Selected Former PhD Students

Their Dissertation Topics and Current Employment

Painting as a Career in Eighteenth-Century France (Humphrey Wine, now Senior Curator, National Gallery, London)

Russian Art and Theory in France 1918 –25: a comparative study of artistic avant-gardes (Briony Fer, now Professor, University College London).

Music and Art and the Crisis in Early Modernism (Simon Shaw-Miller, now Senior Lecturer, Birkbeck College, University of London and Honorary Research Fellow, Royal Academy of Music)

Hermeticism,Catholicism and Gender as Structure: a comparative study of themes in the work of Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst (David Hopkins, now Professor, University of Glasgow).

Wassily Kandinsky as Playwright: the Stage-Compositons 1909 –1914 (Shulamith Behr, now Senior Lecturer, Courtauld Institute).

Friedrich Nietzsche and German Expressionist Art (Christopher Short, now Senior Lecturer, University of Cardiff)

Primitivism Re-examined. Constructions of the “Primitive” in Modernist Visual Art (Colin Rhodes, now Professor and Director of Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney).

The Making of an Avant-Garde in Japan: an assessment of Okamoto Taro’s Art (Ruiko Harada, now Freelance Translator).

Surrealism and Psychic Automatism (Amna Malik, now Lecturer, Slade School of Art, University of London).

Representing Berlin: Sexuality and the City in German Modernism 1896-1930 (Dorothy Rowe, now Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol

The Subject of Installation Art (Claire Bishop, now Lecturer, University of Warwick)

Theo van Doesburg 1924-1931: Towards Concrete Art (Michael White, now Lecturer, University of York).

Merleau-Ponty and the Question of Painting (Jorella Andrews, now Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths College, University of London).

The Dissolution of Aesthetic Experience: A Critical introduction to the Minimal Art debate 1963-1970 (Jonathon Vickery, now Lecturer, University of Warwick).

The Cacaxtla Murals: The problems they raise for Mesoamerican art history (Oriana Baddeley, now Professor of Art History and Director of Research, Camberwell School of Art, The University of the Arts, London).

The Heroic and the Gallant: Tile Painting in Portugal and Brazil, 1670-1780 (Tania Costa Tribe, now Senior Lecturer, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London).

Catholic Icons and Society in Colonial Spanish America: The Peruvian Earthquake Christs of Lima and Cusco, and other comparative cults (Adrian Knight Locke, now Curator, Royal Academy)

Modern Architecture and the Modernist Movement in Brazil during the 1920s and 1930s (Marta Camisassa, now Professor, Federal University of Vicosa, Belo Horizonte, Brazil).

From Public to Private: An Analysis of Le Corbusier’s Philosophy of Selfhood (Simon Richards, now Lecturer, University of Leicester).

An examination of the category ‘Latin America’ in relation to art and identity (Maria Clara Bernal - now Lecturer, University of the Andes, Bogota, Colombia)

Fluxus: Non-Art and Anti-Art.  A Study of George Maciunas  (Cuauhtemoc Medina Gonzales, currently Associate Curator of Latin American Art at Tate Modern.  Since 1992 he has held a full-time research post at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas at the National University of Mexico)

Invention:  A Prime Mover in Quattrocento Italian Architecture (Angeliki Pollali, now Lecturer, The German Institute, Athens)

In and out of 'the primitive'.  Postcolonialism and contemporary art practice: Jimmie Durham and Jose Bedia in context (Cecilia Fajardo Hill, critic and writer on contemporary art, and previously the Director of Sala Mendoza, an alternative contemporary art space in Caracas, Venezuela.)

A Genealogical Approach to Abstract Expressionism and its Critical reception.  (James Walsh, - now Operations Manager for the new firstsite gallery in Colchester)

Biology and Urbanism from 'De Motu Cordis' to Modernism (James Maxwell Stevenson)

The State of Relations – Contemporary Participatory Art and Documentary Photography (Merav Yerushalmy)