Completed PhD Theses
Recently completed PhD theses at The 91制片厂 Institute of Art
2021/2
Scantlebury, Matilda
Jo Apple
Chohan, Jasmine Kaur
Julian Stallabrass
Pierce, Chelsea
Sarah Wilson
Flory, Nicholas Piers
Susie Nash
Mil膷i膰, Ana-Maria
Sarah Wilson
Mackelait臈, Aust臈ja
Joanna Woodall
D'Antone, Ambra
Gavin Parkinson and Matthew Gale
Dhar, Sanjay
Christine Stevenson and Emily Howe
Jones, Olivia
Caroline Arscott
Corbett, Cathy
Christopher Green
Concin, Adriana
Guido Rebecchini
Merkling, Emma
Caroline Arscott
O鈥橞rien, Janet
Sussan Babaie
Harrison, Madeleine
David Peters Corbett
Subelyt臈, Gra啪ina
Gavin Parkinson
Sanders, Laura
Joanna Woodall
Amato, Silvia Rita
Aviva Burnstock
Sanders, Laura
Joanna Woodall
Crosland, Margaret Susannah
Alixe Bovey and Susie Nash
Bondini, Saida
Nicolas Bock and Guido Rebecchini
2020/1
Aires de Campos, Miguel
Mirabilia depicta: image and imagination in the anglo-saxon wonders of the east鈥
Dr. John Lowden and Dr. Alixe Bovey
Jacek, Olender
Gecko-inspired Dry Adhesives: Evaluating their Applicability to the Conservation of Cultural Heritage
Dr. Stephen Whiteman
Stolyarov, Denis
(Post)Soviet Art in the Era of Wild Capitalism, 1986 鈥 1996
Prof. Sarah Wilson
2019/20
Bartlett-Rawlings, Briony
Nicoletto da Modena and the centres of Italian Print Production c.1490-1522
Dr Scott Nethersole
Beltrami, Constanza
Juan Guas and Gothic Architecture in Late Medieval Spain: Collaborations, Networks, Geographies
Dr Tom Nickson
Biedarieva, Svitlana
Challenging the Legacies of the Olympics: Cultural Programmes of Mexico 鈥68 and Moscow 鈥80
Dr Klara Kemp-Welch
Capron, Emma
Altarpieces in Late Medieval Avignon: Case Studies in Patronage and Reception鈥
Dr Susie Nash
Cuckovic, Boris
A Digital Disenchantment: Source Materials in Western Art after the 2008 Financial Crisis
Prof. Julian Stallabrass听
Dalvit, Giulio
Rethinking Lorenzo di Pietro, known as Vecchietta (1410-1480)
Dr Scott Nethersole
Godetzky, Albert
鈥楽trength and Sinews 鈥楬aarlem Mannerism鈥 and the Emergence of a Dutch Body Politic, 1585-1595鈥
Prof. Joanna Woodall
Gurevich, Sofia
鈥楽oviet book design and The World of Art circle 1917-1930鈥
Dr Klara Kemp-Welch
Hansell, Lydia
Patronage of a Prelate: The Religious Foundations of Cardinal Jean Rolin (1408-1483)
Dr Susie Nash
Hume, Natalie
鈥楢 treacherous mirror’: British commercial artists represent the United States. Case studies 1869鈥76.
Dr. Caroline Arscott
Morris, Natasha
Lions and Sons: The Masculine Image in Qajar Iran (1789 鈥 1925)
Dr Sussan Babaie
Parker, William
Laurence Binyon and the Influence of Paterian Aestheticism, 1873-1915
Prof. David Peterscorbett
Rostel, Alexander
Artistic Patronage Networks in Fifteenth Century Florence: The Corbinelli and Gondi Altarpieces
Dr Scott Nethersole
Speakman, Natalie
Medieval Ivories at the British Museum: Formation of a Collection, c. 1800-1900
Dr John Lowden
Zini, Claudia
Bosnia and Herzegovina: contemporary art from a post-conflict society
Dr Klara Kemp-Welch
2018/19
Bueno de Mesquita, Nicholas
Soviet Architecture of the 1920s and Western Europe: Separate Modernisms or an’ International Front of Modern Architecture鈥? The Case of Germany
Charlotte Milner
Crack, Peter
Public Purchases of Early Italian Paintings in Twentieth-Century Britain
Dr Scott Nethersole听听
Gent, Alexandra
Repetition and Replication in Joshua Reynolds鈥檚 Studio Practice
Prof. Aviva Burnstock听and听Prof. David Solkin
Howe, Catherine
Francis Bacon鈥檚 French Influence(s): From Surrealism to Post-structuralism
Dr Gavin Parkinson
Hughes, Thomas
John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Aestheticism
Prof. Caroline Arscott
Jang, Nayun
Cultural Memory of Democratisation and Globalisation in East Asian Art
Prof. Julian Stallabrass
Merlini, Anna
Mustalish, Rachel
Materials and Techniques of Arthur Dove (1880鈥1946): Works on Paper and Selected Paintings, 1926鈥1946
Prof. Aviva Burnstock
Pietrabissa, Camilla
