Pratt’s an exceptional place to study art and design history and theory. From our landmarked campus you’ll have access to NYC’s premier international private collections, libraries, museums, studios, and galleries, as well as the opportunity to work with leading artists, designers, historians, and theorists.
Join us in New York City, the art capital of the United States, for an immersive education in the history of art and design. Explore the effects of gender, class, politics and religion intersect with art and cultures that created it. Gain a wide perspective in theory and design methods and artistic expression in art, architecture, film, and literature. The liberal arts curriculum, including foreign language study, prepares you to research and critically analyze art and literature.
The Experience
IXD students Wuke Zhou, Yuki Shimano, and Olivia Turpin at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (photo by Shih Wen Huang)
Interdisciplinary and socially engaged, the History of Art and Design BA provides a broad foundation from which students build critical and analytical capacities to confront complex questions. Drawing on disciplines ranging from sociology, anthropology, linguistics, and economics, students go beyond aesthetic consideration to consider complex questions and evolving challenges.
With class sizes of just 8-12, you’ll collaborate closely with your team, faculty, and community partners to learn the skills needed to create strategies and systems that meet real-world challenges.
Electives and Seminars
You’ll have the opportunity to take electives in film and design, architecture, non-Western, pre-Renaissance, Renaissance to Rococo, and 19th-, 20th-, or 21st-century art, design, theory and methodology, and chemistry of art. Major-specific seminars are available from your first through senior years, on topics that include the role of New York as a cultural capital, critical and theoretical models, and art and social justice.
Study Abroad
Mosaic restorer Giovanni Cucco explains his work at SS. Maria e Donato to graduate student Amy Ungricht (photograph by Kate McElhiney)
Immersing yourself in another culture is an incredible experience that can extend the boundaries of creativity. Study abroad programs are an integral part of the college experience, and Pratt has deep connections with university partners around the world. Study in Paris with the Pratt in Paris summer program. We also recently celebrated the 35th anniversary of Pratt in Venice, which is a 6-week program that occurs each June and July.
Learning Resources
We develop disciplinary fluency in our program of study and we celebrate the interdisciplinary nature of art and design critical to address the plurality and complexity of the environments in which we operate. Learn about resources.
Our Faculty
Pratt’s distinguished faculty of outstanding creative professionals and scholars share a common desire to develop each student’s potential and creativity to the fullest. Bringing different views, methods, and perspectives they provide a rigorous educational model in which students make and learn. See all History of Art and Design faculty and administrators.
Join us at Pratt. Learn more about admissions requirements, plan your visit, talk to a counselor, and start your application. Take the next step.
You’ll find yourself at home at Pratt. Learn more about our residence halls, student organizations, athletics, gallery exhibitions, events, the amazing City of New York and our Brooklyn neighborhood communities. Check us out.
Today is the birthday of Jean Siméon Chardin ( November 2, 1699 – December 6, 1779).
Jean Siméon Chardin was a celebrated French painter known for his stunning still lifes and genre scenes.
Early Life:
Born in Paris to an artisan family, Chardin trained under history painters but found his true passion in still life, focusing on everyday objects.
Artistic Style:
Renowned for his realism and soft light, Chardin elevated simple subjects like fruits and kitchenware to fine art, with notable works such as The Ray and The Buffet.
Recognition:
Admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1728, he received royal patronage from King Louis XV and was granted a lifetime apartment in the Louvre.
Chardin's legacy lies in his ability to transform ordinary moments into extraordinary art, making him a pivotal figure in the history of painting.
See Chardin's works on HAD Pinterest account: https://www.pinterest.com/hadpratt/jean-sim%C3%A9on-chardin/
#ArtHistory #Artists #Chardin #ArtInspiration #HistoryofArt
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Sim%C3%A9on_Chardin
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/jean-simeon-chardin
Check out our 25-Spring elective courses!
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Check out our 25-Spring elective courses!
Swipe to explore exciting courses HAD has lined up for the next semester.
For more courses, click the link in our bio!
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"Munch's The Scream is an icon of modern art.
Essentially The Scream is autobiographical, an expressionistic construction based on Munch's actual experience of a scream piercing through nature while on a walk, after his two companions, seen in the background, had left him. Fitting the fact that the sound must have been heard at a time when his mind was in an abnormal state, Munch renders it in a style which if pushed to extremes can destroy human integrity. "
#halloween2024 #arthistory #modernart #weeklyart
Source: https://www.edvardmunch.org/the-scream.jsp
For this week’s NYC museums and galleries HAD shares with you:
Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy opens October 25th at The Morgan Library & Museum
“The exhibition will trace Greene’s storied life, from her roots in a predominantly Black community in Washington, D.C., to her distinguished career at the helm of one of the world’s great research libraries. Through extraordinary objects―from medieval manuscripts and rare printed books to archival records and portraits―the exhibition will demonstrate the confidence and savvy Greene brought to her roles as librarian, scholar, curator, and cultural executive, and honor her enduring legacy.”
For more information visit the museum’s page.
