Overview
About the programme
Our range of interests include: nineteenth- and twentieth-century design history; photography; museology; gender and representation; and interdisciplinary topics, particularly relationships between: art and film; art and anthropology; and art and medicine.
Within History of Art, research seminars and events are organised through the following Research Centres at Birkbeck, University of London:
- History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
- Architecture, Space and Society Centre
- Eighteenth-Century Research Group
- The Material Texts Network
- Birkbeck Centre for Medical Humanities
- Centre for Museum Cultures
Programme Structure
Recent research topics:- Canadian surrealism
- Imperial exhibitions 1922-1936
- Sixteenth-century Venetian art
- The space of imagination: reading in French painting 1850-1900
- Selling England by the pound: the Hepworth Manufacturing Company
- Aesthetics and film
- Gender and race in late nineteenth-century British art
- Landscape 1918-1928
- Modernism à la mode: women, movies and modern style
- The historical documentary in post-war British television
- Photographic collections compiled by women
- Experiments in black and white: OP Art, Bridget Riley and Britain in the 1960s
- Richard Dadd: the art of the insane
- History of art in an electronic environment
- Bereavement, identity and monuments
- The role of media for immigration in post-war Britain (1945-1980)
- Popularising high culture
- Art and law
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 48 months
- Part-time
- 84 months
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Disciplines
Art History View 43 other PhDs in Art History in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
Entry requirements:
- Good degree, usually including history of art.
- A 2000-word research proposal must be submitted with your application.
Tuition Fee
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14175 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 14175 GBP per year during 48 months. -
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4712 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 4712 GBP per year during 48 months.
Living costs for London
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