History of Art / Conservation / Curating Postgraduate Prospectus 2019/20

1 Welcome

2 Contents

Director’s Welcome 5+ About Us 7+ Courtauld Graduate Diploma in the History of Art 10+ Postgraduate Diploma in the Conservation of Easel Paintings 12+ MA Buddhist Art: History and Conservation 14+ MA Conservation of Wall Paintings 16+ MA Curating the Art Museum 18+ MA History of Art 20+ Research Degrees 32+ Admissions 34+ Study Resources 36+ Careers 38+ Student Life 42+ Accommodation 44+ Student Support 46+ Fees and Funding 48+ Visit Us 50+ Contact information 51+

3 The Courtauld is a world-leading centre for the study of Art History, Curating and Conservation.

4 Director’s Welcome

I am delighted you are considering The Courtauld Construction work started in Somerset House in Institute of Art for your postgraduate studies. The September 2018, and the teaching and learning will Courtauld is a world-leading centre for the study of therefore be temporarily relocated to a spacious, Art History, Curating and Conservation. We have a purpose built educational facility at Vernon Square. world-class faculty of art historians and conservators It is located a short distance away from Somerset dedicated to specialised research-led teaching. House near King’s Cross, London (pictured left).

Our strong emphasis on research is core to our Further information on Courtauld Connects and ethos and we run a continuous programme of talks, Vernon Square can be found throughout this seminars and conferences through The Sackler prospectus and online here: https://connects. Research Forum, which strengthens connections courtauld.ac.uk/ with colleagues throughout the world. The Courtauld has over 7,500 alumni, many of The Courtauld’s strength lies in it being a small, whom occupy key positions as Museum Directors, single-subject academic institution, providing Curators, Academics, Conservators, Critics, students with an intimate environment in which to Journalists, and various roles in the commercial art participate, develop their knowledge, and gain world and beyond. They include the Directors of skills for employment in the arts sector and beyond. the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and Tate Modern in London. We are currently embarking on a major, multi- million-pound transformation project called I hope you will join our lively and friendly Courtauld Connects. The project is designed to community of students and scholars who are significantly improve our teaching and learning, committed to helping one another to pursue their conservation and Gallery facilities at our Somerset ambitions. We look forward to welcoming you. House site, enabling deeper connections between curating, teaching and research.

Professor Deborah Swallow Märit Rausing Director

5 The Courtauld as an institution leads the whole higher education sector for research quality, and is ranked highest for History of Art.

Latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory Sub-Panel

6 About Us

The Courtauld Institute of Art is a small, The project has two phases: the first will focus 98% of our friendly, specialist centre for the study of the on The Courtauld Gallery, improving the History of Art, Conservation and Curating. building’s accessibility and the care of our internationally-renowned collection with newly students are It is an independent college of the University of integrated back of house facilities for storage London and was founded in 1932 by Samuel and art handling, and improved spaces for our satisfied with Courtauld, Viscount Lee of Fareham and Conservation programmes. The second phase Sir Robert Witt as the UK’s first university focus on The Courtauld Institute, and provide department devoted to the study of art. Over state-of-the-art teaching, learning and teaching the past 85 years it has developed as the leading research facilities. Art History department in the country, attracting Guardian University 2019 Guide the best students, teachers and researchers. Throughout the work we are committed to maintaining an excellent student experience, With about 500 students taking degrees from and will ensure that students have access to BA to PhD you will quickly meet students from our world-class library and image resources all courses and years. which will be based at Vernon Square.

The Courtauld was originally located in The Courtauld Gallery at Somerset House and Ranked 1st Portman Square, Marylebone. In 1989 we the Prints and Drawings Study Room will be moved to Somerset House, Strand, and, from closed during this time, however, The January 2019, we will be moving to our new Courtauld remains committed to ensuring as specialist home at Vernon Square, King’s Cross, until much of our collection as possible remains on 2022. This move marks the start of our exciting display during the Courtauld Connects institution transformational Courtauld Connects project refurbishment. We have partnered with The that you can read about in further detail below. National Gallery, based in Trafalgar Square who will host an exhibition of our works from in the UK The Courtauld’s location at Vernon Square September 2018 until early 2019. The National ensures that we continue to be in easy reach of Gallery will also display many of our works Complete University Guide 2018: all the capital’s major museums, galleries and throughout the gallery, amongst their Arts, Drama and Music libraries. Teaching is led by a faculty of about permanent collection throughout the duration institutional league table 35, and we have fantastic resources in our of the refurbishment. library and image collections. We have a very lively research culture, attracting some of the As well as maintaining a presence in London, leading figures in Art History from around the we are loaning works to museums and world, who give lectures and seminars at The galleries across the UK including: Courtauld, which we encourage all our + The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston students to attend. + The Ferens Art Gallery, Hull. + The Ulster Museum, Belfast. Courtauld Connects + The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Courtauld Connects is a major, multi-million- Coventry. pound transformation project – the biggest development programme since The Courtauld An international tour is also planned including moved to Somerset House in 1989. This a partnership with Fondation Louis Vuitton in visionary project, supported by the Heritage Paris, where key works from The Courtauld Lottery Fund, will enable The Courtauld Galley Collection will be displayed from significantly to improve teaching and research January to June 2019. facilities, enhance the Gallery and widen and extend our reach locally, nationally and Please check our website for further and internationally. With a refurbished home, we up-to-date information on Courtauld Connects will be better suited to host new audiences, at https://connects.courtauld.ac.uk/. global partnerships with other key institutions, If you have any questions, please email and enhance our digital presence. [email protected]

A key part of the project will be a major redevelopment of The Courtauld’s buildings in the North Block of Somerset House. We are working with Stirling Prize-winning architects Witherford Watson Mann carefully to restore our important Grade One listed building as well as transform access to and the experience of The Courtauld for our students and the public.

7 A note from the President of the Students’ Union We at the Students’ Union would like to warmly welcome everyone considering studying at The Courtauld Institute of Art.

To study at The Courtauld is truly unique. Not only do we have outstanding professors and a rich research programme, but we are based in the heart of London, amongst some of the most stunning collections in the world. Here, each student is supported from the very beginning of their studies into their lives after graduation through our international network of alumni.

At enrolment, every Courtauld student becomes a constituent of the Students’ Union, a valued part of our vibrant community. We are an independent body within the university, run by and for those who have chosen to study here. Building upon the many academic benefits of study at The Courtauld, the Students’ Union hosts a range of extracurricular events and activities that encourage students to expand beyond the demands of their courses.

The Courtauld’s many societies enable our members to engage in activities ranging from staging their own fine art exhibition through the East-Wing Biennale, to developing their appreciation for cinema through Film Society, to membership of societies explicitly intended for people to come together and drink. Events begin with the Freshers’ week and continue throughout the year. Societies are organised by our members and each develops packed schedules that entertain us, bring us together, and allow us to share our extra-curricular passions. You might also want to form your own society, or join one of the many clubs and societies available to you through our ties to the University of London.

For further information, visit our website at: courtauldsu.com. If you cannot find the information you require however, do not hesitate to drop an email to [email protected].

Having been a Postgraduate at The Courtauld myself, I understand the excitement and apprehension that many of you may feel in applying to join us at this venerable institution. All that I can say is that I have been a part of few, if any, places so welcoming, engaging and exhilarating as The Courtauld.

Gus Teasdale Students’ Union President 2018/19

8 I have been a part of few, if any, places so welcoming, engaging and exhilarating as The Courtauld.

Gus Teasdale Students’ Union President 2018/19

9 Graduate Diploma in the History of Art

Intake: Up to 30 students. 2. Constellations I and II In each term students will take one of several Duration: Nine months, full-time. Constellations courses, each of which consists Entry requirements: Bachelor’s degree. of two components: a series of twice-weekly Students will normally have achieved a good lectures on a broad theme and/or period in 2.1, considered to be an overall average 65% the History of Art, and an accompanying or above. weekly seminar (maximum 10 students) which will engage with a particular aspect of the Overview: The Graduate Diploma is a theme in a separate but complementary way. concentrated form of the undergraduate Assessment is by exams in January and May. degree and gives graduates of other The courses on offer may differ in any given disciplines the opportunity to transfer their year, but previous courses have included the existing skills to the study of Art History. following: + From Shiraz to Beijing: Structure Persian Arts in the Global Fifteenth Century. The Graduate Diploma is structured into + Cold War Cultures: Art in a Divided World three elements: 1945-1991. + Object, Subject, World: American Art 1. The Foundations Lecture Course 1945-1975. Foundations consists of a series of 54 + Arts in Italy 1580-1680: lectures and offers an introduction to a Mass Culture, Innovation and Censorship. selected range of major monuments, + The City and the Country: Painting in France, themes and issues in the History of Art 1871-1914. from classical antiquity to the present. + Questioning the Italian Renaissance: Art in Italy from 1470-1527. The lectures are divided into nine blocks; eight of the blocks cover a particular 3. The Assessed Essay period or place; the ninth introduces you This 5,000-word essay provides an to the physical history of works of art and opportunity to undertake a more substantial the issues raised by issues of preservation piece of independent research. It allows and conservation. The Foundations students to engage with an extended lectures are supported by weekly treatment of an object or issue on a subject discussion classes, which give students of their choice. the opportunity to analyse the arguments proposed in the lectures, develop critical Optional Courses skills, and raise any questions they may In addition to these compulsory courses, have. Assessment is by coursework essays. Diploma students are free to engage in other lecture courses, including other Constellations options and Frameworks, which provides a challenging introduction to art-historical methodologies, ranging from biography, formalism, and iconology to Marxism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial theory.

