Investigate American domestic architecture and its
responsiveness to changes in daily life from Colonial times
through the 1960s. Vernacular developments, effects of
different socioeconomic conditions, and women’s role in
shaping the home receive special attention.
Art History is the study of the visual arts in civilization. It
examines changing values in all fields of visual culture,
including painting, sculpture, graphics, photography,
architecture, film, the mass media, and forms of popular
expression. Its interdisciplinary reach encompasses literature,
history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, gender studies,
critical theory, and cultural studies. Art History emphasizes
visual as well as verbal and written literacy, providing more
than the standard advantages to a liberal arts education.
Professor Susette Min
Thursday, 1:10-4 pm, Everson 157
Do you have a desire to curate and organize an
exhibition? Here is your chance.
This course introduces the practice of exhibition-making,
specifically, exploring the power and politics of display and
various critical and experimental approaches to curating an
exhibition within and beyond the traditional white cube. In
addition, the course will actively curate an exhibition of
objects from the Richard L. Nelson Gallery collection.
Join us for lunch and a conversation with
professionals working in a variety of visual
arts-related fields as we discuss a variety of career paths open
to Art and Art History students.
Schedule for the 2013-2014 year:
October 16: Rachel Teagle, Director, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti
Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis
12-1 pm in Everson 157
February 4: Glen Helfand, independent writer, critic, curator,
and educator
Additional speaker(s) to be announced. Time and location will
also advertised soon.
Did you know that the Department of Art and Art History at UC
Davis had one of the first museum studies and art conservation
programs in the US and the first program on the west coast?
Kristoffer Neville is an Assistant Professor of Early Modern
Architecture, UC Riverside. His work focuses on the
international aspects of the arts in the early modern period, and
particularly on the integration into a more coherent and
synthetic history of art of regions and traditions that often
been seen as distinct. He is currently working on a book on the
cultural history and significance of the courts in Copenhagen and
Stockholm within northern Europe ca 1550-1720.
