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Walking Stories: a Journey from Revolution to Narrative in the Art of Francis Alys, Sophie Calle, Janet Cardiff and Richard Wentworth

Leslie Allen
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2011
MA

Subject: Painting, Photography
Period: 21st Century

20,000 words

Mannequins, Misogyny and Murder: Representations of Violence and Aggression Towards Women in the 1920s and 1930s

Emma Cahill
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2009
MA

Subject: Art
Period: Early 20th Century

20,000 words

The Taxonomy of Line in the Becoming of the Merzbau

Gemma Carroll
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2009
MA

Subject: Art
Country: Germany
Period: 20th Century

20,000

Performance Art: the Role of Bodily Signification in the Performances of Amanda Coogan

Caroline Harriett Clancy
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2009
MA

Subject: Performance Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century and 21st Century

20,000 words

Colour and System: A Comparative Study of Henri Matisse and Wassily Kandinsky

Mary Moakley
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2009
M.A.

Country: France, Germany and Russia
Period: 20th Century

"The Politics of Public Art Commissioned for Social Housing Regeneration Programmes in Ireland"

Maureen Considine
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2008
MA

Subject: Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

20,000 words

The Myth of the Primitive: Artistic Response to late 19th and early 20th Discourses on the Primitive

Mary Ellen Cronin
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2009
MA

Subject: Primitive Art
Country: Germany and France
Period: 20th and 21st Century

20,000

The Message of the Shoah Artists: History, Meaning, Composition, Styles and Themes in the Art of Primary and Secondary Shoah Witnesses

Christine de L'Arago
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2007
MA

Subject: Art
Country: Europe
Period: 20th Century

20,000 words

‘What you see is what you get’ The Performance of Self in the Work of Sophie Calle

Sinéad Donnachie
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2009
MA

Subject: Performance Art
Country: France and U.S.A.
Period: 20th and 21st Century

20,000

Appropriations: Classical Mythology in Irish Art Since 1945

Bébhinn Egan
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2007
MA

Subject: Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

20,000 words

Corban Walker: Dimensions

Christopher Gareth Falconer
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2011
MA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 21st Century

20,000 words

Surrealism and the Grotesque

Caitriona Jude Farrell
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2011
MA

Subject: Painting, Sculpture
Period: 20th Century

20,000 words

Metaphysical and Supernatural Themes in the Photography of Ana Mendieta and Francesca Woodman

Norah-Jane Harte
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2010
MA

Subject: Photography
Country: U.S.A
Period: 20th Century

20,000 words

Adolescent Sexuality: Tension and Conflict in the Paintings of Otto Dix

Anna V. Hartz
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2010
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Germany
Period: 20th Century

20,000 words

An Investigation into the Transgressive Action Within Contemporary Art Practice: Examining the Purpose, Method and Affect of the artist's Transgressive Handling of the Taboo Subject

Sharon Hayes
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2012
MA

Subject: Art
Period: 21st Century

20,000 words

Montage as Devise: a Combined Analysis with Neuroscience to Explore the Limits of Meaning Within the Art Object

Eleanor Healy
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2010
MA

Subject: Art
Period: 20th Century

20,000 words

Exhibiting the Feminine: The Female Experience Explored through three Feminist Exhibitions

Nicola Holly
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2009
MA

Subject: Feminism, Art

20,000 words

Creating Madness: an Investigation into the Effect of Mental Illness on the Reception of Art and Artists

James Horan
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2010
MA

Subject: Art, Mental Illness

20,000 words

The Art of Death and Childbirth in Renaissance Italy: a Privileged Status in Motherhood

Elaine Hoysted
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2012
MPhil

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 15th Century

40,000 words

The Art of Death and Childbirth in Renaissance Italy' explores the depiction of Italian women who died as a result of childbirth and lived in the latter half of the fifteenth century. The women who were commemorated through the medium of the visual arts were those who had borne a son and died attempting to produce more children for the patriarchal lineage. The main argument of this study is that through the successful delivery of a male heir for their husbands, women received a privileged posthumous position in their conjugal families. This thesis stems from an argument made by David Herlihy in which he states that due to motherhood, Renaissance Italian women were elevated in status. Another key argument in this thesis is that although the representation of these women did not usually reference the cause of their deaths, the commissioned art works promoted motherhood to contemporary viewers in a number of ways. The importance of the patriarchal line and its continuation therefore forms an integral part of the rationale for the commissioning and creation of the art associated with women who died in parturition. The thesis is broken down into a series of case studies, representing the female experience of this event in both the republican city-state of Florence as well as within the context of the court of Urbino. Each case study focuses upon the art works created to commemorate a specific woman and how these images were utilised to project the image of the ideal mother willing to sacrifice her own life to ensure the continuation of her husband's bloodline. The case studies examine the commemoration of two Florentine women from the Tornabuoni family, Giovanna degli Albizzi and Francesca Pitti and Battista Sforza, countess of Urbino. Their representation provides a visual model reinforcing the written discourse of the period which promoted motherhood as the key role of the Renaissance woman.