10 The Courtauld Graduate Diploma allows graduates to transfer their existing skills to the study of Art History.

11 Postgraduate Diploma in the Conservation of Easel Paintings

Intake: 5 students. Students also work in a team on an environmental survey which might focus on a Duration: Three years, full-time. problematic room, house, gallery or other Entry requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Art space where paintings are displayed. At the History, Fine Art or Science. Students will end of the survey, students produce a report normally have achieved a good 2.1, and practical recommendations. Topics from considered to be an overall average 65% or the first year are studied in greater depth, above. including the identification and analysis of artists’ materials and techniques; developments Overview: The three-year course is a rigorous in the structural conservation of paintings on programme that combines conservation canvas and on panel; and new methods of theory and practice, involving subject- based cleaning paintings and varnish removal. In learning and problem-solving practical work. order to place the studies in the broadest The course content is relevant to all aspects of context of historical and contemporary painting conservation and incorporates practice, there are visits to conservation studios historical and contemporary practice. It and scientific departments in the national includes interventionist conservation practice, museums and the independent sector. In the preventative conservation, collections second and third years, there are study trips management, conservation science and abroad to centres of excellence. conservation research. Third year Structure The third year focuses on research and With about 15 students in total, each working increasingly advanced problem-solving, on two or three paintings, the Conservation planning and critical judgement. Students are Department is an exceptionally busy place and expected to gain command of the theoretical, a lively forum for the exchange of ideas and the conceptual and technical frameworks of exploration of treatment options, actively conservation and be able to apply their encouraged through regular ‘work in progress’ knowledge and skills independently within a meetings. professional ethical framework. A research project in the first term provides an opportunity First year to specialise in a particular aspect of The first year provides a foundation of conservation and prepare for a professional knowledge – visual and practical skills on which career path. Topics may be technical, students will build over the duration of the philosophical, analytical or practical. course. Classes and lectures cover the following topics: the history of artists’ materials and Projects are publicly presented at an annual techniques; the deterioration of paintings and conference preventative conservation/ environmental (Gerry Hedley Student Symposium) that brings control; documentation and technical together students from all three programmes examination of paintings; methods and in the UK that study the conservation of easel materials of conservation and conservation paintings. The projects often achieve such practice. There is either a basic science course high standards that they are published in (for arts graduates) or a prescribed selection of conservation journals or at international art history lectures (for science graduates). conferences. Time is divided approximately equally between the classroom and studio. During the spring and summer terms students return to practical work and the completion of Practical work starts with the group making their treatments. By the third year students replicas before students work individually on should be able to take a lead in formulating paintings under continuous supervision. This treatment proposals and discussing alternatives will commence from the end of the first term. but the level of supervision from previous years is maintained. Second year The second year focuses on developing On graduating, students will be: knowledge, skills, approaches and frameworks + Fully aware of the practical and varied issues for decision making. Teaching is primarily in the surrounding easel painting conservation. studio, with projects designed to develop an + Knowledgeable about a specific artist or understanding of conservation practice. period techniques. Students apply problem-solving skills grounded + Professional practitioners in easel in theoretical understanding and art historical conservation. After graduation you will be research to specific treatments. They work equipped with the knowledge, skills and independently under continuous supervision. attitude to work within a professional framework in either the public or the independent sector.

12 A rigorous programme combining the theory and practice of both historical and contemporary conservation techniques.

13 MA Buddhist Art: History and Conservation

Intake: About 8 students Drawing also on the research and conservation work undertaken by The Courtauld’s Duration: Two years, full-time. This Conservation of Wall Painting Department in programme accepts new students once every Asia, this MA is specifically designed to equip two years. The next intake will be for the students with knowledge of: 2019/20 academic year. + The central concepts of Buddhism, and their Entry requirements: A Bachelor’s degree in historical diffusion. an appropriate subject in the humanities or + The history of Buddhist Art in its various sciences. Students will normally have achieved religious, social and cultural contexts. a good 2.1, considered to be an overall + The materials and techniques involved in the overage of 65% or above. Previous experience making of various types of Buddhist Art. in any of the fields covered by the MA is not + Approaches to the conservation of Buddhist required. Art, including understanding of the ethical, technical and administrative issues Overview: Supported by The Robert H. N. involved. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Art and Conservation at The Courtauld, this This MA provides a comprehensive grounding MA is unique in combining the study of in the history of Buddhism, Buddhist Art and Buddhism, Buddhist Art, and conservation its conservation for those intending to pursue of Buddhist Art. further specialist conservation education, and for those who wish to proceed into related The MA brings together world-famous fields such as art-historical research, curating, institutions: The Courtauld for the study of and site-management. Art History and conservation, and SOAS for the study of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Drawing on the unique strengths of the two institutions and their exceptional faculties, the curriculum of the MA provides detailed and systematic teaching over two years. Each discipline is introduced, expanded and integrated to allow students to obtain the best possible learning experiences and skills acquisition. Designed to provide increased specialisation over the two years, the course culminates in research and a substantial dissertation in the final months.

Taught by a wide range of specialists from both The Courtauld and SOAS, the MA also benefits from teaching by visiting experts. The course includes study trips to museums in the UK and Europe, and a longer study trip to Asia to develop an appreciation of Buddhist art in its original contexts. Students also benefit from conferences and public events held by the Ho Centre at The Courtauld.

14 A unique MA course, which combines the study of Buddhism, Buddhist Art, and conservation of Buddhist Art.

15 MA Conservation of Wall Painting

Intake: 8 students. The programme seeks to provide the student with a strong foundation in all aspects of wall Duration: Three years, full-time. This painting conservation. On completion programme accepts students once every three students will be able to: years. Next intake is 2020/21. + Contribute to the assessment of the Entry requirements: A Bachelor’s degree in significance of the painting and its context. an appropriate subject in the humanities or + Examine and assess the original and later sciences. Students will normally have achieved materials of both the painting and its a good 2.1, considered to be an overall support, and the implications these have for overage of 65% or above. Students must be deterioration and intervention. able to demonstrate manual dexterity and have + Identify relevant factors of deterioration, and normal colour vision. Previous conservation evaluate the likely effects on the painting of experience is not required, though some measures proposed for their control. understanding of the nature of wall painting + Contribute to the design and conservation is desirable. implementation of a programme of conservation that may include: preventative Overview: The Courtauld is one of the leading measures; passive measures; emergency and centres in the world for education and research protective interventions; remedial in wall painting conservation. Over the last 30 treatments; and design and implement years, the Conservation of Wall Painting monitoring and maintenance programmes. Department has had a major impact on the + Produce full written, graphic and evolution of the discipline and the care of wall photographic documentation. paintings globally. A considerable part of this + Participate in the development of the impact derives from the Master’s programme profession, for instance through the that aims to ensure the improved care of wall presentation and publication of papers. paintings through providing appropriate education in their conservation. On graduation, students join a long list of Courtauld alumni who have gone on to have a Governed by the philosophy of minimal major impact in the conservation of wall intervention and an interdisciplinary approach, paintings and other aspects of cultural the programme seeks to impart a heritage across the world by working for methodology that emphasises investigation heritage organisations, universities and in and analysis of component materials and private roles. techniques, and diagnosis and control of the causes of deterioration. This aids design of a preventive, passive or remedial conservation strategy that is in line with accepted professional practice, and respects the integrity and significance of the object and its context.

16 The Courtauld is one of the leading centres in the world for education and research in wall painting conservation.

17 MA Curating the Art Museum

Intake: 12 students. Structure Term one Duration: One year (twelve months, October – + Conservation, Presentation and Access: September), full-time. Ethics and Practice (five sessions). Entry Requirements: Undergraduate or + History and Theory of Museums postgraduate degree (a good 2.1 or a merit (eight sessions; essay). at MA level, 65% or above), with at least one + Virtual Display exercise specialist module in the History of Art. (four sessions; National Gallery/Tate Britain). + Contemporary Approaches to the Museum Overview: This programme is an excellent (four sessions). entry point for a career in museums and + Individual Work Placement (London galleries. It puts the physical object at the museums/galleries, one – two days per heart of curatorial training whilst placing week, November – April). specialist knowledge firmly within the context of the modern museum. The course offers Term two a unique balance of seminars, hands-on + Contemporary Approaches to the Museum experience and work placements, focusing (4 sessions; essay). on the expanding remit of the art curator in + Development of Exhibition project the 21st century. The programme provides (January – June). unrivalled access to exceptional resources, + Text and Interpretation (10 sessions). drawing on The Courtauld’s own academic + Museum debate. faculty, conservation department, Gallery and collection, as well as making the most of Term three its close links with other London museums, + Delivery of Exhibition project (exhibition galleries, collections and curators. opens June). + Leadership session. + Four-day study trip to Europe. + Dissertation (from June; submission mid- September).

