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History of Art Expertise for Radio Documentary
John Gash features in the latest RTÉ Radio 1 Documentary On One, "A Caravaggio in Tuam?", broadcast on Saturday 13 September 2015. In this programme, John offers his expertise as a specialist in the work of the artist Caravaggio, in tracking down a "lost" work by the Italian Baroque master....
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New Staff Publication
Dr. Amy Bryzgel’s latest book, Miervaldis Polis, has been published by Neputns in Latvia, the leading publisher of art historical texts in Lativa. This is the first monograph published on the Latvian painter, performance artist and theorist, who was born in 1948, and it is a project that has been more than ten...
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Undergraduate Prize Winners in History of Art
Congratulations to the following undergraduate students, who have won prizes for their work in History of Art for the 2014-15 academic year: Debora Bertoldi and Marina McCrory were jointly awarded the Felicia Murray Lefebvre Prize. This annual prize is awarded for the best essay submitted by any Level 2 student in History...
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Dr Fern Insh receives the Principal's Prize for Public Engagement
Dr Fern Insh, who recently received her doctorate in History of Art from the University of Aberdeen, has been awarded the Principal's Prize for Public Engagement with Research in the Early Career Researcher category. Principal Sir Ian Diamond presented Fern with a certificate and prize on 31 May at a ceremony...
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PhD success for Aberdeen Art Historian
Congratulations to Aaron Thom on his recent, successful PhD viva! Aaron defended his research, "Caravaggism in Rome and Naples: Case Studies in Connoisseurship", which was supervised by Mr John Gash. Aaron's thesis deals with some infrequently studied followers of the revolutionary Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). Investigations pertaining to many...
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History of Art PhD student to present her research at international conference
PhD student Jasmina Zaloznik has been selected to present the research she conducted this past year for her dissertation at an international conference on Neue Slovenische Kunst (New Slovenian Art) at the Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana, 19-21 June 2015. The conference will feature prominent theorists on contemporary visual culture and...
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Art Historian's research uncovers cultural links between East and West
Dr. Amy Bryzgel has been awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council Early Career Fellowship (AH/M005585/1) for her project, Performance Art in Eastern Europe. The fellowship supports the completion and dissemination of her research on performance art in the region, which she began in 2013 with the support of a...
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Scottish Crucible success for Aberdeen academic
Dr. Amy Bryzgel is one of 30 early-career researchers, selected from a pool of 102 applicants, to attend this year’s ‘Scottish Crucible,’ the professional and personal leadership development programme created by NESTA (http://www.nesta.org.uk) for experienced post-doctoral researchers and those in their first academic position. The scheme brings together talented researchers from a range...
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Dr Amy Bryzgel to deliver lecture at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw
On April 16, Amy Bryzgel will deliver the closing lecture for the exhibition “Natalia L.L.: Secretum et Tremor” at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland. The lecture is entitled “Natalia L.L.: Intimate Transfigurations,” and will focus on the manner in which the Polish artist’s work crosses...
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Research Support Grant awarded to Dr Helen Pierce
Art Historian Dr Helen Pierce has been awarded a Research Support Grant by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. The Grant will enable Helen to carry out research in London and in Oxford during the summer of 2015 relating to her project The Art of the Interregnum,...