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  Spring 2021 Course Highlight: AH 440/779 “Art & Power in the Arab World”

  This course considers the use of art and architecture as an expression of power in the Arab world, from the seventh century to the present. Beginning with the establishment of the caliphate and ending with …

  January 21, 2021
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  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).

  January 18, 2021
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  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 …

  January 17, 2021
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  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 …

  January 14, 2021
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  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 …

  January 12, 2021
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