#nyc #nycmuseums #nycgalleries #ArtHistory #ArtAndDesign #DesignHistory #NYCArt #BelleDaCostaGreene
History of Art and Design department partners with Open House New York Weekend Festival
Sunday, October 20, 10am - 4pm
Pratt will again join with other partners throughout the five boroughs to be part of Open House New York (OHNY). OHNY is a unique opportunity to share our campus and welcome fellow New Yorkers to Pratt. It promotes broad, unparalleled access to the city—to the places, people, projects, systems, and ideas that define New York and its future. Through their year-round programming, including the annual OHNY Weekend festival, OHNY offers a citywide platform for education, exploration, and engagement about the connections between quality of place and quality of life for all New Yorkers.
Launched in 2003, Open House New York Weekend is an annual festival that opens hundreds of noteworthy or significant places across the five boroughs to foster discovery and delight for New Yorkers and visitors alike.
Participants are invited to the Pratt campus to take a self-guided tour of the sculpture garden or participate in an HAD facilitated guided campus tour (reservations required). The tour will provide access to spaces not usually open to non-Pratt community members.
#OHNYwknd #ohny #nyc #historyofart #historyofdesign
Dr. Josh Bowker will be giving a lecture, “Nietzschean Visions: The European Avant-Garde and the Idea of a New Man” on Thursday, November 7th, 2024 at 6 pm in ARC E-02.
* This event is for Pratt community.
About the Lecture: In the early part of the twentieth century across Europe different Avant-Garde groups were formulating new visions of art and life to spur the continent into a future of their making. One recurrent idea across many of these groups was the idea of a “new man”. It came in many guises, often crafted in contradiction to the visions of others, but whether they were Futurist, Expressionist, or Dadaist, these movements saw the future as a challenge that must be met by this new type of man. This lecture explores these different visions, their interactions, and their debt to the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.
About the Speaker: Dr. Josh Bowker earned both his MSc and his PhD in History of Art from the University of Edinburgh, and is currently a visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute. His research broadly concerns the intellectual history of the European Avant-Garde, especially its relation to organized religion. He is currently working on an essay regarding the French artist André Masson and his preoccupation with mythology and creation. He is also interested in and has written on Jewish art and cultural identity.
#arthistory #visualart #artlecture #artevent #historyofart
Framing displacement: Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being
* This event is for Pratt community.
Thursday, October 24th, 6pm,
Alumni Reading Room
This event gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices—spanning photography, film, curation, and poetry—to consider the spatial, material and performative experience of displacement and border-crossing, while imagining new possibilities. The presenters are contributors to the book Design, Displacement, Migration (Routledge 2023) edited by Sarah A. Lichtman and Jilly Traganou.
Marc Lepson, “Dispatch from the Aegean, 2021-2022”
Macushla Robinson, “Nothing Ever Goes Away”
Darrel Alejandro Holnes, “Amending Wall” and other poems
Hosted by Sarah A. Lichtman and Jilly Traganou
#arthistory #visualart #artlecture #artevent #historyofart #photography #film
Dr. Rodrigo Salido Moulinié will be giving a lecture, “Phonographies of Race: The Politics of Picturing Jazz.” on Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 at 6 pm in ARC E02.
*This event is for Pratt community
About the talk:
Please join the writer, photographer, and researcher Rodrigo Salido Moulinié for a talk that will unpack the politics of picturing the sonic color line through music by exploring the visual depictions of jazz by Black, Mexican, and white American artists during the Harlem Renaissance. Images of jazz were one of the main battlefields in the debates surrounding the depictions of racial difference in visual art and literature in 1920s New York. What happens when we try to listen to these images?
About Rodrigo Salido Moulinié:
Rodrigo Salido Moulinié is a writer, photographer, and a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a Fulbright-García Robles Scholar and a Contex Doctoral Fellow. In 2023, he was awarded the Leonard A. Lauder Fellowship in Modern Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to work on his dissertation: “Covarrubias’ Crossings: Art, Science, and the Global Politics of Ethnographic Image-Making.” The project charts a Latin American modernist’s pilgrimages between Mexico, New York, and China during the first half of the twentieth century. It follows the Mexican artist, cartoonist, and anthropologist Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957) and his circle to explore the connections between art and science through written and visual products—the clash between sketches and photographs, novels and scientific reports, modernism and primitivism.
#arthistory #visualart #artlecture #artevent
The BA program affords a grounding in the philosophy, literature, and criticism of the history of art and design. Students will take specially designed foundation courses and the survey classes. They will continue with additional credits in liberal arts (English, humanities, sciences, social sciences, and foreign language) and electives. Majors will take upper-level electives in film and design, architecture, non-Western, pre-Renaissance, Renaissance to Rococo, and 19th-, 20th-, or 21st-century art, theory and methodology, and chemistry of art. The BA also features major-specific seminars from the first year through the senior year. Seminar topics include the role of New York as a cultural capital, critical and theoretical models, and art and social justice.
Undergraduates have an understanding of their own cultural environments as well as their places within them.
Undergraduates are able to use tools of critical inquiry to explore gender, class, politics, religious practices, conditions and materials of production, aesthetic expression, and the economics of the market within their larger geographic, historical, theoretical, and social contexts.
Undergraduates in the B.A. degree will be familiar with a foreign language after four semesters of study.
