Department of Art History
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Professor Kaufmann will lead a discussion exploring various approaches that have been or might be applied to the global history/geohistory of art. He will draw on insights that have arisen in penning individual essays and a global history of art textbook, with Professor Elizabeth Pilliod (Rutgers University, Camden) to comment.
Artivism: Art History and Heritage in Global Conflict
This talk will investigate the verisimilitude of books in the art of Jan van Eyck and his contemporaries, relying on the newly launched Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art (BASIRA) database to compare and contrast.
Drawing from the Zimmerli’s rarely shown large scale artworks from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, Painting to Scale explores the constraints on access to materials that underpin narratives of “nonconformism” in the USSR.
This talk will explore the development and expression of the athletic arts in Renaissance Italy as they responded to intellectual, courtly, and civic revivals of antiquity as well as tn unprecedented expansion of artisanal and professional work related to leisure.
Kelli Wood is an interdisciplinary researcher, writer and curators whose work combines methods from art history, game studies, sports science and museology.
Dr. Scott will discuss her intellectual and ethical journey in writing about Indigenous art and history, focusing on her book project Modern Pueblo Painting: Colonization, Aesthetic Agency, and Indigenous Visual Sovereignty.
The Department of Art History celebrates our graduates!
