Art History
The goal of the Art History Department is to equip students with a critical understanding of the historical and theoretical concerns that have shaped the production, circulation, and reception of art, visual culture, and architecture over time and around the world.
The Senior Program
Senior art history majors prepare an extensive research project in connection with a seminar that is taken in the spring semester. The program culminates in an oral presentation before an audience of art history majors, faculty members and interested members of the College community.
Recent projects in art history include:
- Off the Press: The Hatch Show Print Shop, the Legacy of Letterpress Posters, and the Nashville Country Music Scene
- Artful Animal Explorers: A Praxis for Digital Museum Education
- Art of Negotiation: Kamisaka Sekka’s Momoyogusa and Modern Japanese National Identity (1897-1910)
- Sickness & Sexiness: Examining Fertility in Early Modern Painted Female Bodies
- Reflections on Rhetoric vs. Reality of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Rooms
- La mort et les statues (1946): Revisualizing the Narrative of the Paris Occupation
- Adjusting the Focus on Silvia Saunders
- Flipping Through Flair Magazine (1950): The Value of Material Aesthetics
- Uncovering the Cover Look: Reweighting the Cultural Scale Between LIFE and People Magazine
Contact
Department Name
Art History Department
Contact Name
Onno Oerlemans, Chair
Office Location
198 College Hill Road
Clinton, NY 13323
Clinton, NY 13323
Phone
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