The MA is designed to: + Expand and apply students’ art historical interests, expertise and scholarship. + Develop their experience of curatorship and their active engagement with collections and exhibitions. + Prepare graduates to contribute to the future of the art museum profession.

Installation shot from MA Curating The Art Museum Summer 2018 Show ‘There Not There’, in The Courtauld Gallery.

18 Putting the physical object at the heart of curatorial training, providing an excellent entry point to a career in museums and galleries.

19 MA History of Art: Overview

Intake: 160 – 180 students (depending Byzantine and Medieval on number of Special Options running). + Byzantium and its Rivals: Art, Display and Cultural Approximately 8 students per Special Option. Identity in the Christian and Islamic Mediterranean – Professor Antony Eastmond. Duration: Nine months, full-time. + England, Europe and Beyond: Art, Identity, Entry requirements: Bachelor’s degree in a Trade & Politics in the Middle Ages – Dr Tom Nixon. humanities subject. UK students will normally + Miniature to Monumental: Encounters with have achieved at least an upper second class Medieval Art – Dr Jessica Barker. honours degree with an overall average of 65% or above. Renaissance and Early Modern + Continuity and Innovation: Reframing Italian Language skills are sometimes necessary, Renaissance Art from Masaccio to Michelangelo – depending on the Special Option. Dr Irene Brooke, Dr Scott Nethersole, Dr Barbara Overview: The hallmark of the MA History of Furlotti, and Dr Guido Rebecchini. Art is its intensive and highly specialised nature. + Imperial Circuits: Court Arts of China in Beijing Studying for The Courtauld MA is a rewarding and Beyond – Dr Stephen Whiteman. experience and an excellent gateway to working + Object Lessons: Art at the Courts of France in the art sector or undertaking further study in and Burgundy in the 14th and 15th centuries – the discipline. Professor Susie Nash. + Print Culture and the Early Modern Arts in Italy, France and Spain – Dr Sheila McTighe. Structure + Circum-Atlantic Visual Culture, c. 1770-1830 – The taught section of the programme is Dr Esther Chadwick. made up of two elements: + Modernity and Antiquity in British Architecture, + A Special Option in which one particular area 1615–1815 – Professor Christine Stevenson. is studied in considerable depth in groups + Bodies of Knowledge in the Early Modern of up to ten. This accounts for 90% Netherlands 1540–1660 – Professor Joanna Woodall. of the teaching time. + Strolling Isfahan: Masters, Merchants and + A core module which focuses on art historical Monarchs, Dr Sussan Babaie. methods and techniques, and their application to the area of specialisation. This Modern and Contemporary section is taught to all MA students together + Victorian Science and Aesthetic Movement Art and accounts for 10% of teaching time. – Professor Caroline Arscott. + Documenting Fashion: Modernity, Film and Special Option Image in America and Europe, 1920-60 – The MA History of Art programme is designed Dr Rebecca Arnold. around the study of specific Special Options + New York – London – Paris, 1880-1940 – taught by leading academics actively researching Professor David Peters Corbett. in these areas. For that reason, the programme + The Sixties: Eccentric, Erotic, Psychotic – frequently incorporates new Special Options, Dr Jo Applin. with recent additions ranging from options about + Modernism after Postmodernism: medieval Western imagery to modern American Twentieth Century Art and its Interpretation – art movements. Students follow one Special Dr Gavin Parkinson. Option only and select their preferences from + Experiencing Modernism: Utopia, Politics, a list that changes annually. Adjacent is the and Times of Turmoil – Dr Robin Schuldenfrei. proposed list for 2019-20. For the most up-to-date + Countercultures: Alternative Art in Eastern information on the courses running in 2019-20 Europe and Latin America 1959-1989 – and detailed course descriptions visit: courtauld. Dr Klara Kemp-Welch. ac.uk/study/postgraduate/ma-history-art + Chinese Art and Geopolitics – Dr Wenny Teo + Documentary Reborn: Photography, Film Brief overviews of each of the Special Options and Video in Global Contemporary Art – expected for 2019-20 are listed in the following Professor Julian Stallabrass. pages (pages 22-31). For more information on + Global Conceptualism: The Last Avant-Garde these, and possibly additional MA Special or a New Beginning? – Professor Sarah Wilson. Options, please check the website as per the link above. Please note that some of the MA Special Please Note: Special Options vary from year Option course leaders may be on sabbatical to year and are subject to demand. The Courtauld during the autumn term. In these cases, the reserves the right to to amend the options which run opening part of the course will be taught by if necessary, but will always directly inform all another specialist in conjunction with the course applicants of any changes, and inform all potential leader. For more information on the individuals applicants via courtauld.ac.uk/study/ postgraduate/ teaching the course of interest to you, please ma-history-art contact [email protected] directly for the most up-to-date information.

20 The hallmark of The Courtauld MA History of Art is its intensive and highly specialised nature.

21 MA History of Art: Special Options – Byzantine and Medieval

Byzantium and its Rivals: Art, Display Miniature to Monumental: Encounters with and Cultural Identity in the Christian and Medieval Art Islamic Mediterranean Dr Jessica Barker Professor Antony Eastmond By what means did medieval artworks delight The Byzantine empire was the richest and and persuade their viewers? With a particular most powerful state in the Mediterranean in focus on scale, this MA Special Option the early Middle Ages, and its art had a explores the embodied experience of profound impact on both the Christian and medieval art. The autumn will be themed Islamic societies in the region. This MA Special around artworks that might be defined as Option builds up a core of knowledge of “miniature” (rings, reliquaries, Byzantine culture, and uses it to examine the microarchitecture, seals, books of hours), while artistic interaction between the empire and its the spring term focus on the “monumental” neighbours to east and west. From Venice to (towers, tombs, giants, portals, cathedrals). the Caucasus, Constantinople to Cairo, art was Encompassing a chronology from the twelfth used to express the self-identity of a multitude to the fifteenth centuries and a broad of political, religious, social and cultural geographic scope, this course aims to ask new communities which will be examined in detail. questions of old objects, reconsidering some of the most famous artworks of the Middle England, Europe and Beyond: Art, Identity, Ages as well as discovering others long Trade & Politics in the Middle Ages overlooked. Dr Tom Nickson What was English about art and architecture in medieval England, and how has Englishness been constructed? Following a broadly chronological arc from the Norman Conquest to Henry VIII’s break with Rome, this course examines English material culture and its relationship to art in Europe and beyond. The Bayeux Tapestry, Canterbury cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Opus anglicanum, and Cotswold wool churches: these and lesser known witnesses to England’s cosmopolitanism will be placed within broader European and global contexts, exposing the construction of English national identity from the Middle Ages to the present.

Detail of ‘The Crucifixion icon from medieval Svaneti’, Georgia.12th century. Mestia Museum, Svaneti, Georgia. Detail of the ‘Mosaic of the Deesis with Jesus Christ and St. John the Baptist’, 13th century. Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey. Stellar lantern vault, c. 1387–1438. Founder’s Chapel, monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória, Batalha, Portugal. Photo: © Jessica Barker Detail of ‘Window nIV, Canterbury Cathedral’, c. pre 1220, © Photo: Rachel Koopmans, Canterbury, United Kingdom. Detail of the Bayeux Tapestry ‘Scene 4: William sits on his throne watching as Harold, each hand on a reliquary, swears an oath’. Replica produced in 1895 to mirror the original from c.1070s. © Reading Museum (Reading Borough Council) Reading, United Kingdom. Detail of ‘Window nIV, Canterbury Cathedral’, c. pre 1220, © Photo: Rachel Koopmans, Canterbury, United Kingdom.

22 23 MA History of Art: Special Options – Renaissance and Early Modern

Continuity and Innovation: Object Lessons: Art at the Courts of France Reframing Italian Renaissance Art from and Burgundy in the 14th and 15th centuries Masaccio to Michelangelo Professor Susie Nash Dr Irene Brooke, Dr Scott Nethersole, This Special Option will investigate objects Dr Barbara Furlotti, and Dr Guido Rebecchini made at the courts of France and Burgundy in This MA Special Option aims at providing the 14th and 15th century, a period when these students with a range of research skills, a broad centres led Europe in the production of luxury methodological framework for the study of goods. By looking across media from Italian Renaissance art and a focused metalwork to manuscripts, panel painting to understanding of the artistic production in sculpture, it will consider questions of scale as several centres, including Florence, Siena, well as material and technique, how these Perugia, Rome and Venice. The combination of complex works were crafted, what they cost, these skills and knowledge, acquired through how they were used. At the heart of this is large lectures, small seminars and visits in the close looking, a consideration of their physical UK and in Italy, enables students to develop evidence as well as their often eventful their own approach in any area of interest, and trajectories through time. The aim is to teach develop their independent lines of research an art history that puts the object at the while engaging with a wide spectrum of centre, and builds questions in widening themes, such as authorship, originality, circles from them, using a body of rich invention, imitation, patronage and collecting. documentary sources in tandem with technical This research-based approach allows for new and physical analysis. and often unexpected insights into the works of both celebrated artists and of those who are less typically well known in this period.

