History of Art

University of Bristol

Postgraduate

In Bristol

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Bristol

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Programme overview
The Department of History of Art is a thriving and collegial centre for the study of art, visual culture and theory. Staff specialisms range from medieval altarpieces to Soviet public monuments, from pre-Renaissance sculpture to contemporary art of the diaspora. We are interested in thinking across historical periods and through a variety of critical approaches.
We encourage you to participate in the stimulating intellectual and social life of the department, with regular research seminars and guest lectures, not to mention our thriving Art History in the Pub series of talks and discussions. We support interdisciplinary approaches and have expertise in topics such as interrelationships in art and music in both the medieval and modern periods; art and writing; and issues of art and race.
We also have close links with many other departments in the school and faculty, as well as with national and local galleries and museums.

Facilities

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Bristol (Avon)
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Senate House, Tyndall Avenue, BS8 1TH

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Subjects

  • Music
  • Art
  • Sculpture
  • Staff

Course programme


Research groups

Much research is carried out by individual scholars, with specific expertise in the following areas:

  • British art and art criticism
  • Theories of modernism
  • Abstraction
  • 20th-century German art
  • 20th-century Russian and Soviet art
  • Representations of sport and the body
  • Medieval art, visual and material culture
  • Late medieval and Renaissance sculpture
  • 17th-century Italian art
  • Art and visual culture of the Black Atlantic
  • Medieval and modern art and music interrelationships (including sound and audio art, visual music, iconography and synaesthesia).

Staff and postgraduate research is also focused around two principle research clusters: Transnational Modernisms and Mediterranean Visual Cultures.

Staff and postgraduates are engaged in Faculty of Arts interdisciplinary research themes and groups, including medieval studies, Victorian studies, reception, colonial and post-colonial studies.


Careers

A large number of graduates from this programme develop careers in higher education or work on high-level research projects in the fields of history of art and visual culture; some graduates take up careers in gallery and museum management and curation, art consultancy, publishing or in the commercial fine art market.

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