From Perspective to Place: the Landscape Tableau in Paris, c.1680-1750
Prof. Katie Scott
Rapacki, Kristina
Asger Jorn鈥檚 鈥榝olk鈥: Imagining 鈥榯he people鈥 in wartime and postwar Europe 1941-1965
Dr. Gavin Parkinson
Robertson, Jessie
Hyper(in)visible. Art, Protest & Surveillance, 2011-16
Secklehner, Julia
Frontiers of Identity: The Vienna and Prague Satirical Press in Political Crossfire 1918-1938
Klara Kemp-Welch
Stratton, Rachel
The Shape of the Message鈥 in the Art of the Independent Group: A 91制片厂 in the role of General Semantics and Non-Aristotelian Logic, 1950鈥1961
Dr. Gavin Parkinson
Woolley, Elizabeth
Commercial domination of English ecclesiastical mural painting 1860-1910: demand, supply, technology and significance
Giovanni Verri
2017/18
Adams, Ann 鈥 2017/18
Spiritual Provision and Temporal Affirmation: Tombs of Les Chevaliers de la Toison d鈥橭r from Philip the Good to Philip the Fair
Prof. Susie Nash
Bezverkhny, Eva
Compilation and Communication: Esfir Shub and Soviet Cinema 1919-1949
Prof. John Milner
Casini, Giovanni
L茅once Rosenberg and the Galerie De L鈥橢ffort Moderne: A Syncretic View of French Art During The 1920s鈥
Prof. Christopher Green
Coomasaru, Edwin
Contested Bodies: Gender, Sexuality and the Legacies of the 鈥楾roubles鈥 in Visual Culture
Dentzer, Sophie
English Decorative Vaulting: Design, Invention and Integration in Gothic Architecture c. 1300
Dr. Tom Nickson
Eisenthal, Jessica
Medium and Mediation: A History of Video Art in Israel
Prof. Sarah Wilson
Gardner-Dseagu, Christine
Sex in Context: Sexual Art and Spectacle in the Roman World
Gordon, Theo
Sex and Violence: A New Psychoanalysis of Art of the American AIDS Crisis
Prof. Mignon Nixon
Keene, Bryan C.
Many Voices, Many Hands: Collaboration and Workshop Practice in Early Fourteenth-Century Illuminated Choir Books from Florence
Prof Joanna Cannon
Lundin, Jenna
The Montaged Environment: Painting Meets Photography On Show, From The 1930s Through The 1950s
Prof. Christopher Green
O鈥橠onnell-Morales, Maeve
Altars and Altar Furnishings from the Kingdom of Castile, 1200-1350
Tom Nickson
Peel, Harriette
The Image of the Child in Late-Medieval Flanders
Prof. Susie Nash
Sears, Malgorzata
The Warsaw Group听Rytm听(1922-32) and Modernist Classicism
Prof. Gavin Parkinson
Shearman, Niccola
Weimar in Black and White: the woodcut in the work of Ernst Barlach and Lyonel Feininger in Germany, 1918-1927
Shulamith Behr
Tedbury, Imogen
Collecting, reception & display of trecento & quattrocento Sienese paintings in Britain, 1850-1950鈥
Prof. Joanna Cannon听and Dr. Caroline Campbell
2016/17
Atkin, William
Latent Possibilities: Theories and Practices of Magic in Surrealist Discourse on the Object, 1929-1976
Budanova, Natalia
Stepping Out of the Shadows: Russian Women Artists on the Eve of, and During, the Great War
Prof. John Milner
Edwards, Emma
Reception and Reorientation: The Impact of Internationally Traded Objects in Italian Art and Architecture (950-1150)
Garrett, Rosamund
Canterbury Cathedral鈥檚 Choir Tapestry: Patronage, Production, History and Display
Grimaldi, Matilde
The lost Romanesque cathedral of Tortosa: 1148-1703
Hegenbart, Sarah
From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso: Christoph Schlingensief鈥檚 Opera Village Africa as contemporary Gesamtkunstwerk
Prof. Sarah Wilson
Joustra, Joost
Pictorial Space and Sacred Subject Matter in Florentine Painting 1425-1466
Jumabhoy, Zehra
Homi K. Bhabha鈥檚 Concept of National Identity and Contemporary 鈥業ndian鈥 Art
Kim, Elizabeth
Schizophrenic Video: The Reception of Early Video Art in New York, 1969-1985
Lebens, Naomi
Prints in Play: Printed Games and the Fashioning of Social Roles in Early Modern Europe
Llewellyn, Laura
Art, Community and Religious Women in the Oltrarno, Florence
Moyse, Lucy
Manifestations of Violence and Trauma Within Interwar Fashion, In London, Paris and New York
Pasian, Chiara
Non-structural lime-based injection grouts with reduced water content for decorated surfaces
