Centre for Visual Arts and Culture

Description

The Centre for Visual Arts and Cultures was established in 2013 and brings together scholars from across and beyond Durham University.

The centre provides a vibrant and dynamic setting for wide-ranging interdisciplinary research and debates about visual culture. The Centre provides a focus for cutting-edge research on visual arts and cultures: it aspires to train new generations of scholars through innovative postgraduate programmes, it fosters informed debate both nationally and internationally, and it offers an engaging, open environment for researchers at all levels.

The Centre for Visual Arts and Cultures takes a generous view of what constitutes visual culture, and it is broad in both geographical and chronological scope, encouraging debate about the range of approaches, methods and theories that are most generative for research on visual phenomena. Durham’s current visual culture research includes the study of word and image, art and religion, medicine and visual representation, film, the history of photography, architecture, urban culture, heritage and philosophical aesthetics. It also includes the development of pioneering visual research methods and the study of vision.

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2013

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Durham University
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