Alun Williams makes ahistorical history paintings by playing with the postmodern circulation of context-free imagery, mixing free-spirited image accumulation with glints of personal specificity. Quite ...

Canada’s residential schools and America’s Indian boarding schools were tools of genocide. Native children were kidnapped and sent away to “schools” more closely resembling concentration camps.

Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...

In the 1780s, French painter Pierre Henri de Valenciennes produced a landscape of the Channel coast. To do so, he painted not from memory or from a sketch, but directly from the source—by stepping ...

Few contemporary artists challenge the narratives of Western art history as provocatively and playfully as Kent Monkman. The artist has spent decades confronting the colonial gaze from inside of some ...

What can molecular biology majors learn from Manet? Can Cézanne change the way English graduate students and undergraduate engineers approach their fields? While students in both courses examined ...

A young woman stands defiantly as two police officers clad in body armor and riot helmets attempt to arrest her. They reach for her and yet seem to fall away, as though her poise repels them. The ...

Art historians often begin with a close focus on an individual artifact before setting that object into a history. Earlier, later, latest: that’s the basic historical structure. Giotto was studied by ...

Our Art History program offers courses in a wide variety of topics and subject areas. You can explore modern and contemporary art and urban design around the world, Chinese and Japanese painting, arts ...

These faculty members teach Art History courses. See also: Studio Art Faculty || Complete list of Art & Art History Faculty Braddock, Alan C. Department Chair, Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art History, ...

The art history program at CU Boulder gives students an interdisciplinary foundation in the history of art to prepare them for careers as scholars, museum professionals and related creative ...