Potts, Philippa
鈥楢 Watchlight for the Garden鈥: Stuart Ambassadors in English Garden History
Raybone, Samuel
Working as Caillebotte: Collecting, Ideology, and the Body in the French Third Republic
Dr. Satish Padiyar
Rossi, Maria Alessia
Christ鈥檚 Miracles in Monumental Art in Byzantium and Serbia (1280-1330)
Saunt, Jane
Decorative Plasterwork in England, 1660-1700: Form, Materiality and Making
Spooner, Jane
Royal Wall Paintings in England in the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century
2015/16
Gaskin, Fiona
British Landscape Painting, 1945-1963
Rae, Caroline
Anglo-Netherlandish Workshop Practice in the 1580s and early 1600s with a focus on the works of John de Critz the Elder and Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
Prof. Aviva Burnstock
Romano, Alexis
Pr锚t-脿-Porter, Paris, and the Image of Women, 1945-1968
Tobin, Jordan
Beyond Futurism to Suprematism: Re-assessing Futurist Dialogues between Italy and Russia 1909-1915
Prof. John Milner
Watling, Lucy
Documents of a Forgotten Network: The Loans to听Twentieth Century German Art, London 1938
2014/15
An,听Hui-Kyung听
Identities Contested: Contemporary Korean Art and its Exhibitions, 1961-1975
Barker, Jessica
Monuments and Marriage in Late Medieval England: Origins, Functions and Reception of Double Tombs
听and听
Burchard, Wolf
The Sovereign Artist. Charles Le Brun and the Art of Absolutism, 1665-1679
Butakova, Elizaveta
A-Ya Magazine: Soviet Unofficial Art Between Moscow, Paris and New York, 1976-1986
Cameron, James Alexander
Sedilia in Medieval England
听and听
Camp, Mary Hogan
Superare la natura: The Portraits of Jacopo Pontormo
听and听
Cheetham, Joanna
Hans Feibusch between Germany and Britain: Patronage and the Public Sphere
Chu, John
The Fortunes of Fancy Painting in Eighteenth-Century England
听and听
Demarchi, Francesca
Book Illumination in Milan around the Year 1000: The Prayerbook of Arnulph II (London, British Library, MS Egerton 3763) and Some Related Manuscripts
Grasso, Maria
Imaging the Souls of the Blessed: Valenciennes, Biblioth猫que Municipale, MS 500, Saint Amand, and the Parable of Dives and Lazarus, c. 835-1275
Gunzi, Freya Roo
Stanhope A. Forbes: Constructing Newlyn, 1885-1911
Kaitavuori, Kaija
Art of Engagament: Audience Participation and Contemporary Art
Lee, Jiyoon
The Impact of Globalisation on Korean Contemporary Art since 1989
Lee, Judith
The chemical characterisation of water sensitive oil paint with a special focus on Winsor & Newton artists oil paints
Prof Aviva Burnstock
Low, David
Framing the Armenian Genocide: Photography and the Revisualisation of the Ottoman Empire, 1878-1923
Martin De Fonjaudran, Charlotte
Cleaning Asian Wall Paintings: Constraints and Development of an Open-Source Image Analysis Workflow for In-Situ Evaluation of Topographical Surface Changes
Noy, Irene
Sound Art, Gender and the West-German Context
Pantelides, Katerina
Russian 脡migr茅 Ballet and the Body: Paris and New York c.1920-50
Dr. Rebecca Arnold
Paschali, Maria
Painting Identities in Fourteenth-Century Famagusta: Byzantine and Gothic Imagery in Saint George of the Greeks and Our Lady of the Carmelites
Richards, Marion
Salon Criticism of French Landscape Painting, 1855-1867
Serafinowicz, Sylwia
More than Documentation: Photography from the People鈥檚 Republic of Poland between 1965-1972
Stanford, Henrietta
Affective Afterlives: Encountering 鈥楿lrike Meinhof鈥 in Yvonne Rainer鈥檚 Journeys from Berlin/1971 (1980), Gerhard Richter鈥檚 October 18, 1977 (1988), and Silvia Kolbowski鈥檚 A Few Howls Again? (2010)
Weston, Giulia Martina
Niccol貌 Tornioloi: The Life and Times of A Sienese Painter in 17th Century Rome
Whitlum-Cooper, Francesca
Itinerant Pastellists: Circuits of Movement in Eighteenth-Century Europe
2013/14
Balfe, Thomas
The Animal and the Edible in the Work of Joannes Fyt (1611-61)
Bhalla, Niamh
Social Histories of the Last Judgement in Byzantine Art
