Students majoring in Art History will engage with the
wide-ranging opportunities its curriculum presents for learning
and research. Studying Art History develops visual
literacy, communication skills, critical/creative thinking and an
understanding of diversity.
Professor Michael Yonan, art history, and Alan Templeton Endowed
Chair in the History of European Art, 1600–1830 Eighteenth
and Nineteenth-Century European Art, Decorative Arts, Material
Culture has written an article on “Martin van Meytens’s ‘Portrait
of Johann Michael von Grosser: The Business of Nobility” which
was just published in Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum
Stockholm (26:1 (2019 [2020]): 91-98).
Professor Katharine Burnett, art history, and faculty director,
Global Tea Initiative for the Study of Tea Culture and
Science Chinese Art and Culture, is the author
of Shaping Chinese Art History: Pang Yuanji and His
Painting Collection which has just been released by
Cambria Press.
Professor Alexandra Sofroniew will speak at the Pence Gallery for
their Art History Lecture Series on “Homemade Votive Offerings:
Giving Gifts to the Gods in Ancient Italy.” Her lecture will be
Saturday, January 16 from 2-3 pm (PST) via Zoom.
Alumna Jennifer Dasal (BA ‘02) and her newly published book
Art Curious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and
Strangely Wonderful in Art History (Penguin, September 2020)
are featured in the latest College of Letters and Science
newsletter.
American cultural institutions are an integral part of the
broader discussion of racism taking place in our society. Museums
are powerful spaces for communicating cultural values, including
racially based notions of cultural difference. Can the museum be
a space of anti-racism, and can the discipline of art history
help to achieve that? If so, what are the challenges and
concerns involved?
