DPT: History of Art, Theory and Display (MSc) (Full-time) (PTMSCHISTD2F)

It is recommended that students choose 40 credits of pre-1800 courses and 40 credits of post-1800 courses as part of their option courses across both semesters.

Alternative relevant option courses to those listed below may be substituted with the written permission of the Programme Director.

Please note that History of Art Work Placement (Level 11) HIAR11126 is a full year, 20 credit course with the majority of the course content taking place in Semester 2.

Students may take Work-Based Dissertation in History of Art (Level 11) (HIAR11130) in place of the History of Art MSc Dissertation (HIAR11114).

Compulsory courses

Research: Theories and Methods

Must be taken during Semester 1

The Cultures and Politics of Display

Must be taken during Semester 2

History of Art MSc Dissertation

Must be passed at 50% and taken during Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond

Course options

Select a minimum of 20 and maximum of 40 credits from the following list of courses for Semester 1.
You should choose one course from the pre-1800 period, and one from the post-1800 period.
Please note that not all option courses may be available each year.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Impressionism and the Third Republic, Culture, Politics and Social Change, 1865-1900

Theorising Contemporary Art

Expanding the Book: Image and Literacy in Valois France

Art and Cultural Exchange in Mughal India 1500-1900

The Aesthetics of Difference: Post-Colonial Perspectives from the 19th to the 21st century

Utopia Zones: Modernism and Abstraction

Art for the Afterlife: Buddhist Relics in Asian Material Culture

Art and Digital Culture

Art and Occultism in the Long Nineteenth Century

Idolatry: Images and the Sacred in the Americas and Europe, 1400-1700.

Women Artists and Surrealism

From Versailles to Napoleon III: Visualising the Cost of Luxury, 1682-1873

Contemporary Artists' Film and Video

AND

Select a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 20 credits from the following list of courses for Semester 1.
Please note that not all option courses may be available each year.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

AND

Select a minimum of 20 and maximum of 40 credits from the following list of courses for Semester 2.
You should choose one course from the pre-1800 period, and one from the post-1800 period.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

Art and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy

The Celtic Question : Art in early Britain and Ireland

Art and Society in the Contemporary World: China

Critical Episodes in Twentieth-Century German Art: Cultural Exchanges and Divisions

Picturing Authority: Art and Politics at the Tudor and Stuart Courts

Inequality in the arts: Understanding the production and consumption of culture.

The Modern Art Museum (Level 11)

History of Art Work Placement (Level 11)

Premodern Textiles in Europe

Archives of Dissent, Repertoires of Resistance: Photography and Civil Rights

Images, Politics and the Contemporary African Public Sphere