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 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 Unit which includes the Research groups "Archeology", "Art Science" and "Musicolgy"
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 ...
History, Archeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics
The research unit Histories of Art, Architecture and Visual Culture (VISU) offers a platform for fundamental research on the history and theory of art, architecture and visual culture from the early modern period up to the present. It studies not only the artistic and architectural practice, the material object and the spatial environment, but also the broader cultural, historical and societal context, which often relates to current themes ...
The research group Cultural History since 1750, Leuven, seeks to cover many aspects of the cultural landscape of the past. It focuses on the history of knowledge and science, historiography and historical culture, cultural infrastructure and cultural tranfers, by considering the various shapes and meanings of scientific and cultural practices.