通过本课程，您可以探索不同社区在不同时间和不同地点产生和接受艺术品的方式。您将了解艺术史，并对艺术的发展和影响进行批判性思考，以具有挑战性和发人深省的方式审视艺术的社会历史。您还将考虑从美学到人类学的一些理论和方法，可以帮助我们解释艺术品。我们不认为“艺术”已被世界各地以相同的方式理解。您将从广泛的可选模块中进行选择，以专注于符合自己兴趣的主题。这些研究包括对古希腊艺术，非洲雕塑，日本摄影和好莱坞电影以及当代艺术实践的研究。您将受益于我们学院的跨学科研究，其中包括美术馆和遗产研究中的模块，以及与文化理论家
You'll explore practices and interpretations of art across an exceptionally wide array of intersecting cultures and different periods. In a world increasingly defined through images and material culture, we approach art history as a vital and dynamic framework for understanding both our shared histories, and some of the most pressing questions we are faced with now.With an emphasis on the interconnections between art and larger social dynamics, the course offers an active engagement with questions of power, politics and society, and the potential for a deep understanding of art history to illuminate the wider frameworks that shape our culture, such as those of race, our relations to nature and the environment, class, gender and sexuality.Our students are equipped to become global citizens, as experts in their fields of study and as socially aware thinkers with dynamic, relevant and transferrable skills.Our learning communityThe course has a distinct position as a degree in a Russell Group university where art historians study alongside fine artists, within a purpose-built space that includes studios and a gallery alongside seminar rooms and a shared student common room. We have expertise in the social history of art, feminist art history and the critical study of race and global cultural encounters, with emerging interests in our historical and contemporary relations to nature through issues of sustainability, climate and the environment. We offer the second oldest art history course in the United Kingdom. All our teaching is driven by cutting-edge research, with a dynamic approach based on emerging issues and questions that matter to us as a community of academics, practitioners and students. The course covers an exceptional variety of specialist areas of study ranging from Africa to Asia, from the Medieval world to New York in the 20th century, from the Renaissance to contemporary art markets and exhibition cultures and from interrogations of art and capitalism to structures of power within the portrait. Across the areas we teach, we attend critically to the institutions and spaces in which art is encountered, drawing on ongoing professional collaborations and long-standing expertise among many of our staff who have worked in major museums, galleries and related arts and cultural organisations. Specialist facilitiesIn addition to the wide range of museums and galleries in the city and beyond, the University campus features:The Stanley & Audrey Burton GalleryTreasures of the Brotherton GalleryMuseum of the History of Science, Technology and MedicineMarks & Spencer Company ArchiveInternational Textile CollectionPublic art trailProject Space – a multi-purpose space in the School designed for the development of curatorial practice and visiting exhibitionsThe University Library offers online books, journals and databases, has a wealth of archive material in its Special Collections, including manuscript, archive and early printed material, and provides a range of spaces for individual study or group work. You’ll also benefit from access to Box of Broadcasts, an archive of over 2 million TV and radio broadcasts.