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Dalí: Surrealism, Psychoanalysis and the Paranoiac-Critical Method

Damian Ruddy
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2007
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Spain
Period: 20th Century

20,000 words

A Comparative Study of Theatrical Prints Produced in Edo and London During the Eighteenth-Century

Evelyn Ryan
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2008
MA

Subject: Prints
Country: London and Edo
Period: 18th Century

Supervisor: Prof. Kathleen James-Chakraborty
15,000 words

Regenerating Limerick: The Role of Public Art in Ireland's National City of Culture 2014

Laura Ryan
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2015
MA

Subject: Public Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 21st Century

Supervisor: Dr. Emily Mark-FitzGerald
15,000 words

The Colonization of the French Nude by the "Other" between 1827 and 1917. The influence of colonial society on the social attitude towards the nude and its description in nineteenth and twentieth century France.

Jeanine Ryan
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2007
MA

Subject: painting
Location: Europe
Period: 19th- 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Philip Cottrell
15,000 words

The Factors that Influenced the Classical Design of the Mansion House in Demesnes in Limerick c. 1770 to c 1820

Michael Ryan
University of Limerick
College of Humanities, Department of History (History of Art Postgraduate Courses only)
2012
MA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland: Limerick
Period: Late 18th to 19th Century

Supervisor: Catherine Lawless
21,000 words

Modern Art, the Museum and the Art Market: Contextualising the role of Sergei Ivanovich Shckukin in Early modernism

AnneMarie Saliba
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2021
MA (Minor Thesis)

Subject: Shchukin Collection of Modern Art
Country: Russia and Paris
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Róisín Kennedy
68 pages

Modern Art, the Museum and the Art Market: Contextualising the Role of Sergei Ivanovich Shckukin in Early Modernism

AnneMarie Saliba
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2021
MA (minor thesis)

Subject: Shchukin Collection of Modern Art
Country: Russia and Paris
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Róisín Kennedy
68 pages

The Court Painter and the Cur: The Impact of Titian on the Painting of Caravaggio

Lindsay Schiller
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2014
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 16th Century

Supervisor: Dr Philip Cottrell
15,000 words

The New Lens of War Photography: Transition of War-Themed Photojournalism into the Art Gallery and Museum

Victoria M. Schwab
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2011
MA

Subject: Photography
Location: world
Period: contemporary

Supervisor: Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty
15,000 words

The Lure of the Lamps: A discussion of Dublin’s street lamps and their artistic relevance

Darina Sexton
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1998
MA

Subject: Street Furniture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Christine Casey
15,000 words

The American Painter Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones: Depicting Female gender and the Social Interactions Between Working-Class and Upper-Class Women in Philadelphia, 1905-1913

Anna Elizabeth Shaver
University of Limerick
College of Humanities, Department of History (History of Art Postgraduate Courses only)
2013
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: America
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Catherine Lawless
21,000 words

War and Male Interpretations: As Portrayed by Egon Schiele and Francis Bacon

Rachel Sheppard
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2015
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Paula Murphy
15,000 words

1950s Flat Housing and Modernism: Dublin and Warsaw Compared and Contrasted

Natalia Sikora
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2022
MA (Minor Thesis)

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

Supervisor: Professor Lynda Mulvin
79 pages

The Sculpture of Michael Warren Stands its Ground

Christine Sisk
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2016
MA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th and 21st Century

Supervisor: Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty
15,000 words

Wigs in the Long Eighteenth Century: from an Irish Perspective

Charlotte Slevin
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2021
MA (masters thesis)

Subject: Wigs in the 18th Century
Country: Ireland/ Europe
Period: 18th Century

Supervisor: Dr Conor Lucey
127 pages

Wigs in the long Eighteenth Century: from an Irish Perspective

Charlotte Slevin
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2021
MA (Minor Thesis)

Subject: Wigs in the 18th Century
Country: Ireland/ Europe
Period: 18th Century

Supervisor: Dr Conor Lucey
127 pages

The Divided Memory: the move towards an abstract aesthetic vision in the Holocaust memories of the two Germanies

Helen Smith
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1995
MA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Germany
Period: 20th century

Supervisor: Dr Paula Murphy
15,000 words

Representations of Women in Pre-Raphaelite Art Inspired by Literature, 1848-1910

Samantha Geraldine Smith
University of Limerick
College of Humanities, Department of History (History of Art Postgraduate Courses only)
2013
MA

