Art History
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Guide to the Program for Master of Arts students
Art History MA Application Form
Faculty
- Dora Apel (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh) Associate Professor of Art History
Research Interests: Contemporary photography, modern and contemporary art and politics, the traumatic image, issues of gender, class, race and national identity.
- Margaret Franklin (PhD. University of Cambridge) Associate Professor of Art History
Research Interests: Uomini famosi/donne illustri images; humanism and the visual arts in the Italian Renaissance
- Marion Jackson (Ph.D. University of Michigan) Professor of Art History
Research Interests: African American and Native American art; Brazilian popular art
- Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier (PhD. Harvard University) Professor and Dept. Chair of Art and Art History
Research Interests: Painting: imagery influenced by latin culture, icons and signage.
- Brian Madigan (Ph.D University of Minnesota) Associate Professor of Art History
Research Interests: Greek sculpture, Classical and Hellenistic; Roman sculpture; the afterlife of Classicism and the history of archaeology.
- Jennifer Olmsted (Ph.D. Northwestern University) Assistant Professor of Art History
Research Interests: Imperialism, masculinity, and modernity in 19th-century French art.
Program description
What is this program?
The history of the visual arts is one of the broadest based disciplines in the liberal arts education, encompassing the entire history of human acivitity in visual expression of all cultures from prehistory through the 20th Century. The Art History program at Wayne State provides a core training in the monuments of art history, the techniques and methods applied to the analysis of visual expression, the historical cultures which created the works of art and the art historical scholarship that has investigated the creation and meaning og these works. Art History majors may apply their training to research, teaching, exhibition and the coordination or arts management at universities and colleges, museums, art galleries, art organizations and art funding agencies.