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.