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Goldsmiths, University of London, BA (Hons), History of Art

Goldsmiths, University of London
 United Kingdom

Year 1

First year will introduce you to history of art as a discipline. And engage you in discussion of key aspects of contemporary visual culture – including not just artefacts in museums and art galleries, but also architecture, cityscape and landscape, adverts, TV and film, websites, the body, and street style.

Modules:

  • Modernities
  • Seeing and Showing
  • Space and Time
  • Beyond Boundaries

Year 2

Compulsary module:

  • Contemporaneities

Optional modules:

  • Beckett and Aesthetics
  • Cohabitations/Inhbitations
  • Art and Technologies of the Image
  • The Fact of Blackness
  • Fashion as a Dialectical image
  • Ornamentation and Materiality
  • Museums, Galleries, Exhibitions
  • Popular Modernism
  • Patterns of Perception
  • Postmodernities
  • Radical Imagination & Speculative Voyages

Year 3

You take two History of Art special subjects and a third module which may be a further History of Art special subject or an option module or a Related Study. You also write an 8,000 – 10,000 word Dissertation on a topic of your own choice supervised by a tutor. Special Subjects include:

  • Animating Architecture
  • Archive & Spectacle
  • Autobiographies
  • Curating
  • Fictioning
  • Film Fables and Documentary Lives
  • Forming the Commons
  • Philosophy and...
  • Sexual Poetics
  • The Truth in Painting

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The University is based on a single-site campus within London’s vibrant New Cross, just minutes from the heart of this great global city, home to major cultural landmarks including the National Theatre and Tate Modern. New Cross is a vibrant area in South East London that's situated just 10 minutes by train from London Bridge. Described by The New York Times as a hub of creative talent, the area has a thriving music and arts scene, fantastic restaurants, buzzing cafes, and a genuinely diverse and eclectic population.