Subject: Art
Country: Britain
Period: 19th Century to Early 20th Century

Supervisor: Catherine Lawless
21,000 words

Painting Vital Visions: Beauty and Brutality in the late work of Titian and Cy Twombly

Monika Smith
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2018
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 16th Century and 20th Century

Supervisor: Associate Professor John Loughman
15,000 words

Capturing the Unicorn: Gustave Moreau’s Les Licornes (1885)

Hillary Smith
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2019
MA (minor thesis)

Subject: Painting
Country: France
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Dr John Loughman
79 pages

The Future of the Past The Documentation Centre at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial in Lower Saxony, Germany: A Study of the Comparative Development of the Commemoration of Vietnam of Nazi Crimes as Depicted in Contemporary Memorial Museums

Carla Soden
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2018
MA

Subject: Museums
Country: Germany
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Associate Professor Emily Mark-Fitzgerald
15,000 words

Inspiring The Secret of Kells: the animation of The Book of Kells and Irish Insular art

Hannah Spendlove
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2023
MA (Minor Thesis)

Subject: Animation/Iconography/Celtic Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 21st Century

Supervisor: Associate Professor Conor Lucey
70 pages

An Irish Artist in Greece: A Study of Nathaniel Hone the Younger’s Artworks of Greece between 1891 and 1892

Anna Stathaki
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2024
MA (minor thesis)

Subject: Painting, Landscape
Country: Greece and Ireland
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Professor Lynda Mulvin
15,000 words

The Contribution of ‘Sloppy Craft’ to the Changing Dynamics of Craft in Contemporary Art

Ema Staunton
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2020
MA (minor thesis)

Subject: Textile Art
Country: America and Europe
Period: 21st Century

Supervisor: Dr Conor Lucey
102 pages

Education Theses Register —M.A.

Dalí: Surrealism, Psychoanalysis and the Paranoiac-Critical Method

A Comparative Study of Theatrical Prints Produced in Edo and London During the Eighteenth-Century

Regenerating Limerick: The Role of Public Art in Ireland's National City of Culture 2014

The Colonization of the French Nude by the "Other" between 1827 and 1917. The influence of colonial society on the social attitude towards the nude and its description in nineteenth and twentieth century France.

The Factors that Influenced the Classical Design of the Mansion House in Demesnes in Limerick c. 1770 to c 1820

Modern Art, the Museum and the Art Market: Contextualising the role of Sergei Ivanovich Shckukin in Early modernism

Modern Art, the Museum and the Art Market: Contextualising the Role of Sergei Ivanovich Shckukin in Early Modernism

The Court Painter and the Cur: The Impact of Titian on the Painting of Caravaggio

The New Lens of War Photography: Transition of War-Themed Photojournalism into the Art Gallery and Museum

The Lure of the Lamps: A discussion of Dublin’s street lamps and their artistic relevance

The American Painter Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones: Depicting Female gender and the Social Interactions Between Working-Class and Upper-Class Women in Philadelphia, 1905-1913

War and Male Interpretations: As Portrayed by Egon Schiele and Francis Bacon

1950s Flat Housing and Modernism: Dublin and Warsaw Compared and Contrasted

The Sculpture of Michael Warren Stands its Ground

Wigs in the Long Eighteenth Century: from an Irish Perspective

Wigs in the long Eighteenth Century: from an Irish Perspective

The Divided Memory: the move towards an abstract aesthetic vision in the Holocaust memories of the two Germanies

Representations of Women in Pre-Raphaelite Art Inspired by Literature, 1848-1910

Painting Vital Visions: Beauty and Brutality in the late work of Titian and Cy Twombly

Capturing the Unicorn: Gustave Moreau’s Les Licornes (1885)

The Future of the Past The Documentation Centre at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial in Lower Saxony, Germany: A Study of the Comparative Development of the Commemoration of Vietnam of Nazi Crimes as Depicted in Contemporary Memorial Museums

Inspiring The Secret of Kells: the animation of The Book of Kells and Irish Insular art

An Irish Artist in Greece: A Study of Nathaniel Hone the Younger’s Artworks of Greece between 1891 and 1892

The Contribution of ‘Sloppy Craft’ to the Changing Dynamics of Craft in Contemporary Art

Education Theses Register —
M.A.