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POSTGRADUATE: MASTERS PROGRAMME 2015SCHOOL OF ARTS, LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

ART HISTORY AND VISUAL STUDIES

GRADUATE SCHOOL

Cover image: reproduced with kind permission of John Rylands Library.

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www.manchester.ac.uk/arthistoryvisualstudies

With a breadth of research activity that’s unrivalled in the UK, we work across disciplines and beyond the University, connecting the brightest minds to find innovative solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.

Our pioneering taught courses draw upon our world-leading research and our strong links to global industry. You’ll quickly develop skills, knowledge and experience that will make employers sit up and listen.

Connect with Manchester, and the world will connect with you.

You’re better connected at Manchester

Welcome to The University of Manchester 2

Art History and Visual Studies at Manchester 4

Taught courses 6

Multidisciplinary research culture 10

Specialist research areas 10

Applying 10

Staff research interests 12

School of Arts, Languages and Cultures 14

Postgraduate skills and research training 16

Funding 16

Deadlines 16

Find out more about The University of Manchester 17

School contact details 18

I’ve been able to make good networks and connections in terms of the work I’m doing and my future career. I’ve been able to talk to some outstanding professors and read some world-class journals. Manchester has opened my eyes.

Faith Nanyonga, Manchester postgraduate 2014

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We make things happenOur work makes an impact on real lives. We turn enthusiasm into achievement and ground-breaking theory into cutting-edge practice. That’s why we’re at the forefront of the search for solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems. Studying and researching at Manchester gives you the chance to make a difference, both during your studies and in your future career.

We work closely with organisations ranging from government bodies to global businesses, from local health services to registered charities. From these links spring unique opportunities: we can deliver courses informed by the latest expertise and research programmes that have greater, more immediate impact and value.

We give you excellent prospectsWhether studying for a taught master’s or a research degree, you’ll be directly involved with cutting-edge research, benefiting from our continuous investment in the best facilities and a dynamic research culture that encourages innovative, cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Our programmes are led by distinguished tutors and fellow researchers working at the forefront of their disciplines, ensuring that your qualification comes with a reputation that will open doors across the world.

You’ll also have access to a Careers Service that really understands postgraduates, with specialist advisors, events and resources tailored to your needs.

We offer much more than a degreeAt Manchester, you’ll find the broadest range of options outside of your studies for developing your interests and experience, including: outstanding sports facilities, skills-development courses, mentoring programmes, community volunteering opportunities and dedicated support for taking part in or setting up a social enterprise.

And you’ll be at the heart of the dynamic, multicultural hub that is the city of Manchester, with events, facilities, attractions and opportunities to suit every lifestyle, ambition and budget.

Find out morewww.manchester.ac.uk/discoverwww.manchester.ac.uk/research

Welcome to The University of Manchester

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Whether you’re a committed researcher wanting to further the human quest for knowledge, a career-focused professional seeking a specialist qualification, or a burning enthusiast for higher learning and understanding, a postgraduate degree at The University of Manchester will help you to realise your ambitions.

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Manchester’s Art History and Visual Studies department (AHVS) is at the leading edge of international research in the history and theory of art. Our areas of expertise include modern architecture, early-modern European architecture, Renaissance science, graphic arts of the Renaissance, religious clothing in Italy (1215-1545), Blake, Picasso, Surrealism, modernism and the avant-garde, photography, colour studies, sexuality studies and contemporary art. Please see our website for further details.

As a Manchester student you will be able to work with the University’s superb collections, at the Whitworth Gallery, John Rylands Library, and Manchester Museum. We encourage students to collaborate with Manchester institutions. The city itself boasts a world-class Art Gallery and a dynamic contemporary art scene.

Multidisciplinary expertiseOur scholars come from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds. Here you will find researchers bringing the visual arts into dialogue with literature, philosophy and science, raising urgent questions about the function of art in history and society.

Access to cutting-edge researchOur teaching is led by our research. We have an extremely active research culture in which our cohort of postgraduate students plays a key role. You are encouraged to attend the research seminars in AHVS, where members of staff and guest lecturers present papers. We also have a lively student-run Postgraduate Forum.

Welcoming communityStaff and postgraduates benefit greatly from the coherent, close-knit and friendly atmosphere of our art-historical community, and from the interdisciplinary research culture within the larger School, Faculty, and University. We share intellectual interests and connections with subject areas across the humanities. We have particularly close connections with the Centre for Museology, the Centre for New Writing, and the Whitworth Art Gallery. We encourage our postgraduate students to help us maintain this vibrant atmosphere of research and learning, and help to make it prosper in new ways.