Imperial Circuits: Court Arts of China in Beijing and Beyond Dr Stephen Whiteman The courts and societies of early modern China, circa 16th–18th c., were deeply engaged with popular, elite, and global cultures of their periods. People, objects, and ideas from throughout the empire and around the world passed through Beijing, engendering a visual and material culture in mutually productive dialogue with a rich variety of intellectual and artistic sources. Through an exploration of images, objects, and spaces, this course considers how the court conceived, created, and deployed works of art as vehicles for ideological and cultural expression; the transcultural encounters both within and beyond the empire’s borders that contributed to these processes, including those with the pan-Asian Islamic and European worlds; and the circulation and consumption of objects among the court’s diverse audiences.

Detail of ‘Pietà’, 1498, Michelangelo, St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City. Detail of ‘Sleeping Venus’, c. 1510, © Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany. Detail of central lower section of ‘Ghent Alarpiece’, 1432, Jan van Eyck, Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium. Detail of central lower section of ‘Ghent Alarpiece’, 1432, Jan van Eyck, Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium. Detail of ‘ Magnificent Record of Longevity’, 1717, Wang Yuanqi, et al, Chinese Collection, Harvard-Yenching Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Detail of ‘Ten Thousand Countries Come to Court’, (Wanguo laichao tu), Qianlong period, Qing artist, The Palace Museum, Beijing, China.

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Print Culture and the Early Modern Arts Bodies of Knowledge in the Early Modern in Italy, France and Spain Netherlands 1540-1660 Dr Sheila McTighe Professor Joanna Woodall Focusing on ‘print culture’ places the artistic The Southern Netherlands and later the Dutch print into the context of a vast body of material Republic were famous for their art production in – such as broadsheets, pamphlets, illustrated the 16th and 17th centuries. They also participated books, printed tools and games –that in the fundamental reconfigurations of knowledge transformed communication from about 1500 that took place in Europe during this period. Cities up to the advent of photography. With a focus such as Antwerp, Leiden and Amsterdam were on southern Europe, this Special Option will ‘hubs’, attracting merchants, printers, artists and examine how trade in printed images led to a scholars from all over Europe. This MA Special marketplace for new forms of artistry, but also Option is concerned with the role of visual opened floodgates to the exchange of religious, materials in these exciting developments. Rather intellectual and political ideas in visual form. than separating works of art from scientific Readings in reception theory and cultural history illustrations and materials, the course considers will introduce printed images’ relation to paintings, drawings and prints by canonical artists ‘popular’ culture, the history of the book, such as Rubens and Vermeer alongside, for and the formation of visual literacy. example, the contents of cabinets of curiosity and the illustrations to works of natural history, emblem Circum-Atlantic Visual Culture, c. 1770-1830 books, travel literature and treatises on optics. Dr Esther Chadwick This MA Special Option considers an oceanic Modernity and Antiquity in space – the Atlantic – and the images that British Architecture, 1615-1815 were produced within it during the long Professor Christine Stevenson eighteenth century. Three historical moments This MA Special Option examines British punctuate the course: the American architectural culture between 1615 and 1815. Revolutionary War (1775-1783); the Haitian This period saw the construction of an Revolution (1791-1804); and the British enormous variety of buildings and landscapes, Emancipation Act (1833). We will concentrate of which many can be studied first-hand in the on three areas in particular: artworks and artists London area. They resist ready categorisation, that crossed the Atlantic, particularly between even as examples of architectural styles but in North America, Britain, and the Caribbean; art any case we want to get beyond narratives. made in mainland Britain that responded to Working within a broadly chronological Atlantic developments; and art produced in structure, this option considers different forms the Caribbean. What role did visual images, of architectural-historical analysis in relation to material objects, and cultural practices play in methodologies within the humanities generally. constituting or resisting imperial power? How Of special interest are the ways in which built do notions of ‘British’ art change when viewed form, and its creators and its mediators, actively in Atlantic perspective? And what is the directed Britain’s shifting understandings of its significance of this history for debates about own past, and therefore of its present and decolonising cultural institutions in the future too. twenty-first century? Strolling Isfahan: Masters, Merchants and Monarchs Dr Sussan Babaie Focusing on the makers of the arts and of the crafting of the material culture and the built environment that made Isfahan one of the most vital cities in early modern Eurasia, this MA Special

Detail of ‘Le Temps, Apollon et les Option traces the spaces of sociability and the Saisone’, 1662, Claude Lorrain, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927 / MET places of encounter among the denizens of the Museum NYC © The Metropolitan city in seventeenth century. Through Museum of Art, New York, USA. Detail of ‘The Anatomy Lesson of interdisciplinary investigations of the intersections Dr. Nicholaes Tulp’, 1632, Rembrandt, Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands. of the making and the writing, this course seeks to Mr and Mrs Andrews Without Their better understand the practices that elucidate Heads, 1998, Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Private Collection, London. dominant theories of ‘art’, and of ‘taste’, and of the Detail of ‘The Great Hercules’, 1589, meaning of being an Isfahani cosmopole, a Hendrick Goltzius, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946, © The Metropolitan self-conscious urbanity that imbues all the arts and Museum of Art, New York, USA. practices of life in Isfahan. Detail of ‘Design for a gateway at Blenheim Palace’, 1720, Nicholas Hawksmoor. © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London, United Kingdom. Detail of ‘Portal of the Royal Mosque’, 1611-1638, © Photo: S. Babaie , Isfahan, Iran.

27 MA History of Art: Special Options – Modern and Contemporary

Victorian Science and Aesthetic The Sixties: Eccentric, Erotic, Psychotic Movement Art Dr Jo Applin Professor Caroline Arscott During the 1960s various eccentric, erotic, This MA Special Option will study the work and ‘psychotic’, and ‘polymorphously perverse’ art critical reception of Aesthetic Movement artists works emerged in the New York art world. These such as James McNeill Whistler, Edward unruly, often abstract, practices created fluid Burne-Jones, Simeon Solomon and Evelyn de notions of sexuality and subjectivity, through Morgan. The first term focuses on the artworld various formal, theoretical and political means. positioning of this group particularly in the 1870s. Using the terms ‘eccentric’, ‘erotic’ and the The second part of the MA option considers how ‘psychotic’ as the guiding themes, this Special scientific developments could have shaped their Option will draw from the fields of art criticism, vision. The suggestions of sensory overload in feminism, political science, psychoanalysis, and their work, the bold physicality of the figures they queer theory to explore exhibitions, art writing depict and the approach to space and motion in and criticism of the time that challenged the their compositions are discussed in terms of prevailing norms of what the work of art can or aspects of Victorian science We will consider should be. It will also investigate the new kinds of thermodynamic theory, cell theory, conceptions subjectivity that artists such as Yayoi Kusama, Lee of morphology in Darwinist biology and Bontecou, Melvin Edwards, Eva Hesse, Louise physiological psychology. Bourgeois, Lee Lozano, and Andy Warhol produced, challenged and refused. Documenting Fashion: Modernity, Film and Image in America and Europe, 1920-1960 Modernism after Postmodernism: Twentieth Dr Rebecca Arnold Century Art and its Interpretation America and Europe were sites of rapid Dr Gavin Parkinson developments in fashion, documentary Taking case studies from the period of mainly photography, picture-based magazines and film French modern art extending from the turn of the from 1920-1960. This MA Special Option twentieth century to the 1950s, this MA Special re-evaluates the visual history of fashion in this Option focuses on the interpretation of key period, by starting from images of the modernism by writers associated with post- ‘everyday,’ that show dress as it was actually structuralism and postmodernism. We look at the worn, so that we can consider how film and political, social, and cultural contexts in which photography of fashion impacted consumers’ canonical artists worked, and apply literary, and wearers’ perceptions. We will analyse how linguistic, and contemporary historical theory to these images connect to body image, identity, discuss the operation of narrative, interpretation, ways of seeing, and modernity. This MA also explanation, and truth in the writing of art history. addresses issues including dress as We look at the art of Cézanne as an essential autobiography, sensory and emotional responses bridge between nineteenth and twentieth to fashion, and the development of the fashion century art before going on to review avant- industry and media. garde art from Picasso onwards through theories of semiotics, post-structuralism, the ‘thing,’ New York-London-Paris, 1880-1940 everyday life, and through the methods and Professor David Peters Corbett themes of postmodernity. Through a series of case studies which look at the evolution of city painting in the hands of Experiencing Modernism: Utopia, Politics, British, French and American artists in New York, and Times of Turmoil Paris and London, this MA Special Option will Dr Robin Schuldenfrei examine key questions and ideas about the Burgeoning modern cities such as Berlin, in the representation of the modern technological and early decades of the twentieth century, offered industrial city. Throughout we will be attentive to an unending supply of enchanting spaces, the international character of this art, to the flow activities, and modes of dwelling – to an elite. Detail of Study of a draped female and evolution of influence and revisionism The other face of modernity, the grim realities of figure for ‘The Garland Weavers’. 1866. across national boundaries, and to the mechanized factory life and substandard Edward Burne-Jones © Courtauld Gallery, London, United Kingdom. experience of urban life as it was interpreted by housing, is depicted in artworks and films such as Detail of Box #61, 1963, Lucas Samaras, © Lucas Samaras, Tate contemporary sociologists, novelists and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. Against this backdrop of Modern, London, United Kingdom. commentators. distinctive modern social stratification, this Detail of ‘Victoria Station, London’. 1950, Toni Frissell, photographer. Special Option will use a wide range of cultural London, United Kingdom. Photograph. objects – art, architecture, use-objects, interiors, https://www.loc.gov/item/96506374/. Detail of ‘A Bar at the Folies-Bergère’, film, fashion, print culture, and fiction – to 1882, Edouard Manet, © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, interrogate the objectives and achievements of London, United Kingdom. German modern architecture and design in the Detail of ‘Boulevard des Capuchines’, 1873-74, Claude Monet, Nelson-Atkins first half of the twentieth century. Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Detail of ‘Republican Automatons’, 1920, George Grosz, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.

