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Teaching

The teaching program consists of seminars, lecture courses, field study trips, and other teaching units, offered by the Faculty of the Art History Department and by specialized Visiting Faculty, and shares some of its courses with other art history Masters of the department. The program encourages critical reflection and engaged research, offers solid training in art history and opens professional perspectives towards curating, conservation, criticism, education, or the art market, fields that are increasingly entangled in global networks. All of the Chairs of the Department are involved in the teaching program, which thus covers transcultural aspects of Western art from the Middle Ages until today and includes, furthermore, classes given by the Chair for East Asian Art History, which is unique in Switzerland. Visiting Faculty complements the program with classes studying other regions, such as South America or Africa, and addressing cross-cultural methods and practices. Classes are taught in English.

 

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Objectives:

The two-year Specialized Master of Arts “Art History in a Global Context” focuses on issues of global, international, and interregional exchange and transculturation and aims at

• addressing questions, developing methodologies, and studying objects as seen from a global perspective and related to transcultural phenomena

• extending the traditional European curriculum of western art history towards non-western art

• contributing to current international debates about the challenges and chances of art history in a globalized academe

 

Collaborations:

The program also seeks for scientific cooperation and exchange with specific Chairs, Departments, and research and teaching projects of other universities in Switzerland and abroad, such as the Universities of Bern, Lausanne, Geneva, and the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Vienna. Collaboration with local institutions, such as the Rietberg Museum or the Kunsthaus, extend the horizon of the program to include questions of conservation, curatorship, and display.

 

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The Rietberg Museum in Zurich

Weiterführende Informationen

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Guest Lecturers Fall 2020

Dr. Maria Bremer (Bibliotheca Hertziana Max-Plank-Institut Rome): The "Global Contemporary" in Exhibitions

Dr. Nicolas Galley (Executive Master in Art Market Studies): The Global Art Market: history, mechanisms and organisations

Dr. Axel Langer (Rietberg Museum): "Pers-indo-pean", or the Reception of Indian and European Art in 17th c. Safavid Book Painting

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Guest Lecturer Spring 2020

Dr. Felicity Bodenstein (Université Sorbonne Paris): The World on Display: Ethnographic Museums and Debating Relationships (1860-2020)

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Guest Lecturers Fall 2019

Dr. Raphaèle Preisinger: The Art of New Spain in the Age of the Baroque

Prof. Dr. Michele Bacci (University of Fribourg): Transregional Perspectives. Dynamics of Artistic Interaction in the Medieval Mediterranean

Guest Lecturer Spring 2019

Prof. Nadia Radwan (University of Bern): Global Manifestoes: A Cartography of Other Modernisms

Philip Hainhofer, Cabinet for Gustavus Adolphus II of Sweden, 1632, Uppsala University Museum

Guest Lecturers Fall 2018

Prof. Dr. Claire Farago: Imagining Art History Otherwise: Transcultural Approaches to Early Modernity

Dr. Vera Wolff (ETH Zürich): Was war „Westkunst“? Kunst und Kunstgeschichte im Kalten Krieg

Chéri Samba, Hommage aux anciens créateurs, 1999

Guest Lecturers Spring 2018

Dr. Hannah Baader (Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut): Art and the Aesthetics of the Sea, ca. 1250–2018

Dr. Michaela Oberhofer and Dr. des. Nanina Guyer (Museum Rietberg): Exhibiting Congo. Rezeptions- und Ausstellungspraxis am Beispiel Kongo

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