History of Art Stories

Annalise Ashman

Annalise Ashman '24

Hometown: Tyrone, GA

鈥淚 knew that something I wanted in a community was to feel part of something bigger than myself, and that鈥檚 here at Bryn Mawr.鈥

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Annalise Ashman '24 poses during a studio visit

Summer Stories: Annalise Ashman '24

Hometown: Tyrone, GA

"The History of Art department at Bryn Mawr has continuously provided me with the invaluable art historical knowledge to be able to pursue this opportunity, and others like it, with confidence."

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360 student group

360掳: Poetics and Politics of Race

The goal of this 360掳 is to unpack how meaning is made from representations of race鈥攆rom artifacts in an anthropological context, to representations in literature, to how people teach and learn.

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Two students observe a large blue gem

360掳: Minerals, Museums, and Western Colonialism

This 360 will examine that question in the context of 杏吧原版影音鈥檚 mineral collection: more than 40,000 specimens, most of which were sampled in the mid- to late-19th century.

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360掳: The Last Days of Habsburg: Vienna 1900 and the End of an Empire

360掳: The Last Days of Habsburg

This 360藲 is an integrated two-credit seminar which is interdisciplinary in nature. Participants study works of art, architecture, design, literature, psychoanalysis, and pseudoscience.

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Hiroshima

360掳: Perspectives on Sustainability

Disasters and Rebuilding Japan

We invite students to study the history of disaster rebuilding and the impact of the built environment on art and literature as part of broader networks of interactions both in East Asia and the West.

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textile class

360掳: Textiles in Context

This cluster provides a multidisciplinary approach to the technical analysis, historical interpretation, and museum display of early Byzantine textiles.

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Blurred image of an art gallery

360掳: Biennials and Conservation

Students in this 360掳 will engage a deeper history of Contemporary Art鈥攐ne that considers the ways in which an artwork's exhibition and its care structure its meaning in complex ways.

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Century of Self Expression Exhibition

360掳: Exhibiting Modern Art

This 360掳 will consider differences in addressing academy and community as audiences, and bring together theoretical and practical aspects of art history, art criticism, art exhibition, and art education.

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Photograph of Katharine Hepburn holding and looking into a hand mirror

360掳: Mirroring the Self

Participants will study the history and theories of self-portraiture, self-representation, and self-fashioning in cultures around the globe from antiquity to the present.

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