28 29 30 Countercultures: Alternative Art in Eastern Documentary Reborn: Photography, Film and Europe and Latin America 1959-1989 Video in Global Contemporary Art Dr Klara Kemp-Welch Professor Julian Stallabrass This MA Special Option explores the Documentary work, often of an explicitly political experimental art scenes that developed, in character, and made particularly in photography parallel, in Communist Eastern Europe and under and video, is now increasingly common on the Latin American military dictatorships from the global biennial scene. There are three linked time of the Cuban Revolution of 1959 to the reasons behind this striking change which we will dismantling of the Soviet ‘bloc’ in 1989-91. examine in detail throughout this MA Special Following a series of introductory seminars on Option: economic, technological and political. Latin American and East European modernism, This course will examine the great variety of work Mexican Muralism, and Soviet Socialist Realism, made under the broad term ‘documentary’, and we focus on the moral encounter between the political, aesthetic and rhetorical affinities of alternative art and mechanisms of military and the term. It also considers the theories and state repression in 1960s, 1970s and 1980s USSR, history of documentary, from its first heyday in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, the 1930s through to the present. Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico, tracing some of the links that developed among artists Global Conceptualism: The Last Avant Garde from these countries. or a New Beginning? Professor Sarah Wilson Chinese Art and Geopolitics This MA Special Option seeks to redefine Dr Wenny Teo Conceptual Art as the last coherent international After over a century of imperialist subjugation, avant-garde movement, and as a starting point civil war and violent revolution, China is leading for different contemporary artistic practices. the charge towards a ‘new world order’ and has While the term `avant-garde’ suggests a range of demonstrated some of the most remarkable artistic, social and political meanings during the examples of social and economic transformation twentieth century, to study Contemporary Art in human history. China’s impact on the global requires an understanding of both the continuity economy can no longer be denied – but could it of the avant-garde, and the shift from the also change our fundamental ideas about art, ‘classical’ avant-garde to the ‘postmodern’ and politics and power? This MA Special Option beyond. The dominance of Western European explores China’s global interactions from the paradigms for the study of Conceptual Art will be early 20th century to the present day through the challenged, with special attention given to lens of art, visual culture and critical theory. This Eastern European, Latin American and Asian Art. course also maps out a more complex and Paradigm changes in terms of key exhibitions, ambivalent picture of global exchange; and the ‘global turn’ in art-making and its challenging the conventional assumptions of a reception will be paramount throughout. ‘unidirectional flow’ of ideas from the West to Global China: Modern and Contemporary ‘the rest’ by interrogating dominant narratives of modernism and the ever shifting definitions of the contemporary.

Detail of ‘Snail Action (piece 1 of 2)’, 1972, Géza Perneczky, Courtesy of the artist and Chimera-Project Gallery, Budapest, Hungary. Detail of ‘Snail Action (piece 2 of 2)’, 1972, Géza Perneczky, Courtesy of the artist and Chimera-Project Gallery, Budapest, Hungary. Detail of ‘Dressing Poultry’, 2007, Jeff Wall, lightbox, White Cube Mason’s Yard, London, United Kingdom. Detail of ‘Primitive Pieces—Exhibit C’, 2011, Lisa Barnard, digital photograph, London, United Kingdom. Detail of ‘Elegy: Explosion Event for the Opening of Cai Guo-Qiang: The Ninth Wave’. Credit: Photo by Lin Yi, courtesy Cai Studio, New York, USA. Detail of ‘Sky of Beijing—Digging a Hole in New York’, 2017, Wang Gongxin, image courtesy of the artist, Beijing, China.

31 Research Degrees

Intake: 20–30 students. Overview: Our PhD programme is one of the largest and most renowned for Art History and Duration: Three years, full-time Six years, conservation. At any one time The Courtauld part-time. hosts over 100 research students at various Entry requirements: PhD applicants are stages in their research projects. We have expected to hold a Masters degree in a great expectations of our PhD students, subject relevant to their proposed research. and recognise the value they bring to The Those with Masters awarded in the UK Courtauld and its intellectual life. Our status normally have received at least 70% in as the leading centre for doctoral training in the dissertation or thesis; applicants from Art History and conservation is recognised other countries should contact Student by our outstanding achievements in the 2014 and Academic Services for advice about Research Excellence Framework (REF), and by our requirements. Prior to submitting an the large number of AHRC (now CHASE AHRC) application, students must propose a research funded awards for studentships we have been topic, and gain the agreement of the relevant allocated over many years: more than half of tutor to supervise the project. There are strict our Home/ EU PhD students have received full limits on how many PhD students any one funding from this route. supervisor can take on in a given year. As a PhD student you will be part of a rich, vibrant and active research community, and will take full part in the academic life of The Courtauld. Our postgraduates take part in seminars, specialist reading groups, site visits, conferences and workshops, and contribute to The Sackler Research Forum’s intensive programme of cutting edge research and debate by scholars from across the world, including visiting professors, curators, conservation scientists and artists. They edit and produce a journal of postgraduate research, immediations, and are able to contribute to curatorial work in our gallery and print room. Our doctoral students have opportunities to gain professional experience by teaching at BA and MA level, and through work with our public programmes department. Although we have a large body of PhD students, as a single- subject institution The Courtauld remains an intimate place where students and staff know each other well, and access to the faculty and other postdoctoral scholars is easy and frequent. The faculty who will make up your supervisory team will meet with you regularly, both formally to discuss drafts of your work, and informally at lectures and seminars, and the receptions held frequently after them. They will be responsible for guiding your research, helping plan, develop and shape your thesis, monitoring your progress and finding ways to support your project in whatever way they can – either though proposing particular training options, providing contacts for you in national and international museums or archives, and helping you develop your professional skills and experience, as well as your own network of scholars in your field. You can find out more about current faculty at The Courtauld. Visit: courtauld.ac.uk/ study/ academic-staff