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Art History and Visual Studies at Manchester

image: Ancient of Days by William Blake. Courtesy of the Whitworth Art Gallery.

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AHVS course units for the MAPlease note that these course units are indicative of what might be taken – we cannot guarantee that all of these courses will be available in a given year. For a full list of those available to you, please choose Art History and Visual Studies from the list of subjects on this web page:www.manchester.ac.uk/arts/postgraduatestudy

Taught course unitsOur discipline is naturally located at a disciplinary crossroads, hence our long-standing collaborations with Archaeology, Museology, and other subject areas across the Faculty and University. You may take one course unit in a subject area outside of AHVS (comprising 30 credits of the MA degree’s final 180 credits), making it easy for you to complement your art historical research in a manner that suits your academic interests and goals.

Other branches of history, religions and theology, social sciences, languages and literatures, as well as other arts, like music and drama, provide grist to art history’s mill. Examples of course units are listed on the following pages.

Issues in Art-Historical Practice Dr Charlie Miller

This course unit is taken by all art history MA students. The main part of the collective reading concentrates on influential authors, many of whom are outside the discipline of art history as conventionally understood, yet who have challenging things to say about issues fundamental to the discipline of art history – such as authorship, history, representation, visuality and space.

This focus aims to help you to understand the foundations that support much art historical writing of the past forty years. It is part of our commitment to enabling you to encounter first-hand 20th-century writers whose work has recently transformed our discipline in a fundamental way.

Disciplines are porous and what we do in art history is shaped and nuanced by what happens in contiguous disciplines in human sciences and philosophy. Knowing the provenance as well as the modes of extrapolation and assimilation of these neighbouring discourses into art history has therefore become an indispensable professional skill, both in terms of communicating with colleagues across our discipline and of writing and producing new ideas. This is why every single session elaborates on specific examples, which come from within our discipline and represent this creative osmosis.

Generations of Blake Dr Colin Trodd

Generations of Blake provides an introduction to Blake criticism by engaging with key readings, representations and exhibitions of Blake since around 1830. In addition, it reviews his critical afterlife within modern and contemporary culture, where he is fantasised as a critical pathfinder and incarnation of vital life.

Accordingly, this course unit explores a set of keywords – ‘vision’, ‘imagination’, ‘freedom’, ‘expression’, ‘individualism’ and ‘experimentalism’ - to consider how Blake springs back to life via the hinge problem at the centre of modern thought: that culture must preserve something that is taken to be in great danger - the capacity for the subject to remain undivided.

Prometheus Unbound: Art, Science, and Technology in the RenaissanceDr Anthony Gerbino

Our definition of the ‘fine’ or ‘visual arts’ is a relatively recent construct. From the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, the Latin word ars, like the Greek word techne, referred essentially to ‘skill’ or ‘craft’ and more generally to bodies of practical techniques for doing or making. Such forms of expertise were understood to be distinct from theoretical knowledge or scientia, but historically the two were often conjoined, indeed, intertwined, particularly as they regarded the natural world.

The Renaissance ‘artist’, understood in broad contemporary terms, therefore occupied a central place between the manual, ‘mechanical’ arts (typically the domain of the artisan) and the intellectual

‘liberal’ arts of scholars and scientists. In exploring this unfamiliar landscape, the course offers students an opportunity to reflect on the role of artifacts and technologies – the relationship between making and knowing – in our own time.

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The Surrealist Image Professor David Lomas

Surrealism occupies a unique place in the intellectual and cultural history of the 20th century. Marking a crisis in post-Enlightenment thought and active in every sphere of creative life, it has been at the heart of debates about modernism and postmodernism. This course unit explores fundamental properties of the surrealist image (and other forms of surrealist visual production), with a view to understanding what distinguishes surrealism from the dominant modernism of its era, and defining what it has in common with postmodernism.

Psychoanalytic readings of the surrealist image are a particular focus of the course unit. By the end of the unit, you should be conversant with a variety of visual practices and media associated with surrealism, the ideas that informed them, and the broad cultural context of their production. Familiarity with issues and approaches in recent surrealist scholarship will be expected, and there will be opportunities for you to consider the continued resonance of surrealism in art and theory now.

