Art History

Architecture, landscape architecture and design

Art History has a long tradition of engaging in research and teaching about historical and contemporary architecture, landscape architecture and design, as individual objects, interiors and city planning.

Early modern art

The early modern period stretches from the mid 15th century to around 1800 and covers the art historical styles of Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and Neoclassicism.

Environmental Humanities

Within Environmental Humanities, researchers investigate relationships between humans and animals, and between humans and the environment, now and in the past.

Gender perspectives on art

Gender research in Art History is characterised by critical perspectives on art and art history.

Historiography

Historiography can mean "writing history" or "writing history about historiography". Most often, historiography involves meta-historical studies of other, past or contemporary, historical studies.

Materiality

Materiality studies within Art History investigates effects and meanings of the physically material aspects of works of art, buildings and other objects of study in art science.

Modern and contemporary art

A central theme for researchers at the art history department is modern and contemporary art in transnational, cultural-political, network- and gender-related perspectives.

Performativity

Research on performativity examines how art and architecture affect the world, rather than what it represents or how it came about.

Photography

Visual culture

Visual culture covers research about image cultures and visual practices in different historical contexts and from different theoretical perspectives. The field includes the traditional objects of art history in wider visual contexts.