AREAS OF STUDY: Art History
Area & Facilities
"Art historians study the art of the past. The subject embraces a wide range of objects: paintings, drawings and prints of all kinds, including photographs and film; sculpture; buildings and their grouping into towns and cities; graves and tombs; gardens; books and manuscripts; objects made of precious stones and metals; performance; in short, all visual and a great deal of material culture. Art historians across the world form a community of scholars who describe their new discoveries and theories at conferences and symposia, in exhibitions, in articles for the scholarly journals, and in the form of books. Art history students therefore learn how to treat non-verbal objects as evidence, how to use scholarly publications, rare books and manuscripts, and how to explain their insights and findings in words. The end product is critical thinking about this extraordinary and engaging subject, and preparation for entry into a range of academic and professional occupations." (Susan Rather, UT-Austin)
The area of Art History has two computerized art history classrooms, equipped to project slides, video, and digital media, accommodate 36 and 150 students respectively. These classrooms are located within steps of faculty offices, the Visual Resource Center, and the Martin Museum of Art, and with most of the art studios just down the hall, offering optimal convenience and access for both faculty and students.
The area of Art History has two computerized art history classrooms, equipped to project slides, video, and digital media, accommodate 36 and 150 students respectively. These classrooms are located within steps of faculty offices, the Visual Resource Center, and the Martin Museum of Art, and with most of the art studios just down the hall, offering optimal convenience and access for both faculty and students.
Art History at Baylor
Meet the Majors Podcast: Listen to Dr. Heidi Hornik introduce the Art History program.
Four art historians on the faculty of the Baylor Art Department support the study of art history. All art majors take the two-semester Art History Survey (History of Art I and II), taught to 40-student sections by the department's two senior art historians. The specializations of Baylor's current art history faculty translate to frequent offerings in these periods: Greek antiquity, Roman antiquity, Italian Renaissance, Mannerism, Italian Baroque, Nineteenth Century Europe, Colonial America to 1900, America Since 1900, Contemporary; and Art Theory and Criticism.
Special Topics offer the opportunity for faculty and students to explore one-time subjects. A Special Topic in Art History is offered every semester.
Field Studies in Art History (ART 4100), offered through the Allbritton Art Institute (19th and 20th Century art) form opportunities for qualifying students in courses about modern art to undertake small-group study travel with itineraries complementing an upper-division course and designed to extend and enrich classroom study.
Additional options for art history students include Internship and Senior Thesis.
Advising is an important part of the Baylor art history experience, to ensure steady progress toward degree completion, a logical sequence to coursework, and awareness of career directions that are feasible for art history majors.
Before graduation, all art history majors take an exam over the art history core curriculum. This exam does not affect graduation but gauges the art history program overall. Coverage on the exam includes: terms; periods, approximate dates, names of leading artists, and characteristics; critical approaches to the interpretation of art (iconography/iconology, feminism, biographical, sociological, psychological); and major turning points in the history of Western Art.
Four art historians on the faculty of the Baylor Art Department support the study of art history. All art majors take the two-semester Art History Survey (History of Art I and II), taught to 40-student sections by the department's two senior art historians. The specializations of Baylor's current art history faculty translate to frequent offerings in these periods: Greek antiquity, Roman antiquity, Italian Renaissance, Mannerism, Italian Baroque, Nineteenth Century Europe, Colonial America to 1900, America Since 1900, Contemporary; and Art Theory and Criticism.
Special Topics offer the opportunity for faculty and students to explore one-time subjects. A Special Topic in Art History is offered every semester.
Field Studies in Art History (ART 4100), offered through the Allbritton Art Institute (19th and 20th Century art) form opportunities for qualifying students in courses about modern art to undertake small-group study travel with itineraries complementing an upper-division course and designed to extend and enrich classroom study.
Additional options for art history students include Internship and Senior Thesis.
Advising is an important part of the Baylor art history experience, to ensure steady progress toward degree completion, a logical sequence to coursework, and awareness of career directions that are feasible for art history majors.
Before graduation, all art history majors take an exam over the art history core curriculum. This exam does not affect graduation but gauges the art history program overall. Coverage on the exam includes: terms; periods, approximate dates, names of leading artists, and characteristics; critical approaches to the interpretation of art (iconography/iconology, feminism, biographical, sociological, psychological); and major turning points in the history of Western Art.
Faculty
Heidi J. Hornik, PhD, Professor of Art History
William M. Jensen, PhD, Professor of Art History
Katie Edwards, PhD, Assistant Professor of Art History
Karen Rechnitzer Pope, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Art History
William M. Jensen, PhD, Professor of Art History
Katie Edwards, PhD, Assistant Professor of Art History
Karen Rechnitzer Pope, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Art History
Special Programs & Activities
Click on the links below to view images of past Department field trips.
2007 Fall, Fort Worth, Texas - 1
2006 Fall, Austin, Texas - 1
2005 Fall, Fort Worth, Texas - 1
2007 Fall, Fort Worth, Texas - 1
2006 Fall, Austin, Texas - 1
2005 Fall, Fort Worth, Texas - 1
Allbritton Art Institute Field Studies
Click on the links below to view images of past AAI field studies.
2008 Spring ART 4100, England & Constable - 1 | 2
2007 Fall ART 4100, Chicago & Prints - 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
2007 Spring ART 4100, Washington DC - 1 | 2 | 3
2006 Fall ART 4100, Boston & American Art - 1 | 2 | 3
2006 Spring ART 4100, Netherlands - 1
2005 Fall ART 4100, Chicago, Lautrec & Montmartre - 1
2008 Spring ART 4100, England & Constable - 1 | 2
2007 Fall ART 4100, Chicago & Prints - 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
2007 Spring ART 4100, Washington DC - 1 | 2 | 3
2006 Fall ART 4100, Boston & American Art - 1 | 2 | 3
2006 Spring ART 4100, Netherlands - 1
2005 Fall ART 4100, Chicago, Lautrec & Montmartre - 1
Allbritton Scholars
The Allbritton Art Institute awards scholarship funds each academic year to one or more outstanding art history majors.
For the academic year 2008-2009, the Allbritton Scholars are:
Melissa Barry, from the Woodlands. Melissa will be a senior in the fall.
Jessica Graham, from Fort Worth. Jessica will be a senior in the fall. She is pursuing a double major, Art History + Photo-Journalism.
These two dynamic young women each studied for a semester in Florence (Florence University of the Arts, affiliated with Baylor) and both participated in the ART 4100 Allbritton Field Study to England in Spring 2008.
For the academic year 2007-2008, the Allbritton Scholars were:
Katherine Rice, a junior from Houston.
Sara Urbanek, a senior from Austin; she will be pursuing graduate studies at Yale in Fall 2008.
For the academic year 2008-2009, the Allbritton Scholars are:
Melissa Barry, from the Woodlands. Melissa will be a senior in the fall.
Jessica Graham, from Fort Worth. Jessica will be a senior in the fall. She is pursuing a double major, Art History + Photo-Journalism.
These two dynamic young women each studied for a semester in Florence (Florence University of the Arts, affiliated with Baylor) and both participated in the ART 4100 Allbritton Field Study to England in Spring 2008.
For the academic year 2007-2008, the Allbritton Scholars were:
Katherine Rice, a junior from Houston.
Sara Urbanek, a senior from Austin; she will be pursuing graduate studies at Yale in Fall 2008.
Resources
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