The University of Oxford will offer a new graduate degree in Visual Cultures of the Ancient World from October 2010.
This is a truly inter-disciplinary option that crosses traditional boundaries between Archaeology and Art History. Taken with other options in the Masters’ programme, it allows students to draw on the breadth of expertise in Oxford in these areas and the outstanding resources provided by the Ashmolean and Pitt Rivers museums, other research collections (such as the Beazley Archive) and specialist libraries.
The geographical range spans many continents, the chronological many millennia, primarily BC. Over eight weeks the option will cover:
The World of Ancient Art by Sir John Boardman (2006) is a recent object-based study with extensive bibliographies. The World History of Art by Hugh Honour and John Fleming (latest edition). The Cambridge series - Cambridge Ancient History, History of Iran, Central Asia, Ancient China, Native Peoples of the Americas, Pacific Islanders provide historical background.
Professor Donna Kurtz will direct the option with the assistance of members of the School of Archaeology (Institute of Archaeology and Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art). Students will be encouraged to make use of their lectures.
Senior scholars will be drawn from three faculties and two museums
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