The Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art provides exemplary preparation for careers in the academy, museums, and associated fields. Our graduates credit their time here as a defining scholarly and professional experience.
Our student body varies widely in age, experience, background, and nationality. We welcome applicants from outside the field of the history of art, and regardless of citizenship status. The Graduate Program awards numerous full financial aid packages. The application deadline is January 3, 2020.
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Center for Spain in America Fellow Julie A. Harris presents, “The Elusive Line between Ornament and Meaning in the Ornamental Carpet Pages of Iberian Hebrew Bibles (c. 1260–1320).” Full-page “carpet pages” in the Hebrew Bibles of Iberia, like their counterparts …
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The Research and Academic Program presents “The Evolution of Beauty: From Warblers to Warhol.” In this lecture Richard Prum discusses the aesthetic evolution of sexual displays of birds and presents a coevolutionary framework for aesthetic philosophy of the arts. He …
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Florence Gould Foundation Fellow Lisa Lee presents “Thomas Hirschhorn: Work in Movement.” Throughout the 1990s, contemporary artist Thomas Hirschhorn contrived unorthodox modes of circulation—gifting, pamphleting, hawking, abandoning—in pursuit of a “nonexclusive audience” for his work. This lecture will consider Hirschhorn’s …