Art History

Hampshire students concentrating in this field learn not only how to analyze works of art as objects or monuments in their own right, but also to understand and interpret them in relation to the historical circumstances, endeavors, and conflicts of the culture and region in which they were made.

Students read and interpret visual art works as records of a culture's imagination and its larger societal concerns, while developing diverse critical methods and originality of thought.

Art history is an exciting area of inquiry, by its very nature strongly interdisciplinary, and at Hampshire students have created concentrations that relate art history to curatorial studies, sociology, memory, spirituality, literature, and architecture.

• The Body in Modern Art
• Aesthetic Theory
• Art and Exile
• The Body in Modern Art
• Books, Book Arts, Artists' Book, Bibliophilia
• The Bauhaus
• The Collector: Theory and Practice
• Colonialism in the Visual Arts
• Dada and Surrealist Visions
• Degas, Van Gogh, Gauguin
• Europe After the Rain: Reconstructing Modernity
• Guernica
• Introduction to Visual Culture
• Modernism and Modernity
• Realism in Nineteenth-Century Art
• Symbolists and Decadents
• The Residue, the Detail, the Intimate
• Visual Culture and the Holocaust

Requirements

• Common Application
• An academic paper in English
• Supplemental essay responses
• Current transcripts
• School report, including guidance counselor recommendation
• At least one letter of recommendation from a teacher
• Certification of Finances form
• TOEFL or IELTS score (Minimum TOEFL score of 91 or a minimum IELTS score of 6.5. Predicted grades for IB English A1 or A2, or for A-level English, will also be considered.
• Additional letters of recommendation, up to three

Scholarships

• MacArthur Foundation Grant Making Programs
• American Association of University Women
• Fulbright International Scholarship Program for non-US students