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Established in the early 1970s as a graduate programme dealing exclusively with art and architecture in Canada, Concordia's M.A. in Art History has recently been expanded to cover the place of Canadian art and architecture within the broader North American context.

The following is a list of theses produced by the Art History Department at Concordia University from 1976 to the 1996.

For theses from 1997 to the present, see: http://graduatestudies.concordia.ca/thesis/

 

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Acland, Joan. 1989.
Architecture and Ideology: The National Gallery of Canada.

Anderson, Janice. 1995.
Closed Systems: Alexandra Luke, Hortense Gordon, and the Canadian Art History Canon.

Antaki, Karen. 1992.
Henrietta Mabel May: The Montreal Years, 1877-1969.

Antoniou, Sylvia. 1992.
The Sculpture of Anne Kahane.

Aubin, Jocelyne. 1994.
La Chambre nuptiale.

Avon, Susan. 1994.
The Beaver Hall Hill Group and its Place in the Montreal Art Milieu and the Nationalist Network.

Baird, Shirley. 1995.
The War Memorial Windows of Charles William Kelsey.

Bara, Jana. 1986.
Furs in Fashion as Illustrated in the Photo-Portraiture of William Notman in the 1860s.

Belley, Cécile. 1989.
François-Edouard Meloche (1855-1914), muraliste et professeur, et le décor de l'Eglise Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation de Champlain.

Borcoman, Katherine. 1991.
William Notman's Portraits of Children.

Braide, Janet. 1979.
William Brymner (1855-1925): The Artist in Retrospect.

Cantieni, Graham. 1987.
The Metro Montreal: Integration of Art and Architecture.

Carlevaris, Anna Maria. 1992.
Photography, Immigration, and Canadianism: 1896-1921.

Carter, Alexandra E. 1979.
William H. Eagar: "Sensibilities of No Common Order.

Clark, Tim. 1991.
Case Study: Michel Foucault, Critical Modernism and Writing in the Visual Arts in Canada.

Colborne, Alison. 1992.
Jock Macdonald: A Search for the Universal Truth in Nature.

Coley, Sandra. 1993.
The Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul, Montreal: An Architectural History 1805-1932, and Catalogue of Memorials.

Collins, Curtis. 1994.
Janvier and Morrisseau: Transcending a Canadian Discourse.

Corbel, Nadine. 1991.
Les Chantiers navals à Montréal au XIXième siècle.

Currell, Daniel. 1995.
Modernism in Canada: A Comparison of Clement Greenberg's Approach to Art and Artists in the United States Versus Canada.

Day, Gordon. 1977.
The Life and Times of Aaron Allan Edson.

Dombowsky, Philip. 1995.
Emmanuel Brieffa Revisited.

Duchesne, Jean-Pierre. 1990.
L'Ornementation architecturale Art Déco à Montréal

Farah, Mary Anne. 1995.
The Significance of the Introduction of Electronic Interaction to the History of the Art Object and the Viewer.

Foss, Brian. 1985.
Spirituality and Social Consciousness in the Art and Thought of Miller Gore Brittain, c.1930-1945.

Gauvin, Kim Louise. 1995.
CORRIDART Revisited - Excavating the Remains.

Gignac, Gilbert. 1992.
A Methodology for the Study of Sketchbooks and a Case Study of Two Nineteenth-Century Examples.

Goelman, Sharon. 1978.
William Raphael, R.C.A., 1833-1914.

Grant, Anita. 1995.
Arthur Lismer in the Context of Sheffield.

Gubbay, Aline. 1978.
Three Montreal Monuments: An Expression of Nationalism.

Gustavison, Susan. 1989.
Robert J. Wickenden (1861-1931) and the Late Nineteenth-Century Print Revival.

Hammond, Cynthia Imogen. 1996.
The Strength and Fragility of the Egg: Spring Hurlbut's Interventions in the Classical Idiom.

Haskins, Heather Victoria. 1995.
Bending the Rules: The Montreal Branch of the Women's Art Association of  Canada, 1894-1900.

Hawkins, Giles. 1986.
The Montreal Exhibition Building and Museum, 1860: A Monument to Pre-Confederation Canadian Economic Nationalism.

Henderson, Lisa. 1991.
Emblems of Identity: An Introduction to the Painting of Indian Portraits in Canada.

