In harmony with other venues on the UC Davis campus and across
the state of California, The Arts departments are committed to
providing as safe an experience as possible to our greater
community—and will do so until state or county guidelines are
lifted.
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 Talinn Grigor explores the ruins of Persepolis in
the aftermath of its excavation by Ernst Herzfeld in a public
lecture entitled “Persepolis After Lindon Smith: The Modernist
Afterlife of the Ruins.”
Alumnus and philanthropist Alan Templeton (B.A., art history and
psychology, ‘82) recently received the highest honor U.C. Davis
bestows: the UC Davis Medal.
Professor Katharine Burnett participated in the latest Asian
Food Study Conference with her talk on ”How Do We Know When
Culture Crosses the Border? The Case of Sino-Viet Teapots before
1700.”
Community Education Room, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
Twentieth-century nationalism was marked by the effective use of
press culture and graphic satire to shape the discourse of
modernity. Along the way, women’s rights and minority rights were
struggles that formal institutions resisted and appropriated.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Old Davis Road, Davis, CA
