ARTH116 Introduction to Renaissance and Early Modern Art History (4) (Recommended before junior year) ARTH117 Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Art History (4) (Recommended before junior year) ...

The Japanese-born art historian Reiko Tomii is one of those researchers who is both passionate about her subjects and recognized among her peers for her meticulous mapping of the cultural-intellectual ...

The question of why, at the turn of the 20th century, modern art flourished in Europe has long been one of art history’s most intriguing. Was it exposure to non-Western influences? The advent of the ...

Being part of the art world means that many of our jokes fall flat or are incomprehensible to outsiders. That's alright, this poster of traditional Western art history makes the art geeks among us ...

NEW YORK — It was a defining moment for the depressed art market when a lush portrait of a woman by Gustav Klimt became the second-most expensive painting ever sold at auction and set a record for the ...

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Preliminary Encounters -- 1. Contemporary `Southeast Asian' Art: Regional Interventions -- Why `Southeast Asian' Contemporary Art? -- The Shifting Art-Historical ...

Wifredo Lam went to Spain from Cuba in 1923 at the tender age of 21 as a classically trained portrait painter. These aren’t portraits. Or classical. Not after 1937. By then, Lam (1902–1982) had been ...

Curved lines and block colors in shades of orange, yellow and blue create the image of an artist, framed by a border of abstract shapes. Look a little closer and you can see the artist’s beret with ...

India’s modern art history is often reduced to a brief list of celebrated men. But alongside them, and frequently despite structural barriers, women painters were carving out bold, original visual ...