The Art History Department at Sussex is highly-rated and well-respected internationally and nationally both in terms of our research and our teaching. In the 2008 Research and Assessment Exercise (RAE) Art History at Sussex achieved a score that places us in the top 3 in the subject in the UK. We are ranked 2nd in the UK in 4* world-leading research. The RAE found that 100% of our research activity in Art History is rated as being world-leading, internationally excellent or internationally recognised.
Why Art History at Sussex?
- Rated 3rd in the UK for research in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). 100% of our research was rated as recognised internationally or higher, with 70% rated as internationally excellent or higher, and 45% rated as world leading.
- Excellent facilities, including a comprehensive slide library and student working space that are the envy of many larger institutions.
- A small, friendly department with a close-knit community of students and staff.
- All undergraduate students go on a supervised study trip abroad, subsidised by the University, providing opportunities to explore art works in their original location.
- Unusually for a UK university, we cover a wide range of periods and places from Byzantium to Renaissance Italy to contemporary America.
- A staff exchange with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London allows you to take courses based on the Museum’s collections and curatorial expertise. In recent years, students have studied contemporary photography, Indian art and 1960s fashion with V&A curators.
- Close links with a long list of museums and galleries in the UK and abroad, including Tate, Brighton Photo Biennial, National Portrait Gallery, Charleston Farmhouse, National Maritime Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Our definition of Art History encompasses a wide variety of practices ranging from painting and sculpture to mosaics and photography.
- An inter-disciplinary approach to Art History.
