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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

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

NGO Competency-Based Framework for the Delivery of Post-Disaster Reconstruction Projects

Jason Von Meding
Queen's University Belfast
School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering
2013
PhD

Subject: Engineering

Strategic spatial planning at the regional and local scales: A case study of the Dublin city-region

Cormac Walsh
University College Dublin
UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy
2010
PhD

Subject: Spatial planning
Country: Ireland

80,000-100,000 words

Institutionalising modern Consumption, market buildings and department stores in Chinese cities: 1930s-1950s

Zhengfeng Wang
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2022
PhD

Subject: Retail Buildings/ Architecture
Country: China
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty
187 pages

Nancy Spero: Pain and Politics, 1966-1976

Rachel Warriner
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2016
PhD

Subject: Painting
Country: U.S.A
Period: 20th Century

The ten-year period that started with Nancy Spero’s War Series (1966-70) and ended with the completion of Torture of Women (1974-6) were of vital importance to the development of this key figure of feminist art. This was the moment when Spero turned her focus to politics, departing from a practice that was concerned with personal disaffection, instead focusing on profoundly social concerns. Essential to this evolution is a focus on pain. From the War Series through the Artaud Paintings (1970-71), Codex Artaud (1971-2), and Torture of Women, pain, both internal and external, was imagined in multiple forms. In Spero’s explorations of the theme, pain becomes metaphoric of the experience of women living under patriarchy, an amorphous but still profoundly disabling sensation that attacks both body and mind. This thesis explores Spero’s use of physical pain during moment of feminist art’s emergence, seeing it as a political metaphor for the way in which patriarchy invisibly controls and undermines women. Framed broadly by the question of art's relationship with politics during this turbulent period of anti-war and feminist activism, this thesis closely examines the way in which an analogy to pain figures the body in the work in complex terms, pursuing an ideological ambition through recourse to feeling.

Reconstructing a Region – Rioja and its Wineries

Louis Weyhe Funder
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2014
PhD

Subject: Modern Spanish Architecture
Country: Spain
Period: 20th and 21st Century

Supervisor: Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty
80,000-100,000 words

Giambattista Tiepolo in Spain: the late religious paintings

Catherine Whistler
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1984
PhD

Subject: Painting
Country: Spain
Period: 18th Century

Supervisor: Professor Alistair Rowan
80,000-100,000 words

The Albert Bender Donations of Far Eastern Art to the National Museum of Ireland in the Context of his Cultural Interests in Ireland and California

Audrey Whitty
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2010
PhD

Subject: Eastern Art
Country: Ireland and California

Supervisor: Dr Philip McEvansoneya
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

The National Museum of Ireland (formerly the Dublin Science and Art Museum) was founded in 1877. During the late nineteenth/early twentieth century policy dictated that the acquisition of applied/industrial arts be nationally as well as internationally based. As a result many objects of Asian provenance came under museum control. This policy changed on Irish Independence, but one notable donor during the early years of the Irish Free State was the Irish-born, San Francisco millionaire, Albert Maurice Bender (1866-1941) who donated 260 objects of Asian art from 1931 to 1936. This collection includes twenty -one rare eighteenth century’ Tibetan-Buddhist Thangka paintings and over eighty Japanese woodblock prints from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Bender’s Jewish faith and Irish patriotism are examined in the context of his collecting activities, his generous benefaction of contemporary avant-garde art on the west coast of the United States and extensive bibliophilic activities. Bender’s correspondence with the director of the National Museum, Dr. Adolf Mahr will also be discussed, as will his relationships with some of Ireland’s most prominent intellectuals.

Foreseeing and Transmitting Arcadia: Perspective visualization in landscape architectural design

Sabrina Wilk
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2015
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Country: various
Period: various

Supervisor: Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty
80,000-100,000 words

Foreign Cults in Rome and their Origins: Questioning the Non-Roman Identification of Magna Mater, Palmyrene Deities and Sol

Sarah Wilson
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2015
PhD

Subject: Roman & Eastern Religions and Cultural History
Country: Rome and the Middle East
Period: 1st Century BC- 3rd Century AD

Supervisor: Dr Lynda Mulvin
80,000-100,000 words

The Ulster School-House in the Nineteenth Century

Robert J. Wylie
Queen's University Belfast
School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering
1983
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland: Ulster
Period: 19th Century

Stained Glass in Ireland: Principally Irish Stained Glass 1760-1963

Michael Wynne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1975
PhD

Subject: Stained Glass
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th to 20th Century

Supervisor: Anne Crookshank
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

Adaptaion to Rurla Transformation: A Place-Based Investigation into Post-Earthquake Permanent Housing Projects in Easter Turkey

Didem Yilmaz
Queen's University Belfast
School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering
2015
PhD