Emory University Art History Department

Emory University Art History Department Official page for the Department of Art History at Emory University, Atlanta, GA The locations, which vary, have recently been in France and Italy.

The Department of Art History offers courses in the art and architecture of all the principal periods and areas of Western history, including classical antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, modern European, American, African American, and contemporary. Non-Western fields of study include ancient Egyptian, ancient American, African, Caribbean, and Is

lamic art. Some museum experience can be gained through course work as well as internships at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, the High Museum of Art, and similar institutions in the Atlanta area. The department conducts annual summer programs away from Atlanta that can be taken for full credit. Interested students should contact the department for further information.

Thank you to all of those who joined us for our graduate student recruitment this past weekend! A special big thanks goe...
02/15/2023

Thank you to all of those who joined us for our graduate student recruitment this past weekend! A special big thanks goes out to keynote speaker Dr. Anne Dunlop for delivering an amazing lecture. We hope you all enjoyed your visit to Emory!

Dr. Sarah McPhee and Dr. Eric Varner accompany students to Phillip Shutze’s neo-classical Swan House as part of their se...
02/13/2023

Dr. Sarah McPhee and Dr. Eric Varner accompany students to Phillip Shutze’s neo-classical Swan House as part of their seminar on ancient and early modern Roman villas and gardens. Schutze spent five years studying in Italy, and the beautiful 20th century mansion reflects clear inspirations from his time there. 🦢🏛️

Please join us for a lecture by Claudia Swan, The Inaugural Mark Steinberg Weil Professor of Art History, Washington Uni...
02/06/2023

Please join us for a lecture by Claudia Swan, The Inaugural Mark Steinberg Weil Professor of Art History, Washington University "A Material History of the Dutch Colonial Imaginary."
Thursday, March 16th 6:00PM, Ackerman Hall, Carlos Museum at Emory University.

Join us in welcoming Anne Dunlop from the University of Melbourne as she discusses Ambrocio Lorenzetti’s Mongols: Fourte...
01/18/2023

Join us in welcoming Anne Dunlop from the University of Melbourne as she discusses Ambrocio Lorenzetti’s Mongols: Fourteenth-Century Italian Art and Mongol Asia. The lecture will take place February 10th at 4:30 pm in Convocation Hall rm 208.

Join us for the Third Tri-Annual Lovis Corinth Colloquium on German Modernism ! The "Space and Place" lectures will take...
10/20/2022

Join us for the Third Tri-Annual Lovis Corinth Colloquium on German Modernism ! The "Space and Place" lectures will take place October 20, 2022 from 2:30-5pm and October 21, 2022 from 9am-3pm in Convocation Hall 204, Emory University. We’re excited to welcome this amazing group of speakers to Emory. Please see previous posts for detailed info about each paper.

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Peter Chametzky, Professor of Art History, University of South Carolina, will present "Where am I? As if in a dream...Di...
10/19/2022

Peter Chametzky, Professor of Art History, University of South Carolina, will present "Where am I? As if in a dream...Did we arrive?" on October 21 at 1:20pm at the Third Tri-Annual Lovis Corinth Colloquium on German Modernism . Join us!

Chametzky’s paper’s title derives from a statement made by a Syrian refugee interviewed by the BBC upon her arrival in Gothenburg, Sweden and is the title of a 2018 work of public art by the Frankfurt aM based artists Özlem Gunyol and Mustafa Kunt. Installed on an art path along the Main River in Rüsselsheim, the sculptural bench traces this woman’s circuitous route and offers walkers a place to sit and contemplate the river’s flow. This paper will discuss this work and others by (mainly) contemporary artists from a variety of ethnicities that work to destabilize notions of the German population’s homogeneity and rootedness in place.

📷 Özlem Günyol and Mustafa Kunt (b. 1977 & 1978, Ankara), Where am I? As if in a dream…did we arrive? 2018, concrete, 1x2.85x9.5 meters, 21.2 tons, Kunstpfad (Art Path), Mainvorland, Rüsselsheim, Hesse. Photograph courtesy of the artists.

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Kevina King, a Ph.D. student in German and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Adjunct L...
10/19/2022

Kevina King, a Ph.D. student in German and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Adjunct Lecturer at Howard University, will present "Imagining Black German Spaces: Black German Film Conceptualizing and Representing Black German Resistance" on October 21 at 12:40pm at the Third Tri-Annual Lovis Corinth Colloquium on German Modernism . Join us!

King’s paper discusses how prior to the 1990s, German films depicting Black Germans were produced mostly by white German men who perpetuated racial tropes and stereotypes that reinforced the notion Black Germans were foreigners, products of miscegenation, and did not belong in Germany. Over the past three decades, Black filmmakers in Germany, particular women, have challenged the hegemonic narratives found in German cinema with stories that humanize Black people and present them as multidimensional humans that dare to dream about the future, love themselves and each other, and challenge white supremacy directly and indirectly. Black filmmakers did that by centering the Black experience and conceptualizing and presenting Black Germanness, and how Black people and Black Germans practice resistance to various forms of white supremacy. Many of them concluding that the most effective practice of resistance is the imagining of a Black and Black German future.

