UW–Madison Department of Art History

Fall 2024 Course Highlight: Professor Sunghoon Lee will be teaching ART HIST 303 "Global Baroque Art" TR 2:30–3:45PM during the Fall 2024 semester. Sophomore Standing | Humanities Breadth | L&S Credit. #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #OnWisconsin #arthistory Enroll here: https://lnkd.in/gRG9Y_Rm Description: This course explores transformations in art and visual culture across Europe and its colonies from approximately 1550 to 1750.?

Fall 2024 Course Highlight: This fall Professor William Aylward will be teaching ART HIST/CLASSICS 300 "The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece" MW 8:25–9:40AM. Sophomore Standing | Humanities Breadth | L&S Credit. #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #OnWisconsin #arthistory #archaeology #greekarchaeology #ancientgreekart Enroll here: https://lnkd.in/gRG9Y_Rm Description: This course explores the art and archaeology of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period.

Alumni News: Dr. Sarah Fayen Scarlett (Ph.D., 2014) is part of a team recently honored with the Governor's Award for Historic Preservation from the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office. The Keweenaw Time Traveler is an interactive online historical atlas for the Keweenaw Peninsula that uses GIS software to connect thousands of historic maps with archival records from the census, city directories, school records, as well as employment information from the region's largest copper mining companies. As co-director, Dr. Scarlett has been involved in developing this platform as both a research tool and public heritage project that has includes the work of over fifty students and hundreds of "Citizen Historian" community members. Through educational outreach at local festivals, schools, libraries, and heritage sites, the Time Traveler promotes shared conversation about the region's industrial past and its enduring impact on contemporary life and identity today. Dr. Scarlett is Associate Professor at Michigan Technological University. You can explore the Keweenaw Time Traveler at www.keweenawhistory.com and watch the video about the award, here: https://lnkd.in/gm9ey-77 Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association

Fall 2024 Course Highlight: Professor Preeti Chopra will be teaching ART HIST/ASIAN 379 "Cities of Asia" MW 2:30–3:45PM during the Fall 2024 semester. Sophomore Standing | Counts Toward Architecture Certificate | Humanities Breadth | L&S Credit. #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #OnWisconsin #arthistory #citiesofasia #southasianart Enroll here: https://lnkd.in/gRG9Y_Rm Description: This semester long survey course, presents a historical overview of the built environment of the cities of Asia from antiquity to the present. Most surveys of the city focus on the West, even though the earliest neolithic settlements are found in western Asia, and the first true cities were constructed between the Tigris and Euphrates around 3500 B.C. Max Weber's work on the City was influential in drawing a contrast between Western and non-Western cities, arguing that "urban communities" and hence "true cities" were only found in the West. This course seeks does not seek to essentialize Western or non-Western cities. Instead, it seeks to explore and tease out common themes that thread through the diverse geographical regions and cultures of Asia.

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Staff News: Teddy Kaul has won the Martha Casey Award for Dedication to Excellence Award for his service to the department, particularly for helping transform our curriculum and increase enrollments in our undergraduate classes. Congratulations, Teddy, and thanks for all you do for the department! #uwmadisonarthistory #uwmadison #arthistory #OnWisconsin #marthacaseyaward Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gZp7s7UD

Fall 2024 Course Highlight: Professor Nancy Marshall will be teaching ART HIST 350 "19th C. Painting in Europe: Empire and the Emergence of the Modern World" MWF 12:05–12:55PM during the Fall 2024 semester. Sophomore Standing | Honors Optional | Humanities Breadth | L&S Credit. #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #OnWisconsin #arthistory #nineteenthcenturyeuropeanpainting Enroll here: https://lnkd.in/gRG9Y_Rm Description: Explore the century that gave us the world as we know it now: light-bulbs, steam engines, reproductive technologies, the mass media, phonographs, telegraphs, telephones, factories, the middle class, globalization, condoms, antisepsis, even computers! How did artists respond to and participate in an era of rapid change not unlike our own? A time of paradigm shifts in Western ways of understanding the world, the nineteenth century in Europe saw the emergence of new ideas like the equality of all humans preached by the French Revolution, the concept of childhood, Freudian psychoanalysis, Marxism, animal rights, and Darwinian evolutionary theory, among other new ideas. The nineteenth-century legacy also includes darker aspects of modernity related to its privileging of white middle-class men, such as colonialism and racial and sexual inequalities. This survey course situates the important artists and artworks of the period in their cultural and historical contexts. Topics include French, British, and German art movements, focusing on Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelitism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and photography, with a thematic focus on issues of gender, race, and the important political and philosophical questions of the era.

Alumni Update: Dr. Sophia Maxine Farmer (Ph.D., 2019) will begin a new tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies in the School of Art and Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky this fall. Dr. Farmer teaches global perspectives on modern art. Her research focuses on transnational perspectives of 20th century Italian visual culture, considering the relationship between art, politics, and the environment. #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #ArtHistory #badgerarthistorian #OnWisconsin #modernarthistory #italianarthistory Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association

Fall 2024 Course Highlight: This fall Professor Jennifer Pruitt will be teaching ART HIST 210 "A History of the World in 20 Buildings" TR 1:20–2:10PM. No Prereqs! | First Year Friendly! | Counts Toward Architecture Certificate | Humanities Breadth | L&S Credit. #uwmadison #uwmadisonarthistory #OnWisconsin #arthistory #historyoftheworldin20buildings #architecturalhistory #uwarchitecturecertificate #firstyearfriendly Enroll here: https://lnkd.in/gRG9Y_Rm Description: Why were the ancient Egyptians obsessed with building elaborate tombs? Was the Taj Mahal really a monument to love? Why do the Greeks want the Parthenon marbles returned? Was Frank Lloyd Wright "modern?" How have buildings reflected and shaped the historical forces of the modern age, from colonialism, to industrialization, to globalization? Take a journey through space and time and explore the history of the world through its great buildings. Learn to recognize, analyze, and question the dynamic interaction between culture, politics, religion, and architectural form. Perhaps more than any other visual art, architecture is alive. Buildings shapeshift over decades, centuries, millennia. They stand as both witnesses to and agents of historical change. Unpack our buildings' histories to reveal their role in our shared human story.

Student Spotlight: Tong Su (Ph.D. Candidate) has just published an article entitled "Color in Taxidermy at the Eighteenth-Century Qing Court" in "Journal 18: A Journal of Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture." Congratulations Tong! #uwmadisonarthistory #uwmadison #arthistory #OnWisconsin #chinesearthistory #chineseart? You can find her article here: https://lnkd.in/gspwGtzu