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Eighteenth Century Visual Cultures The Open University

Department name
Department of Art History
Qualification, duration, mode
PhD 36FT 72PT variableDL*MPhil 15FT 24PT variableDL
Months of entry
October
Entry requirements
PhD: The normal minimum entrance requirement is an upper second class honours degree or master's degree, relevant to the proposed area of study, from a recognised higher education institution in the UK. You should also have experience of academic research in the previous four years, normally in the form of either a master's degree in research methods, an undergraduate degree with a research element in the final year, or work-related experience with evidence through research reports. If you're not sure if you meet the entry requirements, please contact us (research-degrees-team@open.ac.uk). MPhil: see http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/ for more information.
Course description
This research group is concerned with eighteenth-century visual culture in all its various manifestations, including painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic arts, landscape and urbanism. Its members explore the complex dynamics of visual culture during this period, with reference to the tensions between theory and practice, classicism and modernity, identity and power and visual and textual sources. Our primary focus is on the art of Britain, France and Germany and we consider the eighteenth century in its widest definition, including its legacies and historiography. Current research projects include Figures of Pathos: Melancholy and Mourning in French and British Art c.1760-1815 (book --Emma Barker); Landscapes of London: The Metropolitan Environs 1660-1830 (book - Elizabeth McKellar); The First Actresses 1660-1800 (collaborative exhibition and book with the National Portrait Gallery - Professor Gill Perry); Meaning and Representation in Wallpapers and Related Schemes in Britain, c.1740-1820 (book - Dr Clare Taylor);Expression and Classicism in Sculpture and Painting c.1800 (book - Dr Linda Walsh); Living with Books: The Country House Library 1660-1830 (book - Dr Susie West). Potential research projects The group welcomes enquiries from students interested in research projects in these or related areas. Current / recent research projects - Meaning and Representation in Wallpapers and Related Schemes in Britain, c.1740-1820 - The Burford Masons and the changing world of building practice in England, c.1630-1730 Potential supervisors - Dr Emma Barker - French and British art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. - Dr Elizabeth McKellar - Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British architecture and visual culture. - Professor Gill Perry - Modern and contemporary art; eighteenth-century British art, especially portraiture; art and gender. - Dr Clare Taylor - Eighteenth-century domestic interior. - Dr Linda Walsh - French art and European sculpture of the eighteenth and early nineteenth-centuries. - Dr Susie West - Seventeenth and eighteenth-century architecture and material culture.
Funding
Please see The Open University website http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/ for more information.
New students enrolled annually
unknown
Total enrolled students
unknown
Contact name
Research School
Contact email
arts-research-students@open.ac.uk
Contact phone
+44 (0)1908 652479
Contact web
http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/

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