The Department of Art History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is excited to announce the full endowment of the Joan B. Mirviss Chair in Japanese Art through the generosity of alumna Joan B. Mirviss. The …
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Morgridge Match creates Faculty Fellowship in Art History
The UW–Madison Department of Art History, founded in 1925, announces the creation of an endowed faculty fellowship that signals the department’s strong commitment to faculty excellence as it sets the stage for the next century. …
Faculty News: Prof. Cahill Gives Lecture on Sardis Excavations
Wednesday, April 7th | 5:00–6:30pm CT Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Zoom Join Professor Nicholas Cahill for the biennial lecture on research and discoveries at Sardis, one of the great ancient cities of western Turkey from the Bronze …
Faculty News: Casid’s Mentorship Honored on Artnet
Under the banner headline, “meet 26 women who’ve inspired the art world,” for International Women’s Day this year (March 8, 2021), Artnet News ran the feature article, “26 Art-World Women Celebrate the Women Who Inspire …
Faculty News: Prof. Pruitt Writes Blog Post on her “Personal Canon”
Professor Jennifer Pruitt recently contributed a blog post for Yale University Press, documenting her “Personal Canon” of five influential texts. Read more to find out the works that inspired her most in writing her 2020 …
Art History Lecture: “Folk Farmsteads on the Frontier”
Prof. Anna Andrzejewski and PhD candidate Travis Olson will be presenting their research in a live virtual lecture entitled: “Folk Farmsteads on the Frontier: German-American Farm Buildings in Southwestern North Dakota” on Thursday, January 28th at 6:00pm (CST). The …
Spring 2021 Course Highlight: AH 411/775 “Ukiyo-e”
Check out Prof. Gene Phillips‘ AH 411/775: Ukiyo-e course MWF 9:55–10:45am. In this course, you will take an in-depth look at Japanese woodblock prints, primarily of the Edo Period (1600–1868).
Faculty News: Prof. Nelson Wins Historians of British Art Book Award
Professor Jennifer Nelson has won the Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period before 1600 for Disharmony of the Spheres: The Europe of Hoblein’s Ambassadors! Congratulations Prof. Nelson!!! Read more …
Spring 2021 Freshman Friendly Courses!
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 …
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 …