Visual Cultures and Art History

The main ambitions of the Visual Cultures and Art History program from Masaryk University are:

• to train students to a complex understanding of visual cultures from the Middle Ages to the present day, with a deep focus on the role of visual media in constructing and shaping the analysed societies;
• to promote skills in collective work, scholarly research, intellectual independency, and cultural mediation in both academic and non-academic institutions (i.e., museums, galleries, research institutes, editing houses);
• to put forward a transdisciplinary approach to visual, material, and ritual cultures, at the core of research in Bildwissenschaft and art history;

• lastly, to create an international network of institutions collaborating around this master, conceived in an avant-garde way both on theoretical and practical bases.

Career opportunities

• Cultural management and monument care
• Art consulting
• Tourism
• Journalism (press and publishing, radio, television, online services)
• Pedagogy (high schools, teaching to adults, university) and mediation of art
• Cultural Mediation

Courses include:

• Debates and Topics in the Study of Modern and Contemporary Visual Cultures

• Images, Media and Migrations: the Visual Cultures of the Medieval Worlds

• Reflections and New Perspectives on Visual Cultures in the Early Modern Period

• Seminar: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Visual Cultures

• Image, Object, Text: Theories and Methods in Art History and Visual Studies

• Study Trip