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Academic Programme in the
History of Art & Design
School of Humanities
• BA (Hons) Fashion & Dress History
• BA (Hons) History of Art & Design
• BA (Hons) History of Decorative Arts & Crafts
• BA (Hons) History of Design
• BA (Hons) Museum & Heritage Studies
• BA (Hons) Visual Culture
Programme includes
• Single academic programme with subject specialization
• Small group teaching and quality contact time in all modules
• Encouragement and structure to pursue individually tailored projects
• Choice of option modules including work placement and study abroad
• Faculty option elective module
Features of our courses
• Year one: two course-organised study visits to
London museums and art galleries
• Year two: London visits; optional study visit to Paris
• Year two: semester abroad exchange programme
with the University of Oslo
Travel
“I was fortunate to be part of a small, very special group from whom I gained much”
“What University gives you is always more than the knowledge of your chosen subject. I have honed and developed my critical and analytical skills”
“I enjoyed the course immensely and would like to do it again to take up some of the options I missed”
Students report
Year one: Eighteenth and nineteenth-century art and design history
Year two: Twentieth and twenty-first century art and design history
Lectures and seminars
What will I learn about?
Core modules: survey of art and design history
Sample topic: the consumer revolution
• How did consumption patterns and
habits change in the 18th century?
• How did designers and shoppers in
Paris and London respond to exotic
imports from China?
Sack back gown, made in London from silk woven in China, 1760-1765, V&A
Sample topic: The ‘contemporary’ and the ‘modern’
• How were ideas of the ‘contemporary’ embraced in the 1950s and 1960s?
• How was modern design popularised for a mass market?
• What were the ideals involved in planning the modern home?
• Other topics include: Parisian luxury trade, utility furniture and ceramics, the Bauhaus, Japanese design, craft and environmentalism
The Geffrye Museum's 1950s/1960s Room
• Art, architecture and design in the British country house
• The design, manufacture and consumption of clothes for
women, 1918-1945
• The past in the present: vintage, retro, revival
• Heritage: the material culture of the past
• Bubbles to Benetton: advertising and consumption culture
since the late nineteenth century
• The art of intervention: the study of site-specific artistic
practice
• The politics of place: British landscape art
Option modules – some examples
• An introduction to music & sound production
• Life drawing & fashion illustration
• Colour/black & white photography darkroom
techniques
• Bookbinding
• Frame tapestry weaving
• Introduction to fashion design
• Knit design
• International horror cinema
Faculty-wide option
Dr Louise Purbrick:Domestic world, cultural policies at sites of conflict
Dr Paul Jobling: Text & image, advertising, graphic design and
photography
Dr Lara Perry: 19th century British art, portraiture, feminism and museum collections
Prof Cheryl Buckley: Fashion and everyday life, modern British design
Katie Simpson
Course Resources
• Specialist libraries (university and local)
• Dress and Textiles teaching collection
• Links with many local museums and V&A
• Design Archives
• Screen Archives South East
• Language courses
• Wide range of guest speakers
• University gallery & theatre
Art and culture in Brighton and Hove
Volunteering opportunities at art festivals
Art and culture in Brighton and Hove
Opportunities to participate
We have graduates currently working in:
• Museums and galleries
• Auction houses
• Secondary and university level teaching
• Picture research
• Retailing and PR
• Arts administration
• Journalism and publishing
Our graduates
• 2012-13, Museum Studies MA, Leicester University / Tate Intern
• 2012, Visitor Manager, Charleston House
• 2011, Auction House Assistant
• 2011, Events Co-ordinator, Brighton Photo Biennial
• 2010, Writer for the BBC and Freelance Art Writer
• 2010, Vintage Clothing Shop Proprietor
Our recent graduates
• 2007, Gallery Manager, Menier Gallery, London
• 2005, Education Department, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
• 2004, Editor in Chief of photography magazine 1000 Words
• 2003, Lecturer, Royal College of Needlework
• 2002, Education Officer, Photoworks
• 1999, Patch Rogers Interior & Decorative Arts
Longer-term careers of graduates
• MA History of Design and Material Culture, 2005, Researcher, Crafts Council Collection, London
• MA History of Design and Material Culture, 2006, Lecturer, Edinburgh College of Art
• PhD, 2000, • Senior Teaching Fellow, Centre for South East Asian
Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
• PhD, 1995, • Nora E. Vaughan Fashion Costume Curator, Royal Ontario
Museum, Canada
• PhD, 1988, • Senior Curator (Textiles), Victoria & Albert Museum
Research culture of our graduates
Themed talks at Pavilion Parade, 12:00-2:00
12:00-12:15 – Room 203, Paul Jobling Mixing messages in the history of art and design: from Manet to Yves Saint Laurent 12:05-12:20 – Room 103, Jane HattrickBritish Royal fashions: a case study 12:30-12:45 – Room 203, Lara PerryA blue chicken in Trafalgar Square? Traditions of public art and the fourth plinth 12:35-12:50 – Room 102, Glenn WardThe Brighton Rock effect: fact, fiction and film 1:00-1:15 – Room 103, Cheryl RobertsDressing for pleasure: the influence of nightclubs and cinema on the wardrobe of young modern women in the inter-war years 1:20-1:30 – Room 404, Yunah LeeOptional study trip to Paris 1:45-2:00– Room 404, Student Ambassadors Alice Power and Amy HodgsonThe student experience
2:00 pm onwards: There are limited places for interviews available today. You can sign up whilst you are having tea in G7 at Pavilion Parade.