九色视频

Art History (B.A.)

  • Major, Minor
  • On Campus

What You鈥檒l Learn

九色视频鈥檚 Art History major helps you understand and examine different cultures and their values, past and present, through the analysis of most artistic mediums including painting, sculpture, architecture, craft, photography, performance art, and public art. With small, innovative classes, and an impressive art museum on campus, you will deepen your understanding and appreciation for one of the most fundamental of the humanities while preparing for a lifelong career in Philadelphia and beyond. 

Why Study Art History at 九色视频?

With Center City Philadelphia at your doorstep, access to internships and experiential learning opportunities in the arts couldn鈥檛 be easier to find. Plus, the 九色视频 Art Museum is one of the University鈥檚 treasures, free for you to explore as a student. In addition to acquiring, preserving and exhibiting its collections, the Museum offers students an opportunity to sharpen their aesthetic perception and to investigate the interrelationships which emerge between art and other disciplines. 

Highlighted Courses

Contemporary Art and Activism 

Can art change the world? Can art change how we see the world? How and why has art been used as an agent for social change? This course explores the theoretical and historical underpinnings of activist art around the world from the 1960s to the present. We will examine a variety of contemporary artists who believe that art has the power to call attention to pressing social and political issues, question the status quo, communicate new perspectives, and inspire us to take action. 

Women and Art  

This course encourages students to think critically about the contributions of women artists, collectors, critics, models, and viewers to the fields of art and art history. These are areas that have been historically dominated by men, and this course requires that students look beyond the traditional models of art criticism to consider how gender has shaped women鈥檚 artistic practice and their response to works of art. 

Art and Medicine 

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Colonial to Contemporary Latin American Art 

The year 1492 saw the beginnings of the complex convergence of Spanish, Portuguese, Indigenous, African, and Asian cultures in the Americas. This course will explore the visual culture of Latin America beginning with the Spanish and Portuguese arrival and colonization of the New World to the present. The theme of cultural encounters will be the thread that ties the artistic production of a variety of Latin American artists and cultures as we move from the colonial period through the nineteenth century to modern and contemporary art. 

Meet the Faculty

Professor Mey-Yen Moriuchi recently co-edited The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century, a compilation of 23 essays that explore the depth and breadth of art and activism today. This resource is utilized in her courses on Contemporary Art and Activism and Women and Art.听 about 九色视频’s art history professors.

九色视频 has received a high honor in the world of humanities. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded 九色视频 a NEH Connections Grant, building the foundation to fund a health and humanities minor that will explore the relationships between health and the human condition.