Art History Theses by  Subject

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

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Subject Headings


Architects; Architecture
Contemporary Art
Decorative Art and Artists
Fashion; Costume History
First Nations
Historiography; Historians; Critics; Theorists
Iconography 
Installations and Installation Artists
Interior Decorators; Interior Decoration
Landscape Architecture; Urban Planning
Museology; Exhibitions; Collecting
Painters; Draughtspersons; Illustrators
Painting; Drawing; Printmaking: General
Photographers; Photography
Sculptors; Sculpture
Video and Video Artists
Women Artists; Feminist Concerns

 

Architects; Architecture

 


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

 

Contemporary Art

 

 

Aubin, Jocelyne. 1994. La Chambre nuptiale.

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

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

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

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

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

 

Decorative Art and Artists

 


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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

 

Fashion; Costume History

 


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

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

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

 

First Nations

 


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

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

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

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

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

Swinton, Nelda. 1985. The Inuit Sea Goddess.

 

Historiography; Historians; Critics; Theorists

 


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

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

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

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

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

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).

 

Iconography

 


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

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

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

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

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.

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

Swinton, Nelda. 1985. The Inuit Sea Goddess.

 

Installations and Installation Artists

 


Aubin, Jocelyne. 1994. La Chambre nuptiale.

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

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

 

Interior Decorators; Interior Decoration

 


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

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

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

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

Dombowsky, Philip. 1995. Emmanuel Brieffa Revisited.

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

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

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

 

Landscape Architecture; Urban Planning

 


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

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

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

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

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

 

Museology; Exhibitions; Collecting

 


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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

 

Painters; Draughtspersons; Illustrators

 


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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

 

Painting; Drawing; Printmaking: General

 


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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Photographers; Photography

 


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

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

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

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

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

 

Sculptors; Sculpture

 


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

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

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

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

 

Video and Video Artists

 


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

 

Women Artists; Feminist Concerns

 


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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

 

Last updated: 24 septembre 2007

 

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