Art History Theses
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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Recent Submissions
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Inherent pedagogies : critical approaches to exhibition making in the 2000s
(University of St Andrews, 2019-06-27) - ThesisSince 2010, the discussion about the relation between curating and education has revolved around Paul O’Neill and Mick Wilson’s proposition of the ‘educational turn’. This term mainly refers to the shift from the peripheral, ... -
Outwith the cloister: wider-precinct buildings in Scottish monasteries c.1070-1560
(University of St Andrews, 2018) - ThesisThe purpose of this thesis is to collate and analyse information on wider-precinct buildings in Scottish monasteries c.1070-1560; all monasteries founded within this period in Scotland are included, regardless of religious ... -
Marginality and the experience of images in late Medieval England
(University of St Andrews, 2017-11-20) - ThesisThis thesis re-examines the art historiography of margins and marginality. It has long been recognized that the phenomenon of the marginal – characterized by hybrid forms, and playful scenes of secular subjects – occurred ... -
Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov's neo-primitivist depictions of social outcasts in their thematic series of 1907-14
(University of St Andrews, 2000-06-22) - ThesisThis study addresses the contemporary political and social issues raised by the subject matter of Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova (1881-1962) and Mikhail Fedorovich Larionov's (1881-1964) Neo-primitivist series of 1907-14. ... -
The seasons in the city : artists and rural worlds in the era of Calvino and Pasolini
(University of St Andrews, 2018) - ThesisThe Seasons in the City. Artists and Rural Worlds in the Era of Calvino and Pasolini explores rurality in postwar Italy. Between 1958 and 1963, the country underwent an unprecedented yet uneven industrialisation, a period ...
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