Asian Art Collection – PhD Theses

Art Market

Archer, Anita Sarah. ‘Global Positioning: International Auctions and the Development of the Western Market for Chinese Contemporary Art, 1998-2012’. PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne, 2018.

Biennales, Triennales and Art Festivals

Purushothaman, Venkateswara. ‘Designing Culture, Policies and Festivals: A Cultural History of the Singapore Arts Festival, 1959 to 2012’. PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne, 2017

Curatorial and Museological Studies

Ho Chui Fun. ‘The Museum Circuit in Contemporary China: The Institutional Regulation, Production and Consumption of Art Museums in Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Hong Kong’. PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne, 2018.

Exhibition Histories

Seng Yu Jin. ‘A History of Art Exhibitions: The Emergence of Critical Exhibitions in Southeast Asia, 1970s–1990s’. PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne, 2019.

Tamura Kayo. ‘Australian Aboriginal Art in Japan: A Study of Recent Public Exhibitions’. PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne, 1994.

Art Policy, Cultural Diplomacy and Soft Power

Blakley, Kara Lindsey. ‘From Diplomacy to Diffusion: The Macartney Mission and Its Impact on the Understanding of Chinese Art, Aesthetics, and Culture in Great Britain, 1793-1859’. PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne, 2018.

Conservation

Tse, Nicole Andrea. ‘The Characterisation of Oil Paintings in Tropical Southeast Asia’. PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne, 2009.

Eckfield, Tonia. ‘The Tomb of Li Xian: Posthumous Rehabilitation and Political Legitimacy.’ PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne, 1999.

Monographic and Thematic Studies

Holland, Alison, ‘Mori Mariko: Mapping the Universe through Contemporary Art’. PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne, 2008

Transculturalism and Exchange

Brimacombe, Ruth. ‘Imperial Avatars: Art, India and the Prince of Wales in 1875-6’. PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne, 2008.

Nation, Post-Nation and Cultural Identity

Carroll, Alison. ‘An Examination of the Significance of Soviet Socialist Realist Art and Practice in the Asia Pacific Region’. PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne, 2016.

Chen Hsueh Sheng. ‘Art Photography in China before 1949: The Continuation and Transformation of an Elite Culture’. PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne, 2010.

McIntyre, Tanya. ‘Chinese New Year Pictures: The Process of Modernisation, 1842-1942’. PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne, 1997.

Nelson, Roger. ‘Modernity and Contemporaneity in “Cambodian Arts” after Independence’. PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne, 2017.

Stephenson, Peta. ‘Beyond black and white: Aborigines, Asian-Australians and the national imaginary’. PhD thesis, University of Melbourne, 2003.

Toh Lay Ping Charmaine. ‘Imagining Singapore: Pictorial Photography from the 1950s to 1970s’. PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne, 2020.

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