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Art History
Art history provides the key to understanding various visual cultures and the language of their expression. It examines social, historical, economic, and political collisions through the lens of artworks. Studying art history allows for comparing different visual systems, tracing their paths and points of interaction, and interpreting the language of art. Practical sessions in museums and meetings with artists, critics, and curators help students attain a fuller understanding of theoretical art history concepts and equip them with first-hand experience of the art world.
Potential careers
  • Museums, exhibition halls — work in collections; PR departments; educational and tour departments, working with children, and exhibition work; inclusive departments; exhibition projects; publishing department; museum online platforms, etc
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  • Cultural management — rebranding monuments or familiar contexts; art festivals, art quests; bridging society and cultural context
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  • Heritage conservation and cultural protection, scholarly regional studies
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  • Research (archives and libraries), private funds, museums, and restoration centers
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  • Mass media — travel logs, reviews of art events, interviews, art blogging
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  • Tourist industry
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  • Art laboratories and art galleries — collaboration with contemporary artistic environments
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  • Formulating exhibition strategies across different sectors
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  • Developing educational projects
What you will learn
  • You will learn to understand the visual language of art and its components, and thoroughly interpret artworks and artistic phenomena
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  • You will master the tools for professional discourse on art and familiarize yourself with methods and scientific terminology of art historical analysis
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  • Regardless of your future specialization, you will be able to not only study the foundational processes of global art history but also analyze the significance of peripheral phenomena for artistic life in the past and present
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  • Through the development of a humanities-based foundation, you will be able to write freely about art and its phenomena in both professional and popular contexts
Potential careers
What you will learn
  • Museums, exhibition halls — work in collections; PR departments; educational and tour departments, working with children, and exhibition work; inclusive departments; exhibition projects; publishing department; museum online platforms, etc
    ‍
  • Cultural management — rebranding monuments or familiar contexts; art festivals, art quests; bridging society and cultural context
    ‍
  • Heritage conservation and cultural protection, scholarly regional studies
    ‍
  • Research (archives and libraries), private funds, museums, and restoration centers
    ‍
  • Mass media — travel logs, reviews of art events, interviews, art blogging
    ‍
  • Tourist industry
    ‍
  • Art laboratories and art galleries — collaboration with contemporary artistic environments
    ‍
  • Formulating exhibition strategies across different sectors
    ‍
  • Developing educational projects
  • You will learn to understand the visual language of art and its components, and thoroughly interpret artworks and artistic phenomena
    ‍
  • You will master the tools for professional discourse on art and familiarize yourself with methods and scientific terminology of art historical analysis
    ‍
  • Regardless of your future specialization, you will be able to not only study the foundational processes of global art history but also analyze the significance of peripheral phenomena for artistic life in the past and present
    ‍
  • Through the development of a humanities-based foundation, you will be able to write freely about art and its phenomena in both professional and popular contexts
Head of the Program
Nadezhda Chamina
Art historian, translator, and art critic. She is an associate professor at the Faculty of Humanities at the Higher School of Economics, a lecturer at the British Higher School of Design, and involved with the "School of Masters" project (Moscow-Saint Petersburg). She is also a visiting lecturer at the European Humanities University (Vilnius).
Anna Guseva
Art historian and historian of architecture and urban planning. She is a lecturer at the Higher School of Economics and was the Academic Director of the Master's program in Art History "History of Artistic Culture and Art Market" at the Higher School of Economics until 2021.
“Art history has for a long time been a rather conservative discipline, with a lot of specialized subjects and approaches. The Liberal Arts format allows us to combine a “telescopic” and a “microscopic" investigation of artistic forms, practices, and artists themselves. Currently, art history is being reinvented through engagement with political sciences, sociology, linguistics, and digital technologies. Montenegro has been a crossroads of cultures for centuries and offers us the chance not only to explore the art of the Mediterranean civilization but also to feel the pulse of contemporary artistic life.”
“Art history has for a long time been a rather conservative discipline, with a lot of specialized subjects and approaches. The Liberal Arts format allows us to combine a “telescopic” and a “microscopic" investigation of artistic forms, practices, and artists themselves. Currently, art history is being reinvented through engagement with political sciences, sociology, linguistics, and digital technologies. Montenegro has been a crossroads of cultures for centuries and offers us the chance not only to explore the art of the Mediterranean civilization but also to feel the pulse of contemporary artistic life.”
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