Art History

专业详情

We live in an increasingly visual culture, awash with images in an expanding range of media – from painting and sculpture to photography, television, film, video and the internet – and public and private settings – from the gallery and city street to the courtroom, the hospital, and the lecture hall.

As visual forms are deployed to entertain, to enlighten, to seduce and persuade us, and as we ourselves increasingly become the objects of surveillance, visual competence and media literacy are central to critical thinking in the twenty-first century.

The historical study of art, architecture, and visual and media culture provides a range of practical and intellectual skills, and helps to develop languages necessary to analyze objects, artifacts and the built environment, and to interpret their social impact.

Making art enhances our ability to think visually and to resolve spatial problems, and at the same time develops within us the deep satisfactions of creativity.