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Architectural Patronage in Ireland: the Early Anglo-Norman Lords

Jill Unkel
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2010
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 12th Century to 14th Century

Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

Picturing the Glorious Revolution: William III and the Political Print in England, c.1688-1702

Robin Usher
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2003
BA

Subject: Print
Country: Britain
Period: 17th and 18th Century

10,000 words

Going Dutch. How Commercial Artists from the Netherlands Influenced Irish Graphic Design 1951-1960

Mieke van Embden
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2008
BA

Subject: Painting: Print
Country: Ireland and The Netherlands
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Tourists, Art, Scholarship, and Architecture: A Study of the Interactions Between Tourism and the Art World as Observed Through Dublin Churches

Kailee Van Zile
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2016
MPhil (Art and Ireland)

Subject: Art, Architecture, Tourism
Country: Ireland; Dublin

Supervisor: Dr Peter Cherry
15,000-20,000

Hungarian Artists in Munich and the Foundation of the Nagbanaya Colony

Johanna Varadi
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2016
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Hungary
Century: 19th Century

10,000 words

The Moxon Tennyson: Illustration as Art Object

Larissa Vilhena
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2024
PhD

Subject: Illustration, Visual Art
Country: England
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Dr Angela Griffith
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

Works of Art or Art that Works: A Case Study of ‘Ireland’s Favourite Painting’, 2012- An Aesthetic Response

Anita Vilka
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2013
BA

Subject: Painting and Stained Glass
Country: Ireland
Period: Various

10,000 words

This dissertation looks at ‘Ireland’s Favourite Painting’ poll, carried out by RTE in 2012, as a case study which offers information on aesthetic response from members of the general public. Since Frederic William Burton’s ‘Meeting on the Turret Stairs’ was voted as the favourite painting, close attention is paid to the visual qualities of the work. In this dissertation, research and discoveries in the fields of psyschology and science take presidents over philosophical approach to aesthetics. This dissertation mainly asks the question of why certain paintings appeal to the public more than others? By considering the research of Yarbus and Landau, their work explores the possibility of experimental aesthetics opening up new horizons for the future approaches to history of art and art appreciation.

Improvised Soundart

Paul Vogel
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2006
BA

Subject: Sound art
Country: Ireland, Europe and America
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

The Institutionalzation of the Avant-Garde

Tacy Wagner
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2020
BA

Subject: Mixed Media
Country: Germany & Russia
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Perhaps ‘Weeping’ is too Crude’: A Study of the Representation of Tears in Twentieth- Century Art

Ciara Waldron
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2016
BA

Subject: Painting, Mixed Media, Film and Photography
Country: Belgium, Germany, Spain, America and France
Century: 20th Century

10,000 words

The focus of this study is to trace the representation of tears in art over the course of the twentieth-century. In order to allow an in depth anaylsis, I have chosen specific works from 1920-1970 which are instantly recognisable in their recourse to tears. This period represents the gradual modification of modernist attitudes in the advent of post-modern age and thus allows for a particularly worthwhile study of the emblematic tear and thus allows for a as it intersects the art of the two contrasting periods. By limiting the research to a fifty year period but focusing on artists working in a range of media in various different movements and geographical locations it is hoped to communicate the inherently enigmatic nature of tears which allowed them to cross both cultural and societal boundaries, retaining certain qualities and inhereting new ones.

Le Memorial des Martyrs de la Deportation

Jane Wales
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1998
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: France
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

The O'Tunney and Ormond Ateliers; Some Considerations on 2 Schools of Irish Medieval Figure Sculptors

Catherine Ann (Kate) Walsh
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2005
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 16th Century

10,000 words

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

‘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.

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

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 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

The Country Houses of Co. Galway

Anne Walsh
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1987
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 17th - 20th Century

10,000 words

The Issue of Boundaries in Selected Works by Mona Hatoum 1989-2000

Sarah Ann Walsh
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2005
BA

Subject: Sculpture and Installation
Country: General
Period: 20th Century

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

Education Theses Register —Department of History of Art and Architecture

Architectural Patronage in Ireland: the Early Anglo-Norman Lords

Picturing the Glorious Revolution: William III and the Political Print in England, c.1688-1702

Going Dutch. How Commercial Artists from the Netherlands Influenced Irish Graphic Design 1951-1960

Tourists, Art, Scholarship, and Architecture: A Study of the Interactions Between Tourism and the Art World as Observed Through Dublin Churches

Hungarian Artists in Munich and the Foundation of the Nagbanaya Colony

The Moxon Tennyson: Illustration as Art Object

Works of Art or Art that Works: A Case Study of ‘Ireland’s Favourite Painting’, 2012- An Aesthetic Response

Improvised Soundart

The Institutionalzation of the Avant-Garde

Perhaps ‘Weeping’ is too Crude’: A Study of the Representation of Tears in Twentieth- Century Art

Le Memorial des Martyrs de la Deportation

The O'Tunney and Ormond Ateliers; Some Considerations on 2 Schools of Irish Medieval Figure Sculptors

Where Does Waste Go? Situating Representations of Consumer Waste

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

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

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

The Irish Face

The Country Houses of Co. Galway

The Issue of Boundaries in Selected Works by Mona Hatoum 1989-2000

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?

Education Theses Register —
Department of History of Art and Architecture