32 Research Degrees

Structure Second year The PhD programme is structured to help you Students often take longer research or attain the required skills you need to fieldwork trips abroad, and continue to undertake your research and to write your develop languages and other skills. Students thesis, allowing you to build and maintain may also work as teaching assistants to build momentum and to complete your PhD thesis their professional experience. You will continue within the three, or at maximum four-year time to meet regularly with your supervisory team, span allotted. and there is a further monitoring event during the second year, which takes different forms in First year different period sections, but most often You will take part in the skills course, a series of involves some sort of presentation of your sessions that provide guidance on aspects of research, usually to faculty and fellow research the PhD course and training such as students. referencing software, image management and photography, using social media in your Third year research, presenting at conferences, teaching, In the final year the focus will be on publishing, and archival research. During the completing and revising your chapters: this first year you may also take language classes. can be the most intensive year of writing. You Some of these – Dutch and Latin for example will meet with your supervisory team regularly – are organised by The Courtauld in-house; and will also be required to give a paper at the others will be on offer through other institutes Postgraduate Symposium, to MA and PhD in London, such as the London School of students and faculty from across The Economics, Kings College London, or the Courtauld. Goethe Institute. There are also important courses held at the University of London that Postgraduate research journal: immediations develop historical and archival skills, immediations, the first peer-reviewed research palaeography, public speaking etc. Our journal to come out of The Courtauld, CHASE partnership also provides access to a publishes innovative research from across the range of innovative training programmes: entire span of Art History. Reflecting the recently these have included ‘Material Witness’ strong research record of The Courtauld, and ‘Becoming a Public Intellectual’. Another immediations approaches the history of art important element of the first year programme from a wide range of perspectives, are the sessions held by the visual arts accommodating close reading of individual community of scholars across the University of works of art and architecture, as well as broad London, known as ReSkIN. These sessions theoretical issues. immediations welcomes provide an opportunity to meet other doctoral articles from current and recent postgraduate students in their field, and to attend sessions students at The Courtauld. about writing and research on the visual arts. Visit: courtauld.ac.uk/immediations Alongside these various training events, you will attend the first-year seminar, which brings the entering PhD cohort together to learn about methods and approaches to research, and to debate and share those methods, both theoretical and practical. In the first term this involves reading a different text each week, chosen by a student as representative of their material or approach; in the second term students present their own research topics to the group. In the third term of the first year you will submit your first-year monitoring paper. This consists of a chapter of your research, an outline of your thesis, and a plan for the next two years of work. It will be read by your supervisory team, and discussed at a formal meeting with them in early June. You have to pass this monitoring exercise to proceed to the following year. It is an important milestone in your PhD research, and the focus of your writing in the first year.

33 Admissions

How to apply Research Applicants may apply directly to The You must already have contacted your proposed Courtauld for entry in 2019 using our online supervisor in advance to discuss your application. application form, found at the below web Please choose your preferred supervisor from the address: https://courtauld.ac.uk/study/ dropdown list. If your proposed supervisor is not postgraduate/postgraduate-how-to-apply listed, please choose the TBC option and indicate, within your proposal, who your Depending on the course that you are preferred supervisor is. Please provide a research applying to, you will need to provide a title. Please note there is a 10,000 character limit personal statement or a research proposal on the summary of your proposed research. This alongside your application: includes spaces and bibliography. For further information and to check individual programme Courtauld Graduate Diploma in History of Art application deadlines visit: information You should provide a statement detailing your courtauld.ac.uk/study/ postgraduate/ reasons for applying for the course and supply postgraduate-how-to-apply any information relevant to your application. Please note there is a 500 word limit to the A preliminary application should be made in the statement. autumn term by the deadline indicated on the website. You will be asked to indicate your MA History of Art preferred supervisor, submit a CV (curriculum You should provide a statement for each vitae/resumé) and to outline your proposed Special Option to which you have applied. For research topic in not more than 300 words. You each statement, you should detail your will hear whether your preliminary application is reasons for applying to The Courtauld and to approved within one month. If your preliminary the individual option you have chosen, as application is approved you will be invited to members of academic staff will only be able to submit a full application with a more substantial see the supporting statement written for their summary of your proposal by the January option choice. Please note there is a 600 word deadline. Deadlines and full instructions are to be limit for each option choice statement. found on the website: courtauld.ac.uk/study/ postgraduate/ postgraduate-how-to-apply MA Curating the Art Museum You should provide a statement detailing your International students reasons for applying for the course and supply The Courtauld has a long tradition of welcoming any information relevant to your application. students from many different countries around Please note there is a 500 word limit to the the world. The additional mandatory statement. requirement for an overseas student above the entry requirements however, is demonstrating MA Buddhist Art English proficiency as outlined below. You should provide a statement detailing your reasons for applying for the course and supply Equivalency of qualifications any information relevant to your application. We accept overseas qualifications equivalent to Please note there is a 500 word limit to the a 2.1 in a UK undergraduate degree (e.g. US statement. applicants should have a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or above). For further advice on entrance Postgraduate Diploma in the requirements contact Student and Academic Conservation of Easel Paintings Services at: [email protected] You will be asked four questions relating to your knowledge and experience of the field of English proficiency conservation and your experience of Fine Art. International students wishing to apply to The Each question has a word limit of 400 words. Courtauld, and for whom English is not their first language, must be able to demonstrate their MA in Conservation of Wall Painting competence in English in order to benefit fully You should provide a statement detailing your from their course of study. Non-EEA nationals reasons for applying for the course and supply must also satisfy the UK Border Agency (UKBA) any information relevant to your application. immigration requirements for English language Please note there is a 500 before The Courtauld can issue a Confirmation word limit to the statement. of Acceptance for Studies (CAS) for visa purposes. For applicants whose first language is not English, we require proof of English proficiency. As government guidance on English language test providers is subject to change, it is best to check The Courtauld’s website for the most up-to-date information.

34 Applicants may apply directly to The Courtauld for entry in 2019 using our online application form.

35 Study Resources

The Courtauld Book Library The Witt and Conway Photographic Libraries Students have access to one of the greatest The Witt Library, (a visual library of international collections of art historical books, photographs and reproductions of Western periodicals and exhibition catalogues, with paintings, drawings and engravings from some 200,000 volumes. The library will be c1200 to the present day), will remain at based at Vernon Square as of January 2019 Somerset House during phase one of the and throughout the Courtauld Connects Courtauld Connects and will remain accessible refurbishment project. An online catalogue to our students. The Conway Library, a sister can be accessed both from computers in the library of photographs of architecture, library and remotely, in order to reserve books. architectural drawings, sculpture and other medieval art will remain open and accessible Prints and Drawings Study Room to students during phase one of Courtauld The Courtauld Gallery houses one of the most Connects. significant collections of works on paper in Britain, with approximately 7,000 drawings and Digital Resources watercolours and 26,000 prints ranging from The Courtauld’s ‘eMuseum’ contains more the late Middle Ages to the twentieth-century than 130,000 images covering painting, avant-garde. This includes masterpieces by sculpture and architecture to illuminated artists such as Dürer, Leonardo da Vinci, manuscripts, prints and decorative arts. The Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Turner, and Courtauld’s Art and Architecture website provides coverage of major national schools features The Courtauld Gallery’s complete and periods. Students will continue to have collections of paintings and drawings, and access to the collection at Vernon Square, as over 40,000 images of world architecture and well as the Study Room, which is also used for sculpture from our Conway Photographic collections-based teaching. Library.

The Courtauld Gallery Collection The Research Forum The Courtauld Gallery collection stretches Students are encouraged to attend events from the early Renaissance to the twentieth hosted by The Research Forum, which is the century and beyond, and contains unrivalled hub of The Courtauld’s research community impressionist and post-impressionist paintings, and attracts visiting speakers from around the including masterpieces by Monet, Van Gogh, world. The Research Forum offers an extensive Gauguin, and Cézanne. During the Courtauld programme of lectures, conferences, Connects project, The Courtauld Gallery in workshops and seminars supporting advanced Somerset House will be closed for enquiry in the History of Art, conservation and refurbishment from the 3 September 2018 for museum studies. Recent speakers have approximately two years. However, The included TJ Clark, Tracey Emin, Boris Groys, Courtauld remains committed to ensuring as Carlo Ginzburg, Michael Ann Holly, Shirin much of our collection as possible remains on Neshat, Cornelia Parker, Richard Serra, Francis display during the Courtauld Connects Morris, Nicholas Cullinan and Gabriele Finaldi. refurbishment. We have partnered with The Most Research Forum events will be held at National Gallery, based in Trafalgar Square who Vernon Square, with some events also taking will host an exhibition of our works from place at Somerset House. September 2018 until early 2019. The National Visit courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum Gallery will also display many of our works throughout the gallery, amongst their IT Facilities permanent collection throughout the duration The IT Centre at Vernon Square provides a of the refurbishment. As well as maintaining a space for private study as well as computers, presence in London, we are loaning works to scanning and printing facilities. Wireless museums and galleries across the UK internet is available across the Vernon Square including: and Somerset House sites. The IT Department + The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston. provides technical support and guides for all + The Ferens Art Gallery, Hull. services, and all students are given a Courtauld + The Ulster Museum, Belfast. email address and student login following + The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, enrolment. Coventry. Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) An international tour is also planned including The VLE allows students to access our digital a partnership with Foundation Louis Vuitton in image resources and texts, participate in Paris, where key works from The Courtauld forum discussions for courses, see a calendar Galley Collection will be displayed from of events, and download key course materials. January to June 2019.

36 At The Courtauld, students have access to one of the greatest international collections of art historical books in the world.

37 Where do Courtauld graduates work?

Arianne Piper Art Advisory + Art Gallery of South Australia + Art Horizons International + Art Institute of Chicago + Artes Mundi + Barbican Centre + Ben Uri Gallery + Bernard Quaritch Ltd + Bloomingdales + Bonhams + Bowman Sculpture + Brunswick Arts + Center for Fine Arts Education (CFAE) + Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts + Christie’s + Commission for Looted Art in Europe + Creative Industries Federation + Flint Public Relations + Foundation for Contemporary Arts + French Sole + Gasworks Grosvenor Gallery + Hamilton Kerr Institute + Harvard Art Museums + Hauser & Wirth + Heatherwick Studio + J. Paul Getty Museum + Kingston Smith Accountancy + Lehmann Maupin Gallery + Leo Xu Projects, Art Gallery + Shanghai Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee (Museum) + Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Latest38 Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) Where do Courtauld graduates work?

