Art History
Art History offers advanced study in the major periods of European and North American art, in certain areas of Asian art, and in the indigenous arts of the Americas.
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Faculty Members in Art History
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Adriasola Munoz, Ignacio Alberto | investigates responses by artists and intellectuals to the crisis of aesthetic and political representation triggered by the failed protests against the US-Japan Security Treaty of 1960, and in particular their reliance on depictions of the sexual and geographical margins in their articulation of an aesthetics of political disaffection. |
| Claxton, Dana | film, video, photography, single- and multi-channel video installation, and performance art |
| Frei Njootli, Jeneen | Indigenous sovereignty; decolonization; Production, dissemination and embodiment of images |
| Gu, Xiong | Fine Art. Transcultural identity and hybridity. Through the critical angle of visual art, my work encompasses other elements such as sociology, geography, economics, politics, literature; and finally, the dynamics of globalisation, local culture and individual identity shifts. These shifts do not merely constitute a simple amalgamation of two original subjects, but instead, seek to create an entirely new space., Installation, painting, drawing, photography, contemporary art theory |
| James, Gareth | histories of iconoclasm in which the social divisions and inequities that mark and delimit artistic practice are registered most emphatically |
| Makris, Georgios | Arts of Byzantium; Material culture and archaeology of monasticism; Dissemination and usage of portable objects across the eastern Mediterranean; Medieval monastic culture |
| Mansoor, Jaleh | Art history and theory; Curatorial and related studies; Visual arts and media arts; Cultural Industries; Formalism; Marxism and Critical Theory; Marxist Feminism; Modernism; Twentieth Century European Art |
| Monteyne, Joseph | Art history and theory; Curatorial and related studies; Visual arts and media arts; Arts and Technologies; Renaissance/early modern art and print culture |
| Orell, Julia | History of Chinese Art; Landscape painting of the Song and Yuan dynasties; Construction of place, site, region, and empire in painting and other visual media; Art and the production of knowledge; Cultural and historical geography; History of cartography |
| Pina, Manuel | Images |
| Roy, Marina | Intersection between materials, history, language, and ideology |
| Salgirli, Saygin | architecture of fourteenth-century Bursa, the first Ottoman capital |
| Shelton, Anthony | Mexican and Andean visual culture, critical museology, development of folk art, aesthetics |
| Silver, Erin | Art history and theory; Curatorial and related studies; Visual arts and media arts; Activism and visual culture; Artist or Author Social Identity; Artistic and Literary Marginality; Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles; Canadian contemporary art; Feminist art histories; Movement culture; Performance studies; Queer art; social movements |
| Smith, Tai | Art history and theory; Cinema studies; Curatorial and related studies; Film, television and digital media; Visual arts and media arts; Arts and Technologies; Economical Contexts; Gender; media theory; Modern and Contemporary Art and Design; Politics of Media and Mediation; Textiles |
| Soussloff, Catherine | Art, Art History, European Art, Performance Art, Performance Studies, Art Theory, Aesthetics, Philosophy of art, historiography and theory of European art |
| Thauberger, Althea | Photographic history/theory; Media philosophy; Biopolitics and institutional critique/reform; Settler decolonization, and site-based art and activism |
| Watson, Donald Scott | Contemporary Canadian art, art issues and art theory |
