Prehistory and early history; the development of Christian art; loss and reconstruction; Classicism and Celticism; art and philosophy; 19th-century narratives; modernity and revivals; 20th-century pluralism.
An overview of Scottish art from the Neolithic period to the present
Murdo Macdonald is emeritus professor of the history of Scottish
art at the University of Dundee. In his doctoral research at the
University of Edinburgh he studied the relationships between art
and science. He is a former editor of Edinburgh Review. His
research has explored, among other things, the cultural revival
milieu of Patrick Geddes, the art of the Scottish Gàidhealtachd,
visual interpretations of the life and work of Robert Burns and the
aesthetics of the cloud chamber photography of the Scottish
physicist and Nobel laureate
C. T. R. Wilson. He has a long-standing interest in Ossian and art
in an international context. He was appointed an honorary member of
the Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture in 2009, and an
honorary fellow of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies in
2016.
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