Art History: Recent submissions
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Searching for photography’s realism
(University of St Andrews, 2021-07-01) - ThesisThis dissertation addresses the notion of photography’s realism with reference to recent theorisations of photography that affirm the medium’s social and political dimension. Formulated as at once an interpretive framework ... -
Sir David Wilkie : his creative processes, with special reference to 'Blind man's buff' and 'Sir David Baird discovering the body of Tippoo Sahib'
(University of St Andrews, 1987) - ThesisFor most of his paintings, Wilkie made a substantial body of preparatory work, and it is chiefly through the examination of such studies that we are able to trace his creative processes. Such an exercise reveals the changes ... -
The portfolio of fifteen drawings by Wyndham Lewis, 1919 : a historical, technical and critical analysis
(University of St Andrews, 1990) - ThesisThe aim of this thesis is to explore the nature of the portfolio of Fifteen Drawings by Wyndham Lewis as a work of graphic art. Questions regarding the publishing, printing and criticism of the portfolio are the basis for ... -
Millet and the French peasant : the artist as social historian
(University of St Andrews, 1990) - ThesisThe intention of this thesis is to bring together both art and social history in order to achieve a greater understanding of Millet and the world which he painted. New evidence on the artist is hard to come by but nineteenth ... -
Italian Renaissance collecting of Classical antiquities : Ferdinando de' Medici and the Villa Medici in Rome
(University of St Andrews, 2001) - ThesisIn 1569 Ferdinando de' Medici arrived in Rome to take up his position as Cardinal. Immediately upon his arrival he began to collect classical antique sculpture and by 1576 he had begun to transform a newly purchased property ...