+ Macklowe Gallery + New York City Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) + Museum of London + National Gallery + Singapore National Museum + Cardiff National Portrait Gallery + Old Royal Naval College + Penguin Random House + Phaidon + Philadelphia Museum of Art + Phillips + PwC + Rooster PR + Royal Collection Trust + Sarikhani Collection + Selfridges & Co + Simon C. Dickinson Ltd + Sotheby’s + Tate Modern + The Estate of Francis Bacon + The Estorick Collection + The Institute of Contemporary Arts + The Metropolitan Museum of Art + The Williamstown Art Conservation Centre + Third Bridge + Timothy Taylor + Tobit Curteis Associates LLP + Universal Music UK + University of California, Berkeley + VIA Art Fund + Victoria and Albert Museum + Waterstones + White Cube Gallery + Yale University

39 93.5% are in work or further study after finishing the course.

Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey, 2015/16

40 Careers

Individual careers support All students who demonstrate commitment to All students can access bespoke, one-to-one their personal and professional development careers guidance throughout their studies. The by either attending five one- to-one careers Courtauld careers service offers advice and guidance appointments/five careers events or support on exploring career and further study through a combination of one-to-one sessions options, finding internships, enhancing and careers events are invited to an exclusive employability, understanding and navigating alumni networking event, giving them the the jobs and self-employment market, and opportunity to meet a wide range of alumni and making successful applications. The build valuable professional contacts. Each year, Courtauld’s careers consultant also offers a students secure work opportunities through tailored interview practice service, with attending this event. detailed feedback, enabling students to prepare effectively for interviews. Opportunities to gain work experience Many students work part-time to gain valuable The Courtauld Student Ambassador Scheme work experience and supplement their The Ambassador Scheme is run by The income. They may also embark on full-time Courtauld’s Public Programmes department, internships during holiday periods. which puts on an extensive programme of Some find jobs in galleries, museums, auction public events and opportunities for adults and houses and other arts institutions to young people, whatever their age or complement their studies, while others gain background, to benefit from The Courtauld’s internships to explore sectors outside of the unique resources. Students can get involved in arts. Through the Courtauld Association schools, community, outreach and public Careers Centre jobs board, students can events, gain invaluable skills and help promote access exclusive internships and job Art History as a subject and the work of The opportunities within the arts, sourced through Courtauld more widely. The Courtauld’s extensive alumni network. The Courtauld also has various opportunities The Courtauld Association internally, such as giving tours in the Gallery, Events and resources are also provided by acting as assistants in the Prints and Drawings The Courtauld Association, a networking base Study Room and providing general services in made up of current students, alumni and the libraries. In addition, JobOnline, the current and former staff. Students can sign up University of London’s jobs board, offers a to The Courtauld Association Network, an range of vacancies across various industries. exclusive social networking website, which The careers service provides support and includes job vacancies and events information guidance in finding and applying for work posted by members. Students can also sign up experience opportunities. to the Alumni Ambassadors Scheme, allowing them to network with various alumni who may Career prospects act as informal careers mentors. The Courtauld supports its students’ paths into careers in the art world and beyond by offering The Courtauld Institute Careers Programme unique opportunities for them to develop their The Courtauld Institute Careers Programme is skills and experience. The Courtauld’s a comprehensive careers education graduates continue to fill prestigious positions programme designed to help students to around the world as art historians, curators, explore their career options, receive practical journalists, art dealers and heads of major tips from and network with alumni and museums and galleries. Alumni have also employers, and develop their employability become lawyers, entrepreneurs, publishers, skills. The programme consists of a wide media professionals and teachers. variety of events, including: + Panel sessions led by alumni in a range of careers. + Talks by recruitment and careers professionals. + Employability skills workshops on a range of topics, including career management, interview techniques and networking.

41 Student Life

Studying in London TEDx The Courtauld at Vernon Square is based in a Since 2014, TEDxCourtauldInstitute has been dynamic part of London, near world-class a key part of student life at The Courtauld, research and cultural facilities such as the connecting the world’s brightest minds with British Library, Senate House, and the new the world’s best stories. TEDx is an UAL: Central St Martins campus. independently organised TED event that brings together ideas, stories and Courtauld Students’ Union performances from a diverse and engaging Our students benefit from the best of both range of speakers. As the synthesis of two worlds – a close and intimate community within intellectual and cultural powerhouses – TED The Courtauld and the chance to be a part of and The Courtauld – TEDxCourtauldInstitute the larger University of London. The Courtauld provides a learning environment based on Students’ Union represents the interests of all TED’s mission: ‘ideas worth spreading’. our students and organises a variety of As an entirely student led event, with a core activities, societies, outings and parties team of dedicated organisers and volunteers, throughout the year. Current societies include: TEDxCourtauldInstitute fosters community and Business of Art Society, Film Society, Medieval participation for all. Visit tedxcourtauld.com Society, Law Society and many more. Visit courtauldsu.com for more information. Our New Campus When construction work starts in September University of London Students’ Union 2018, teaching and learning (including our With the move to Vernon Square, students will faculty staff and book library) will be be a short 10 minute walk from the University temporarily relocated to a spacious, purpose- of London Students’ Union, situated on Malet built educational facility at Vernon Square from Street, Bloomsbury. The University of London January 2019. The Courtauld at Vernon Square Union (ULU) offers a wide-range of facilities is located a short distance away from Somerset and activities for students, where they can also House near King’s Cross, London. socialise with students from other University of London Colleges. These include: sports and We have chosen to move to Vernon Square as societies, cafes, bars, live music and events, a we anticipate significant noise disruption from health and fitness studio, and the largest construction work at Somerset House. The swimming pool in Central London. Courtauld is committed to providing an Membership is free for students enrolled at excellent student experience and learning one of the University of London colleges. Visit environment during this time, and we are student-central.co.uk for more information. confident that the investment that we have made into Vernon Square will enable us to The Courtauldian provide the best possible experience for our The Courtauld’s student newspaper provides students. an exciting opportunity for students to showcase their artistic and creative talent From Somerset House, Vernon Square is: through illustrated articles and photographs. + 25-minute walk, 15-minute cycle or 10 It includes an arts section, with exhibition minutes by bus. reviews and interviews with artists and arts + In Zone 1, near major transport hubs, professionals, as well as a wide-range of other 5-minute walk from King’s Cross. topics including literature, fashion, film, music, + In a new, dynamic and vibrant part of current affairs and competitions. To view the London. latest edition, visit courtauldian.com + Near world-class research and cultural facilities (the British Library, Senate House, East Wing Biennial the new UAL Central St Martins campus). The East Wing Biennial is a contemporary art exhibition entirely managed and curated by Please check our website for further and our students and displayed around The up-to-date information on Courtauld Connects Courtauld. The recent exhibition, ‘SURGE’, courtauld.ac.uk/connects. If you have any featured the work of up-and-coming artists questions, about the Courtauld Connects from various art schools across the country. project please email [email protected] Now in its 27th year, the exhibition is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious student art exhibitions in the world. Find out more at eastwingbiennial.org

42 The Courtauld Institute of Art & Key nearby locations

CAMPUS 1. The Courtauld at Vernon Square 5

Penton Rise Way York 2. Somerset House Strand 3. Senate House REGENTS CANAL

University of London Library Outer Circle ST PANCRAS KING’S 4. ULU INTERNATIONAL CROSS Hampstead Road University of London Union 11 EUSTON EUSTON WARREN KING’S CROSS 5. UAL Central St Martins Campus SQUARE Euston Road Pentonville Road STREET 22 ST PANCRAS 1 Granary Square 21 6 6. UCL Main Campus GREAT ANGEL PORTLAND 8 Gower Street STREET 4 16 ACCOMMODATION 9 13 7. Duchy House 3 10 133 Strand RUSSELL 15 SQUARE 8. Connaught Hall 12 OXFORD 36-45 Tavistock Square CIRCUS St John Street

