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AAH Dissertation Prize Success for Two MA Students

Posted on 19 July 2021

We are very proud of MA students Gerry Fässler and Ariana Torres, who are both shortlisted runners up for the Association for Art History 2020 Postgraduate Dissertation Prize!

Collection SFMOMA @sfmoma , The Helen Crocker Russell and William H. and Ethel W. Crocker Family Funds purchase, Copyright© Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Blake, William. Satan, Sin and Death. Pen, ink, watercolour and touches of gold leaf or powdered gold sus- pended in a binding medium on wove paper, 496 x 403 mm, 1808. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA

Ariana wrote on 'Fashion, Commodity & the Surrealist Self in the Photographic Collaboration between Man Ray & Elsa Schiaparelli, 1931-1937' and Gerry wrote about 'The Fleeting Existence of Sin and Death: Neoclassical Personification-Allegory in Paradise Lost Illustrations'.

Huge congratulations to both Gerry and Ariana!