Overview

Welcome to the Department of
Art & Art History.

An integral part of the School of Humanities and Sciences, the Department comprises 22 distinguished faculty and 13 professional staff members who serve approximately 70 graduate students and 110 undergraduate majors and minors each year.

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    The Department of Art & Art History offers courses of study in the history of art, the practice of art, and film and media studies, leading to the following degrees:

     

    • B.A. in Art History
    • B.A. in Art Practice
    • B.A. in Film and Media Studies
    • M.F.A. in Art Practice
    • M.F.A. in Design
    • M.F.A. in Documentary Film and Video
    • Ph.D. in Art History
    • Joint Ph.D. in Art History and Humanities

     

    These courses offer special opportunities for the students to increase their understanding of the meaning and purpose of the arts, their historical development, their role in society, and their relationship to other humanistic disciplines such as literature, music and philosophy. Work in the classroom and studio is intended to intensify visual perception of the formal and expressive means of art, and to encourage insight into a variety of technical processes.

  • Upcoming Events
    Artists' Lecture: Matt Kahn
    • Artists' Lecture: Matt Kahn

      Cyclops: A Camera Is Not a Butterfly Net

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      • When: Nov 8, 2009
        2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
      • Where: Cantor Arts Center Auditorium Museum Way and Palm Drive
        Stanford, CA 94305
    Artists' Lecture: Joel Leivick
    • Artists' Lecture: Joel Leivick

      Presented by Joel Leivick, as part of Cantor Arts Center's From Their Studios Exhibition and Artists' Lecture Series Joel Leivick is a Professor (photography) in the Department of Art & Art History.

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      • When: Nov 12, 2009
        7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
      • Where: Cantor Arts Center Auditorium Museum Way and Palm Drive
        Stanford, CA 94305
    A Great American Thing: A Symposium in Honor of Wanda Corn  
    • <strong>A Great American Thing: A Symposium in Honor of Wanda Corn</strong>  

      Please join us for a weekend celebrating Wanda Corn, the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History. During her nearly thirty-year tenure at Stanford, Professor Corn not only reshaped the field of American art history but served a term as Director of the ...

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      • When: Nov 13, 2009
        3:00 pm - 7:00 pm
    A Great American Thing: A Symposium in Honor of Wanda Corn
    • <strong>A Great American Thing: A Symposium in Honor of Wanda Corn</strong>

      Please join us for a weekend celebrating Wanda Corn, the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History. During her nearly thirty-year tenure at Stanford, Professor Corn not only reshaped the field of American art history but served a term as Director of the ...

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      • When: Nov 14, 2009
        9:00 am - 6:30 pm
    Artists' Lecture: Jamie Meltzer
    • Artists' Lecture: Jamie Meltzer

      Presented by Jamie Meltzer, as part of Cantor Arts Center's From Their Studios Exhibition and Artists' Lecture Series. His talk will be preceded by a screening of his film Welcome to Nollywood at 6 PM. Jamie Meltzer is an Assistant Professor (film) in the Depart...

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      • When: Nov 19, 2009
        7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
      • Where: Cantor Arts Center Auditorium Museum Way and Palm Drive
        Stanford, CA 94305
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The French Ambassadors of King Henry II at the court of the English King Henry VIII

Oil on canvas

Holbein, Hans the Younger (1497-1543)

Photo credit: Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY

Liberty Club #2

2006

Acrylic and water-based oil

Enrique Chagoya

Students shooting a project

Nesting Nautilus

2006

Laser-cut plywood

John Edmark