Our research
The staff of our department study art and architecture ranging from Medieval Europe, to the Contemporary global context. Alongside our output of publications, we share a conviction that research is most rewarding when implemented in exhibitions, symposia, conferences or criticism.
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Renaissance and Early Modern material culture; Artisanal knowledge and craft technology in the global Renaissance; Contemporary regenerative design, making and craft; Learning through making and experiential pedagogies.
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Medieval Art and Architecture especially the study of medieval and early modern buildings, their construction and use.
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Artistic patronage, religious orders and intersections between the Veneto and Northern Europe in the later middle ages and Renaissance.
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Modern and contemporary art and architecture from the Global South; environmental and oceanic humanities; natural history collections and herbaria; urban history of Sub-Saharan Africa and Brazil; queer theory and critical STS
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Eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British art and visual culture; colonial art, particularly in India; British artists in Venice.
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 Prof Michael Hatt: • Profile
Nineteenth-century Danish art and culture; British and American Art in the 19th and 20th centuries; Visual Culture with a particular interest in gender and sexuality, and in questions of visual racism; the history of art history.
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Modernism(s) in Eastern Europ
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The representation of modern and contemporary war and pacifism in visual and material culture
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The profound changes that happened to the state and society in modern Britain viewed through the lens of the built environment.
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Later nineteenth-century French painting, and its links with art theory, criticism, and literature. Also; theory and philosophy of art: Wittgenstein’s aesthetics; Adrian Stokes and Richard Wollheim; art and visual perception; colour.
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Images and the story of their production, reception and impact on the formation of cultural identities within specific contexts, especially in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe.
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20th and 21st century visual culture; moving image within history; documentary practices; the post-internet; video installation; rituals; the circulation of tropes and iconographies; art and knowledge.
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The life and career of Coventry's first City Architect, Sir Donald Gibson, and Coventry's pioneering role in post-war public sector architecture.
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