Art History PhD students, senior lecturers and professors conduct research on art and architecture, images and built environment, material and visual culture.
Architecture, landscape architecture and design
Art History has a long tradition of engaging in research and teaching about historical and contemporary architecture, landscape architecture and design, as individual objects, interiors and city planning.
The early modern period stretches from the mid 15th century to around 1800 and covers the art historical styles of Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and Neoclassicism.
Within Environmental Humanities, researchers investigate relationships between humans and animals, and between humans and the environment, now and in the past.
Historiography can mean "writing history" or "writing history about historiography". Most often, historiography involves meta-historical studies of other, past or contemporary, historical studies.
Materiality studies within Art History investigates effects and meanings of the physically material aspects of works of art, buildings and other objects of study in art science.
A central theme for researchers at the art history department is modern and contemporary art in transnational, cultural-political, network- and gender-related perspectives.
The word 'photography' comes from the Greek words 'photos', meaning light, and 'graphé', meaning drawing. Literally, photography means 'drawing with light'.
Visual culture covers research about image cultures and visual practices in different historical contexts and from different theoretical perspectives. The field includes the traditional objects of art history in wider visual contexts.
