BA Fine Art and History of Art
Goldsmiths, University of London
Key Information
Campus location
London, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
3 years
Pace
Full time
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Introduction
BA Fine Art and History of Art
This distinctive degree supports your individual concerns and development and enables you to navigate your way through theory and practice, various fine art media, and thematic strands within the study of art history and visual cultures.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Year 1
- Modernities
- Space and Time
- Beyond Boundaries
Year 2
Studio Practice in Year 2 begins to deal with more complex issues and a selective application of acquired knowledge and practical skills. It is a period of experimentation and synthesis, expanding and deepening your practice.
Your tutors assess your Studio Practice coursework continuously and you make a presentation of selected work for a viva voce in the third term, where you will be asked to discuss your work in depth.
History of Art in Year 2 will involve you taking two option modules. These currently include:
- Beckett & Aesthetics
- Cohabitations/Inhbitations
- Art and Technologies of the Image
- The Fact of Blackness
- Fashion as a Dialectical image
- Ornamentation & Materiality
- Museums, Galleries, Exhibitions
- Popular Modernism
- Patterns of Perception
- Postmodernities
- Radical Imagination & Speculative Voyages
- You will also take the following compulsory module.
- The Link
Year 3
Studio Practice at this level reflects an independent, self-motivated practice and your potential to work as an artist. You will demonstrate a high degree of understanding, critical awareness and independent judgement. At this level, you will have consolidated your practical and critical skills in preparation for the Final Exhibition and further independent practice.
Your tutors assess your Studio Practice coursework continuously and at the end of the year you mount an exhibition of your Studio Practice for assessment, which is then open to the public.
In History of Art you take 45 credits from a list of Special Subjects and option modules, or 15 credits from the list of Special Subjects and option modules, plus a dissertation of 8,000–10,000 words (30 credits).
You will also take the following compulsory module.
- The Link
- Animating Architecture
- Archive and Spectacle
- Film Fables
- Documentary Lives
- Landscape and Power
- Philosophy and...
- Sexual Poetics
- The Truth in Painting
- Research Architecture
- Counter Forensics
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Career Opportunities
Many graduates have continued to be successful, practising artists long after graduating, winning major prizes and exhibiting around the world. The Turner Prize shortlist has consistently included at least one of our former undergraduates. Seven of the prize-winners have studied here: Grenville Davey, Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Gillian Wearing, Steve McQueen, Mark Wallinger and Laure Prouvost.
English Language Requirements
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