Frieze at the Qutb-al-Islam. Photo: Sarah Turner, Lecturer.
Photo: Jure Kirbis. MA student in the Department of History of Art.
Chapter House, York Minster. Photo: Susanna Frater, Postgraduate Administrator.
Photo: Jure Kirbis (History of Art MA student). SAASY Party in the Burton Gallery of York Art Gallery
Photo: Amanda Lillie
Photo: Lijie Wang, History of Art Undergraduate

Department of History of Art

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Histories of British Art, the third and final conference of the 'Court, Country and City' research project

Posted on Monday 21 May 2012

A three-day conference, 'Histories of British Art 1660-1735: Reconstruction and Transformation', will be held in York in September 2012 to mark the end of the AHRC-funded 'Court, Country City: British Art 1660-1735' project and to present its major research findings. Professor Mark Hallett is the Principal Investigator for this project.

May 2012 British Art Research School e-bulletin published

Posted on Thursday 17 May 2012

The British Art Research School publishes a quarterly e-bulletin which links through to the regularly-updated blog. This is one of the most informative and up-to-date resources for scholars of art and visual culture in Britain.

Art Awareness Week

Posted on Wednesday 16 May 2012

History of Art students collaborate on an exciting week-long programme of arts and cultural activities at the University of York

Events

Wed
30
May

"The White Bull & Blue Skies": Rethinking the Art History Curriculum after the Old Europe

This event will be a discussion of the potential for rethinking the Art History curriculum in light of current events in Europe & beyond: what next after the 'Old Europe'?

Wed
6
Jun

'From judgement to atonement: Sculpture at Strasbourg, Lincoln and Naumburg'

Further details to follow

Wed
13
Jun

Displaying Victorian Sculpture Symposium

Displaying Victorian Sculpture is a three-year, AHRC-funded collaborative project, led by the universities of Warwick and York, in partnership with the Yale Center for British Art, which seeks to return sculpture to centre stage in discussions of 19th-century British culture, and to re-assert the importance of sculpture to Victorian history. This symposium, hosted by the Sculpture Studies Research School, takes place midway through the project, and presents an opportunity to discuss the research emerging from the project.

Welcome to our Department

We are widely recognised as one of the most dynamic, stimulating and successful History of Art departments in the UK. Our scholarly expertise ranges from Anglo-Saxon sculpture to contemporary Lebanese video art, and students benefit from our famously friendly atmosphere, small-group teaching methods, regular study trips and spectacular historic location.

 Professor Mark Hallett
 Head of Department

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