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O’ Keeffe’s Books- The Seeds of Influence and the Blossoming of O’ Keeffe

Georgian Walsh
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2013
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: America
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

The Enigma of Brigit: Images of St Brigit in Medieval Irish Art

Kate Walsh
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2006
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 6th Century to 13th Century

Supervisor: Dr Rachel Moss
20,000

‘Creatures of Many Imaginings’: An In-Depth Study of the Responses to Symbolism by Irish Artists (1893-1931)

Muireann Walsh
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2019
BA

Subject: Painting, Prints, Stained Glass
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th & 20th centuries

10,000 words

The purpose of this dissertation will be to examine the response by Irish artists to the Symbolist movement during the period 1893-1931. As one of the lesser-recognised developments in Irish Modernist art, the scholarly study of Irish Symbolism has been marred by indifference and neglect. However, Irish works of art executed in a Symbolist expression may reveal vital insight into the ‘fin-de-siecle’ era which was marked by revived creativity, burgeoning nationalist sentiment and explorations in spirituality. A new approach predicated upon a cohesive and in-depth exploration of work, is required in order to understand the engagement with Irish Symbolist art. This theoretical exploration of formal, ideological and artistic processes will comprise three separate case studies of Roderic O’ Conor, George ‘AE’ Russell and Harry Clarke.

Where Does Waste Go? Situating Representations of Consumer Waste

Donal Walsh
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2021
BA

Subject: Photography, Websites
Country: Germany, Spain, USA, Canada
Period: 21st Century

10,000 words

The Irish Face

Laura Walsh
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1998
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: Medieval

10,000 words

Dairine Vanston 1903-1988

Rosemary Walton
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2008
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Yvonne Scott
20,000

Graham Knuttel

Edward James Ward
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2002
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

Reading without Words: Exploring the Visual Narrative in Shaun Tan’s ‘The Arrival’

Elizabeth Ward
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2018
BA

Subject: Mixed Media
Country: Australia
Period: 21st Century

10,000 words

‘The Arrival’ (2006) is an internationally acclaimed wordless picturebook by Australian artist and writer Shaun Tan that deals with the topic of migration and the wider issue of belonging. Comprising solely of the visual, it tells the story of one man’s experience as he is forced to leave his home country and travel to a new, unknown environment. ‘The Arrival’ has been studied extensively in the fields of literature and sociology, but this dissertation approaches it as a form of visual art. It examines in detail the processes and techniques involved in the book’s creation, and analyses how Tan constructs his visual narrative. In particular, it explores the diverse methods of visual coding used to engage the view and progress the storyline. Tan’s many art historical sources and visual references incorporated in the work will be discussed.

'Worpswede' by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated from the German by Jasminka Ward-Matievic

Jasminka Ward-Matievic
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1984
BA

Subject: Literature
Country: Germany
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Edwin Lutyens: Where is the Viceroys House?

Leonard Ronald Warne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1998
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: India
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. A building history

Gloria Gaghan Warner
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1976
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 12th to 19th Century

10,000 words

The Mighty Linen Warehouses of Belfast. (1850-1875)

Colleen Watters
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1984
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Northern Ireland
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

Enriching the Environment? Public Sculpture in Dublin

Sarah Melissa Webb
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1991
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland

10,000 words

Han van Meegeren. How Were the Experts Fooled?

Nick Webb
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1995
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Holland
Period: 19th and 20th Century

10,000 words

“All art is collaboration.” John Millington Synge, Jack B Yeats and the Relationship Between Text and Image in ‘The Aran Islands’ (1907)

Ella Wedderburn
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2020
BA

Subject: Illustrations, Photography, Text
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation is centred around John Millington Synge’s The Aran Islands’ (1907), illustrated by Jack B. Yeats. An interdisciplinary approach is taken in the exploration of the relationship between text and image. As a product of the Irish Literary Revival, the cultural context from which the book emerged is of considerable importance.The first chapter explores ideologies of the Revival and how these manifest in both text and image, tropes such as the myth of the west, the myth of Aran and the noble savage are explored. The notable presence of primitivism in Synge’s text is also discussed and contextualissed in relation to wider trends in Europe. The second chapter discuss photographs taken by Synge on the Islands and the third chapter focuses on Jack B.Yeat’s illustrations.

Traditional Dress in the Construction of National Identities Painting in Bulgaria and Ireland: 1905-1935

Kathleen Weigand
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2011
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Painting and Costume
Country: Ireland and Bulgaria
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Yvonne Scott
20,000

A Stylistic Analysis of the St. Manchan Shrine Figures

Fiona Whelan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2008
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 12th Century

10,000 words

The Assumption of the Virgin in Sienese Altarpieces and Panel Paintings of the 14th and 15th centuries

Maria Colette Whelan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2002
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 14th and 15th Century

10,000 words

The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Monasterevin, Co. Kildare: An Art Historical Investigation

Beatrice Whelan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2001
BA

Subject: Architecture and Sculpture
Country: Ireland and Italy
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation investigates all aspects of the Gothic revival Church of St. Peter and Paul in Monasterevin, built during the famine. The author outlines the local social and religious context in which the church was built and traces the building progress of the church using primary sources. Among many issues covered is the attainment of land and building stone for the church and the question of funding the building of the church during the famine. The interior decoration and stained glass of the church is discussed using primary sources such as newspaper accounts and old photographs. The career of the architect of the church, William Deane Butler, is examined and the architecture of the church analysed in relation to the architect's other churches. The final chapter discusses the provenancing of the Italian Baroque altar rails in the church which were originally made for the church of S. Stefano in Venice.

