PhD student Alice Eden is to be published inThe Burlington Magazine. Her article entitled 'Robert Anning Bell in Liverpool, 1895-99' concerns a 'second-wave' Pre-Raphaelite artist who is one of the subjects of her research.

 

 

Eoin Martin, a 2^nd year PhD student in the History of Art Department, is co-organising a conference on the Material Culture of Mourning in Victorian Britain. The conference is co-funded by the Universities of York and Warwick and will take place at the Humanities Research Centre, University of York, on 3 December 2011. Follow the link for more information and to register.

 

 

Following an award from the University's Undergraduate Research Scholarship scheme a group of Hisotry of Art students have been working with Dr Jenny Alexander of Warwick and Professor Terryl Kinder of Pontigny to analyse the constructional and masons' marks of the Chruch at Pontigny.

 

 

An international conference on 6 July 2011 at Ca' Foscari in Venice addressing Art and Culture in the Venetian Mediterranean. The event is co-convened by History of Art's Dr Donal Cooper and Lorenzo Calvelli of Univesita' Ca' Foscari Venezia and is supported by the Institute of Advanced Study and the Centres for Global History and Renaissance Study.

 

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Emeritus Professor Michael Rosenthal has been awarded a sought-after Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship to work on a project entitled 'Governor Macquarie's Culture' in Sydney between November 2011 and April 2012. Before he sets off down under Michael will also be a visiting scholar at the Yale centre for British Art from the end of September.

 

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The History of Art department was delighted to welcome Professor Karen Lang from the University of Southern California as a Leverhulme Visiting Professor from January to April 2011. Karen is author of Chaos and Cosmos, a study of the ‘conceptual foundations’ of her discipline, and of the impact of Kantian aesthetics on Modernism over its longue durée. Karen is also editor of the leading journal, Art Bulletin.

Throughout February and March a series of events took take place across the Faculty, including a series of four Leverhulme Lectures, seminars in collaboration with German and Philosophy, and more informal events in the host department, History of Art. Further details of Karen’s research activities can be found on her own home university webpage.

 

The University has been awarded the prestigious Venice Prize for Cultural Communication.

 

 

The 37th AAH Annual Conference was held at the University of Warwick on 31 March - 2 April 2011. The conference showcased the diversity and richness of art history in the UK and elsewhere. A photomontage will be available soon!

 

 

Dr Jenny Alexander's studies of the marks made on the blocks of walling and on moulded stone as part of the construction process of medieval buildings could provide an important lesson for the manufacturers of flat-pack furniture.

 

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As part of an innovative collaborative programme of research and postgraduate training with the Center for Renaissance Studies of The Newberry Library of Chicago, Warwick's Centre for the Study of the Renaissance and the Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies have recently obtained funding ($421,000) from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a new cycle of Warwick-Newberry initiatives on "Renaissance and Early Modern Communities in a Transatlantic Perspective".

 

The first strand of activities, proposed by Dr Louise Bourdua and Dr Victoria Avery of Warwick’s History of Art department, will concentrate on the family (an elementary form of community organisation) and its impact on the early modern Italian workshop in both a broader Italian and English context. This programme will take the form of a seminar series to be held at Warwick and at its base in Venice during the academic year 2009-2010.

 

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Dan Perjovschi (b.1961, Romania) was in residence on campus 22-29 October 2007. He produced temporary drawings in the History of Art department at Millburn House, along with interventions in the Arts Centre, the Statistics building, and the stairwell of the Library.

 

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We invite all prospective students to visit the History of Art Department for an Open Day. On this occasion, you will have the opportunity to look around both the department and the campus, to meet members of staff and current students, to learn more about the course, and to ask any questions that you may have.

 

Dates TBC
 

 

In addition, the University runs general Open Days, when you can come and visit the History of Art Department, as well as hear about all the other departments in the University.

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This year the department has launched a new MA programme concentrating on British art and its histories. Details of this and the Venice MA stream can be found on the Postgraduate pages.

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