Archaeology, Art History and Musicology Research Unit KU Leuven
Research Unit which includes the Research groups "Archeology", "Art Science" and "Musicolgy"
Research Unit which includes the Research groups "Archeology", "Art Science" and "Musicolgy"
The Archaeology, Art History and Musicology Research Unit also contains the division Art History, Campus Brussels.
The Archaeology, Art History and Musicology Research Unit, Leuven, consists of three research groups:
Research topics of this unit are:
• photography theory: the ontology and identity of the photographic medium; the critical potential of photography in contemporary art (i.e. how can contemporary artistic practice, particularly photography and video-based art, question dominant conventions: representation conventions, aesthetic, legal, social and political conventions)
• art theory: the critical relationship between photography and ...
The Art History Department comprises three research groups: Medieval Art (Jan Van der Stock, Barbara Baert & Lieve Watteeuw); Early Modern Art (Katlijne Van der Stighelen, Leo De Ren & Koenraad Brosens) and Art of the 20th-Century and Contemporary Art (Hilde Van Gelder). All members of the Department develop empirical and/or theoretical approaches to Flemish and Belgian art in an international perspective
The Research ...
The Department of Art History and Archaeology of the Free University of Brussels actively carries out research in the following fields: 1. The history of the fine arts of the late medieval and early modern periods, particularly in the southern Netherlands (among the main current research projects: the study of 15th- and 16th-century carved altarpieces, the mythology in 17th- century Flemish paintings, the study of art theory in early modern ...
The research unit 'Foundations of Art and Science' investigates the connection between arts and sciences through philosophical, cultural-sociological, historical and economic analysis. The main topics of the Unit include: 1. Disemborderment of art and science: an investigation of the possibilities of existence for a depiction of arts and sciences as similar intellectual and creative activities; 2. The relation between image and reality: a ...