Uni Choices: Exeter

Art History and Visual Culture

• Wide variety of techniques and approaches to learning, including opportunities for study ‘in the field’ at galleries and museums
• Internationally-recognised fine art, heritage and film collections on site
• Opportunity to study abroad
• Varied programme allowing the study of a range of fine arts and contemporary visual forms
• Flexibility to customise your degree around your own interests
• Designed to develop a broad range of highly desirable transferable skills, but with specialist knowledge and professional experience

Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter is an exciting area of study that explores the history of art from the ancient world right through to the modern and contemporary, while also considering how meaning and culture are formed through visual practices and paradigms. The degrees offer a thorough grounding in the principles and history of art, fostering awareness of the procedures by which painting, sculpture and architecture are understood, as well as the historical developments through which new understandings and practices of art have emerged.

Our Art History and Visual Culture programme builds on the University of Exeter’s strong links in these areas and our internationally-recognised buildings, artworks and collections. These include fine art and heritage collections, a sculpture walk and one of Britain’s largest public collections of books, prints, artefacts and ephemera relating to the history and prehistory of cinema. The degree will be of particular interest if you have a background or interest in fine and modern art, the history of art, cinema, literature, cultural history, philosophy, sociology or modern languages.

In your first year you will be introduced to art history and art theory, as well as more recent ideas and debates around the nature of visuality and visual practice. During your second and third years you will be able to follow your interests through a wide range of optional modules: you can choose to study key 20th century and contemporary writings by artists and critics; art and the city; movements in Western art in the 19th and 20th centuries; contemporary forms sculpture, installation, photography, film and video art; you will also be able to explore practical aspects of museum curation and management.

Our staff members are at the cutting edge of visual culture research. Key staff specialise in classical, 18th century, modern and contemporary art, digital technology, exhibition, documentation, virtual reality; conceptual and performance art, installation and video art; and contemporary French visual culture. You can find out more about our collections, events and the involvement of our students and staff in art and culture on our Arts and Culture website.

Read more at http://www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/art/#B7jSQsBZ48Q5jzRz.99

- This is one of the choices that i made for Uni. Art history and Visual Culture. Though it is a little diffrent then anything i have dione before i think it will be a really intresting subject to do as i can learn about art work and how it has progressed over time. Also Exeter being a renowned University i think that i really really benifit with this course.