Aden Kumler, Associate Professor of Art History and of Romance Languages and Literatures, will deliver the 2019 Nuveen Lecture at The Divinity School: "Unmade by design: The Eucharist and other medieval works of art."
Johannes Stradanus’s Nova Reperta (c.
“Image and Thought: Wu Guanzhong's Abstract Expression, 1979-1983”
Jennifer D. Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
“The Fluidity of Image and Symbol in Karuta Japanese Playing Cards, 1573-Today”
Mew Lingjun Jiang, MAPH-TLO'20 Art History
Respondent: Robert Burgos, PhD student, Department of History
"Epigraphy, Ruan Yuan, and the Haptic Imagination in Early Nineteenth-Century Chinese Painting"
Michael J. Hatch, PhD, Assistant Professor of East Asian Art History, Department of Art, Miami University
"What does Chinese look like? Secularization as/and Nationalism in the case of Feng Zikai"
Peter Chen, MA student, Divinity School
“Cave art from Xi’an to Dunhuang: Observations from the UChicago/Getty Traveling Seminar”
Jiayi Zhu, PhD student, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations;
Sylvia Wu and Sizhao Yi, PhD students, Department of Art History
The Department of Art History welcomes our 2019-2020 incoming class of PhD students:
Jenny Harris
Jenny studies 20th-century art. Her research interests include performance, intersections of dance and visual arts, and the status of decoration and craft in postwar American art. Prior to arriving at the University, she worked in The Museum of Modern Art’s Department of Painting and Sculpture.
Frazier uses photography as a platform for social justice and visibility for working-class families. Her approach is influenced by the Frankfurt School’s critiques of the culture industry and 1960s and 70s conceptual photography that addressed urgent socio-political issues in everyday life. Here, Frazier speaks with art historian Benjamin Young, who positions her work in relation to artists like Allan Sekula, and sociologist Werner Lange, who studied under the Frankfurt School and recently conducted a 45-day roadside vigil in Lordstown in solidarity with the auto workers.
The Aztec people created art that drew on the Mesoamerican past, citing works from the ancient cities of Teotihuacan and Tula to give authority and legitimacy to the new empire. This provoked reflection on the inevitable end of empire and the cyclical nature of time, themes that are especially relevant this year, which is the five hundredth anniversary of the Spanish invasion of Mexico.
In this illustrated lecture, Claudia Brittenham, University of Chicago, discusses how Aztec art reflects this engagement with the historical past.