History of Art

About this course

Art history is the study of visual and material culture: the paintings, sculptures, buildings, photographs, films, and objects that human beings have made across cultures and throughout time. It is a discipline that asks not just what images and objects look like but what they mean, how they were made and for whom, what social, political, and religious functions they served, and how meaning changes as works move through history and across contexts. Art history draws on perspectives from archaeology, cultural anthropology, political history, gender studies, and visual analysis, developing an unusually wide-ranging intellectual toolkit for understanding how human beings have expressed, communicated, and shaped their experience through visual means. At the University of Warwick, this three-year full-time History of Art programme includes a year abroad, giving you the opportunity to study i

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