Heron, Laura Lee Dale. 1995.
German Expressionism and the Child Art Movement in the Career of Wynona Mulcaster.

Hodges, Margaret. 1996.
Sigrun Bulow-Hube: Scandinavian Modernism in Canada.

Hudec, Kamille Teresa. 1996.
Landscape Representation of the Western District (1788-1853), Upper Canada, and the Creation of Identity.

Huneault, Kristina. 1994.
Heroes of a Different Sort: Representations of Women at Work in Canadian Art from World War I.

Ivory, Sarah Elizabeth. 1995.
The European Art and Canadiana Collections of Robert Wilson Reford (1867-1951).

Jim, Alice Ming Wai. 1996.
Black Women Artists in Canada: A Documentation and Analysis of the 1989 Exhibition Black Wimmin--When and Where We Enter.

Johnson, Percy. 1994.
The Edmonton Public Library: An Architectural History of a Carnegie Library Building.

Kennell, Elizabeth H. 1985.
Frederick Simpson Coburn's Illustrations for the Poetry of Dr. W.H. Drummond.

Kollar, Kathryn L. 1981.
John Arthur Fraser (1838-1898).

Kolomeir, Harriet. 1987.
The Neighbourhood Movie House in Montreal 1925-1939: The Harmonious Whole.

Korman, Julie B. 1985.
Corporate Art Collecting in Canada.

Lammerich, Yvonne. 1995.
The Camera Obscura, a Paradigm.

Langlois-Szaskiewicz, Cécile. 1985.
Philippe Liébert et le tabernacle du maître-autel de l'Hôpital-Général des Soeurs Grises.

Latimer, Joanne. 1994.
The Kafakaesque in Susan Scott's Description of a Struggle: Identity, the Other and an Amenable Interaction.

Leblanc, Diane. 1992.
L'Iconographie de Saint Antoine de Padoue dans la peinture religieuse au Québec de 1670 à 1890.

Lee, Robert Wesley-George. 1995.
AIDS, Art and Activism in Canada: Contextualizing the Work of Steven Andrews and Andy Fabo.

Lesser, Gloria. 1983.
Iconography in the Portraiture of Joseph Brant (1742-1807).

Losier, Renée. 1984.
Cast Iron Façades in Montreal: Technological and Stylistic Aspects.

Lowery, Susan. 1985.
The Art Gallery of Toronto/Pattern and Process of Growth: 1872-1966.

McGee, Donna. 1991.
St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Montréal: An Architectural Analysis and History of Its Early Years.

Mellamphy, Janelle. 1996.
YOULOGY: Self/Portraiture, Canada, and Taras Polataiko's YOU series.

Millar, Joyce. 1992.
The Sculptors' Society of Canada: The First Fifty Years (1928-1978).

Mizgala, Johanna Kerry. 1996.
The Museum Work of Lance Belanger and Richard Purdy.

Morgan, Norma. 1985.
F. Cleveland Morgan and the Decorative Arts Collection at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Mulley, Elizabeth. 1991.
Lucius R. O'Brien: A Victorian in North America. American Influence on His Early Work, 1873-1880.

Nadeau-Saumier, Monique. 1989.
Louis Muhlstock: The Urban Landscape 1930-1950.

Nemiroff, Diana. 1985.
A History of Artist-Run Spaces in Canada, With Particular Reference to Vehicule, A Space and the Western Front.

Nelson, Charmaine. 1995.
'Coloured Nude': Fetishization, Disguise, Dichotomy.

Nixon, Virginia. 1990.
Antoine-Sébastien Falardeau (1822-1899) and the Old Master Copy in the Nineteenth Century.

O'Rourke, Kathryn. 1995.
Labours and Love: Issues of Domesticity and Marginalization in the Works of Paraskeva Clark.

Page, Anne Mandely. 1991.
Canada's First Professional Women Painters, 1890-1914.

Payton-Tayler, Evlyn. 1993.
The Changing Face of Fashion in Montreal, 1885-1905: New Markets, Improved Taste and the Move to Mass Production.

Peppall, Rosalind M. 1983.
The Murals by George A. Reid in the Toronto Municipal Buildings, (1897-1899).

