History of Art thesis and dissertation collection
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Joseph Beuys's non-objective works on paper, in the Artist Rooms collection
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-08)This thesis is a study of non-objective works on paper by the German artist Joseph Beuys (1921–1986) selected from the one hundred and six original works on paper in the ARTIST ROOMS collection, owned and managed jointly ... -
‘Oh, England! My Lionheart’: Englishness and the Countryside in Art Between the Wars
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)This dissertation explores the interwar work of Stanley Spencer (1891-1959), Cecil Beaton (1904-80), and Eric Ravilious (1903-42) in relation to their representations of the English countryside and what they meant to notions ... -
Reflecting on the Mirror in the Fifteenth Century: The Case of Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)The mirror invites a multitude of possible interpretations when used in artworks during the Renaissance. It can be represented as a symbolic attribute for both vice and virtue, depicted as a torture implement ... -
Franki Raffles’s Lot’s Wife: A ‘Reinvented Documentary’ for a Feminist Art of Knowledge Production
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015)This dissertation examines Lot’s Wife,a black and white photographic project that was almost completed in 1994. The project, partly funded by the Wingate Trust Scholarship, is comprisedof texts and photographs ... -
Watch Me Watching: Surveillance Art and the Politics of Observation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)In the recent decades, with the rapid proliferation of surveillance systems for both political and commercial uses, there is a surge of artistic endeavour –which is often termed as ‘surveillance art’ –that address critical ... -
Anachrony and the Archive: On the Production of Feminist and Queer Temporalities in Contemporary Art
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)This paper will argue that the ‘archival turn’, and specifically the feminist and queer archival turn, that has emerged within contemporary art, forms a vital and radical gesture of critiquing and re-examining exclusionary ... -
The Utopian Has Arrived: VR and AR in the Art World
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)It is 1929. The walls around me are covered with various black and white photographs. I am alone in an enormous, grandiose exhibition hall. All of a sudden, I am standing right in front of one of the walls and do not know ... -
Art in Production - The Use of Technicians in Contemporary Art Making
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)In July 2018, art technicians Simon Harlow and Simon Richardson were interviewed by Lindsay Johnstone for an article in The Independent newspaper that discussed the role of technicians in the contemporary art world. The ... -
The Aesthetics of Reversibility in Modern Art
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)This study researches a unique form of aesthetic expression in modern art reversibility. The term ‘reversibility’ refers to the property of being able to return to a former state. 1 It is used widely in relation to ... -
Anselm Kiefer’s concrete towers: fragile architectures, haunted memorials
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)This dissertation focuses on a widely known but surprisingly little-analysed phenomenon in Anselm Kiefer’s oeuvre, namely his stacked concrete towers. The towers go by different names, and are each made unique by the ... -
Pink disease
(The University of Edinburgh, 1931)1. Pink Disease is a new symptom -complex chiefly seen in babies of from three to eighteen months. Ten personally observed cases are recorded in detail. 2. The symptoms are characterised by - (a) a condition of extreme ...