Broken Flesh: Pain, Wounds and Belief 1300-1650Dr Cordelia Warr

This course unit explores themes relating to the suffering, wounded and fragmented body in Italian art between 1300 and 1650. Attitudes towards pain, suffering and the treatment of the body were strongly influenced by the Catholic Church. In many ways they were very different to contemporary ways of thinking about these issues. Scientific debates about pain, wounds, and bodily integrity influenced and were influenced by theological debates in the latter part of the period covered by this unit. These beliefs, attitudes and debates were both reflected in and helped to shape art in this period.

The emphasis in this course will be on Italian art but examples from northern Europe will also be considered where appropriate. Through a series of case studies, this unit encourages students to explore different ways of thinking about and visualizing pain, wounding, and fragmentation within a specific (art)historical context.

Renaissance Print CulturesDr Edward Wouk

This class examines the rise of printmaking in Europe, attending to the material, social, and economic history of visual print media during their development in the early modern period. Drawing upon the strengths of the Whitworth Gallery and the John Rylands Library, we will examine a range of materials and techniques (niello, woodcut, etching, engraving), focusing on the relationship of innovation to conceptual shifts in notions of authorship, invention, and the construction of identity.

The class will explore the work and careers of Italian and northern European printmakers represented in Manchester collections – both celebrated figures like Marcantonio Raimondi and Albrecht Dürer, as well as lesser-known printmakers – while examining the modalities of the print’s agency in the context of early modern science, religious debate, and encounters with non-European cultures. Topics to be covered include: print collecting and copyright; book production and humanism; cartography and numismatics; scientific inquiry and reformation politics; anatomical and botanical illustration; ephemera and propaganda; and the construction of identity and historical consciousness.

The class will conceptualize and organize an exhibition to be mounted in the final weeks of the semester in a dedicated space in the John Rylands Library, Deansgate. Meetings with Library and Gallery curators, conservators, and preparators will not only introduce us to concerns about the afterlife of our objects of study, but will also help focus our attention on how to present our investigations to a viewing public.

This is Tomorrow: Art and Architecture in Postwar BritainProfessor Mark Crinson

The course aims to acquaint students with the main issues addressed by the avant-garde in postwar Britain (c 1945-1965): to introduce students to the important ways in which art and architecture inter-related; and to demonstrate the significance of British postwar art and architecture to later cultural debates.

Art in the Time of ProustProfessor Carol Mavor

‘Art in the time of Proust’ is a visual, literary and cultural study of Proust. This unit researches Proustian time as impossibly the past, present and future at once: what the French filmmaker Chris Marker calls the ‘future remembered’. Proust as a visualist will be addressed through Carol Mavor’s Reading Boyishly and her Blue Mythologies. Critical interpretations of Proust as a ‘time artist’ will be highlighted through the writings of Roland Barthes, Eve Kosofky Sedgwick and Hayden White. Select artwork work by seven key artists will be observed through the Proustian lens: Giotto, Botticelli, Vermeer, the French ‘boy’ photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue, the French filmmaker Chris Marker and the Belgium filmmaker Chantal Akerman.

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ApplyingEntry requirements for MA:

You will normally require a good Honours degree (Upper Second or better), or equivalent, although candidates with alternative qualifications are welcome

to apply. If your first language is not English, you must have a score of either 7.0 in the IELTS examination, 600 in the TOEFL test, or 250 in the computer-based TOEFL test.

Manchester’s art historians work naturally and enthusiastically across a variety of disciplinary lines, by inclination and as founders or participants in a many research projects and groupings. Various projects allow postgraduate art historians to participate in a buoyant research culture, such as the AHRC Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies.

We currently take part in many of the University’s cross-disciplinary research groups, such as: Manchester Museum’s Landscape and Identity project (with anthropologists, archaeologists, historians and others); the Faculty of Humanities’ Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture; and the University’s Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine.

Manchester’s historians enjoy jointly teaching and supervising postgraduates with colleagues from other disciplines. We are all very active in our fields, publishing books, articles and exhibition catalogues on our research and directing or participating in various collaborative research projects pertaining to our areas of special expertise.

Individual staff web profiles list our research interests, some of our publications and the research areas in which we teach and supervise postgraduates.

See:www.manchester.ac.uk/arts/subjectareas/arthistoryvisualstudiesor http://bit.ly/pfxVtj

Multidisciplinary research culture

Our special areas of interest include:

Specialist research areas

•Theartoflate-medievalandRenaissanceItaly

•TheartandarchitectureofGreaterIranandSouthAsia

•PrintcultureinRenaissanceEurope

•Architecturalhistoryandtheory

•Britishartfromtheeighteenthtothetwentiethcentury

•Artandscience

•Thehistoryandtheoryoftheavant-garde

•Theartofthe1960sanditslegacies

•Experimentalhistoriographyandcreativeartwriting

•Thehistory,theoryandpracticeofcollecting,display, interpretation and representation in museums and art galleries

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Staff research interestsProfessor Mark CrinsonProfessor in History of [email protected]

Works on: 19th and 20th century British architecture and aspects of modern art. Has a particular interest in colonialism and architecture.

