Make sure to mark your calendars for Friday, April 12th, 2024 for our symposium on Japanese Art: “Japanese Painting Circa 1500: A Time of Upheaval and Innovation.” The symposium will be a hybrid event, and …
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Faculty News | Professor Li Wins Best First Book in Ming Studies!
Professor Yuhang Li has won a second award for her first monograph, Becoming Guanyin:Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China (Columbia University Press, 2020), by the Society for Ming Studies for their Inaugural Geiss-Hsu Book Prize for the …
Faculty News | Professor Casid at the Kohler Arts Center
On January 25th, Professor Jill Casid and artist Sunny Leerasanthanah lead a conversation at the Kohler Arts Center in the Social STUDIO focused on the short story “The Bad Graft” by Karen Russell, published in …
Student Spotlight | Professor Pruitt to Give Lecture At UChicago
Professor Jennifer Pruitt will be giving a lecture as part of the Smart Lecture Series at the University of Chicago on February 29th, 2024. The talk will explore a portion of her new book-in-progress, Inheriting an Invented Tradition: Islamic Art in …
CAA February 14–17, 2024
The UW–Madison Department of Art History will have a strong showing at this year’s College Art Association Annual Conference in Chicago. Here is the schedule of our department’s faculty and students by day of the conference: Thursday, February …
Faculty News | Prof. Andrzejewski Featured in L&S Magazine
The Fall 2023 issue of the Letters&Science Magazine features Professor Anna Andrzejewski’s forthcoming book project research on South Florida’s retirement communities. The article titled, “Oh, Florida!,” can be read in full here.
Faculty News | Prof. Chopra Publishes Chapter
Professor Preeti Chopra‘s chapter, “The West is the Best: World History of Architecture as Imperial Form of Knowledge,” is featured in the recently published edited volume, Narrating the Globe: The Emergence of World Histories of Architecture, by MIT …
Spring 2024 Course Highlight | Great Cities of Islam
Professor Jennifer Pruitt will be teaching ART HIST/RELIG ST 373/779: Great Cities of Islam TR 11:00am–12:15pm. Sophomore Standing | Humanities Breadth | L&S Credit | Enroll here. Description: Have you always wanted to visit the Taj Mahal? Are you intrigued by the annual pilgrimage …
Spring 2024 Course Highlight | Italian Renaissance Art
This spring, Professor Kristin Phillips-Court will be teaching ART HIST 320 Italian Renaissance Art TR 5:00–6:15pm | Sophomore Standing | Humanities Breadth | L&S Credit | Enroll here.Description: This course examines early modern Italian art (painting, sculpture, architecture) from roughly 1250 to 1580. …
Spring 2024 Course Highlight | Theater and Religion in Chinese Art
Professor Yuhang Li will be teaching ART HIST 576/876: Theater and Religion in Chinese Art TR 5:00–7:30pm. Humanities Breadth | L&S Credit | Instructor Consent Required. Email Professor Li for consent to enroll at: yuhang@wisc.eduDescription: Theater and religions are inseparable throughout Chinese …