Professor Ann Smart Martin with PhD Candidates Jared L. Schmidt and Cortney Anderson Kramer will publish their collaborative research from the Community-University Award winning project with the Mt Horeb Historical Society. The book chapter titled “The Triumph …
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Louis Nelson Lecture Draws Crowd
Louis P. Nelson, Professor of Architectural History and Vice Provost, University of Virginia, drew a large crowd for his talk on Thursday, November 15. The talk attracted some attention from the local press.
Art History honored with the Community–University Partnership Award
Inspired by the Wisconsin Idea, the ongoing collaboration between the Department of Art History and the Mount Horeb Area Historical Society (MHAHS) was awarded the Community-University Partnership Award by Chancellor Rebecca Blank. The exhibition and e-book Creators, …
Drones and the Dig
Dr. Nick Cahill, the Simona and Jerome Chazen Distinguished Chair in Art History and field director of Harvard’s archaeological expedition at Sardis in Western Turkey, recently spoke at Harvard about the significance of the site …
Lindsay Wells to Publish on Ruskin
Ph.D. Candidate Lindsay Wells reports from her Huntington Exchange fellowship at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University (UK) that her article on John Ruskin’s “Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers” (1875), was just accepted by the journal “Victorian …
Interview on the course “Race and Representation in the Art of the United States”
Mark Summers, Ph.D. candidate, was recently interviewed by Radio Chipstone (WUWM/NPR) about his role as lead teaching assistant for our new fall course, AH104 “Race and Representation in the Art of the United States.” The …
Instagram Scavenger Hunt
Students in Professor Pruitt’s Art Hist 210: A History of the World in 20 Buildings have been exploring Madison architecture through an Instagram scavenger hunt. Check us out at #buckysbuildings.
Brott publishes article in Cartographica
Ph.D. candidate LauraLee Brott’s essay “The Geography of Devotion in the British Library Map Psalter (BL Add. MS 28681)” was published in the fall 2018 issue of Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and …
Beautiful and Deadly: The Dangerous Plants of Edward Burne-Jones
October 4, 2018 at 12:00 PM Class of 1941 Lecture Room Between the 1850s and 1890s, Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones filles his paintings with plants that attack, adorn, and engulf human figures. This was also …
Fieldschool in North Dakota
Prof. Anna Andrzejewski took 7 graduate students to southwestern North Dakota for 5 days to research the vanishing buildings of German-Russian immigrants. These early twentieth-century buildings built of fieldstone have not received any scholarly attention …