The critical analysis examines and positions new works I produced during my Residency at Oriel y Pare - Landscape Gallery St Davids (a partnership between National Museum Wales and the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park) in 2008-9. The evaluation considers the development of subj…
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David Scott (1806-1849) recorded his developing religious and aesthetic philosophies in private notes and in published essays, and his aesthetic ideal is exemplified in works expressing metaphysical aspects of man. Comparison of his purely imaginative works on paper with some of…
This thesis examines the figurative work of Portuguese-born artist Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908-1992) completed between 1930 and 1946, in the cities of Paris, Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro. This thesis divests Vieira’s work of the persistent formalist framework from within whi…
Namen doktorske disertacije z naslovom Figura, ornamentika in oltarna arhitektura v kiparstvu Jožefa Holzingerja (1735–1797) je izpostaviti pomen celovite obravnave sakralnega kiparstva 18. stoletja. Raziskovalci baročnega kiparstva na Slovenskem so se v svojih raziskavah doslej…
In contrast to scholars of Western art who can make use of numerous handbooks on aesthetics and technical manuals such as those of Vitruvius, Alberti or Palladio, scholars of Islamic art have available to them only a limited number of pre-nineteenth century vernacular sources in…
This dissertation is an ethnography of art production in Lebanon. It combines historical and contemporary data about the importation and implantation of easel-painting into a contested social setting to demonstrate the agency of art in society. Given the indexicality of art--i.e…