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Simianising Paddy: an exploration into the portrayal of the Irish in the nineteenth century political cartoons of John Tenniel and Punch Magazine

Jennifer Corcoran
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2018
BA

Subject: Cartoons
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

Hito Steyerl and the Art of the Essay

Niamh Corcoran
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2016
BA

Subject: Video, Performance art, digital technology
Country: Germany
Century: 21st Century

10,000 words

Over the course of three chapters this dissertation will examine the use and acaptability of the essay form in Hito Steyerl’s work. She has a fluid, often contradictory investigative voice. This manifests itself in her lectures and videos as means of focusing on issues of knowledge production, personal and collective memory, imaging making and digital technology, It is hoped to demonstrate that these processes feed into the term-coined by Steyerl -’circulationism’ which is in turn indicative of Steyerl’s whole working method. In doing so it is hoped to argue that the format of the essay is not an objective entity which obeys a linear logic of continuity ending in a definitive conclusion, but rather that the order in which the arguments and thoughts are presented in an essay are self consciously contingent.

Camille Souter

Garrett Cormican
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1998
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

More than just a pretty face: Self-Portraits of Italian Women Artists and the Shaping of Identity

Aoife Cosgrove
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 16- 18th Century

10,000 words

The Influence of the Irish Political Landscape on the Evolution of the Physical Landscape at the Irish National War Memorial Gardens

Caroline Costello
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2023
BA

Subject: Sculpture, Memorial
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th & 21st Century

10,000 words

The Conflicting Presence of Nation in the Altermodern An Examination of the Art of Globalisation and in it, the presence of National Identity

Eleanor Costello
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2014
BA

Subject: Sculpture, Installation, Photography and Digital
Country: England
Period: 21st Century

10,000 words

The topic of this dissertation is Globalisation and Contemporary art. This subject is extremely relevant to the current climate in the art world and defines what has been occurring in art in the 21st century.In order to discuss coherently this complicated and concentrated topic it has been narrowed down specifically into one area of interest. The aim of the dissertation is to show examples from ‘Altermodern’ which demonstrates the global world today. Many theorists such as Bourriaud chose to believe that we live in a boundary less environment. Hence, the prevalence and subliminal influence of the nation state and the local on ones’ identity still exists. Even in the art of globalisation one can see evidence of something more negatively oriented and narrow then perhaps discourse on the topic suggests.

Rahan Churches, Co. Offaly: An Architectural and Stylistic Study

Caroline Cowley
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2001
BA

Subject: Architecture and Sculpture
Country: Ireland: Co. Offaly
Period: 12th Century

10,000 words

Urnes Ornament in Ireland

Treasa Cox
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1996
BA

Subject: Sculpture and Panels
Country: Ireland
Period: 7th – 10th Century

10,000 words

The Influence of Frank Lloyd Wright on the Work of Andrew Devane

Jennifer Coyle
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1998
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland and America
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

“The Word made Flesh” : A study of Feminine beauty in Cinquecento Venetian painting

Irene Coyle
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1994
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 16th Century

10,000 words

The Van der Hagen Problem in the British Isles

Mia Craig
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1992
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: England and Ireland
Period: 18th Century

10,000 words

Approaching the Works of a Morally Reprehensible Artist

Taylor Crates
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2023
BA

Subject: Art

10,000 words

The Dog in Painting: From Prop to Prominence

Aisling Crawley-Fay
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2013
BA

Subject: Painting and Prints
Country: England, Holland, Italy, Spain and France
Period: 16th– 20th Century

10,000 words

Assessing the Experience of a Pilgrim on the Camino de Santiago in the High Middle Ages

Ross Creed
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2016
BA

Subject: Architecture and Sculpture
Country: Spain
Century: 9th-13th Century

10,000 words

The Camino de Santiago is a pilgrimage route that has been walked for over one thousand years. The route leads to the city of Santiago de Compostela in North-Western Spain. Here in the cathedral of the city, the remains of Saint James the Greater, apostle of Jesus Christ, are said to to held. The circumstances surrounding the arrival of the remains of the saint in the early ninth century are mysterious but regardless, there soon were thousands of pilgrims flocking to the city. At its height it was the third most important pilgrimage in Europe, after Rome and Jerusalem and may have even been the most popular over the Middle Ages as a whole. It remained popular throughout the Middle Ages until dying out in later centuries. However in the late 20th century, it has regained popularity and is visited by over of a quarter of a million people every year.

