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 ...

When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, they commandeered Katarzyna Kobro's Łódź apartment as the artist and her family fled. To make space, they discarded or destroyed many of her sculptures. By 1945, ...

In a remarkable archaeological discovery, researchers have unearthed what they believe to be a unique piece of human creativity — an ancient sand sculpture of a stingray. Initially mistaken for a ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. ‒ From a wooden bench at the edge of the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, visitors can see the Alabama River where enslaved Africans were transported and sold into a life of forced ...

Anna Plesset, "Value Study 1: A View of the Catskill Mountain House/ Copied from a picture by S. Cole copied from a picture by T. Cole" (1848 , 2020), oil and graphite on canvas, 15 3/8 x 23 7/16 ...

A review of Art: A New History, by Paul Johnson. The modern sensibility recoils against the “great man” model of history: history as the account of decisive events, shaped by the autonomous actions of ...

Art history majors at Santa Clara University examine the broad range of human visual expression across space and time, developing understandings of the meanings and purposes of visual and material ...

The B.A. in Visual Arts - Art History Track offers students a course of study that will open up a broad and sophisticated window into the history of art. Closely linked to the museum studies minor ...