History of Art and Visual Culture

Description

The group comprises scholars who bring an innovative interdisciplinary approach to the study of art and society. They investigate a wide range of visual, material and spatial cultures from the early modern period through to the digital age.

Research areas include:

• The urban environments of Renaissance Italy
• Material cultures of the Reformation
• Early modern sculpture
• Nineteenth-century landscape painting
• Gender, space and reform in Edwardian Edinburgh
• Modernity and architecture in 1920s and 1930s England
• Visual, material and aural (sensorial) cultures of crime
• The materiality and wider viewing environments of art objects
• Joseph Wright of Derby

Members of the group are active in collaborative work with galleries such as Tate Britain, the Royal West of England Academy and the Ashmolean Museum and in hosting conferences and symposia.

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Oxford Brookes University
Oxford