Art history and theory

This class comprises research and experimental development in art history and theory.
Parent Category
Sub-Categories
History of art and architecture
Art theory and analysis
Visual theory, visual culture and visual literacy
Art theory and criticism, n.e.c.
 
 
 
 

UBC Researchers conducting research in Art history and theory

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Georgopulos, Nicole

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Art history and theory; French art; nineteenth-century art and visual culture; art and science; gender and early feminism

H

Hatef Naiemi, Atri

Faculty of Arts

Postdoctoral Fellow

History of art and architecture; Islamic Art, Architecture, and Archaeology; Early and Medieval Islamic Urbanism; Chinese-Persian Cultural Contacts in the Medieval Period; Byzantine Art and Architecture; History and Archaeology of Central Asia in the Medieval Period; Traditional Crafts in the Islamic World

M

Mansoor, Jaleh

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

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

McCormick, Kelly

Department of History, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Asian history; Visual theory, visual culture and visual literacy; Modern Japan; History of Visual and Material Culture/Photography; History of Technology; History of Gender and Sexuality

Monteyne, Joseph

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Art history and theory; Curatorial and related studies; Visual arts and media arts; Arts and Technologies; Renaissance/early modern art and print culture

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Nakamura, Fuyubi

Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social and cultural anthropology; Museum studies (Museology); Visual theory, visual culture and visual literacy; Globalization and culture; Environment, space and place; Anthropology of art; museum studies (working as curator at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC); material and visual culture; Contemporary Japanese calligraphy; Indigenous cultures, especially Ainu; disaster and memory, especially in the context of the Great East Japan Earthquake (3.11).; contemporary Asian art and culture

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Peck, Alexandra

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social and cultural anthropology; Other studies related to history and archaeology; Art history and theory; Native tribes and First Nations in the Pacific Northwest; historical Northwest Coast art; Salish (Coastal and Interior) art; Anthropology/anthroplogical methods; Material culture, archaeology, museums

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Silver, Erin

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

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

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

History of art and architecture; Art theory and analysis; Visual theory, visual culture and visual literacy; Arts and Technologies; Economical Contexts; Gender; media theory; Modern and Contemporary Art and Design; Politics of Media and Mediation; Textiles

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Thauberger, Althea

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Art history and theory; Curatorial and related studies; Visual arts and media arts; Biopolitics and institutional critique/reform; Media philosophy; Photographic history/theory; Settler decolonization, and site-based art and activism
 
 

Program Specializations in Art history and theory

Art History
 

Academic Units in Art history and theory

Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory
 
 
French Name
Histoire et théorie des arts
French Description
Cette classe comprend la recherche et le développement expérimental en histoire et théorie des arts.
 
 

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