Art History and Visual Culture
Answering big questions through art history and visual culture
Answering big questions through art history and visual culture
Here at Nottingham, we view art as a powerful way to explore and express our cultural identities. When you embark on our art history degree, you’ll not only begin to explore visual cultures across periods but you’ll be inspired to question, reflect, and appreciate the power that art represents for the future.
Through our engaging and inspirational modules, we enable you to answer the big questions that arise through art history and visual culture.
How do buildings shape the identity of a city? How does this change over time?
Would these be as valuable if they’d been made from wood? How about plastic?
Can you fully appreciate these paintings without understanding the historical context?
How important is it to understand the relationship between art and ideas?
How do past ‘readings’ affect our understanding of art?
How do the words used to describe a work of art affect our understanding of it?
Did the civil rights movement have an impact on the arts?
How can we understand film in relation to other art forms?
How has the American dream shaped LA architecture?
How does visual culture shape our understanding of the past?
How can we think critically about our experience of media, art and screen culture in our everyday lives?
How did concepts of the dream and the unconscious change art and thought in the twentieth century?
Did women have a role in the Renaissance art world?
What should we do with the buildings left behind by Fascism?
How did art critics write and respond to the development of American art in the twentieth century?
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