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Year: 2022
Spring 2023 Course Highlight | The Floating World: A History of Japanese Prints
Professor Steffani Bennett will be teaching ART HIST 411/775 | The Floating World: A History of Japanese Prints MW 4:00–5:15PM. Sophomore standing, Humanities Breadth, L&S credit. Register here. Description: Technological advancements in woodblock design in seventeenth-century Japan led to a flourishing print culture that permeated all …
Upcoming Art History Lecture | Andy Warhol’s Early Work
From the Silver Platter to the Factory: Libidinal Economies in Early Andy WarholMonday, November 21st, 2022 | 5:30–7:00pm CT CGES | Ingraham Hall, Rm 206 | 1155 Observatory Dr. Madison, WIProf. Sebastian Egenhofer will present a …
Spring 2023 Course Highlight | Gore Luxury Identity Mimesis: Northern Renaissance
Professor Jennifer Nelson will be teaching ART HIST 360 | Gore Luxury Identity Mimesis: Northern Renaissance TR 1:00–2:15PM. Sophomore standing, Humanities Breadth, L&S credit. Register here. Description: Why do Netherlandish Lamentations feature bloody, putrefying wounds? Why is a skull distorted across the front of Holbein’s Ambassadors? Is …
Alumni Update | Robert Cozzolino’s Exhibition Catalogue Awarded the 2022 Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Award
Congratulations to Robert Cozzolino (M.A., 2000; Ph.D., 2006), the Patrick and Aimee Butler Curator of Paintings at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, whose most recent exhibition catalogue, Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art, was the winner of the 2022 …
Spring 2023 Course Highlight | AH 556/856 From Magic to Art
This spring, Professor Daniel Spaulding will be offering AH 556/856 From Magic to Art | Thursdays 4:30–7:00PM | Humanities Breadth, L&S Credit. Email Prof. Spaulding for consent to enroll at: dmspaulding@wisc.eduDescription: From the beginning, it seems, human life has involved mimetic …
Spring 2023 Course Highlight: ART HIST 373 Great Cities of Islam
Next semester, Spring 2023, Professor Jennifer Pruitt will be teaching ART HIST 373 | Great Cities of Islam MWF 11:00–11:50AM. This will be first time that this course will be taught since Fall 2019! Sophomore standing, Humanities Breadth, …
Alumni Update | Joanna Inglot Honored by the Tate Modern
Please join us in congratulating Joanna Inglot (M.A., 1991; Ph.D., 1997), the Edith M. Kelso Associate Professor of Art History at Macalester College, whose research on Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930–2017) has been heralded by the Tate Modern as the foundation …
Spring 2023 Course Highlight | Venice: The Arts of Empire & Cultural Encounter
Professor Thomas Dale will be offering AH 415/715 | Venice: The Arts of Empire & Cultural Encounter MWF 9:55–10:45AM. Sophomore standing, Humanities Breadth, L&S Credit, Cross-Listed MEDIEVAL 415. Register here. Description: Enduring for almost an entire millennium, Venice, a city of …
Student Spotlight | Ehsan Behbahani-Nia Gives Talk to French MA Students
Ph.D. Student Ehsan Behbahani-Nia delivered a lecture on October 13th, 2022 to master’s students at the University of Lyon 2 in France. His talk was part of a larger seminar, Hellénisme(s) et identités locales de l’époque archaïque à …