Art History

Entry requirements

Applicants should normally hold a BA degree with at least first- or upper-second class honours or equivalent qualification, and an MA or equivalent research experience.

Months of entry

October

Course content

We are a wide-ranging group of researchers, across art, architecture, visual culture and design history. With a strong commitment to interdisciplinary research, an open and inclusive approach, we like to find new ways of looking at the past and making connections with the present.

We run a highly successful MA in Art History, from which we recruit many of our PhD students. Our interests range from prehistory to the present, taking in rock art, Byzantine icons, the Ottoman Empire, Renaissance and early modern Italy, the Netherlands, Britain and Scandinavia, eighteenth-century France and then the burst of global connections sustained across the modern world to the present day.

In all periods, we emphasize our commitment to reflecting on power relations, mainly through attending processes of colonisation and post-colonisation. We carry this into our active scholarship on questions of equality, diversity and inclusion in art, architecture and design today.