where could this lead? I know quite a few people conidering this as a degree choice to start in September, but can't understand the point of the subject?
Well it's one of the traditional "academic" courses...so if you want to be a specialist..write books on the many subjects..then it;s perfect. It would be very useful if you wanted to be gallery owner, art or antique dealer, teacher or artist/designer. EDIT...Lol at the first 2 answers...they wouldn't know a"Mickey Mouse" degree if it smacked them upside the head!
Loads of people study crap like this at top Universities like Oxford and Cambridge, they just study easier subjects for that fact that they can say ''i studied at Oxford/Cambridge/Kings College etc''
its a ver specialist degree, for teaching, museum work, lecturing or you may just love art history. i personally am interested in it just haven't pursued it as my career choice just because theirs other things I'd rather do. people who call it a mickey mouse course haven't got a clue. Not everyone goes to university / college just to get a decent job at the end some do it because its what their interested in and what they love.
As so many here have said it's just a Mickey Mouse degree. there's no such thing as an Art expert. just look at the time when in a new york art gallery they put up a painting up side down for a few weeks. it took a child of about 11 to point that out to all these so called art experts and that was because she had seen the painting in an art book just a week before. so don't wast your time on it.
Auctioneers, valuers, writers, museum curators, etc.
Art plays an important part in deciphering history where there are no witten record, or where the written records of only the dominant culture survive. The Roman and Roman Catholics systematically destroyed documents of other cultures in order to present a false view of history.