Art History
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- Photography: The Surrealist Ideal
- Research Essay: ‘Should museums avoid controversy or not?’
- Understanding the St Eustace Reliquary What Spolia Reveals About Classical Reception in the Middle Ages
- Giotto’s The Stigmatisation of St Francis
- How significant is Berlin and Kay’s work on linguistic relativity and colour determinism?
- Between nostalgia and modernity: exploring place within Ivon Hitchens’ Winter Walk series (1948)
- A Late-Nineteenth-Century Carved Ivory Tusk from the Loango Coast
- Cutting Traditional Painting: Iconoclasm in Lucio Fontana and Madi’s Praxis and Theories
- Uncovering an Archival Cage: Challenges Posed by Osei Bonsu’s Sasabonsam
- From Mine to Table: Willow Pattern China in Miss Cranston’s Glasgow Tea Rooms
- Object Research Essay: Analysis of the Efik ‘Decorated Brass Dish’, taken from the McManus Gallery collection, Dundee.
- Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza: The Wisdom to Obey
- Judith Leyster’s Critical Response to the Patriarchal Era of the ‘Golden Age’
- A comparison of Gothik and Gothic Revival styles as examples of the impact of medieval Gothic architecture on the architecture and visual arts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- A Return to Villainous Roots? : The Revival of Witchcraft in Contemporary Art and Botanical Ecocriticism
- Devotional Art as Socio-Economic Commodity: A Ciborium at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
- The 1960s Venezuelan Rearguard: Violating the Art-Object and its Audience
- Subverting Asian Femininity–Cinema materials and the “Maoist woman” of Cold War China
- Mercenary Mother’s Milk: A Critical Examination of the Wet Nurse vs. Maternal Breastfeeding in Nineteenth-Century French Visual Culture
- An ‘Unconventional Marriage’ – Folk Art and Expressions of National Identity in Central Europe, c. 1900
- In Search of a Floating World—Japonisme in Vienna at the Age of Anxiety
- Blood Libel in the 21st Century: Tracing the Development of the Antisemitic Ritual Murder Accusation Through Visual Culture
- Appropriation or Appreciation? Margaret Preston and the search for a uniquely ‘Australian’ Aesthetic
- Historical Power and the Enslaved Woman in Rowlandson’s Rachel Pringle of Barbadoes