Dr Anthony GerbinoLecturer in Art [email protected]

Works on: early modern architecture in France and England. Research focuses on the role of architecture in 17th-century scientific and academic circles and on the technical and mathematical background of early modern architects, engineers, and gardeners. More general interests lie in the interaction of art, science, and technology; the professional and intellectual world of early modern artisans, architectural treatises and the culture of the printed book, cartography and its relation to landscape, and the urban history of Paris.

Professor David LomasProfessor in History of [email protected]

Researches: mainly issues of subjectivity in surrealism, with a special interest in psycho-analytical readings of the visual image. An additional area of interest is the interaction of art and medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Professor Carol MavorProfessor in History of Art

Works on: Photography, theories of sexuality, boyhood, girlhood and adolescence. Publications include: ‘Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photography’; ‘Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden’; ‘Reading Boyishly: JM Barrie, Roland Barthes, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust and DW Winnicott’; ‘Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jetée, Sans soleil and Hiroshima mon amour’; ‘Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour’; and ‘Aurelia: Art and Literature Through the Mouth of the Fairy Tale’ (forthcoming).

Dr Charlie MillerLecturer in Art History and Theory

Research centred on the history and theory of the avant-garde. Other current interests include the relationship between modernism and the non-modern, Asger Jorn and COBRA, magic in contemporary art, and the aesthetics of cognitive capitalism.

Dr Kevin ParkerHas written on contemporary art for Art Forum and various museums, and has published essays on the work and lives of the art historians Johann Winckelmann and Erwin Panofsky. His current book project, Seeing and Believing, is an investigation of post-representational theories of visual experience and picturing.

Dr Colin TroddSenior Lecturer in Art [email protected]

Works on: Victorian art and art institutions. Has co edited the following volumes: Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque (1999), Art and the Academy in the 19th Century (2000), and Governing Cultures: Art Institutions in Victorian London. He will shortly be publishing Representing G.F. Watts: Art Making and Victorian Culture.

Dr Cordelia WarrSenior Lecturer in Art [email protected]

Joined the School in 2003 from Queen’s University, Belfast.

Works on: late medieval and early Renaissance art in Italy, with a special interest in the iconography of clothing. Shortly publishing a book on Lives of Italian Holy Women of the Late Middle Ages (1226-1360).

Dr Edward WoukLecturer in Art History (1450 - 1800)

Research and teaching encompass Northern European and Italian art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His current interests include the development of art theory in Northern Europe, the historiography of Netherlandish art, prints and cultural exchange, and the intersection of artistic practice and scientific inquiry in the early modern period

Honorary teaching staff

Dr Jennifer HarrisHonorary Lecturer in the History of [email protected]

Curator of Textiles and Deputy Director of the Whitworth Art Gallery.

Has written on many aspects of dress and textiles. Research interests include: 19th and 20th century dress and textiles, historical and contemporary craft, and museological issues related to the display and interpretation of the decorative arts.

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School of Arts, Languages and CulturesThe School of Arts, Languages and Cultures is the largest grouping of arts, languages and humanities scholars in the UK. It is home to some 6500 students, of which about 1000 are postgraduates, and around 350 academic staff working at the forefront of seventeen disciplines:

• Archaeology

• Art History and Visual Studies

• Classics and Ancient History

• Drama

• East Asian Studies

• English and American Studies

• French Studies

• German Studies

• Linguistics and English Language

• History

• Italian Studies

• Middle Eastern Studies

• Music

• Religions and Theology

• Russian and East European Studies

• Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies

• Translation and Intercultural Studies

The School is also home to the University Language Centre and a range of interdisciplinary research centres and institutes.

Academic expertise spans the fields of the creative arts, human cultures, beliefs, institutions and languages (from widely spoken global languages to those which are endangered). Our research embraces the material, visual, linguistic, textual, social and performative dimensions of human society past and present, in a rich interdisciplinary culture led by world-renowned scholars, from analysts to creative artists, formal linguists to cultural critics, historians to cultural theorists.

