Art History Theses: Recent submissions
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Resisting overdetermination, destabilising representation : African American artists performing for the camera since the 1970s
(2022-06-16) - ThesisThis thesis posits performance for the camera, exemplified by selected practices of contemporary African American artists, as a means of exploring the construction and fixation of identities and a strategy for dismantling ... -
Dissecting museums : understanding medical human remains as institutional betrayal
(2022-11-30) - ThesisHistorical medical human remains were created for research through dissection, mainly without gaining consent from the deceased or the deceased’s family. Hard tissue (bone and teeth) and soft tissue (internal organs and ... -
Carta azzurra / blauw papier : drawing on blue paper in Italy and the Netherlands, ca. 1450–ca. 1660
(2022-11-30) - ThesisThis doctoral dissertation explores the transcultural use of the material of blue paper for figure studies and figural compositions by artists working in sixteenth-century Venice and seventeenth-century Amsterdam. The ... -
The digital medieval manuscript : approaches to digital codicology
(2022-06-16) - ThesisThis thesis explores how digitisation affects the way we perceive, handle, encounter, keep, preserve, and understand medieval manuscripts. With digitisation gaining ever-more importance, today, we encounter medieval ... -
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(University of St Andrews, 2021-12-01) - Thesis