History of Art | www.essex.ac.uk/arthistory | E admit@essex.ac.uk | T +44 (0)1206 873666 Why study history of art


at Essex? We are recognised both nationally and internationally as one of the very best departments in the UK for art history. Our dedicated approach to teaching and to supporting our students is reflected in our outstanding 100 per cent score in the National Student Survey for 2010. In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (2008), we were ranked ninth in the UK, with a quarter of our research rated as world-leading. In 2010, The Complete University Guide, published in The Independent, ranked history of art at Essex tenth in the UK.


You can choose from a wide variety of specialist options, engaging with art works that range from Old Master paintings to the most up-to-date contemporary art. Latin American and pre-Columbian art and architecture are amongst our specialisms, and the University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art (UECLAA), is the largest in Europe, providing you with the opportunity to study, handle and mount exhibitions of the works yourself. You will have the opportunity to go on regular subsidised visits to London museums, galleries and specialist exhibitions, in addition to visits to major European capitals such as Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin. You do not need to have taken art history at A-level to study at Essex.


What’s special about


the Department? Founded in 1968, we are a well established department with ten members of staff providing a wide but coherent range of modules. Above all, we are lively and enthusiastic teachers who enjoy developing students’ academic and personal potential to the full within a caring academic community. We are particularly recognised for our expertise in art history.


What do our


courses cover? BA History of Art looks at art from the Renaissance to the present day, and includes a study visit to Florence. Alongside this single-honours course, we also run three joint courses: BA Literature and History of Art promotes awareness of


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the interactions and differences between literature and the visual arts in history; BA Film Studies and History of Art provides insight into the development of film from its beginnings to the present, and relates film to other visual art forms; BA History of Art and/with Modern Languages provides you with a solid grounding in history of art whilst enabling you to become proficient in one or more modern languages. We positively encourage students on all of our courses, and not just those studying modern languages, to consider a period of study abroad.


What core modules will I take?


Art, Sex and Death in the Eighteenth Century features an exciting group project designed to develop key skills. We introduce the study of art history through an examination of historical, social and political events during a time of both vibrancy and turbulence: the eighteenth century in France and England.


Greatest Hits: Case Studies in the History of Art introduces the story of art in Western Europe from the architecture


of classical Greece to the abstract art of modern times, and from Gothic cathedrals to innovations in film – for some, the defining visual medium of the twentieth century. You will study Renaissance ideas about the city and its citizens, and the new realist and post-impressionist art movements of the nineteenth century. Web-based learning resources help you to refine and develop your art-historical skills, especially writing skills. There will also be subsidised visits to see the original works of art that you are studying.


The Enlightenment is an exciting interdisciplinary module that introduces the modern currents of ideas and attitudes, in thought and culture, which appeared in Europe in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Intellectually, this movement was influenced by the new science associated with Galileo and Newton; culturally, by a turn from religion to an interest in nature, especially human nature; politically, by the development of liberal-democratic ideas; and socio-economically, by the growing importance of the commercial middle class and entrepreneurial capitalism. These developments are studied in this


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