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STAFF PROFILE
Martin Hammer
Professor of History of Art
The art of Francis Bacon has
been a major research focus
for Professor Martin Hammer in
recent years. His book Francis
Bacon and Nazi Propaganda
presents the artist as more
engaged with the wider world
than is usually acknowledged.
He sought in his work to
articulate what it felt like to
witness the rise of Fascism
in the 1930s, and then the
horrifying violence and the
self-destruction that ensued
when the Nazi craving for power
turned into the pursuit of military
conquest and the Final Solution.
Martin has served as a member
of the Tate Britain Council, gave
the Rothenstein lecture last year
on Bacon and Degas, worked
closely with Tate Research and
Archive, and published his
Bacon book with the museum.
Curating MA
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Location: Canterbury
This programme, delivered by
School of Arts and specialist
visiting lecturers, develops your
skills and provides experience
relevant to a career in curating.
Based at the School of Arts’
Studio 3 Gallery, you are involved
in all aspects of the running of the
Gallery. You have the opportunity
to work closely with partner
organisations such as Canterbury
museums and galleries.
Compulsory modules provide
an overview of the history of
collecting and exhibitions through
a series of case studies, taking
advantage of our proximity to
major London collections. We also
cover theoretical issues relating
to curating and museology.
Collaborating with other students,
you can develop your own project,
working within the Gallery’s
exhibition programme.
Course content
• Compulsory modules:
Curatorial Internship; History
and Theory of Curating
• Optional modules: The Art
of Portraiture; Post-Conceptual
Art and Visual Arts Criticism;
Reading the Contemporary;
Theories of Art in Modern
French Thought
History & Philosophy of Art
MA
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Locations: Canterbury;
Canterbury and Paris; Paris
It is possible to study this MA
in three ways: either entirely in
Canterbury, in both Canterbury
and Paris, or entirely in Paris.
This MA provides a structured
introduction to the postgraduate
study of the history and
philosophy of art. Particular
focuses include contemporary
art, photography, Renaissance
art, medieval art, 18th-century
British painting, 19th-century
French painting, modernism,
aesthetics and the philosophy
of art and film. You may elect
to take a Philosophy of Art and
Aesthetics pathway, which draws
on the expertise of our Aesthetics
Research Centre.
If you are studying on the split-site
programme, you spend your first
term in Canterbury before
relocating to our Paris School
of Arts and Culture for the
spring term, studying in the
heart of historic Montparnasse.
All teaching is provided in English,
by University of Kent academics.
Those on the year-long Paris
programme take modules from
their own subject area alongside
optional modules inspired by Paris
and its unique cultural history.
For further information about the
Paris School of Arts and Culture,
please see p257.
Course content
Canterbury or Canterbury and
Paris students take:
• Key Concepts and Classic
Texts in History and Philosophy
of Art
• Dissertation of 12-15000
words.
Canterbury students also take:
• Introduction to Research in
History and Philosophy of Art
• Two from a range of optional
modules including: The Art
of Portraiture: Historical and
Philosophical Approaches;
Conceptualising Film; A
Matter of Taste: The Art and
Aesthetics of Food; History
and Theory of Curating;