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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The eighteenth century furniture trade in Edinburgh : a study based on documentary sources
(University of St Andrews, 1995) - Thesis“The existing work is easy to summarise; despite the ever present nature of furniture in people's lives, and its obvious position in a social context as a reflection of taste, wealth and progress, the study in Scotland of ... -
Memorials of endurance and adventure : exhibiting British polar exploration, 1819 – c.1939
(University of St Andrews, 2017-06-22) - ThesisOver 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
(University of St Andrews, 1998) - ThesisAn 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
(University of St Andrews, 1987) - ThesisSir 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
(University of St Andrews, 2017-06-22) - ThesisIn 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) ...
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