University of St Andrews, 2017-06-22) - Thesis
      Over eighty polar-themed exhibitions were held in Britain between 1819 and the 1930s, a time of intense exploration of both the Arctic and Antarctic. These varied from panoramas and human exhibits to displays of ‘relics’, ...

    • The sublime in Rothko, Newman and Still 

      McMahon, Cliff Getty (University of St Andrews, 1998) - Thesis
      An important body of literature has accumulated (both primary and secondary sources) which necessitates that Rothko, Newman and Still be placed in the tradition of the sublime. In attempting this task, a background is ...

    • The life and work of Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, 1834-1921 

      McKinstry, Sam (University of St Andrews, 1987) - Thesis
      Sir Robert Rowand Anderson was the dominant figure in Scottish architecture during and beyond the late Victorian period. Although his oeuvre is for the most part well known, and notwithstanding the fact that the historical ...

    • Paintings by numbers : applications of bivariate correlation and descriptive statistics to Russian avant-garde artwork 

      Strugnell, James Paul (University of St Andrews, 2017-06-22) - Thesis
      In this thesis artwork is defined, through analogy with quantum mechanics, as the conjoining of the nonsimultaneously measurable momentum (waves) of artwork-text (words within the primary sources and exhibition catalogues) ...

    • Robert S. Lorimer : interiors and furniture design 

      Shen, Lindsay (University of St Andrews, 1994) - Thesis
      Chapter 1, entitled "The Scottish Tradition", builds on the early twentieth-century consensus that Lorimer had resuscitated a moribund Scottish tradition of design. While critics have examined the Scottish roots of ...