University of Essex

Art History at Essex

Current Research Students and their topics

NATASHA ADAMOU The reception of the readymade and the found objects in post-conceptual art

CHRIS ADAMS Non si cambi la fede: Futurism after 1945

SIMON ARMITAGE Ilya Karakov:  Art and Memory

VICTORIA ATKINSON  Woven Harmony:  Matisse’s Musical Textiles

JENNA ACTABOSKI The Shadow of his Pencil (submitted)

REBECCA BAILLEE  The Subject of Photography (Submitted)

IRIS BALIJA Contemporary Art and the Domestic Interior (Submitted)

SAI BANERJEE Life, Death and Rebirth in the Maya Ballcourt (submitted)

EMMA BENNETT Heidegger on Photography

DANA BRENAN Italian Narrative Cycles of St Catherine of Alexandria from 1250-1430

GEORGIA CHRYSSOULI Jan Svankmajer, the Alchemist of the Surreal and his Cabinet of Curiosities

KALINCA COSTA Globalisation: hybridity, homogenisation or difference?  Finding answers in the visual territory of Brazil

DESIREE DOMEC - Remembering the ephemeral: Armando Reveron’s Castillete
An intangible artist’s studio

IAN DUDLEY Edward Goodall’s “Sketches in British Guiana”: Art, Science and Imperialism in 19th century Amazonia.

TAISUKE EDAMURA Materiality and De(in)visualization: Glass in Art from 1900 to the Present

ELENI FILLIPOU The Play with Narrative in Gregory Markopoulos’s oeuvre

KATE FORD Physical Communion with the Divine:  the decoration of the churches of the Jesuit Mission to the Chiquitos

SHELLEY GARLAND Thomas, Earl de Grey and Wrest Park. French Revival Architecture on a Bedfordshire Estate.

SUSANNAH GILBERT Mail Art Networks in Latin American 1960’s-1980’s

SABINA GILL Photography as Art since the Sixties in Poland

JAMES GOLDEN Roger Fry as a Protestant Art Critic

HUGH GOVAN Cutting, Splitting and Intersecting: Gordon Matta-Clark's photo-works and the invention of artistic intervention

ALINE GUILLERMET The reinvestment of mimesis in Gerhard Richter's paintings

KAREN HADDOCK The influence of Illuminated Manuscripts upon the Early Netherlandish Panel Painters of the 15th Century (Submitted)

MARY HERSOV The Characteristics of the Temporary Exhibition Gallery in the Art Museum.

DAVID HODGE  Art and Otherness: Robert Morris and the Sociality of Art in the 1960s

FERESHTE MOOSAVI JAFARI Curating as an art medium

ROBERT JOBBINS The Temple of Jerusalem as an Element in 15th Century Art

ADINA KAMIEN-KAZDAN Remaking the Readymade: Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray in the Galleria Schwarz (Submitted)

ELENI KOUKOU Curating site-specific projects in big International Art Exhibitions. Outlook International Art Exhibition, Athens 2003: A case study (Submitted)

KIMBERLEY MARWOOD Surrealism and the Gothic

SALLY MINCHER The Chicano Art Movement, Its Antecedents and Contemporary Developments (Submitted)

ANDRES MONTENEGRO Deviant Gestures: Case Studies on Ethics and Contemporary Latin American Art

DIANA MONTENEGRO RAMIREZ Glorifying the Man: Signs of Earthly Power in the City of God (submitted)

MAJELLA MUNRO Surrealism in Japan: Conflict and Continuity in the Avant-Garde, 1923-1970 (Submitted)

NATASHA NALIATO Windows and Doorkijkjes in Dutch Seventeenth Century Art

SUZANNE NOLAN Yaxchilan Hieroglyphic Stairway 2:  A Hieroglyphic and Iconographic analysis

VALERIA PAZ The principle of emancipation in the oeuvre of Bolivian artist Roberto Valcácel, from 1977 to the present, and its relation to the local and Latin American art context

IBERIA PEREZ GONZALEZ The role of artist-run initiatives in the practice and discourse of contemporary art in Latin America

HILJA ROIVAINEN Utopian Landscape in Contemporary Nordic Painting

REBECCA ROSE The Metamorphosis of Mexican Art Collections 1970 - present

KIM SCOTT CHARNLEY Aesthetics and Politics in the New YOrk Artworld int he 1980s:  A Rancierean reading

CHAYANOOT SILPASART Media Art in Thailand

BILL TEATHEREDGE Quattrocento Mythological Images in Context

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last updated: 10 May 2012.