Poirier, Monique. 1991.
The Fortifications of Montreal 1717-1744: Development and Implementation of the Plan.

Power, Hazel. 1993.
Robert Findlay and the Macaulay Family Architecture.

Pringle, Donald A. 1983.
Artists of the Canadian Pacific Railroad 1881-1900.

Puchalski, Irene. 1991.
An Analysis of Four Building Types by John S. Archibald, Architect (1872-1934).

Putt, Laurel. 1990.
Decorative Art in Canadian Public Art Museums.

Rabinovitch, R. Bella. 1991.
Landon Mackenzie: The Animals in the Landscape.

Reesor, Carol. 1995.
Chronicles of the National Gallery of Canada at the Venice Biennale.

Robinson, Stephen. 1992.
An Architect Discovered: The Work of A.F. Dunlop.

Rose, David. 1993.
The Hotel Architecture of Ross & MacFarlane/Ross & Macdonald.

Rosenfeld, Roslyn M. 1981.
Miniatures and Silhouettes in Montreal, 1760-1860.

Ross, Christine. 1984.
Perspectives holistiques dans la vidéo-fiction féministe au Québec (1978-82).

Rouleau-Ross, Lucille. 1983.
Les versions connues du portrait du Monsigneur Joseph-Octave Plessis (1763-1825) et les conjectures des attributions pictorales au début du XIXe siècle.

Roycroft, Michelle. 1996.
Needling the System: The Textile Art of Colette Whiten, Barbara Todd and Ann Newdigate.

Salahub, Jennifer E. 1989.
As They are Fashioned So They Grow: Samplery and Quebec Samplers.

Schofield, Apollonia. 1993.
The Soul Pictures of Margaret Mary Nealis R.S.C.J. 1876 to 1957.

Seline, Janice E. 1983.
Frederick Law Olmsted's Mount Royal Park, Montreal: Design and Context.

Shtychno, Alexandra. 1991.
Luigi Giovanni Vitale Capello, a.k.a. Cappello (1843-1904), Itinerant Piedmontese Artist of Late Nineteenth-Century Quebec.

Sifton, Elizabeth. 1994.
Retailing Fashion in Montreal. A Study of Stores, Merchants and Assortments, 1845-1915.

Smith, Howard. 1996.
The Johnsons of New York: The Evolution of a Vernacular Style, Ireland, New York, Ontario & Quebec.

Stevens, Caroline. 1996.
Feminist Alternatives to Passive Representations of   'Feminine' Corporeality.

Stier, Wendela. 1990.
Chief Justice Sir James Monk, Monkville in Montreal, and Some Related Neo-Palladian Revival Architecture in Early Lower Canada and Nova Scotia.

Stirling, J. Craig. 1982.
The St-Hilaire Church Interior Decorations (1895-1900) of Ozias Leduc.

Strong, David. 1994.
Sidney Carter (1880-1956) and the Politics of Pictorialism.

Swinton, Nelda. 1985.
The Inuit Sea Goddess.

Thomas, Ann. 1976.
The Role of Photography in Canadian Painting 1860-1900: Relationships Between the Photographic Image and a Style of Realism in Painting.

Thomas, Stephanie A. 1982.
Frederick William Hutchison (1871-1953).

Todd, Patricia. 1978.
James D. Duncan (1806-1881). Catalogue of Works and Introduction to his Art.

Valliant, Lois. 1991.
Robert Hugh Ayre (1900-1980): Art - A Place in the Community. Reviews at 'The Gazette', Montreal (1935-1937) and at 'The Standard', Montreal (1938-1942).

Viloria, James. 1994.
Place Bonaventure: Process, Form, and Interpretation.

Volesky, Nancy. 1988.
The Exterior Use of Decorative Ironwork in Ottawa Architecture During the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century.

Wagg, Susan W. 1979.
The McGill Architecture of Percy Erskine Nobbs.

Wall Tanchyk, Cynthia. 1990.
The Quilt as Art: A Study of the Revival of Quiltmaking in Manitoba.

Wylie, Elizabeth. 1981.
The Development of Spirituality in the Work of Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald 1890-1956.

Zubalik, Janis R. 1996.
'Advancing the Material Interests of the Redeemer's Kingdom': The Erskine Presbyterian  Church, Montreal, 1894.

 

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