Why study History of Art at Warwick?
Our immersive, authentic style of teaching and learning.....
makes us one of the most ‘hands-on’ departments in the country. Alongside lectures and seminars, many of our classes take place in museums, manors, and in the streets of cities to better understand art, material culture, and how and why they were made
Our Venice Term.....
Our Staff.....
are closely involved in the art world – regularly curating major exhibitions, producing important publications, saving urban heritage – and make our programmes unique by bringing these methods into their teaching. Your teachers will indeed be scholars of international standing who bring their own research and invaluable expertise to the degree
Our Community.....
is strengthened by our cohort sizes and a true campus experience. This means you get to know your fellow students well and work closely with them and your teachers, all while interacting with students from other departments on campus. Our staff can thus better support you academically and with your future career planning
Our Wide-Ranging Curriculum.....
covers a broad geographical and historical span. You will have great freedom to choose across modules from the very start of your degree, allowing you to explore the history behind works of art from Antiquity to the present day, learning along the way about politics, economics, human behaviours and beliefs. With staff and students from around the world, our modules take a global view of what’s happening on each continent
Our University Art Collection.....
will be all around you. To appreciate the history of art most fully, it makes sense to be where art surrounds you. Ours is one of the most important university art collections in the country, with over 1,000 works including key modern sculptures and paintings. You'll find art at every turn on our campus.
Our Arts Centre.....
is the largest multi-venue art complex outside of London. Its Mead Gallery puts on some of best contemporary art exhibitions in the country three times a year, and for each of these we offer a curator talk exclusively for our students, for you to learn about the curatorial process. The Warwick Arts Centre team also offer training tailored to art history students, for example on how to speak about art to different audiences
Our home on campus, the Faculty of Arts Building.....
(FAB) is a stunning eight storey building which was completed in 2021. Bringing together arts and humanities staff, students, and research centres into a modern space to encourage collaboration and innovation. We are also part of the wider School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures so you'll be surrounded by like-minded and creative people who will help shape your ideas and could form your professional network in the future
Our location.....
in the heart of England offers the best of both worlds: its own student universe on a safe campus surrounded by nature, but also on the doorstep of many cities (Birmingham, Leamington, Coventry, Oxford, and London a short bus or train ride away). Our ethos centres on experiencing various art forms directly, so studying at Warwick will mean field trips across England every term, with exclusive access to collections and historic buildings, not to mention the Venice term and a whole module taught at Waddesdon Manor.