Moving close to touch : trauma, empathy and affect in the work of Rebecca Horn

Sarah Kelleher
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2012
MA

Subject: Installation and Film
Country:Germany
Period: 20th Century

20,000 words

Shopfronts and Window Display in the Work of J.M. Whistler, Otto Dix, Eugène Atget, and Richard Estes

Valerie King
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2008
MA

Subject: Painting, Photography
Country: Europe
Period: 19th Century and 20th Century

20,000 words

Changing Perspectives, Altering Perceptions: Picturing the Victorian London Street as Narrative Space

Simon Knowles
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2011
PhD

Subject: Painting
Country: England
Period: 19th Century

This thesis considers the many ways in which the crowded and contested London thoroughfare functioned as an urban signifier during the Victorian Period. By focusing on the discrete spaces of the real street, its location within the city, and upon the occupants and activities operating within its precinct, this thesis will argue for a synergy between the real and the represented street whereby the latter responded to the experience of the former. The street will be considered in three forms: the real street, experienced as social space; the described street, re-constructed in text; and the depicted street, re-constructed as image. Focusing primarily on the second half of the nineteenth century, the chronological framework of this thesis begins in 1851, when the conflict between the instrumental and social function of the street reached a new degree of intensity as a result of the crowds visiting the Great Exhibition. It concludes in 1900, allowing the incorporation of two areas of visual practice that are normally studied in isolation but which overlap chronologically: Victorian genre painting and the slightly later practice of Whistler and the London Impressionists, normally situated and evaluated within the context of Modernism. The principal theoretical framework of this thesis will be a socio/historical approach, utilizing, as part of this methodology, the reciprocal relation between image and text. This analytical tool is used as means to investigate the correlation between the real street and the street in its represented form, measuring the extent to which the latter provided a means to stabilize the experience of the former.

Art and Psychic Life: the Work and Writings of Louise Bourgeois

Joanne Marie Lawlor
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2012
MA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: France, U.S.A
Period: 20th Century

20,000 words

An Aesthetic 'Picture' of Gerhard Richter: Perceptions of the Painting, the Photography, and Abstraction in the 1970s and 1980s

Aoife Leach
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2007
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Germany
Period: 20th Century

20,000 words

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Education Theses Register —Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art

Walking Stories: a Journey from Revolution to Narrative in the Art of Francis Alys, Sophie Calle, Janet Cardiff and Richard Wentworth

Mannequins, Misogyny and Murder: Representations of Violence and Aggression Towards Women in the 1920s and 1930s

The Taxonomy of Line in the Becoming of the Merzbau

Performance Art: the Role of Bodily Signification in the Performances of Amanda Coogan

Colour and System: A Comparative Study of Henri Matisse and Wassily Kandinsky

"The Politics of Public Art Commissioned for Social Housing Regeneration Programmes in Ireland"

The Myth of the Primitive: Artistic Response to late 19th and early 20th Discourses on the Primitive

The Message of the Shoah Artists: History, Meaning, Composition, Styles and Themes in the Art of Primary and Secondary Shoah Witnesses

‘What you see is what you get’ The Performance of Self in the Work of Sophie Calle

Appropriations: Classical Mythology in Irish Art Since 1945

Corban Walker: Dimensions

Surrealism and the Grotesque

Metaphysical and Supernatural Themes in the Photography of Ana Mendieta and Francesca Woodman

Adolescent Sexuality: Tension and Conflict in the Paintings of Otto Dix

An Investigation into the Transgressive Action Within Contemporary Art Practice: Examining the Purpose, Method and Affect of the artist's Transgressive Handling of the Taboo Subject

Montage as Devise: a Combined Analysis with Neuroscience to Explore the Limits of Meaning Within the Art Object

Exhibiting the Feminine: The Female Experience Explored through three Feminist Exhibitions

Creating Madness: an Investigation into the Effect of Mental Illness on the Reception of Art and Artists

The Art of Death and Childbirth in Renaissance Italy: a Privileged Status in Motherhood

Moving close to touch : trauma, empathy and affect in the work of Rebecca Horn

Shopfronts and Window Display in the Work of J.M. Whistler, Otto Dix, Eugène Atget, and Richard Estes

Changing Perspectives, Altering Perceptions: Picturing the Victorian London Street as Narrative Space

Art and Psychic Life: the Work and Writings of Louise Bourgeois

An Aesthetic 'Picture' of Gerhard Richter: Perceptions of the Painting, the Photography, and Abstraction in the 1970s and 1980s

Education Theses Register —
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art