📷 Kevina King inside the Durfee Conservatory

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S. E. Eisterer, Assistant Professor, History and Theory of Architecture, Princeton University, School of Architecture, w...
10/18/2022

S. E. Eisterer, Assistant Professor, History and Theory of Architecture, Princeton University, School of Architecture, will present Memories of the Resistance: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and the Architecture of Collective Dissidence” on October 21 at 9:50am at the Third Tri-Annual Lovis Corinth Colloquium on German Modernism . Join us!

Eisterer will discuss Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s (1897-2000) German language memoir Erinnerungen aus dem Widerstand (Memories of the Resistance) published in the 1984. Today Schütte-Lihotzky is widely recognized as one of the most significant female figures in modern design, having worked in Germany, the Soviet Union, and Turkey in the interwar period, yet, her dissidence between 1938 and 1945 and the experience of prosecution and internment for the participation in the Communist resistance against the N**i regime, has largely been underdiscussed in English scholarship. Eisterer’s paper explores Schütte-Lihotzky’s memoir as a critical historical document that exemplifies the spatialization of dissent and uses her life as prism to cast light on the culture of forgetting in Austria. .e.eisterer

📷 Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky: “My View” – Drawings from Prison notebook, sketched at Schiffamtsgasse, Vienna, ca. 1941. Source: Architekturzentrum Wien, n404-35A.

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Robin Schuldenfrei, Tangen Reader in 20th Century Modernism The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, will p...
10/18/2022

Robin Schuldenfrei, Tangen Reader in 20th Century Modernism The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, will present “Embodied Modernism: Experiential Living in an Experimental House” on October 21 at 9:10am at the Third Tri-Annual Lovis Corinth Colloquium on German Modernism . Join us!

Schuldenfrei’s paper proposes that the architectural protagonists of modernism in Germany long promoted certain ideas about the spaces of modern dwelling and the kind of living and thinking that those spaces might engender. Nestled in a nearby pine grove, Walter Gropius and faculty members of the Bauhaus lived in a tight knit community of modernists. Each house or double house had an enormous, glass-walled atelier, and each became a show house not only for how modernism could be produced but how modern lives could simultaneously be led, using the most up-to-date appliances and furniture. This paper examines how the phenomenological experience of modern architecture intersects with its prevailing ideologies. It also considers the current day realities of residing inside a UNESCO World Heritage site, as the author did during a research stay in Dessau. .schuldenfrei

📷 Coffee while in residence at the Bauhaus Masters housing, Dessau, Germany, 2020. Photo: Robin Schuldenfrei

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Christine Mehring, Mary L. Block Professor of Art History and the College Faculty Adjunct Curator, The David and Alfred ...
10/17/2022

Christine Mehring, Mary L. Block Professor of Art History and the College Faculty Adjunct Curator, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art Affiliate Faculty, Department of Visual Arts, will present “Abstraction at Home” on October 20 at 3:20pm at the Third Tri-Annual Lovis Corinth Colloquium on German Modernism . Join us!

In an inversion of North American critic Clement Greenberg’s formulation of “homeless representation,” Mehring's talk looks at postwar German art through the lens of “abstraction at home.” It traces a kind of domestication of modernism where artists including Josef Albers, Günther Uecker, Blinky Palermo, Imi Knoebel, and Wolf Vostell, create abstract art from the forms, materials, iconographies, and palettes of the German reconstruction era.

📷 Josef Albers, Structural Constellation, 1955-57

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Jeffrey Saletnik, Associate Professor of Modern Art, Indiana University Bloomington, will present “Josef Albers between ...
10/17/2022

Jeffrey Saletnik, Associate Professor of Modern Art, Indiana University Bloomington, will present “Josef Albers between Volume and Line” on October 20 at 2:40pm at the Third Tri-Annual Lovis Corinth Colloquium on German Modernism . Join us!

Saletnik's paper explores how the architecture of the Corning Glass Building (Harrison, Abramovitz & Abbe) amplified relationships between form and appearance central to Josef Albers's Structural Constellations (1959), an incised relief sculpture commissioned for the building's lobby, and to the influential aesthetics of sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand.

📷 1. Josef Albers, Structural Constellations, 1959. Harrison, Abramovitz & Abbe, Corning Glass Building, 1959. Photographer unknown.

📷 2. Josef Albers, Structural Constellations, 1959. Harrison, Abramovitz & Abbe, Corning Glass Building, 1959. Photographer by Ezra Stoller.

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Students in this semester’s Technical Art History course getting hands-on experience with clay! In addition to working w...
09/12/2022

Students in this semester’s Technical Art History course getting hands-on experience with clay! In addition to working with artifacts from the Michael C. Carlos museum (), students in this course have the opportunity to explore in several mediums throughout the semester to better understand what production is like. Taught by conservator Renee Stein, this class emphasizes materiality as well as conservation!

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