Calling all first-year UW–Madison students! You can NOW Enroll in Spring 2021 classes. We have three introductory AH 103 courses available this spring. -AH 103: Passage Through India MW 1:20–2:10pm -AH 103: Religion and Art TR 1:20–2:10pm …
Year: 2021
Spring 2021 Course Highlight: AH 350/707 “19th Century Painting in Europe”
Explore the century that gave us our modern world: light-bulbs, steam engines, reproductive technologies, the mass media, phonographs, telegraphs, telephones, factories, the middle class, globalization, condoms, antisepsis, even computers! How did artists respond to and …
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Spring 2021 Course Highlight: AH 505/805 “Persia: The First World Empire”
The Achaemenid Persians ruled most of the Near East for more than 200 years, from 550–330 BC, unifying for the first time in history a diverse empire stretching from the Aegean to Afghanistan and from …
Spring 2021 Course Highlight: AH 428 “Visual Cultures of India”
This spring, Prof. Preeti Chopra will be teaching AH 428 Visual Cultures of India MW 4:00–5:15pm. This lecture course concentrates on the images (art, advertisements, photography, television, and cinema), material culture (such as, clothing), and environments …
Spring 2021 Course Highlight: AH 372 “Arts of Japan”
Want to learn more about the Arts of Japan? Make sure to enroll into Prof. Gene Phillip’s AH 372 course as he will be retiring soon! To see this course and our other course offerings please …
Faculty News: L&S Tenure Faculty Interview with Prof. Pruitt!
Check out the Fall 2020 College of Letters & Science Tenure Faculty Interview with our own Professor Jennifer Pruitt!
Spring 2021 Course Highlight: AAS/AH 242 “Intro to Afro-American Art”
Melanie Herzog, Senior Lecturer in Afro-American Studies, will be teaching AAS/AH 242 Intro to Afro-American Art TR 9:30–10:45am. Introduction to Afro-American Art is a survey course in which we will investigate the history of African American art …
Spring 2021 Course Highlight: “Passage Through India: South Asia’s Global Architectural Histories”
Professor Preeti Chopra’s introductory AH 103 Passage Through India: South Asia’s Global Architectural Histories is giving us some serious #thecrown vibes. Whether you’re a fan of The Crown or not, Prof. Chopra’s course has no …
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year from the Department of Art History! We’re looking forward to 2021, so keep an eye out for upcoming virtual lectures.