Current PhD theses
Here is a selection of PhD theses currently being undertaken by students in our School:
- Anastasia Adamou, The reception of the readymade and found objects in post-conceptual art
- David Adams, Non si cambi la fede: Futurism after
- Simon Armitage, Ilya Karakov: art and memory
- Victoria Atkinson, Woven harmony: Matisse’s musical textiles
- Ana Bilbao Yarto, Contemporary curatorial theory
- Dana Brenan, Italian narrative cycles of St Catherine of Alexandria from 1250-1430
- Natasha Cesar de Oliveira Naliato, Windows and doorkijkjes in Dutch seventeenth century art
- Kim Charnley, Aesthetics and politics in the New York artworld in the 1980s: a Rancierean reading
- Georgia Chryssouli, Jan Svankmajer, the Alchemist of the Surreal and his Cabinet of Curiosities
- Lara Demori, A comparison between Piero Manzoni and Helio Oiticica
- Domec Desiree, Remembering the ephemeral: Armando Reveron’s Castillete
- 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 Filippou, The play with narrative in Gregory Markopoulos’s oeuvre
- Shelley Garland, Thomas, Earl de Grey and Wrest Park. French revival architecture on a Bedfordshire estate
- 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
- Isabelle 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
- Robert Jobbins, The temple of Jerusalem as an element in 15th Century Art
- Cliona Marrani, Exploring crystaline metaphors in art and architecture in modernism and beyond
- Andrés David Montenegro, Deviant gestures: case studies on ethics and contemporary Latin American art
- Valerie Paz Moscoso, 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
- David Murrieta Flores, Art and politics in the 1960s
- Suzanne Nolan, Yaxchilan hieroglyphic stairway 2: a hieroglyphic and iconographic analysis
- Iberia Pérez González, The role of artist-run initiatives in the practice and discourse of contemporary art in Latin America
- Jonathan Portlock, Pierre Bonnard
- Megakles Rogakos, Joycean exegesis of ‘The Large Glass’: Homeric traces in the post-modern sensibility of Marcel Duchamp
- Rebecca Rose, The metamorphosis of Mexican art collections 1970 – present
- Gill Sabina, Photography as art since the sixties in Poland
- Chayanoot Silpasart, Media art in Thailand
- Kalinca Soderlung, Globalisation: hybridity, homogenisation or difference? Finding answers in the visual territory of Brazil
- William Teatheredge, Quattrocento mythological images in context
Completed PhD theses
A list of completed art history PhD theses can be found on our Albert Sloman Library catalogue, and are available
for consultation in the library.