艺术和建筑史学士学位

艺术和建筑史集中课程提供艺术和建筑的诠释和批判分析方面的培训。它培养了视觉辨别和语言表达能力，这些技巧对您在哈佛及以后的生活具有根本价值。在一个以图像的大量传播为标志的时代，主要是通过数字技术和平台，视觉敏锐度和批判性识别的培养变得更加紧迫。艺术史包含了来自最广泛的地理和历史渊源的材料，它本身就是一门涵盖了许多不同方法，观点和兴趣的多学科学科。有时，它从艺术品中推论出其制作的时间和地点，或者其制作者的身份。有时，它研究了过去人们的观念，理想和情感在他们的艺术中是如何表达的，以及该艺术如何影响其文化的更广泛
The History of Art and Architecture concentration offers training in the historical interpretation and critical analysis of the visual arts and architecture. It develops the skills of visual discrimination and verbal expression fundamental to art historical analysis. Encompassing material from the widest range of geographic and historical origins, art history is itself a multifaceted discipline embracing many different methods, perspectives and interests. Sometimes it deduces from works of art the time and place of their making, or the identity of their makers. Sometimes it examines how concepts, ideals, and sensibilities of people of the past are expressed in their art, and further, how that art influenced wider aspects of their culture. Sometimes it explores within large-scale fabrications (buildings, towns, cities) the dynamic between human and natural worlds. These and other approaches are reflected in the teaching and scholarship of the History of Art and Architecture faculty. Training in the critical analysis of art seeks to clarify the perception-and understanding-of how artworks relate to the techniques and materials used in their making, and to the environment in which they are seen. It also fosters the ability to make and explain judgments of quality and value. Instruction in critical analysis is aided by the history of art and architecture department's partnership with one of the world's greatest teaching museums, comprising the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Sackler Museums. This offers students a unique opportunity of first-hand study of original works of art in many media.