The White Stag Group in Neutral Ireland 1939 - 1946

Nicola White
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1981
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

I Am An Architect, They Call Me A Butcher: The Artist’s Body As Site Of Resistance To Consumer Culture

Barry White
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2004
BA

Subject: Photography and Installation
Country: Britain and Ireland
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

This dissertation explores the work of a number of contemporary artists whose work has a strong engagement with ideas relating to the body and its role as locus for numerous cultural forces. The work of Paul McCarthy is discussed in relation to the Disney Corporation and its sphere of cultural influence, taking Jean Baudrillard’s criticisms of Disney’s generation of hyperreal state of existence into account. The “Carnal Art” of French performance artist Orlan is explored against the background of cosmetic surgery as cultural phenomonen with reference to Susan Bordo’s theory of image normalisation. Then the body art if Ron Athey and Fakir Musafar as well as Stelarc’s work with human/ machine interfacing are explored in terms of their provision of theoretical futures for the human body. Finally, works by Jake and Dinos Chapman, Paul McCarthy and Tony Oursler are examined.

The Albert Bender Donations of Far Eastern Art to the National Museum of Ireland in the Context of his Cultural Interests in Ireland and California

Audrey Whitty
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2010
PhD

Subject: Eastern Art
Country: Ireland and California

Supervisor: Dr Philip McEvansoneya
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

The National Museum of Ireland (formerly the Dublin Science and Art Museum) was founded in 1877. During the late nineteenth/early twentieth century policy dictated that the acquisition of applied/industrial arts be nationally as well as internationally based. As a result many objects of Asian provenance came under museum control. This policy changed on Irish Independence, but one notable donor during the early years of the Irish Free State was the Irish-born, San Francisco millionaire, Albert Maurice Bender (1866-1941) who donated 260 objects of Asian art from 1931 to 1936. This collection includes twenty -one rare eighteenth century’ Tibetan-Buddhist Thangka paintings and over eighty Japanese woodblock prints from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Bender’s Jewish faith and Irish patriotism are examined in the context of his collecting activities, his generous benefaction of contemporary avant-garde art on the west coast of the United States and extensive bibliophilic activities. Bender’s correspondence with the director of the National Museum, Dr. Adolf Mahr will also be discussed, as will his relationships with some of Ireland’s most prominent intellectuals.

William Osbourne: a Painter of Dogs

Victoria Browne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2004
M. Phil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Yvonne Scott
20,000

Losing Face: The Abstracted and Symbolic Head Image in Irish Art, 1600-2005

Monique Williams
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2008
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 17th Century to 21st Century

Supervisor: Dr Rachel Moss
20,000

Education Theses Register —Department of History of Art and Architecture

O’ Keeffe’s Books- The Seeds of Influence and the Blossoming of O’ Keeffe

The Enigma of Brigit: Images of St Brigit in Medieval Irish Art

‘Creatures of Many Imaginings’: An In-Depth Study of the Responses to Symbolism by Irish Artists (1893-1931)

Where Does Waste Go? Situating Representations of Consumer Waste

The Irish Face

Dairine Vanston 1903-1988

Graham Knuttel

Reading without Words: Exploring the Visual Narrative in Shaun Tan’s ‘The Arrival’

'Worpswede' by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated from the German by Jasminka Ward-Matievic

Edwin Lutyens: Where is the Viceroys House?

Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. A building history

The Mighty Linen Warehouses of Belfast. (1850-1875)

Enriching the Environment? Public Sculpture in Dublin

Han van Meegeren. How Were the Experts Fooled?

“All art is collaboration.” John Millington Synge, Jack B Yeats and the Relationship Between Text and Image in ‘The Aran Islands’ (1907)

Traditional Dress in the Construction of National Identities Painting in Bulgaria and Ireland: 1905-1935

A Stylistic Analysis of the St. Manchan Shrine Figures

The Assumption of the Virgin in Sienese Altarpieces and Panel Paintings of the 14th and 15th centuries

The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Monasterevin, Co. Kildare: An Art Historical Investigation

The White Stag Group in Neutral Ireland 1939 - 1946

I Am An Architect, They Call Me A Butcher: The Artist’s Body As Site Of Resistance To Consumer Culture

The Albert Bender Donations of Far Eastern Art to the National Museum of Ireland in the Context of his Cultural Interests in Ireland and California

William Osbourne: a Painter of Dogs

Losing Face: The Abstracted and Symbolic Head Image in Irish Art, 1600-2005

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