Overview

About the programme

This crossing of boundaries raises issues of artistic encounter and exchange across cultures. It also challenges our thinking about reuse, appropriation and expropriation, or the one-sided removal of property, particularly as acts of colonisation. Art’s cross-global connections, and the rise of world economies also affects our understanding of collecting museums and display.

The Open University UK art, architecture and design historians seek to re-evaluate art history’s established methods and approaches in the light of emerging concerns across the wider humanities with processes of cultural encounter, movement and conflict. This Global and Cross Cultural Art research programme is offered at The Open University UK.

Programme Structure

Current/recent research projects:

The world by the Thames: Global Materiality and Elite Self-Fashioning in the Seventeenth-Century Collections of Ham House, Surrey
Irish Travelling Artists: Ireland, Southern Asia and the British Empire 1760–1850
Elusive Translation: Film and Video in the work of Isaac Julien, Zineb Sedira and Alia Syed
Figuration in the Work of Post-Conceptual British Women Painters

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months
Part-time
- 72 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-10-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-04-01 00:00:00
Starting 2028-02-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-04-01 00:00:00

Language

English

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Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Visual Arts View 67 other PhDs in Visual Arts in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

GPA

First Class

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Entry requirements

A UK Masters’ degree or equivalent level in a relevant subject (art, architecture or design history), or exceptionally a First Class undergraduate degree with a substantial dissertation.
If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your knowledge of English.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

12705 GBP / year

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Citizens or residents

5006 GBP / year

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Living costs

Milton Keynes

United Kingdom

848 - 1345 GBP / month

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