History of Art Stories

Two students observe a large blue gem

360掳: Minerals, Museums, and Western Colonialism

This 360 will examine that question in the context of 草榴成人社区鈥檚 mineral collection: more than 40,000 specimens, most of which were sampled in the mid- to late-19th century.

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360掳: The Last Days of Habsburg: Vienna 1900 and the End of an Empire

360掳: The Last Days of Habsburg

This 360藲 is an integrated two-credit seminar which is interdisciplinary in nature. Participants study works of art, architecture, design, literature, psychoanalysis, and pseudoscience.

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A group of students pose in front of a spiky blue sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 2018.

360掳: Biennials and Conservation

Students engage a deeper history of Contemporary Art鈥攐ne that considers the ways in which an artwork's exhibition and its care structure its meaning in complex ways.

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textile class

360掳: Textiles in Context

This cluster provides a multidisciplinary approach to the technical analysis, historical interpretation, and museum display of early Byzantine textiles.

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Photograph of Katharine Hepburn holding and looking into a hand mirror

360掳: Mirroring the Self

Participants will study the history and theories of self-portraiture, self-representation, and self-fashioning in cultures around the globe from antiquity to the present.

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Century of Self Expression Exhibition

360掳: Exhibiting Modern Art

This 360掳 will consider differences in addressing academy and community as audiences, and bring together theoretical and practical aspects of art history, art criticism, art exhibition, and art education.

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