Department of Art History

Dr. Elizabeth Lev received her undergraduate degree in art history from University of Chicago, and her doctorate from University of Bologna specializing in the art of the Counter Reformation. Her books include The Tigress of Forlì (Harcourt Mifflin 2012), and A Body for Glory (Vatican Museums Press 2014). She has been living in Rome since she completed her studies in 1997 and teaching art history for Duquesne University’s Italian Campus since 2002. Dr. Lev has lectured world-wide and her TED talk on the Sistine Chapel has garnered over 1.8 million views.

The Scene of Approximation: Francisco Laso’s "Pascana" Series and the Creation of the Andean World

Natalia Majluf, Tinker Visiting Professor in Art History

Peter Chametzky will discuss his book, "Turks, Jews, and Other Germans in Contemporary Art." He will be joined in conversation by Reinhold Heller. This event is presented by the Seminary Co-op.

This presentation focuses on the production and modification of visual and material culture as a form of world-making by considering case studies from the Tupac Amaru and Katari Rebellions of the southern Andes (1780s). I explore the parallel ad-hoc strategies enacted by both rebels and counterinsurgent forces to manipulate the visual world in the service of political projects, including pictorial effacement (the repainting of portraits, the modification of material objects); the repurposing of power-laden objects associated with colonial authori

Image Details: Asmus Jacob Carstens, Bacchanalian Dance, 1784-86.
Copyright: Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Bestand Museen

Join Christine Mehring, Mary L. Block Professor of Art History and the College, and Adjunct Curator at the Smart Museum of Art, for an in-gallery conversation about artist Gerhard Richter’s work, 7. Dez. 2014.

“MetaMedia” is an online symposium at the University of Chicago that revisits the question of self-reference and self-criticism in both old and new media. Across three presentations, we ask: What does it mean to think of “medium specificity” in our twenty-first century transmedia ecology? How do media evolve? What is their relation to technology, social conditions, and political movements? And then, more precisely, what can we learn from media about media?

"Reconstituting the Japanese Housewife: Idemitsu Mako’s Charged Televisual Fields in Kiyoko’s Situation (1989)"

Speaker: Toby Wu, MAPH Student, UChicago

"Objects as Political Symbols: Imperialist Merchandise in Mu Shiying and Shi Zhecun’s Modernist Fiction"

Speaker: Zhengqian Li (MAPH Student)

Discussant: Haun Saussy (Professor of Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages & Civilizations, and Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago)