Art History Featured in L&S In-Focus
The Department of Art History was featured in the October 2014 edition of the College of Letters & Science In-Focus monthly newsletter.
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Rembrandt in the Classroom
Students in Visiting Assistant Professor Hilary Snow’s ARTHIST 341: 17th Century Art in Holland and Flanders had the opportunity to compare three versions of a Rembrandt print firsthand.
Richard Leson and the Bute Psalter
Associate Professor Richard Leson’s article, “The Pathways of Salvation: Spatiality and Exegesis in the Bute Psalter,” published in the journal Gesta, explores how illustrations of dynamic motion in a French prayer book of the late thirteenth century conditioned the devotional practices of the manuscript’s original lay owner.
Mummy Visits ARTHIST 315
On Tuesday, October 21, Richard Hedderman, an educator at the Milwaukee Public Museum, visited Jocelyn Boor’s ARTHIST 315: Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt with “Mummy Secrets Unwrapped.”
The Pathways of Salvation: Spatiality and Devotion in the Bute Psalter
Author:Richard Leson, Associate Professor Published in: Gesta Vol. 53 2 Year: 2014 More information
Michelle Grabner named one of 100 most powerful women in art
Last Wednesday, October 15, 2014, Art Net News named Michelle Grabner, a graduate of the MA program, one of the 100 most powerful women in art.
Asante stool from Ghana
Visiting Assistant Professor Matthew Rarey brought a twentieth century Asante stool from Ghana into his ARTHIST 371: African Art class.
Art Exposé: Christa Story
On Tuesday, October 14,2014, the UWM Art History Gallery hosted the second installment of Art Exposé.
Meet Matthew Francis Rarey
Matthew Rarey joins the UWM Department of Art History for the 2014-2015 academic year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora arts.
Unbelievable Cities: The Art of Etching
On Wednesday, October 8, Chadwick Noellert, an MA graduate student in the Peck School of the Arts gave a lecture on the process of etching in conjunction with the exhibition Unbelievable Cities: Etchings of Whistler, Haden, and Pennell.