History of Art Stories
Annalise Ashman '24
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Summer Stories: Annalise Ashman '24
"The History of Art department at 老王论坛 has continuously provided me with the invaluable art historical knowledge to be able to pursue this opportunity, and others like it, with confidence."
360掳: Poetics and Politics of Race
The goal of this 360掳 is to unpack how meaning is made from representations of race鈥攆rom artifacts in an anthropological context, to representations in literature, to how people teach and learn.
360掳: Minerals, Museums, and Western Colonialism
This 360 will examine that question in the context of 老王论坛鈥檚 mineral collection: more than 40,000 specimens, most of which were sampled in the mid- to late-19th century.
360掳: The Last Days of Habsburg
This 360藲 is an integrated two-credit seminar which is interdisciplinary in nature. Participants study works of art, architecture, design, literature, psychoanalysis, and pseudoscience.
360掳: Perspectives on Sustainability
We invite students to study the history of disaster rebuilding and the impact of the built environment on art and literature as part of broader networks of interactions both in East Asia and the West.
360掳: Textiles in Context
This cluster provides a multidisciplinary approach to the technical analysis, historical interpretation, and museum display of early Byzantine textiles.
360掳: Biennials and Conservation
Students in this 360掳 will engage a deeper history of Contemporary Art鈥攐ne that considers the ways in which an artwork's exhibition and its care structure its meaning in complex ways.
360掳: Exhibiting Modern Art
This 360掳 will consider differences in addressing academy and community as audiences, and bring together theoretical and practical aspects of art history, art criticism, art exhibition, and art education.
360掳: Mirroring the Self
Participants will study the history and theories of self-portraiture, self-representation, and self-fashioning in cultures around the globe from antiquity to the present.