We are very excited to report there are 8 (yes, 8) declared Art History Majors and 16 declared Art History Minors at Elon. To keep our growing Art History community in conversation we have created a listserv that will keep all of us up to date with:
- Art History lectures at Elon & in the area
- Art exhibitions of interest
- Major updates to the website
- Course scheduling & changes
- Scholarship & internship opportunities
- And oh, so much more
If you are interested in joining our listserv, please email Evan A. Gatti [egatti@elon.edu]
posted : 3/31/2008
ART HISTORY SPEAKER SERIES
Please join us WEDNESDAY, April 2nd at 6:00 in LaRose Digital Theatre, Koury Business Center, 6:00 p.m. for Dr. Glaire D. Anderson’s talk -- “Roman Landscape, Abbasid Manners: Negotiating suburban villa culture in 10th century Spain"
Anderson is Assistant Professor of Art History at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her talk at Elon will focus on medieval Islamic villa cultures of Spain as part of a broader history of the villa in the Mediterranean. Anderson is currently at work on a book about villas and court culture in Umayyad Cordoba. She is the editor of Revisiting al-Andalus: Perspectives on the Art & Material Culture of Islamic Iberia & Beyond, to which she contributes an article on the architecture of the Cordoban Umayyad villas. Her work also has been published in the Chicago Art Journal, Thresholds, and Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia.
http://org.elon.edu/arthistory/speaker_series.htm
FALL 2008 COURSE SCHEDULE
The Fall 2008 course schedule for Art History has been posted on the web site. Download course descriptions and the most current scheduling information at http://org.elon.edu/arthistory/courses.htm. See the link [NEW LIST OF COURSES FOR FALL 2008] at the upper right corner under the banner. This list is also included as an attachment. Please note the following change from the printed course catalog -- STAFF will be assigned to ARH 210 next fall and Gatti will teach ARH 211.
We do have a new course on the books: ARH 301: ART HISTORY METHODOLOGIES. This course is required for Art History majors as well as minors who declared under the 2007-2008 curriculum. If you have questions, please contact Dr. Gatti [egatti@elon.edu] or Dr. Ringelberg [kringelberg@elon.edu]. Note that ARH 301 does have a prerequisite of a 200 level art history course.
posted : 3/3/2008
Please join us TONIGHT at 6:00 in Yeager Recital Hall for Terry Smith’s lecture “Contemporary Art & Contemporaneity”.
Smith, current National Humanities Center fellow and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh, will speak on his current research into the nature of Contemporary Art after decolonization. Looking at the themes of time, place, mediation, affect, and effect, Smith will address the shift in avant-garde art practice and theorization from the 1980s to the present, when the realization that we do not have a globally shared sense of those themes has altered our understanding of them. Working with ideas he recently published in the journal Critical Inquiry as well as those forthcoming in three essays and two books, Smith will attempt to define Contemporary Art from a more genuinely global perspective. [more: http://org.elon.edu/arthistory/speaker_series.htm]
Are you a rising senior?
Are you an Art History Major or an Art History Minor?
Consider applying for the Helen B. Rippy Scholarship in Art History.
You can print out an application form at our website: http://org.elon.edu/arthistory/students.htm. The link to the word document is on the upper-right corner beneath the “request for a recommendation” form.
Check out which Art History students and alumnae have been accepted to graduate programs. Send this link to your parents if they ask: “What will you do with an art history major or minor?” [more: http://org.elon.edu/arthistory/students.htm].
If you have news to report, good things to say about Art History, or photographs, quotations or stories that would be appropriate for our website, please contact Evan Gatti [egatti@elon.edu].
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