The research unit areas which make up the School have an outstanding profile - two were ranked top in their subject area in the UK, following the results of the government’s Research Assessment Exercise in 2008, and a further two were ranked in the top 3. More than 50% of research outputs were rated ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’. This commitment to research enriches the teaching environment, by bringing renowned international speakers and sustaining a culture of research seminars, workshops and conferences. It also ensures that our curriculum is continually refreshed.

Research and teaching in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures are supported by rich resources within the University. These include the John Rylands University Library, with its unique Special Collections housed in the refurbished Deansgate building; the University Language Centre, with its own language multi-media resource library; the Race Relations Archive; the Manchester Museum and the Whitworth Art Gallery. Other cultural assets at the University of Manchester include the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, Jodrell Bank Observatory and the Alan Gilbert Learning Commons. The School has a strong interdisciplinary orientation and houses the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts and Languages (CIDRAL).

We maintain a network of partners in research and skills training that involves a wide range of major cultural institutions across the North West. The University and the city offer superb facilities for almost any academic, culture and recreational interests you

might wish to pursue. High profile festivals are a major part of Manchester’s everyday life, and the School is involved in many of these, including the Manchester Literature Festival, Manchester Histories Festival and Manchester International Festival.

Our students find our Masters programmes both challenging and rewarding, as well as good foundations for further study and future employment. The student experience combines the advantages of belonging to a specific subject community alongside the extended choice that a large and diverse School encompasses.

Studying for a Masters within the School offers diverse opportunities for personal, career and professional development. In addition to the integration of work-related skills and experience within degree programmes, our Graduate School offers a comprehensive range of skills training workshops, placements and residential schemes

targeted at postgraduate students. Our award-winning Careers Service will work in partnership with you throughout your degree to improve your employability and prepare for the competitive jobs market.

Furthermore, we have a strong commitment to social responsibility and public engagement. We want our graduates not only to be highly sought after by employers but also ready to play a constructive role as citizen scholars in wider society. Through our research we seek to create and develop knowledge that makes a difference in the world; through our teaching we want to inspire our students to achieve their full human potential.

Graduate School and student experience

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At the heart of all our programmes stands a commitment to helping students develop the skills they need to thrive at postgraduate level and beyond.

MA students are encouraged to participate fully in the School’s research community, enhancing their

own skills through encounter with more experienced practitioners. Students’ employability is nurtured through our innovative work placement scheme, which is available to all MA students in the School.

Postgraduate skills and research training

FundingStudents from the UK or Europe can apply to the School for postgraduate studentships to support doctoral study, as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Doctoral Partnership (DTP) scheme. AHRC studentships for UK students cover the tuition fee and provide a maintenance grant. Studentships for EU students usually cover fees only. The North West Consortium DTP (NWC), which brings together seven institutions and is led by Manchester, offers its postgraduate research students excellent research training and access to a breadth of outstanding resources. The North West Consortium will be able to award around 40 doctoral studentships a year. If you intend to apply for an AHRC award, you should consult the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures website and contact the School early in the academic year in which you intend to apply. You can also visit www.nwcdtp.ac.uk for more information about the new Consortium.

AHRC funding for some subject areas will be available to undertake a Masters as part of a programme leading to doctoral training within the new Consortium. Further details will be advertised on the NWC consortium webpage when announced. www.nwcdtp.ac.uk

Funding is also available for selected Masters study in economic and social history, cultural history and linguistics through the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) North West Doctoral Training Centre. www.nwdtc.ac.uk

In addition to funding via the research councils, the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures offer a number of fee scholarships for Masters programmes, available for Home and Overseas students. In all cases, the awards are highly competitive.

Further information on all awards including application process and deadlines for application will be available on www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/graduateschool

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Deadlines

Our website holds a wealth of information on the many varied aspects of postgraduate student life. Below are some of the most popular topics; use the links for full details.

You are urged to apply to your chosen degree programme as early as possible, to ensure you receive an offer of a place before funding application

deadlines. The deadline for internal award applications at Manchester is 1 March and therefore applications to the course must be submitted by 1 February.

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Postgraduate AdmissionsSchool of Arts, Languages and CulturesThe University of ManchesterOxford RoadManchester M13 9PLUnited Kingdom

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DisclaimerThis brochure is prepared well in advance of the academic year to which it relates. Details of programmes may consequently vary with staff changes. We therefore reserve the right to make such alterations to courses as are necessary. If we make you an offer of a place, it is essential that you are aware of the current terms on which your offer is based. If you are in any doubt, please feel free to ask us for confirmation of the precise position for the year in question, before you accept our offer.

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School contact details