Winter semester 25/26:
Visiting professor:
Dr. David Misteli, BA MA
Lecturer: MPhil PhD Julia Secklehner
Today, more than ever,
artistic work demands profound historical knowledge, visual analysis competence, theoretical reflective capacity and linguistic
communications skills. Art and visual media affect every aspect of social-cultural activities such as economics, politics,
media, high and pop culture, as well as ethnic cultures, sexuality and gender relations, psychology, medicine and natural
sciences, and philosophy. Like art, as a discipline, art history is part of these discourses and social practices and therefore
in addition to its classical methods of style and work analysis, also furnishes methods for the scrutiny of these interdependencies.
One focal point of art historical teaching and research at the “Angewandte” is contemporary art. The view of art history
is evolved from current questions, in order to render acquired historical knowledge fertile for a critical and creative approach
to the present.
Current research focal points involve the relationship between text and image, the formation of
early modern subjectivity models in contemporary painting, historical and current transformation of the self- and role image
of artists, gender issues, the ambiguity of modern and contemporary art, methodological questions relating to the historicising
of contemporary art, surrealism and avant-garde research, as well as aspects of video art and film history. Conferences, lecture
series and exhibitions are organised for this purpose along with the publication of books.