Prof. Antony Eastmond
Hartnell, Jack
Towards an Anatomical Art History. Medieval Objects in the Shared Space between Art and Medicine
Keiser, Alexandra
Alexander Archipenko and Cultural Exchange Between the Wars: From European Avant-Gardes to Avantgardism in the United States
McDougall, Elizabeth
The Management of the Urban Property Portfolio of the Societa s. Salvatore, Rome 1500-1526
Rose, Sam
Formalism, Aestheticism, and Art Writing in England, c.1918-1939
Starkova, Maria
Engendering the New Soviet Child: The Representation of Children as Pioneer Citizens of the USSR in the 1920s and 1930s
Prof. John Milner
Tommasini, Alexandra
The 鈥楶atient鈥 City. The Works and Practices of Photographer Gabriele Basilico
2012/13
Aloni Yaari, Shir
Brushstrokes: Hair in the Work of Contemporary Women Artists
Anderson, Jocelyn
Country House Guide Books in the Late Eighteenth Century
Babbage Iorns, Deborah
Companionship and Collaboration: Rembrandt鈥檚 Pendant Marriage Portraiture
Backhouse, Clare
Sartorial self-fashioning: Dress in portraits commissioned by women, 1558-1762
Balona de Sa鈥橭liveira, Ana
Fort/Da: Unhomely and Hybrid Displacements in the Work of 脗ngela Ferreira, c. 1980-2008
Brisby, Claire
The Samokov Archive: The perception of western art in icon-painters鈥 practice 1800-1850 in Bulgaria
Prof. Robin Cormack
Carter, Michael
Cistercian art and architecture in England during the late Middle Ages
Caruso, Martina
Miseria Miseri Cordia Mascolinita: Italian Humanist Photography,听1932-1962
Chien, Shang-Min
Distributed Aesthetics in the East Asian Net Creations
Darell, Samantha
Mother of Pearl Carvings in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century
Galimberti, Jacopo
Collective Art: Politics and Authorship in 1960鈥檚 Western Continental Europe
Gottardo, Ketty
Print Culture in Rome in the Age of Barberini
Faulkner, Katherine
The Wrapped Body in the New Sculpture Movement (1880-1900)
Gray, Emily
Early Printmaking in Florence: Origins, Forms and Function
Prof. Patricia Rubin
Kirk, Anna
The Female Doppelg盲nger in Victorian Art and Dress, c.1850-1899
Kopp, Edouard
Sculpted Sanguines: Edme Bouchardon as a Draughtsman
Milk Mac Farland, Joanna
From Doctors of the Church to Visionary Saints: Recasting Augustine and Jerome in Tuscan Paintings of the Fifteenth Century
Prof. Patricia Rubin
Nuttall, Geoffrey
Lucchese Patronage, 1400 to 1430
Prof. Patricia Rubin
Oliver, Lois
The Image of the Artist, Paris 1815-1855
Prof. John House
Payne, Edwa
Ribera鈥檚 Saints: Representing Body and Soul
Richter, Mark
Coloured glazes on silver leaf of the Baroque and Rococo period in Southern Germany and Austria (c.1600-1780)
Shabanov, Andrey
Peredvizhniki, or the Wanderers: the social history of an artists鈥 movement in later nineteenth-century Russia
Terracciano, Emilia
Modernist Musing in the shadow of Swadeshi
Prof Deborah Swallow
Thoma, Julia
The Final Spectacle: Military Painting under the Second Empire, 1855-1867
Prof. John House and Prof.听
Tsai, Pei-Kuei
Making the Political Personal and the Personal Political : A multiple case study of August Sander, Andy Warhol, Trinh T. Minh-Ha and Chen Chieh-Jen
2011/12
Brown, Meredith
A History of A.I.R Gallery: Feminism and the Art institution (1970s, New York)
Elmer, Samuel
Democratic Mordernisum: Promoting Modern Art in England c.1908-1934
Prof. Christopher Green
Givens, Ashley
From the Archetypal to Imtimate: Offical Representation of Napolean iii, 1850-1866
Prof. John House
Lopez-Fanjul Diez Del Corral, Maria
Collecting Italian Drawings in Seventeenth Century Spain: The Marques del Carpio鈥檚 Collection
Dr Sheila McTighe
Paydar, Nikoo
Scheherazade and The Odalisque in Early Twentieth-Century Visual Culture: Leon Bakst, Henri Matisse and Paul Poiret
Prof. Christopher Green
Pittaluga, Michela
Collections and Social Status: Venetian Presence in Genoese Collections of the Golden Century (1523-1656/7)
Prof. Paul Hills