Art History and Visual Studies
The Division for Art History and Visual Studies at Lund University conducts research about older, modern and contemporary art, from historical, social and aesthetic angles of approach.
Art History is an old academic discipline. In its modern form it emerged in the 19th century, but has predecessors back to Antiquity. Today the discipline is characterized by a varied range of methods and theories, and contacts with other disciplines inside and outside the humanities.
Art History itself, however, is a deeply humanistic discipline, as a study of that which is human. What we call art can be seen as a mirror for the human, which is older than historical text-based sources, and today is living and multi-faceted. At the same time, every artistic expression is linked to its time, place and originator, and the scholar must pursue that which is historically and historiographically specific.
In Lund, in the beginning of the 21th century, the name of the discipline was given a second part, ’Visual Studies’. This reflects the insight, that images and other visual signs that are not categorized as art are equally important as expressions of human knowledge and experience. The border between them and art is not seldom fleeting and changeable; a photograph, for instance, is often an image of knowledge as well as a commercial and artistic image.
In Lund, as internationally, the growing link between Art History and Visual Studies has made the research less disciplinary isolated, while the awareness of the disciplinary identity has been strengthened.
The Division aims to let its research influence its courses and teaching.
Peter Bengtsen, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor
Ylva Haidenthaller, Postdoctoral Fellow
Cecilia Hildeman Sjölin, Senior Lecturer
Erika Larsson, Associate Professor, Postdoctoral Fellow
Signe Leth Gammelgaard, Postdoctoral Fellow
Max Liljefors, Professor
Sten Åke Nilsson, Professor Emeritus
Maria Oen, Senior Lecturer
Ludwig Qvarnström, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer
Sven Sandström, Professor Emeritus
Joacim Sprung, Senior Lecturer
Ellen Suneson, Postdoctoral Fellow
Solfrid Söderlind, Professor
- At the End of the World: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Apocalyptic Imaginary in the Past and Present (Jayne Svenungsson)
- Burden of Proof? On creating and using art in the healthcare sector (Peter Bengtsen)
- Emily Nonnen i guldålderns Köpenhamn 1838-39: kvinna, elev, kritiker
- From Spirit to Resonance: The Power of Feeling in Finnish and Swedish occult women art communities of the early 1900s
- (In)visible Matters
- Narrating Climate Futures (Johannes Stripple)
- Public Faces: Printed portraits and the rise of female celebrity culture in Eighteenth-century Sweden and Europe
- Skandinavismens gränser: Elias Lagerheim som kulturdiplomat i Köpenhamn 1836-1856
- Stadens ansikten. Visuell kultur och social struktur i Stockholm 1880- 1930
- To show but not tell: on themes of passivity, submission, and internalization in 1970s Nordic feminist art
- Across the border: liminality in medieval sacred space (Cecilia Hildeman Sjölin)
- Aesthetics and Business Creativity - Theme, Pufendorf IAS
- Agent of change: an ecocritical study of street art (Peter Bengtsen, Max Liljefors)
- All these decorative painters (Ludwig Qvarnström)
- Anatomy in the expanded field. Aesthetics, ethics and epistemology in contemporary medical imaging. (Max Liljefors)
- Approaching the Numinous (Max Liljefors, Jayne Svenungsson)
- Art and Transformation (Konst och förvandling) (Max Liljefors)
- Art Worlds Apart (Max Liljefors)
- Atmosfärisk estetik i amerikansk postminimalism. En studie av Dan Flavin och On Kawara.
- Bagadilico – a joint initiative for the development of novel therapies for basal ganglia disorders (Max Liljefors, Susanne Lundin)
- Believing in ESS: Size, Vision and Pioneering (Max Liljefors)
- BETWEEN AESTHETICS AND MEDIA TECHNOLOGY. ABY WARBURG’S MNEMOSYNE-ATLAS AND THE VISUALISATION OF ART (Joacim Sprung)
- Biofictions
- Biology as cultural heritage (Max Liljefors)
- Collecting glory : Early modern Swedish medals as gifts and objects for collections (Ylva Haidenthaller)
- cultural science and criminology (Susanne Lundin)
- Cultures of Intensified Experiences and Special Effects (Max Liljefors)
- Den judiske modernisten: antisemitism, självidentifikation och den svenska modernismens historiografi (Ludwig Qvarnström)
- Desire for Freedom: Art after 1945. [Verführung Freiheit. Kunst in Europa seit 1945] (Max Liljefors)
- En dynasti blir till: medier, myter och makt kring Karl XIV Johan och familjen Bernadotte
- Humanities and Medicine (HuMe) (Merle Horne)
- Images of the Holocaust (Max Liljefors)
- Impure vision: American staged art photography of the 1970s (Moa Petersén)
- Kulturens samlingar – revistied
- Myths of Nations (Max Liljefors)
- Nils Månsson Mandelgren och kampen om kulturens framtid
- Numismatisk samlingspraktik i 1700-talets Sverige
- Performing Crisis: Body and Authority in Contemporary Art (Max Liljefors)
- Portraying Unease: the Art and Politics of Uncomfortable Attachments
- Psykologi och humaniora.
- Pufendorf ASG: How Evidence Based Practices Handle Conflicting Knowledge: the Case of Hormonal Contraceptives (CON-X) (Moa Petersén, Johanna Rivano Eckerdal)
- Ragnar Josephson, the Museum of Sketches and The Birth of the Work of Art (Ludwig Qvarnström)
- Skissen som konstvetenskaplig metod / The Sketch as Art Historical Method (Ludwig Qvarnström)
- Small woods where I met myself: Jerry N. Uelsmann's first 50 years (Moa Petersén)
- Systematic implementation of aesthetic experiences and artistic activities in the care of persons with Parkinson’s disease (Max Liljefors)
- The Archaeology of Time Travel
- The commercial status of street art (pilot study) (Peter Bengtsen)
- The Human Stem Cell: Health, Hope, Bioeconomy. (Susanne Lundin)
- The Street Art World (Peter Bengtsen)
- The Urban Creativity Pufendorf IAS Theme (Peter Bengtsen)
- Using and circulating printed portraits in eighteenth-century Sweden and Europe
- Vägra döda, vägra värnplikt! - en studie av värnpliktsvägrarfrågan i kultur- och samhällsdebatten och inom fredsrörelsen i Sverige ca 1965-91
- Visual Ecocriticism (Max Liljefors)
- Visual Ecocriticism and the Art of Josh Keyes (Max Liljefors)
- Visual Engagements; Belonging and Affective Encounters in Contemporary Photography. (Erika Larsson)
- Visual research methods: exploring the world of graffiti writing (Peter Bengtsen)
- What makes us human?