University of Sussex, MA, Art History

Core modules

• Art History Research Seminar
• Art History Research Skills and Methods
• Dissertation (Art History)
• Theories & Approaches to Art History

Options

• Art and its Objects
• Art and the Interior
• Art and the Interior
• Art and Travel
• Instrumental Aesthetics:Contemporary Art, Politics and Visual Culture
• Modernity in Europe and North America
• Photography and 20th Century Visual Culture
• Power of Images in Byzantium
• Renaissance Painting and the Workshop Tradition
• Renaissance Painting and the Workshop Tradition
• Visual and Material Cultures

Related Courses:

• A first- or upper second-class undergraduate honours degree in art history or another relevant humanities or social science discipline.
• For international students - IELTS 6.5 overall, with not less than 6.0 in each section. Pearson Test of English (Academic) 62 overall, with at least 56 in all four skills.

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This MA looks at global perspectives in the history of art, concentrating on the art object, its appearance, reception and manufacture. 

Rated in the top 3 in the UK for research in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). 100 per cent of our research was rated as recognised internationally or higher, with 70 per cent rated as internationally excellent or higher, and 45 per cent rated as world leading. 

Art history at Sussex is ranked in the top 10 in the UK in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2014, and in the top 20 in the UK in The Complete University Guide 2015 andThe Guardian University Guide 2015. 

The skills of our faculty represent a unique array across European and American art and culture, with an interest in material culture. 

Art history at Sussex has strong links with museums and galleries, both locally and nationally, especially with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), the National Portrait Gallery, the National Maritime Museum, the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery and Charleston House. 

For MA and research students alike, art history at Sussex provides a friendly and stimulating environment for the exchange of ideas, in which intellectual life and scholarly endeavour thrive. 

Some of Sussex Art Histroy famous graduates include: Jeremy Deller, Turner Prize winner, Robyn Young, CJ Sansom and Philippa Gregory, authors, Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator, Historic Royal Palaces.