14 Road Cross King’s 9. College Hall Malet St, Bloomsbury TOTTENHAM Oxford Street COURT ROAD Theobald’s Road Clerkenwell Road 10. International Hall HOLBORN Lansdowne Terrace, Bloomsbury 20 18 COVENT FARRINGDON THE MUSEUM MILE PICCADILLY LEICESTER CHANCERY GARDEN Kingsway 17 CIRCUS SQUARE LANE 11. The British Library dwyc BARBICAN 96 Euston Road 24 19 Al h 12. The British Museum 23 2 7 TEMPLE Stran Great Russell Street d rand 13. The Brunei Gallery (SOAS) St BLACKFRIARS Thornhaugh Street ST PAUL’S CHARING 14. The Cartoon Museum CROSS 35 Little Russell Street 15. Charles Dickens Museum 48 Doughty Street Our New Neighbourhood Our campus at Vernon Square will also ensure 16. The Foundling Museum King’s Cross is home to one of the biggest we remain by London’s Museum Mile. This 40 Brunswick Square and most exciting redevelopment projects in central location will offer students easy access 17. Hunterian Museum at the London. The 67-acre site is being to a wealth of museums, galleries and libraries, Royal College of Surgeons transformed into a new vibrant part of the including the British Library, the British 35–43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields city with the likes of Google HQ, UAL Central Museum and The National Gallery. 18. The Library and Museum St Martins Campus, and many new homes, of Freemasonry shops, offices, galleries, bars, restaurants and There is a strong sense of community in King’s 60 Great Queen Street schools, moving into the area. Cross, brought together by the canal- side 19. London Transport Museum setting, an exciting cultural scene, and a The Piazza, Covent Garden The location has excellent transport links, thriving business community. It is modern, it is 20. Sir John Soane’s Museum throughout London via buses and tubes innovative, and we think it is a great location 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields (including the 24-hour night tube on the for our students and academics to study and Victoria Line). You can even go directly into thrive during our temporary move from 21. UCL Museums: Art, Grant and Petrie Museums and central Paris, using the Eurostar at St Pancras Somerset House. Geology Collections train station, which is only a short walk away UCL, Gower Street from the campus. 22. Wellcome Collection 183 Euston Road 23. The National Gallery Trafalgar Square 24. National Portrait Gallery St. Martin’s Place

43 Accommodation

Duchy House Allocations Policy Duchy House (pictured left) accommodates 64 Applications are accepted from candidates students (undergraduate and postgraduate) who have a conditional or unconditional offer and is located next to the north side of only for a full academic year course at The Waterloo Bridge. Single occupancy rooms are Courtauld. Rooms are prioritised both to those available with most having en-suite facilities. students who live furthest away from The There is a communal kitchen on all floors and Courtauld, and to those who are engaging in there is access to a common room on each of their first year of study in the UK. If you have a the three floors. There is also a laundry room physical disability and would like to apply for on the lower ground floor. Free wired and accommodation, please include a covering wireless internet access is provided within all letter with your accommodation application bedrooms. describing the nature of your disability. You will also need to provide a medical certificate or Intercollegiate Halls other relevant documentation. Where Intercollegiate Halls are mainly located possible, The Courtauld will attempt to within walking distance of The Courtauld at accommodate students in suitable residences; Vernon Square, and most of the rooms however, please note that not all residences offered are en-suite rooms in catered halls. will be suitable for all applicants. Students who live in Intercollegiate Halls are housed with students from other University of London colleges, which is a great way to meet a diverse community of neighbours studying a wide range of subjects. University of London halls are mostly catered and offer both single and shared accommodation. Laundry and some cooking facilities are also available on-site.

44 Student accommodation at Duchy House is a short walk from London’s famous West End and Covent Garden.

45 Student Support

Student and Academic Services Health and Welfare The Student and Academic Services team, The Gower Street Practice, located a short based at Vernon Square, will provide a range walk from The Courtauld at Vernon Square, of support services focused on improving the offers a full range of medical services, overall student experience. The Student and including a travel clinic, lifestyle clinics and Academic Services office is open Monday to counselling services. Information is provided Friday, between 9.30am and 5.30pm. Staff are to students at the induction week to help them available to help with a wide range of general with the registration process. enquiries regarding the courses offered by The Courtauld, as well as providing official status For further information on student support and letters, advice about accommodation, health wellbeing visit courtauld.ac.uk/study/student- issues, immigration matters, financial support life/student-support and careers. Staff are also responsible for receiving formally assessed work from students Counselling through the year. The Courtauld has professionally qualified and experienced in-house counsellors, with whom Academic Support students can either making an appointment or Support with essay writing, structuring and attend a drop-in session. In addition, style is provided by two Royal Literary Fund the University of London offers a range of Fellows. The Fellows are published authors counselling and advice services. who offer students help with all aspects of writing, and do so in a friendly and Career Support confidential fashion. All Courtauld students have access to one- to- one careers and employability guidance, provided by a dedicated careers consultant on site. Whatever stage you’re at, the support is there from your first term right through to graduation and beyond.

Disabled Students The Courtauld welcomes applications from disabled students, who are considered on the same academic criteria as all others. There is, however, special consideration in our assessment system for disabled students according to individual needs. The Courtauld will take all reasonable steps to make adjustments and provide necessary facilities to enable any disabled student to attend a course for which they have been accepted on academic grounds.

46 The Student and Academic Services team provide a range of support services focused on improving the overall student experience.

47 Fees and Funding

Postgraduate Programmes At the time of going to press, tuition fees for 2019/20 have not yet been confirmed. The information below lists the fees for 2018/19. All fees are per year (except where stated) and are subject to review.

Programme Home/EU fee Overseas fee Graduate Diploma in the History of Art £11,845 £19,900 MA History of Art £9,425 £19,900 MA Curating the Art Museum £11,176 £23,227 PgDip in the Conservation of Easel Paintings £12,875 £22,197

Research fees Part-time Full-time Home/ EU fee Home/ EU fee Overseas fee MPhil and PhD Research £2,520 £5,047 £18,025 PhD writing-up year £690

Fees Assessment: Home/EU or Overseas? Consortium for the Humanities and Arts Visit: courtauld.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding South-East England (CHASE) for further information. The Courtauld is one of nine leading institutions of higher education – together with Courtauld Institute of Art Scholarships the Universities of East Anglia, Essex, Kent and Thanks to the generosity of an international Sussex, The Open University, Goldsmiths, group of committed donors, The Courtauld Birkbeck and SOAS – which form the CHASE Institute of Art is pleased to be able to provide Doctoral Training Partnership, funded by the financial assistance to postgraduate students Arts and Humanities Research Council. The when possible in the form of scholarships and Consortium (until 2019) annually offers around bursaries. 75 scholarships to PhD students from the UK and the European Union. Providing an Scholarships are offered on the basis of enhanced training programme for its funded academic merit, with the level of funding scholars, CHASE seeks to shape a future in determined by financial need. The average which the values and dispositions of postgraduate scholarship awarded in 2017/8 scholarship in the arts and humanities – was £6,000. inventiveness, craft, rigour, intuitive and counter-intuitive insight – can flourish Applications are welcomed from Home, EU alongside developments in creative practice, and Overseas students applying to or currently digital technologies and media forms. studying the following programmes in Studentships cover tuition fees, research 2019/20: training, and a maintenance allowance (the last + Postgraduate Diploma in the Conservation for UK students only). of Easel Painting For further information visit: chase.ac.uk + MA History of Art + MA Curating the Art Museum Alumni Loyalty Scheme + MA Buddhist Art: History and Conservation This scheme is open to any graduate of The + PhD Research Courtauld Institute of Art admitted to a taught postgraduate programme of study. Recipients For more information, please check the will receive a 10% loyalty discount off their website at: https://courtauld.ac.uk/study/ tuition fee for the duration of the course. This fees-and-funding/postgraduates discount will be applied automatically and does not require any further action from applicants.

48 The Courtauld has a number of scholarships to support postgraduate and research students.

49 Visit Us

Open Days The Courtauld holds a Postgraduate Open Day York Way York annually,normally in November providing an REGENTS CANAL opportunity for prospective students to meet staff and students, view the facilities, and discuss ST PANCRAS INT’L. Outer Circle the course in an informal session. KING’S For further information and to book online visit: CROSS Caledonian Road Hampstead Road KING’S CROSS courtauld.ac.uk/study/open-day ST PANCRAS EUSTON EUSTON WARREN SQUARE

STREET 22 Euston Road RoadGray’s Inn Pentonville Road If you have any queries, please email: Street Judd King’s Cross Rd 21 [email protected] 6 Penton Rise ANGEL PORTLAND 8 THE COURTAULD Campus STREETtours 4 AT VERNON SQUARE Book a tour with a Student Ambassador during Swinton St King’s Cross Rd 9 13 term time at: [email protected] Tavistock Place 3 Location The Courtauld Institute of Art 12 OXFORD Somerset House,CIRCUS Strand, St John Street London WC2R 0RN 14 TOTTENHAM The CourtauldOxford InstituteStreet of ArtCOURT ROAD Theobald’s Road Clerkenwell Road Vernon Square, Penton Rise, HOLBORN London WC1X 9EW 20 18 COVENT FARRINGDON PICCADILLY LEICESTER CHANCERY Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7848 2635 GARDEN Kingsway 17 CIRCUS SQUARE Email: [email protected] LANE dwyc BARBICAN Web: Courtauld.ac.uk24 19 Al h

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Disclaimer All information in this Prospectus is correct at the time of going to press (October 2018). Please check our website or call 020 7848 2635 for the latest course information and updates on the Courtauld Connects project.

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