The Irish Response to the Street Art Phenomenon: Aesthetics, Activitism & Advertising

Hannah Creevey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2018
BA

Subject: Street art, Graffiti and Mixed Media
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

This dissertation examines the Irish response to the graffiti and street art phenomenon of the twentieth century, with a particular focus on contemporary examples, From its roots in the late twentieth-century as a subversive and illegal practice with little or no artistic intent, street art has gradually evolved into an accepted artform, attracting the attention of prestigious galleries and museums as well as collectors and art market investors. Through commercialisation and reception into the gallery space, street art now encompasses a wider range of artwork outside the illegal parameters. This includes collaborations with small businesses or corporations to create advertisement campaigns, endorsing street art as a marketable object. Examples of the work of contemporary Irish artists such as ADW, James Earley, Maser, Subset and Joe Caslin will be discussed.

Kara Walker’s Contemporary Use of the Silhouette

Federica Crescenzi
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2015
BA

Subject: Sihouette, Paper cut outs
Country: Africa and America
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

Dorothy Cross: Removing Labels

Bebhinn Cronin
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2007
BA

Subject: Sculpture, video
Country: Ireland
Period: Late 20th and Early 21st Century

10,000 words

The RTE Campus: Innovation or Imitation?

Aisling Crowe
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2008
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

The Enigmatic Beard-Puller Motif in Medieval Art

Claire Crowley
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2007
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland, France and Spain
Period: 9th to 12th Century

10,000 words

The West Doorway of Clontuskert Priory, Co. Galway

Julie Cruess Callaghan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1981
BA

Subject: Architecture: portal
Country: Ireland
Period: 12th to 15th Century

10,000 words

Some Aspects of the Deliverance Cycle on Irish High crosses

Catrina Cruickshank
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1991
BA

Subject: Sculpture and High Cross
Country: Ireland
Period: 12th Century

10,000 words

Queering Contemporary Irish Art: Eimear Walshe and Dylan Kerr

Ailbhe Cullen
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2022
BA

Subject: Performance Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 21st century

10,000 words

Settting the scene with art. An Examination of the influence Pablo Picasso had on the Ballet Russes and the Ballet Russes’s influence on Picasso.

Suzanne Cummins
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1998
BA

Subject: Set Design, Costume and Painting
Country: Russia and France
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Where Does Architecture Stop?

Ruth Cunney
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1992
BA

Subject: Architecture and Furniture
Country: Various
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Education Theses Register —B.A.

Simianising Paddy: an exploration into the portrayal of the Irish in the nineteenth century political cartoons of John Tenniel and Punch Magazine

Hito Steyerl and the Art of the Essay

Camille Souter

More than just a pretty face: Self-Portraits of Italian Women Artists and the Shaping of Identity

The Influence of the Irish Political Landscape on the Evolution of the Physical Landscape at the Irish National War Memorial Gardens

The Conflicting Presence of Nation in the Altermodern An Examination of the Art of Globalisation and in it, the presence of National Identity

Rahan Churches, Co. Offaly: An Architectural and Stylistic Study

Urnes Ornament in Ireland

The Influence of Frank Lloyd Wright on the Work of Andrew Devane

“The Word made Flesh” : A study of Feminine beauty in Cinquecento Venetian painting

The Van der Hagen Problem in the British Isles

Approaching the Works of a Morally Reprehensible Artist

The Dog in Painting: From Prop to Prominence

Assessing the Experience of a Pilgrim on the Camino de Santiago in the High Middle Ages

The Irish Response to the Street Art Phenomenon: Aesthetics, Activitism & Advertising

Kara Walker’s Contemporary Use of the Silhouette

Dorothy Cross: Removing Labels

The RTE Campus: Innovation or Imitation?

The Enigmatic Beard-Puller Motif in Medieval Art

The West Doorway of Clontuskert Priory, Co. Galway

Some Aspects of the Deliverance Cycle on Irish High crosses

Queering Contemporary Irish Art: Eimear Walshe and Dylan Kerr

Settting the scene with art. An Examination of the influence Pablo Picasso had on the Ballet Russes and the Ballet Russes’s influence on Picasso.

Where Does Architecture Stop?

Education Theses Register —
B.A.